Sentences with phrase «energy policy in future»

While it allows, perhaps, for a more integrated clean energy policy in future, the minister in charge and the prime minister must both guarantee their commitment to tackling climate change is not being downgraded in any way.

Not exact matches

«OPEC's current strategy hinges heavily on the prospects of future demand growth,» Bassam Fattouh and Andreas Economou at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies wrote in a new paper on OPEC's policy and choices.

«To ignore market trends by impeding progress toward a cleaner energy future, on the basis of ignorance or ideology, makes no sense,» Nathanael Greene, director of renewable policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a statement.

A solid balance sheet has First Solar on track to continue to lead the market and generate significant sales when panel demand recovers in the very near future, no matter what the Trump administration's policy on climate and energy.

But parts of American energy security policies are at odds with influential elements in President Obama's Democratic Party, who want to curtail what they perceive to be Canada's «dirty crude» from the oilsands — witness the continuing uncertainty over the future of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

The Program applies the latest thinking in public finance and resource policy to assess how governments can improve the global competitiveness of the energy sector, improve the understanding of the need for energy market access, foster the innovation that will create the energy sector of the future, and help policymakers collaborate locally, nationally and globally.

On the Energy Collective blog, Jim Baird notes the «painful» irony that under Clark, British Columbia has pursued policies likely to invite even worse fire calamities in the future.

Our series takes a look at what might have happened in the past — or could happen in the future — if certain energy - related ideas and policy prescriptions put forth by prominent politicians and their supporters were actually adopted.

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the B.C. government's decision to complete the Site C dam: «This decision was clearly difficult for Premier Horgan and his government, and hopefully no future government finds itself in a situation like this.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citieIn environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citiein the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cEnergy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cenergy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citiein the vicinity of cities.

This challenge is significant when viewed through the context of future land, water, energy and nutrient availability; water quality concerns; policy barriers; and a general decline in the research investment that drives productivity.

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.

The UK faces some tough choices on its energy policy future in the coming years and decades.

On the economic and business side, emphasis was put on the importance of being part of single European home market with access to over 250 million people for British business, industry, jobs, and future prosperity; greater bargaining strength in matters related to issues such as energy and trade negotiations; and the ability to take advantage of the Common Agricultural Policy with the price stability and guaranteed food supplies that it brought with it.

Today's RGGI proposal, working in concert with the Governor's REV policy and Clean Energy Standard, sends the message to the nation that climate change is real and the future is clean and renewable energy.&Energy Standard, sends the message to the nation that climate change is real and the future is clean and renewable energy.&energy.»

The best case for nuclear having no place in a future UK energy policy is not made by considering whether it is safe as an energy source, because, by and large, it is.

The «nitty - gritty» of how patents are developed and then protected is a big issue when it comes to the role technology can play in the future of energy security and climate change policy, for example.

The state's energy policy should remediate the need for some pipelines in the future, Snyder said.

«The combination of talent, technological innovation and supportive policies in New York has created a vibrant clean energy industry that is leading the nation in meeting the energy challenges of our future.»

«I look forward to working with management and employees to demonstrate our commitment to being a leading corporate citizen, to implementing stronger environmental policies, and to providing reliable and affordable power,» Donald Evans, new chairman of Energy Future, said in a statement last week.

It features prominently in the future energy policy of all industrial economies.

Johnson and colleagues in IIASA's Energy Program also examined two additional strategies with this limitation: grandfathering existing plants so that they are exempt from future climate policies, or retrofitting plants with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), a yet unproven technology that would capture greenhouse gas emissions and store them underground.

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

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.»

Dr. Thomas Cochran of the Natural Resources Defense Council contributes a major environmental organization's views on the present reality and future of nuclear power in the U.S. and alternative policies, especially in the West, that would provide a better energy future.

Sabine Bock, Energy and Climate Director for Women in Europe for a Common Future said, «We can only get an ambitious and adequate agreement, if women and men equally decide, contribute and benefit from all climate policies and actions.

As surfaces absorb roughly 100 times more solar energy than the CO2 in the atmosphere, future anthropogenic changes in both land and water albedo may figure significantly in climate policy outcomes.

And we will keep on being a victim to shifts in the oil market until we finally get serious about a long - term policy for a secure, affordable energy future.

