Sentences with phrase «energy needs of consumers»

In addition to this, wind generation does not adequately meet the energy needs of consumers.

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Eric Kiisel, senior vice-president, energy and consumer, ATS Automation Tooling Systems: One of the things I think we need to strengthen in Canada is how our companies work with universities and colleges.

But these brands are just a tiny drop in 3M's portfolio, which comprises more than 60,000 products, serving the needs of industries ranging from healthcare, electronics, energy, consumer, to industrials.

The Alberta Liberal Opposition believes that Alberta's energy market must put the needs of consumers first.

He's even more scathing about the «sales promotion» and «public relations» aspects of the market, and he shows that governments need to protect consumers from false advertising and to constrain the massive campaigns to «create needs» — the pursuit of which takes away energy and time from other important activities.

The Australian Beverages Council resolved to voluntarily adopt additional labelling commitments to assist consumers in selecting the appropriate beverage to suit their specific dietary needs and to help them calculate the total amount of energy that they are consuming

For a Healthy Jolt As the largest consumers of coffee in the world, Americans have struggled to find a balance between the energy they seek from drinking coffee and the protein they need to maintain a healthy diet.

New energy shot harnesses kombucha, the popular fermented black tea, to help satisfy the needs of consumers who want to boost their energy naturally

But the government also needs to support Britain's future energy needs through investment, rather than leaving it all to the energy companies which then pass the cost of investment on to consumers with interest.»

Short - term uncertainty around UK energy policy, as we have seen in the last couple of days, is very unhelpful and has the potential to result in increased prices for consumers and delay much - needed investment in all forms of energy infrastructure.

In a letter to the PSC, Carlucci said the plan to invest $ 965 million into the state's nuclear plants in the first two years of the program will cause a spike in consumer energy bills and needs to be reconsidered.

In making his way up the ranks of permanent government, from the consumer affairs department to the Department of Telecommunications and Energy to the Economic Development Corporation, where he worked as senior vice president for transportation and commerce, Ward has also shown himself comfortable using the proverbial revolving door, moving between the public and private sectors as the need arises, and endearing himself to both public and private constituencies.

Laura's vision for Esopus is to build the community by focusing on resident's needs and issues: Job security, infrastructure issues, rail and trail, improving recreation, addressing consumer protection, energy efficiency, animal protection and sustainable lifestyles — are some of the concerns that she will address in the legislature.

Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner is worried about the slow pace of expansion of the country's high - voltage lines needed to transport offshore wind energy from the North Sea to industrial areas in the south of Germany.

She argues that understanding consumer behavior needs to be at the heart of a meaningful energy policy.

«The need to educate customers about the nutritional content of restaurant foods is acute because consumers increasingly eat away from home, restaurants serve large portions of energy - dense and high - sodium foods, and obesity and the prevalence of other diet - related diseases are high,» according to lead researcher Amy Auchincloss, PhD, MPH, of the Drexel University School of Public Health.

Big - brained: An engine at high idle, the brain needed more energy than plant foods could provide, so H. erectus became a hunter and consumer of meat.

At the one - Gt scale, multiple technologies will be needed, and ultimately energy consumers will bear the costs of construction and operation.

Mad Croc is experiencing hyper - growth rates by introducing innovative products that meet the needs of on - the - go consumers for convenient energy, any time.

I realize this will sound nonproductive as a response, but my stalled elevator speech would be that we need to stop providing energy to a world that has grown too populous and that theh world, like it or not — and I know nobody is going to like what I am going to say — must stop its current way of life and go back 300 years or so to a lifestyle without energy grids or consumer product planning and manufacturing groups.

While the era of consumer - driven growth may be ebbing, the sheer size of the mushrooming global middle class, even if it becomes an energy - thrifty culture, guarantees the need for far more electricity.

Similar projects are needed across the country, particularly in the Northeast, where consumers historically have paid higher prices for energy than other parts of the country due to inadequate pipeline capacity.

