Sentences with phrase «efficiency measures adopted»
Policies adopted just since 2008 are now delivering China close to 1.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide (GtCO2) savings a year — nearly as much as the CO2 savings being achieved from the combined efficiency measures adopted by all the IEA countries since 2000.
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The threat, often referred to as the «utility death spiral,» goes like this: as customers choose to install solar panels or adopt energy efficiency measures, a utility will sell fewer units of energy and has to increase what it charges for electricity to ensure that it can still cover its fixed costs, such as grid maintenance and labor.
Given the constraints that have hindered take - up of cost - effective efficiency measures to date, there are strong grounds for the IMO to adopt operational efficiency requirements that apply to all ships.
The Gooding plant also adopts efficiency measures such as enhanced receiving bays to upload 31,000 l of milk in 12 min.
The Special Petroleum Tax Law was passed in 2014 as part of tax measures adopted by the government at the time to increase revenue generation and improve efficiency on revenue collection from petroleum products.
Investing in making their own facilities more energy efficient, make widespread use of renewable energy, adopt conservation and efficiency measures; 5.
Greens Senator Christine Milne welcomed the move, but said her party had many more energy efficiency measures the government could adopt.
As I've pointed out before, Virginia's target is so modest that the state could meet it simply by adopting a few efficiency measures and supplying new demand with wind and solar.
2) Low - emission growth — Supporting countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, adopt renewable energy, increase energy efficiency measures and reduce air pollution, and;
But it is an inescapable fact that even with extraordinary measures to adopt low - carbon energy supply technologies on a large scale it will be mathematically impossible for the country to enjoy even moderate economic growth in the absence of much stronger energy efficiency gains than in the past.
By projecting the renewable energy use for the years 2020 and 2030 and the associated resulting carbon dioxide emissions, the paper constructs through nonparametric analysis efficiency measures evaluating the different energy policy which can be adopted.
Actions include mandates to remove market barriers to the development of combined heat and power facilities and the provision of analytical support on efficiency requirements and other technical specifications so that combined heat and power is more widely viewed and adopted as an energy efficiency measure.
Like other supporters, he noted that the benefits are not limited to customers that adopt energy efficiency measures.
Energy efficiency measures, such as adopting the most efficient blast furnace systems in use today and the complete recovery of used steel, could reduce energy use in the steel industry by 23 percent.
«The good news is that adopting soil health and fertilizer efficiency measures across the Corn Belt can get us two - thirds of the way to the tipping point,» said the study's lead author and EDF senior scientist, Eileen McLellan, in a news release.
Administer tests and assignments to students to assess their understanding of topics they have taken, as well as to measure the efficiency of the teaching methods adopted
I'd be delighted to share more information on energy efficiency measures that you can easily adopt.