Sentences with phrase «consumer demand for energy»

Wall Street Journal — Low oil prices and economic growth have helped drive up consumer demand for energy across the world in 2015, the International Energy Agency said Thursday, a phenomenon seen from U.S. gasoline stations to Chinese auto dealerships.

The high winds and low temperatures resulted in a substantial increase in consumer demand for energy, putting the electricity system, in particular, under major additional pressure.

The Thai plan includes setting up a $ 60 million energy conservation fund to stimulate consumer demand for energy efficient products.

Not exact matches

«There is a definitive shift toward finding ways to make things more efficient and longer - lasting,» says Panteva, who notes that government programs such as Energy Star are also helping drive consumer demand for eco-friendly products.

Thus the wage gains are from a one time energy glut brought about by increased supply from fracking, lower demand from a weak global economy, and some producers increasing production to make up for lower prices (not entirely self defeating as consumer nations expand inventories while prices are low).

As demand for energy continues to grow, natural gas is becoming increasingly important for New York consumers and businesses.

He called for a shared analysis of trends in supply and demand, an international group of experts to promote producer - consumer dialogue, increased cooperation and investment in other sources of energy.

The new method can be useful in analyzing any kind of time series, such as predicting a power outage by accounting for power plant production, the fluctuating input of renewable energy sources and the changing demands of consumers.

«GDP goes up because the fee and dividend provides a boost to consumer spending, reducing demand for fossil fuels does not have a significant impact on American employment and reduces energy imports from abroad, and the border adjustment means American firms are on a level playing field when it comes to competing on the world market.»

By rejecting the Coalition's plan, Labor will be pilloried for setting up the addition of some $ 15 billion to power consumers» bills by way of the shortfall charge levied on retailers — but doing so with: NO additional renewable energy; NO «break - through» on - demand renewable energy technologies; and NO reduction in CO2 emissions.

«Our member companies are looking forward to investing in clean energy infrastructure for the state and helping meet consumer demand for solar.

This demonstrates that there is significant waste in the treatment of fossil fuels that will disappear when a price signal for wasting the resource is sent to consumers; further, we know there are significant and readily available alternatives for energy to energy derived from burning carbon, and when the price is made clear and fair, the preference for these alternatives is amply illustrated in the Market; from these two effects we see that the Law of Supply and Demand is relevant to the pricing of CO2E, and not monopolistic pricing.

The American Lung Association supports programs and policies to significantly reduce demand for energy by increasing the efficiency of U.S. homes and businesses, strengthening appliance standards, and reducing the energy consumption of consumer products.

The Green - e Renewable Energy Standard for Singapore («Standard for Singapore») allows Green - e Energy certification of renewable energy products throughout Singapore, in order to accelerate the development of renewable generation and renewable electricity markets, and to provide consumers a meaningful mechanism through which they can express demand for renewable electrEnergy Standard for Singapore («Standard for Singapore») allows Green - e Energy certification of renewable energy products throughout Singapore, in order to accelerate the development of renewable generation and renewable electricity markets, and to provide consumers a meaningful mechanism through which they can express demand for renewable electrEnergy certification of renewable energy products throughout Singapore, in order to accelerate the development of renewable generation and renewable electricity markets, and to provide consumers a meaningful mechanism through which they can express demand for renewable electrenergy products throughout Singapore, in order to accelerate the development of renewable generation and renewable electricity markets, and to provide consumers a meaningful mechanism through which they can express demand for renewable electricity.

There is evidence that the Midwest is steadily decarbonizing its electricity generation through a combination of new state - level policies (for example, energy efficiency and renewable energy standards) and will continue to do so in response to low natural gas prices, falling prices for renewable electricity (for example, wind and solar), greater market demand for lower - carbon energy from consumers, and new EPA regulations governing new power plants.

That, noted Brydon Ross, vice president for state affairs at the Consumer Energy Alliance, will reinforce utilities» option to use natural gas to meet unplanned electricity demand spikes.

The LTEP lays out expectations for energy supply and demand and reflects upon changing consumer demands.

New wind energy provides the best value for consumers to meet growing demand for affordable non-emitting electricity.