Save the average American family nearly $ 85 on their annual energy bill in 2030, reducing enough energy to power 30 million homes, and save consumers a total of $ 155 billion from 2020 - 2030; Give a head start to wind and solar deployment and prioritize the deployment of energy efficiency improvements in low - income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.&energy bill in 2030, reducing enough energy to power 30 million homes, and save consumers a total of $ 155 billion from 2020 - 2030; Give a head start to wind and solar deployment and prioritize the deployment of energy efficiency improvements in low - income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.&energy to power 30 million homes, and save consumers a total of $ 155 billion from 2020 - 2030; Give a head start to wind and solar deployment and prioritize the deployment of energy efficiency improvements in low - income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.&energy efficiency improvements in low - income communities that need it most early in the program through a Clean Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.&Energy Incentive Program; and Continue American leadership on climate change by keeping us on track to meet the economy - wide emissions targets we have set, including the goal of reducing emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and to 26 - 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.»

There's been talk for years of an Amazon, Apple or Google emerging in the American energy industry — a company that offers consumers a seamless solution for their energy needs, combined with choice, control and access to their own energy - generating potential.

that «Human combustion of fossil fuels is significantly causing that climate change» is also true, then many, perhaps most, people will accept that there is a need to «reduce greenhouse gas emissions and build out clean energy» even if it will «cost consumers money, decrease energy security and destroy jobs».

There's a lot of good news to be found in EPA's draft Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 - 2015, which came out this week — all of it underscoring progress, much of it led by industry, in reducing emissions — even as American consumers and the U.S. economy are supplied the energy they need.

Increasingly, they are in need of ways to thwart the growing impact of rooftop solar and battery storage technology that could give more consumers energy independence.

However, more efforts are needed to inform customers on their electricity consumption habits and to regulate activities of energy consumers and suppliers.

According to the notes, Michael Whatley, policy adviser of the fossil fuel lobby group Consumer Energy Alliance, which receives funding from Peabody Energy along with other coal, oil, and gas companies, underlined the industry's urgent need to mobilize state public officials, including legislators, attorneys general, environmental and public utility commissioners, and energy officials in many sEnergy Alliance, which receives funding from Peabody Energy along with other coal, oil, and gas companies, underlined the industry's urgent need to mobilize state public officials, including legislators, attorneys general, environmental and public utility commissioners, and energy officials in many sEnergy along with other coal, oil, and gas companies, underlined the industry's urgent need to mobilize state public officials, including legislators, attorneys general, environmental and public utility commissioners, and energy officials in many senergy officials in many states.

The EU's unilateral climate policy is absurd: first consumers are forced to pay ever increasing subsidies for costly wind and solar energy; secondly they are asked to subsidise nuclear energy too; then, thirdly, they are forced to pay increasingly uneconomic coal and gas plants to back up power needed by intermittent wind and solar energy; fourthly, consumers are additionally hit by multi-billion subsidies that become necessary to upgrade the national grids; fifthly, the cost of power is made even more expensive by adding a unilateral Emissions Trading Scheme.

(Sec. 213) Amends the EPCA to: (1) revise the definition of «energy conservation standard» to include energy efficiency for certain covered equipment, water efficiency for certain covered equipment, and both energy and water efficiency for certain equipment; (2) allow the adoption of consensus and alternative test procedures for purposes of the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal stanenergy conservation standard» to include energy efficiency for certain covered equipment, water efficiency for certain covered equipment, and both energy and water efficiency for certain equipment; (2) allow the adoption of consensus and alternative test procedures for purposes of the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal stanenergy efficiency for certain covered equipment, water efficiency for certain covered equipment, and both energy and water efficiency for certain equipment; (2) allow the adoption of consensus and alternative test procedures for purposes of the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal stanenergy and water efficiency for certain equipment; (2) allow the adoption of consensus and alternative test procedures for purposes of the Energy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal stanEnergy Conservation Program for Consumer Products Other Than Automobiles; (3) require the Secretary to prescribe a new test method for televisions; (4) expand the list of criteria for prescribing new or amended energy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal stanenergy conservation standards, including requiring Energy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal stanEnergy Guide labels to include the carbon output of each covered product; (5) require manufacturers of covered products to submit annual reports and information to DOE regarding compliance, economic impact, annual shipments, facility energy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal stanenergy and water use, and sales data that could support an assessment of the need for regional standards; and (6) require state and local building codes to use appliance efficiency requirements that are no less stringent than those set by federal standards.

