Sentences with phrase «energy efficiency point»

Paul Doran also says that it was the toughest project he's ever worked on from an energy efficiency point of view: «Enerphit is special forces training for passive house builders, and this one was particularly tough.»

Not exact matches

The text separately pointed to possible medium - term measures to address emissions that could include low - carbon and zero - carbon fuels, improved energy efficiency for new and existing ships and possible market - based mechanisms to encourage the shift to lower - carbon fuels.

As Hannah Arendt points out in The Origins of Totalitarianism, efficiency is so subordinated to control that the totalitarian society can afford to spend 50 to 75 per cent of its energies enforcing control of one sort or another on its citizens.

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It can foster the higher levels of energy efficiency being seen in states like Massachusetts, California and Rhode Island, which would eliminate any need whatsoever renewable energy to replace Indian Point.»

In his opening and closing remarks, Peter Van Scoyoc, a Democrat serving his second term on the town board, pointed to his record, and that of the sitting board, on open space preservation, water quality protection efforts, energy efficiency, social services, obtaining grants, and planning for the future through ongoing hamlet studies and creation of a plan that accounts for rising sea level and shoreline erosion.

The report called on councils to take on responsibility for cutting household carbon emissions, pointing to lagging, insulating, re-glazing and modernising as opportunities to improve energy efficiency.

The New York Independent System Operator released a report analyzing the retirement of the Indian Point nuclear plant, concluding that system reliability criteria can be met with one or more types of solutions including generation, transmission, energy efficiency, and demand response measures.

New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), New York State's grid operator, confirmed that, in 2021, when Indian Point closes, other power sources coupled with energy efficiency improvements are already set to take up virtually all the slack resulting from the plant's shutdown.

New York could replace the entirety of Indian Point's 2,060 MW of capacity by implementing a clean energy portfolio comprised of 1,030 MW of energy efficiency and 1,030 MW of renewable capacity.1

As part of these efforts, Riverkeeper has taken the position that Indian Point's power can and should be replaced with a portfolio of clean energy resources: renewable resources such as wind and solar and energy efficiency.

Driving the industry, investors say, are consumer interest in the environmental and economic benefits of energy efficiency, corporate sustainability mandates and essentially a bet that at some point there will be a price on carbon emissions.

«About 6 percentage points of that is gained through efficiency improvements to infrastructure, but the bulk is the result of replacing current sources and uses of combustion energy with electricity.»

When the navigation system's route guidance is activated, the energy management ensures the electric motor is employed as extensively and as wisely as possible from an efficiency point of view.

An extensive array of MINIMALISM technology — including Brake Energy Regeneration, and the Shift Point Display and Auto Start / Stop function for models with the manual gearbox — allows the engine to work extremely effectively and with impressive efficiency, especially when you consider the power it develops.

Nissan Intelligent Power The focal point of Nissan Intelligent Power in the new LEAF is the e-powertrain, which offers improved energy efficiency and increased torque and power output.

And like all e-ink screens, its big selling points are its energy efficiency (charge it about once a month) and viewability in direct sunlight.

Your biggest purchase can also mean big deductions for things like: mortgage interest, property taxes, refinancing fees, points, and improvements to your home's energy efficiency.

To be awarded Green STARS properties must achieve adequate points against a set of practical environmental ciriteria including energy efficiency, waste minimisation and water management.

Is Ed Begley Jr going to live in a plywood box in the Bronx to prove his point about total energy efficiency?

But fair point in 276, although some solar technologies are linked to energy efficiency so it might not be precisely orthogonal in all cases -LRB-?).

Skeptics such as the Energy Tribune's Robert Bryce point out that total energy use in the United States continues to rise, despite efficiency Energy Tribune's Robert Bryce point out that total energy use in the United States continues to rise, despite efficiency energy use in the United States continues to rise, despite efficiency gains.

Steve Sorrell, the co-director of the Sussex Energy Group at the University of Sussex, offered some support for the prime point made by Shellenberger and Nordhaus here: «Will improved energy efficiency lead to increased energy consumption in the developing Energy Group at the University of Sussex, offered some support for the prime point made by Shellenberger and Nordhaus here: «Will improved energy efficiency lead to increased energy consumption in the developing energy efficiency lead to increased energy consumption in the developing energy consumption in the developing world?

