Sentences with phrase «energy policy goals»

The Estonian climate and energy policy goals have been aiming for low - carbon economy since regaining independence in 1991, but until today these goals have not been achieved due to insufficient application of the relevant policy measures.

California needs to better coordinate its electricity policy, planning, and procurement efforts to eliminate duplication and to ensure that planners and policy makers understand the interactions and conflicts that may exist among state energy policy goals.

Such coordinated plans can be used to guide each agency's own infrastructure approval and licensing responsibilities and thus maximize coordinated action to achieve state energy policy goals.

Workshop on Smart Grid Technologies and Policies Needed to Support California's Energy Policy Goals

These carbon - pricing initiatives could better harmonize electricity markets and state climate and energy policy goals and reduce the need for out of market payments (e.g. RECs and ZECs).

To support this initiative, Synapse developed a benefit - cost analysis framework that will provide the Commission and other stakeholders with the information necessary to determine which resources will be in the public interest and will meet the Commission's energy policy goals.

Minnesota law sets out ambitious state energy policy goals.

State law incorporates a number of additional energy policy goals aimed largely at supporting these greenhouse gas reduction targets.

The reason is that its formation over 20 years ago was to support political and energy policy goals, not to search for scientific truth.

The workshop will focus on how these projects are helping to further the goals of each program as well as broader energy policy goals such as increasing the amount of renewable resources in California's energy mix, decreasing greenhouse gas emissions associated with the energy sector, and accelerating energy technology innovation within the state.

This is according to the government's ambitious energy policy goals, which are driven by various well - known reasons: fossil fuels such as oil and gas are running out, becoming more and more expensive and are bad for the environment.

Not exact matches

«By getting active in communities, we can raise our voices to defend policies and regulations that will protect wild places and wildlife, reduce carbon emissions, build a modern energy economy based on investment in renewables, and, most crucially, ensure the United States remains fully committed to the vital goals set forth in the Paris Agreement on climate change.»

Lisa Jackson, Apple's VP of environment, policy and social initiatives, said on stage at an Apple press event that the company has reached the 100 % renewable energy goal in 23 countries.

Exxon has argued against all the other shareholder proposals as well, including a «policy to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity»; a policy articulating Exxon's «respect for and commitment to the human right to water»; «a report discussing possible long term risks to the company's finances and operations posed by the environmental, social and economic challenges associated with the oil sands»; a report of «known and potential environmental impacts» and «policy options» to address the impacts of the company's «fracturing operations»; a report of recommendations on how Exxon can become an «environmentally sustainable energy company»; and adoption of «quantitative goals... for reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.»

To reap those economic benefits, leaders need to use the months ahead to set ambitious clean energy goals for Canada — and then commit to policies to meet them.

Amounts also depend on whether or not they help create jobs or support public policy goals such as energy reduction, minority business development, or business district revitalization.

In concrete fashion the document advances three values against which energy policies and technologies may be measured for their consistency with the goal of ecological justice: sustainability, equity and participation.

Amory Lovins has argued in detail that an environmentally desirable energy policy will also employ more persons in more desirable ways and produce as much usable power as we need.35 If we redefine the goal of efficiency as the enhancement of human experience, we are likely to find that most of the oppositions identified by Okun between equality and efficiency will disappear.

We're on the way to building the machinery to deliver on our Paris emissions reduction and energy reliability goals - but are still shy of a Paris - compliant emissions policy.

The Government has put in place legislation which requires any future Government to reach this first goal however this analysis and subsequent figures from Policy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timePolicy Exchange's report: Warmer Homes — Improving fuel poverty and energy efficiency policy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timepolicy in the UK highlights current resources are less than half of what is required to meet this target, let alone a more ambitious timeframe.

«New York should set a goal of 100 percent green energy by 2030 and then scale up its policies and investments to meet that goal,» he said.

The final Erie County plan will summarize results of greenhouse gas emission inventories, set short - term and long - term energy goals, define new operations policies and changes to existing policies, identify implementation strategies and projects, present a detailed timeline for implementation and identify funding opportunities.

The Clean Energy Fund and the Reforming the Energy Vision policies will help achieve these renewable energy goals while building New York into an economic powerEnergy Fund and the Reforming the Energy Vision policies will help achieve these renewable energy goals while building New York into an economic powerEnergy Vision policies will help achieve these renewable energy goals while building New York into an economic powerenergy goals while building New York into an economic powerhouse.

