Sentences with phrase «energy act»

This lack of modern energy acts as a major brake on efforts to reduce poverty, improve health, education, gender equality and a range of other positive economic and social outcomes.

Simply put, dark energy acts to push matter away from each other, while gravity acts to pull matter together.

When a car is run at part throttle, this interruption in the airflow causes excess vacuum, which causes the engine to use up valuable energy acting as a vacuum pump.

It's not the first time lawyers have challenged the Green Energy Act in court.

He landed a job in renewable energy advocacy with Renewable Northwest in Portland, and helped develop, negotiate and pass Oregon's Renewable Energy Act of 2007, which established the state's requirement that utilities purchase 25 % of their electricity from renewable resources by 2025.

In Canada, Ontario passed the Green Energy Act in May, and during the same month Toronto enacted legislation requiring green roofs on new developments of 2,000 square metres or greater.

More than 50 Maine towns in other parts of the state have adopted protective wind energy ordinances since 2008, but residents of the «expedited area» in the Unorganized Territory lost the ability to do the same, the moment Governor John Baldacci signed the Wind Energy Act into law.

Last year, Senator Lamar Alexander (R - TN) introduced the Clean Energy Act of 2009, which would invest $ 750 million annually for ten years in clean energy RD&D and provide $ 100 billion in clean energy loan guarantees.

The centerpiece of Australia's Clean Energy Act passed in 2012, the carbon tax required 350 of the nation's biggest polluters to purchase carbon credits, valued at AU$ 23 per ton, if they exceeded their allotted targets.

«After the Renewable Energy Act passed in 2008, under the law and related regulations, only projects that have been...

More than 50 Maine towns in other parts of the state have adopted protective wind energy ordinances since 2008, but residents of the «expedited area» lost the ability to do the same, the moment Governor John Baldacci signed the Wind Energy Act into law.

He concluded that the probes» generators were probably radiating heat in the direction of travel; that trickle of energy acted like a small forward jet, slowing the craft.

The recently passed Green Energy Act gives the government the authority to direct the Ontario Power Authority to establish a feed - in tariff program, which it did.

An amendment of the German Energy Act that became effective in January provides only for the possibility to postpone planned shutdowns of power plants to improve the security of supply, but incentives for new state - of - the - art power plants that can balance the fluctuating input of renewables still have to be set.

In a prepared statement, Smith said that 10 years ago, the state «enacted the bipartisan Next Generation Energy Act and proved that we can have affordable, reliable, and clean energy.

After diagnosing problems, U.S. Energy acts to solve them for its clients — for instance, by renegotiating rates with the utilities.

As a founding member of the Green Energy Act Alliance, OSEA played a major role in the creation of this legislation, which, with its program of advanced feed - in tariffs, is the most progressive in North America.

We have legislated in the first Energy Act 2011 for the pioneering pay - as - you - save Green Deal which will revolutionise our energy saving efforts, provide jobs across the country, and save householders money.

He is bringing in a Green energy Act which will deal with local regulations and bylaws that are being used to delay renewable energy projects.

The Green Energy Act aimed to change that.

So the Green Energy Act demanded that proposed wind and solar projects source specific percentages of the total cost from within the province.

The Green Energy Act spurred rapid development.

In Ontario, the PC opposition vowed to dismantle McGuinty's Green Energy Act if elected, though it would mean cancelling a $ 7 - billion, 25 - year contract with South Korea's Samsung that promised the creation of 200 jobs at a solar panel plant in London, Ont., and 16,000 jobs in total.

As NRC explained in a March 2011 letter to Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming, the Russian company would have to apply for and obtain an export license and «commit to use the material only for peaceful purposes» in accordance with «the U.S. - Russia Atomic Energy Act Section 123 agreement for peaceful nuclear cooperation.»

The new federal energy act is affecting refrigeration equipment in particular, so that is becoming much more efficient.

It was especially satisfying to pilot the Green Energy Act onto the Statute Book last year.

On 2 September, Delhi police charged the university's former science dean and five colleagues in the chemistry department with «causing death by negligence» and violating the Atomic Energy Act over the improper disposal of a derelict gamma - ray research device in 2010.

The 2007 Energy Act mandates that biofuel production increase over the next 14 years, culminating in 36 billion gallons in 2022.

The 2007 Energy Act authorized the DOE to spend $ 95 million for geothermal research (although Congress has appropriated only a fraction of that so far).

The Clean Energy Act led to a «significant and immediate» reduction in Australia's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, says energy analyst Roger Dargaville of the University of Melbourne.

Whereas Hero Mode offers an elimination game type that largely replicates F - Zero's manic wares, in which boost energy acts as a life meter and once your ship explodes you're out of the race.

No sooner do we hear that the Scots have developed a biofuel from whisky distillery byproducts, that the tequila industry announces it wants in on the waste - to - energy act too.

She adds, Hudak's colleague, Huron - Bruce MPP Lisa Thompson, wants to know why the government moved ahead with the Green Energy Act when it was aware of health concerns.

Parker Gallant, a writer with the Financial Post and Green Energy Act critic says electricity costs are forcing people to make a tough choice, heat or eat.

Instead, Congressman Bass supports a balanced energy policy, starting with improved energy efficiency as embodied by his Smart Energy Act, which looks to make 445,000 federal office buildings more energy efficient.

- The report was completed in August 2009 prior to the implementation of the Green Energy Act regulations.

Approval is granted subject to provisions by the Hydro and Electric Energy Act and the Alberta Utilities Commission Act.

«The Green Energy Act creates strong motivation to enhance renewable energy projects in the province of Ontario.»

Where I live in Ontario Canada, the politician who created the Green Energy Act also and simultaneously exempted wind farms from the requirement to go through an environmental assessment.

Poland's government is in the process of pushing an amendment to the country's Renewable Energies Act through parliament to allow for offshore wind auctions, while utilities with offshore wind developments are gearing up to prepare for a possible tender next year.

The right model for energy modernization is not the Manhattan or Apollo projects, nor DARPA, but rather the full suite of postwar investments in the Interstate Highway System, the G.I. Bill, microchips, personal computers, aerospace, the Internet, and the National Defense Energy Act.

The Clean Energy Act establishing the tax was hugely opposed by Australia's opposition government, the Centre - right coalition, which warned it would repeal the tax if they gain power.

New Green Energy Act removes barriers to investing)

Ross McKitrick, author of Environmental and Economic Consequences of Ontario's Green Energy Act -LSB-...]

* the greed energy act is nothing more than a cash grab by off shore conglomerates and it is killing the good people of this province both literally & economically.