I hope that takes the form of an energy and climate «listening tour,» as I proposed early in 2011 — with the listening aimed at identifying the many points of agreement on energy efficiency and innovation that get lost in fights over global warming.

we need MORE POINT OF USE solutions — efficiency, smart metering and renewable generation, and LESS Big Energy Monopoly solutions which kill off ecosystems, force us from our own land, divert our taxpayer and ratepayer dollars into building their infrastructure, then hijack us!

But cost effectiveness is even more important during financial hard times and the whole point about halting deforestation is that, along with improved energy efficiency, it is the most cost effective, and immediate, way to fight climate change.

3) The third point, about emissions taxes or caps imposing heavy costs for no climate benefit, presumes that such limits won't spur innovation, efficiency and a shift to lower - emitting energy sources.

Replacing Indian Point with this clean energy and energy efficiency efforts, will cost consumers however, though not very much at all: $ 1 - 5 per month additional on electricity bills.

has a discussion and documentation, including energy balances, (actually EROI = 10.5 in this presentation) of some of the points I was trying to make with Ender about the highly evolved efficiency of the Brazilian ethanol industry.

Her point was that energy efficiency has increased which is good news, but she didn't seem to care that CO2 was still increasing fast.

We should keep them open as long as feasible from an economic, environmental, and safety point of view, but when the decision is made to replace them, make sure other non-carbon generation and energy efficiency options are part of the decision.

One, as the energy companies pointed out to DECC, is that it will be amazingly costly and wildly uneconomical, since the dedicated power plants will often have to run at a low rate of efficiency, burning gas but not producing electricity.

The senator points out that money for green jobs comes not only from the stimulus but also from the Green Jobs Act of 2007, which calls for the government to spend $ 125 million per year on «energy efficiency and renewable energy» worker training.

Radical efficiency can reduce your energy use intensity to the point where it is possible to rely on renewable energy.

An early turning point in the coal war came in June 2007, when Florida's Public Service Commission refused to license a huge $ 5.7 - billion, 1,960 - megawatt coal plant because the utility proposing it could not prove that building the plant would be cheaper than investing in conservation, efficiency, or renewable energy.

«Capacity mechanisms should only be developed to address security of supply if a regional system adequacy assessment points to such a need, taking into account the potential for energy efficiency and demand - side response.»

Supportive government policies and regulatory frameworks are critical — a point echoed by a half - dozen government ministers speaking about their gains on energy access, energy efficiency and clean cooking.

A report on decarbonising heat from the UK Association for the Conservation of Energy says government «must bite the bullet» by setting mandatory minimum energy efficiency standards for all buildings, at the point ofEnergy says government «must bite the bullet» by setting mandatory minimum energy efficiency standards for all buildings, at the point ofenergy efficiency standards for all buildings, at the point of sale.

According to Power Forward 3.0, nearly half of the companies in the 2016 Fortune 500 have set targets to reduce greenhouse gases (GHG), improve energy efficiency, and / or increase renewable energy sourcing — this stat is up five percentage points from 2014.

Behavioral economics points to consumer error to justify energy efficiency policies, making policy evaluation difficult and potentially validating large - scale market preemption.

He also believes that increasing energy efficiency will be the second major action that could help, pointing out that the USA is currently twice as «energy efficient» as China (and several times as energy efficient per GDP generated).

However, the average RISE score for energy efficiency is more than ten percentage points below that for renewable energy.

These tend to be based on a points or check - offs, with energy efficiency demonstrated by nominal R - value or SEER rather than process and performance.

Argonne researchers also point out that the process occurs with minimal lost energy, which is crucial to energy efficiency and lowers the energy cost of recycling the CO2.

Many public policies seek to promote energy efficiency, but as the authors of the Electricity Journal paper — Keith Dennis of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and Ken Colburn and Jim Lazar of the Regulatory Assistance Project — point out, energy efficiency isn't precisely what we want.

On the first point, Japan is well known for its energy innovation expertise, particularly in high - efficiency coal technologies.

As fossil fuels are made to pay their costs to society, energy efficiency and clean energies may reach tipping points and begin to be rapidly adopted.

With three high - efficiency solar panels, maximum power point tracking, and our smart charge algorithm Helios can collect enough solar energy in 90 minutes to charge a standard smartphone.

Eric I agree that obtaining greater efficiencies in power use would be insufficient in itself but then if lifestyle changes occur in westernised societies to the point where a critical mass is reached in thinking so that a new paradigm is reached, demand for energy should be reduced substantially as well.

The year - to - year percentage change in funding over time for fossil energy, energy efficiency, and renewable energy at the DOE serves to illustrate the point about stability.