Ironically, the need to modernize the state's energy system dovetails with the goal of developing policies that encourage energy use reduction, efficiency measures, and the move to reliance on alternative energy sources, such as solar power.

«This is a real convergence of activity that will ensure we're on a robust path to make sure we get to ’40 by» 30,»» said John Williams, director of policy and regulatory affairs for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, referring to the state's goal of reducing emissions 40 percent by 2030.

«We're quickly reaching the end of the low - hanging - fruit era, and in the absence of real directed policy, those goals are going to be much more challenging,» said Greg Cunningham, who leads the clean energy and climate change program at the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston - based environmental group.

The U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National Association of Counties have also endorsed the AIA goal by vowing to integrate provisions related to the built environment in their energy policies.

Coupled with increased transmission infrastructure, favorable policies, subsidies, and renewable energy goals in states and cities, it's becoming more common to see wind, solar, hydropower and biomass use.

The Policy Loftness and others recommend that the federal government encourage efficiency through tax incentives and stricter standards for appliances, vehicles, and buildings to meet the goals of the American Clean Energy and Security Act.

As UN member nations have committed to implement the goals by 2030, the research suggests that far greater emphasis should be placed on considering cross-sectoral dynamics between energy, water, food, gender and education when considering wider public policy goals.

Sutley, for her part, came to the post after a four - year stint as a deputy mayor in Los Angeles, where she also oversaw climate change and energy policy, including restraining emissions from diesel trucks at area ports as well as promoting solar energy by setting a goal of generating 10 percent of the city's electricity from the sun by 2020.

As state - owned energy enterprises in China continue to have a big say in policy matters, the country's goal to cut greenhouse gas emissions may not necessarily hit Beijing's desired statistical target.

«But the states have a very active agenda,» he said, noting that most states have renewable energy and climate policies that might ultimately deliver many of the goals of the CPP.

U.S. Energy Policy must be guided by two intertwined goals: guaranteeing the security of the nation's energy supply and limiting runaway climate cEnergy Policy must be guided by two intertwined goals: guaranteeing the security of the nation's energy supply and limiting runaway climate cenergy supply and limiting runaway climate change.

The week after Warsaw, Stern met with Special Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Dan Utech, White House Associate Director for Energy and Climate Change at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and Domestic Policy Council Rick Duke, and others to discuss the goals with the State Department pushing for what one person called «maximum ambition.»

«The goal of the project is to help cities better understand the primary drivers of household carbon footprints in each location,» said Daniel Kammen, Class of 1935 Distinguished Professor of Energy in the Energy and Resources Group and the Goldman School of Public Policy, and director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory.

«As the world community pursues new sustainable development goals, policymakers need to know who is leading and who is lagging on energy and environmental challenges,» said Daniel C. Esty, director of the Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy and the Hillhouse Professor at Yale University.

Pearce worked with energy policy doctoral student Emily Prehoda on the study, and their main goal was to better inform health policy.

As the agency works on its new energy policy, Energía 2050, there is growing evidence that climate actions can mesh with the country's development goals.

The goal, Collins said in a press release, is to «help ensure that federal policies for the use of renewable biomass are clear, simple, and reflect the importance of biomass for our energy future.»

-- The Secretary shall revise the goals established under subsection (a), from time to time as appropriate, to account for advances in technology and changes in energy policy.

-- After reviewing the report required by subsection (a), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollEnergy Regulatory Commission, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollenergy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

Phase II of the DRECP focuses on better aligning local, state, and federal renewable energy development and conservation plans, policies, and goals.

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We need to keep our eyes on big goals in energy policy, the serious dangers, and the common interests of the American people.

We recognize that different nations will design different strategies, with goals and policies that reflect their unique energy resources and economic circumstances.

The wider investigative goal I proposed to ProPublica is to expose «reality gaps» in descriptions of clean - energy technologies and policies (not to mention policies of those saying the fossil - fuel status quo is just fine) and point to under - addressed opportunities to cut vulnerability to climate - related hazards right now.

Sadly, the U.N. and other institutions that at least in theory have embraced Dr. Smalley's goals all too often enact policies that effectively keep the world's poor in an energy trap, without any measurable economic growth.

Early this year, during the Aspen Environment Forum, I asked Ira Magaziner, a senior policy adviser to President Bill Clinton for six years, whether a new president, with that bully pulpit and all, could make a sustained «energy quest» — from the living room to the laboratory to the boardroom to the classroom — a prime goal for Americans.

I want to hear what your proposals are for policies aimed at the goal on those green ribbons — stopping energy poverty now.