Earlier drafts talked of the need to «shift towards a participatory energy system», one where there was «a fundamental shift is needed to the demand side, with consumers playing a more active role».

Sen. Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin), a progressive with a lot on the ball, noting that low energy prices are driving significant gains for the U.S. economy, questioned the trade - offs between expanded LNG exports and the needs of U.S. consumers and domestically based manufacturing.

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.

With recent advances in technology, planners can consider many affordable energy options, in addition to conventional grid electricity, to meet the electricity needs of different kinds of consumers.

Again, we know it sounds obvious, but buying less things — some of which you just don't need — changes the energy equation across the board, on every single consumer product.

The new standards, the last of many developed during the Obama administration, will save consumers money, help meet the nation's energy needs and reduce environmentally harmful emissions, including greenhouse gases.

«For the market for energy efficiency to work, consumers need to see the costs of inefficiency on their energy bills.

Her assignment on the House Energy and Commerce Committee puts her in an ideal position to address ocean issues, along with the health care, energy and consumer protection needs of her constituents in the 24th disEnergy and Commerce Committee puts her in an ideal position to address ocean issues, along with the health care, energy and consumer protection needs of her constituents in the 24th disenergy and consumer protection needs of her constituents in the 24th district.

encouragement of investment in solutions that will cut Europe's emissions at the rate and scale science tells us is needed, and also create decent jobs, improve energy security and save money for consumers and businesses alike.

EnergySage and the Solar Energy Industries Association introduced the SEIA - endorsed EnergySage online solar marketplace, a one - stop shop providing consumers with all of the essential tools and resources needed to evaluate solar energy systems and make informed purchasing deciEnergy Industries Association introduced the SEIA - endorsed EnergySage online solar marketplace, a one - stop shop providing consumers with all of the essential tools and resources needed to evaluate solar energy systems and make informed purchasing decienergy systems and make informed purchasing decisions.

The property profiles within the company's peer to peer community as well as its comprehensive suite of educational and analytical tools, provide consumers with the knowledge needed to make confident clean energy system purchases.

To avoid negative outcomes, plainly there would be a need for massive support for the take - up of cheap, low - energy system by consumers, especially poor consumers.

In electric lighting alone, which uses 19 % of global electricity production, IEA analysis concludes that energy needs could be reduced by 38 % if the least - cost technologies were adopted — at no loss of service to consumers.

The U.S. has and can continue to produce energy responsibly, and we need our political leaders to put our national security and economy, and the needs of consumers first.

As the president of the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association said, «Instead of imposing an unreasonable biofuels mandate, which would raise energy costs and impact fuel supplies, government should allow consumer choice and the free market to determine the mix of energy sources to best meet our nation's needs.»

By purchasing an ENERGY STAR qualified new home, you are joining millions of consumers who have changed to ENERGY STAR, helping our nation reduce our energy needs and building a cleaner environment for the fENERGY STAR qualified new home, you are joining millions of consumers who have changed to ENERGY STAR, helping our nation reduce our energy needs and building a cleaner environment for the fENERGY STAR, helping our nation reduce our energy needs and building a cleaner environment for the fenergy needs and building a cleaner environment for the future.

State and federal policies that facilitate transparent and timely project review, as well as set and maintain realistic deadlines for pipeline approval, will do much to expedite construction and expand infrastructure to enhance the delivery of affordable energy that consumers and businesses need.

While it's highly recognizable among consumers, Energy Star is in need of a make - over so that consumers can be sure they're getting products that not only meet a certain standard, but exceed it.

Energy efficiency measures needed include: A long - term commitment to energy efficiency by the federal government and states; and the development of a smart electric grid to allow electric consumers to better monitor their electricitEnergy efficiency measures needed include: A long - term commitment to energy efficiency by the federal government and states; and the development of a smart electric grid to allow electric consumers to better monitor their electricitenergy efficiency by the federal government and states; and the development of a smart electric grid to allow electric consumers to better monitor their electricity use.