The growth in clean energy is the result of a constant search to reduce costs, an increased demand by consumers for clean energy and constantly evolving, efficient technologies, as well as up - to - date policies and opportunities for investment.

The growing sense of global urgency over our twin crisis — climate change and energy security — is now driving businesses to become green, consumers to demand green and policy makers to drive policies to accelerate the market adoption of green products.The most notorious subsidy is the 51 - cent gas credit for ethanol.»

Many utilities across the United States are actively trying to drive consumers towards time of use rates as they want to avoid the need for capital investment on their networks by lowering energy consumption in periods of extremely high demand.

For example, beginning this year, Germany instituted an open market for distributed energy generation, where wind and solar producers trade directly with consumers and prices are set by supply and demand, along with a minimum service charge for the utiliFor example, beginning this year, Germany instituted an open market for distributed energy generation, where wind and solar producers trade directly with consumers and prices are set by supply and demand, along with a minimum service charge for the utilifor distributed energy generation, where wind and solar producers trade directly with consumers and prices are set by supply and demand, along with a minimum service charge for the utilifor the utility.

Market statistics from the Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB) underline that demand for renewable energy continues to grow: European consumers and corporates are increasingly fulfilling their green energy intentions by documenting their renewable purchases with Guarantees of Origin (GOs)- Europe's system for tracking and making renewable energy claims.

But according to Breakthrough Institute the highest rebound in energy use from efficiency occurs «not at the consumer level but in the productive sectors of the economy (industry and commerce) improving the efficiency of a steel plant may result in lower cost of steel, greater demand for steel, and also create greater economic growth - all of which will drive significant rebound in energy use following efficiency improvements.»

The cost of solar energy, and residential solar power systems have been declining, while consumers are demanding cleaner energy solutions for their homes.

The study stated countries would not enforce many laws, due to increasing demand for energy from consumers.

Discover how consumer driven demand for renewable energy is driving new business models.

Policies that hinder this decades - old, proven method of energy production could result in higher energy costs for America's consumers, by reducing supply at a time of growing demand for energy from all sources.

Investing in our nation's infrastructure will not only allow the oil and natural gas industry to keep pace with energy demand, it will also help keep energy affordable for the consumer, while creating wellpaying jobs, giving U.S. manufacturers a competitive advantage through lower energy and raw material costs and providing revenue to local, state and federal governments.

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The good news is that policies put into place over the last three decades — including appliance efficiency standards, voluntary labeling programs like ENERGY STAR, and state energy - savings targets — have already helped offset rising demand for electricity and saved consumers billions of doENERGY STAR, and state energy - savings targets — have already helped offset rising demand for electricity and saved consumers billions of doenergy - savings targets — have already helped offset rising demand for electricity and saved consumers billions of dollars.

States and electric utilities will invest the vast majority of those funds in energy efficiency and renewable technologies, with an emphasis on reducing demand for fossil fuel — based electricity and saving consumers money.

In recent years, global demand for coal has dropped too, as China — the world's largest producer and consumer of the energy source — suffers from oversupply.

Now is the time for consumers, investors, public prosecutors, policy makers, and others to demand answers to the above questions, and insist that major fossil energy producers use their enormous resources and technical capacity to make real plans for a 2 °C world.

Victorian consumers could foot the bill for a summer energy plan using diesel generators as a stopgap during periods of peak demand.

After all, it really applies to so many green issues: Whether reducing energy demand, reducing demand for meat products, reducing demand for consumer goods — the clear benefit is less environmental impact.

Fears that the rising demand for biofuels is contributing to a global surge in food prices are founded, but such pitfalls can be avoided if top energy consumers invest in efficient crops grown in tropical nations, promote research and encourage the biofuel trade, said Corrado Clini, chairman of the GBEP.

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Demand for Energy Efficiency Consumers are keenly aware of the need to reduce energy consumption in order to contribute to a cleaner, healthier enviroEnergy Efficiency Consumers are keenly aware of the need to reduce energy consumption in order to contribute to a cleaner, healthier enviroenergy consumption in order to contribute to a cleaner, healthier environment.