Sentences with phrase «electricity standard»

If a national renewable electricity standard is nonetheless inevitable, it should not impose excess costs on businesses or consumers.

Even more problematic, renewable / clean electricity standards would provide absolutely no incentives to reduce CO2 emissions from heating buildings, running industrial processes, or transporting people and goods.

If electric cars could recharge while driving down a highway, it would virtually eliminate concerns about their range and lower their cost, perhaps making electricity the standard fuel for vehicles.

Among the options receiving attention are various types of renewable portfolio standards, also known as renewable electricity standards or clean energy standards, depending upon their specific design.

The report was released today as lawmakers negotiate over whether to scale back the renewable electricity standard in the bill sponsored by Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D - Calif.)

In 2017, the Maryland General Assembly enacted the original Clean Energy Jobs Act, achieving a 25 % renewable electricity standard by 2020.

An improved electricity standard with 10 % efficiency would result in an extra $ 66 billion in cumulative consumer savings by 2030 — potential savings that ACELA left on the table.

Safety valves, renewable electricity standards Lawmakers also sifted through other key requests from the industry groups.

Among other things, Khosla seeks a low - carbon electricity standard in place of a cap - and - trade program or renewable energy standard (he seeks this even though he is heavily invested in renewable - energy technology).

And an agreement on a Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard provides for a combined 20 percent standard by 2020.

One bill that could reach the Senate floor in a lame - duck session is the Bingaman - Brownback renewable electricity standard bill, S. 3813.

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When we passed our [renewable - electricity standard], 33 states followed.

Climate Bill Analysis, Part 7: Renewable Electricity Standard Severely Weakened; May Have Little to No Impact

«Our clean electricity standard is our state's top program for reducing climate pollution.

We need things like a renewable electricity standard that gradually increases the amount of clean electricity that we're using.

A nationwide renewable electricity standard is a major goal for Democratic leaders and environmentalists.

There will also be a battle over the renewable electricity standard (RES) as environmental groups and allied lawmakers call to raise the renewable - electricity goals.

The bill's major provisions would, among other things, impose a national renewable electricity standard, overhaul federal financing for «clean energy» projects, establish a suite of efficiency measures, mandate new federal electricity - transmission siting power, and allow wider oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

Reid repeated his plans to take up a more limited energy proposal during the next six - week work period that includes a national renewable electricity standard.

The U.S. Congress is currently considering whether to implement a national renewable electricity standard.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

Renewing America's Economy: A 20 percent national renewable electricity standard will create jobs and save consumers money.

The Senate bill also contained a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) that included energy efficiency, but ACEEE credited no savings to this part of the bill as the maximum level of efficiency in this provision (4 % of electricity sales by 2020) was less than business - as - usual when it came to electricity efficiency, and the bill permitted states without efficiency programs to purchase efficiency credits from states that saved more than 4 % with efficiency.

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Under the agreement on a Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard, by 2020, utilities would be required to obtain 15 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources and demonstrate annual electricity savings of five percent from energy efficiency measures.

Savings from the bill could have been much improved by strengthening the combined efficiency and renewable electricity standard to require utilities to reduce electricity demand by 10 % by 2020.

The Iowa Republican said that the bill may include a renewable electricity standard as a key component, a provision which would require utility companies to generate a certain portion of their energy from renewable resources by a target date.

Grassley said that the Senate is likely to take up an energy bill, perhaps including a renewable electricity standard, but not the controversial emissions reduction system approved last year by the House but left undone by the Senate.

This report by the Center for Data Analysis (CDA) provides a comprehensive economic analysis of what a Renewable Electricity Standard (RES), if imposed at the federal level, would really cost Americans:

One step Australia has taken to reduce its global warming emissions is implementing a national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES).

Australia and a National Renewable Electricity Standard.

If policymakers provide financial assistance to existing nuclear plants, they should at the same time strengthen policies such as renewable electricity standards (RES) that stimulate the growth of low - carbon renewable energy as well as energy efficiency programs and policies.

A Renewable Electricity Standard (RES)-- also called a Renewable Portfolio Standard — requires utility companies to obtain a certain percentage of their electricity from renewable sources.

The possible components of such an approach which would be relevant in the context of climate change include: a national renewable electricity standard; Federal financing for clean energy projects: energy efficiency measures (building, appliance, and industrial efficiency standards; home retrofit subsidies; and smart grid standards, subsidies, and dynamic pricing policies); and new Federal electricity - transmission siting authority.

A second source of irony is that renewable or clean electricity standards are a very expensive way to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions — much more expensive than cap - and - trade.

-LSB-...] CES is essentially a national renewable electricity standard (RES), where nuclear power and so - called «clean coal» qualify to meet the RES.

It is often argued that if cap - and - trade is dead, enacting renewable or clean electricity standards is better than doing nothing at all about climate change.

One day after the election, the White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that a national renewable electricity standard could be an area of bipartisan energy cooperation, after President Obama had said cap - and - trade was not the only way «to skin the cat.»