To learn more, I urge you to read «The History and Future of the Clean Energy Ministerial,» an essay by David Sandalow, a former Obama administration energy official who was involved in the early days of the ministerial and now, as a fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, offers five ways to boost the impact of these meeEnergy Ministerial,» an essay by David Sandalow, a former Obama administration energy official who was involved in the early days of the ministerial and now, as a fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, offers five ways to boost the impact of these meeenergy official who was involved in the early days of the ministerial and now, as a fellow at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy, offers five ways to boost the impact of these meeEnergy Policy, offers five ways to boost the impact of these meetings.

While ensuring the widespread deployment of carbon capture / storage technology does represent a significant challenge, it is more feasible than other policy options being offered by those who simply don't see any role for coal in our energy future.

Ma also calculated the expected number of premature deaths in China in the future if the country meets its current targets to restrict coal combustion and emissions through a combination of energy policies and pollution controls.

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Obama took a beating by environmentalists for pushing to open up offshore oil and gas production, and this disaster just exacerbates it; I wonder if the loss in credibility with environmentalists because of this spill is enough to substantially undermine future energy policy initiatives.

Once the reactors that are in construction come online, probably along with others that will be approved in the future unless China changes its energy policy, that number should shoot up, though to what percentage of total will depend on many factors (economic growth is probably # 1 on the list).

Research is a good start, but it won't do much without parallel processes: innovating policy for designing and financing new energy infrastructure, supporting cultural production that explores a range of futures (when was the last time you saw a future depicted in a movie or TV show that wasn't dystopian?)

It's hard to find fault with McIntyre's overarching conclusion about the report and the panel's Working Group 3 (WG3 below), which is tasked with charting possible responses to climate change: The public and policy - makers are starving for independent and authoritative analysis of precisely how much weight can be placed on renewables in the energy future.

Despite this rapid growth, however, solar energy is still a very small percentage of the total energy production in the UK and its future depends on policy decisions and consumer choices.

America's energy revolution means... a United States that's more energy self - sufficient — less dependent on others, more secure in the world and better positioned to help friends abroad; economic growth and job creation — and with the right policy choices, a golden opportunity to secure American prosperity well into the future; and a stronger U.S. trading posture that, with energy exports, could benefit consumers

Skeptics of the bill, which the Senate is expected to take up this week, and its proponents agree the long - term course of renewable energy in the state will depend on another policy overhaul in the near future.

You probably won't think of it as a benefit or may not have noticed this effect, but many fossil fuel reduction policies, extending to fuel and energy efficiency and how nations plan to produce electrical power in the future have directly followed from the climate alarms raised since 1988.

Vice-president of public affairs at the American Wind Energy Association, Peter Kelley used his keynote address on the forum's opening day to discuss the future prospects for wind energy development in the U.S. and the potential impact of President Donald Trump's polEnergy Association, Peter Kelley used his keynote address on the forum's opening day to discuss the future prospects for wind energy development in the U.S. and the potential impact of President Donald Trump's polenergy development in the U.S. and the potential impact of President Donald Trump's policies.

Delegates agreed Energy 4 will need to address issues of future market design, balance relationships between market partners, and evolve the need for policy and regulatory regimes, to keep pace with digital technological advancements in the face of the grand transition.

Unfortunately this nutter is in charge of our energy policy and deciding where future # billions are spent

Clearly, the outcome of this year's general elections will have a major impact on future federal policies, and in turn, on the speed of clean - energy development in the U.S.

In a featured keynote address, Kim Rudd, Parliamentary Secretary to Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Jim Carr, spoke about the federal government's strategy for ensuring Canada's natural resources get to market sustainably while creating opportunities in the shift to a low - carbon future, a shift that requires supportive policy, strategic infrastructure investments, and the engagement of Canadians in defining Canada's energy futurIn a featured keynote address, Kim Rudd, Parliamentary Secretary to Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Jim Carr, spoke about the federal government's strategy for ensuring Canada's natural resources get to market sustainably while creating opportunities in the shift to a low - carbon future, a shift that requires supportive policy, strategic infrastructure investments, and the engagement of Canadians in defining Canada's energy futurin the shift to a low - carbon future, a shift that requires supportive policy, strategic infrastructure investments, and the engagement of Canadians in defining Canada's energy futurin defining Canada's energy future.

As such, governments, environmental policy makers, and investors worldwide; have to play their respective roles to ensure that renewable energy technologies become less costly and more efficient, to supplement heavy usage of fossils, and to meet the future worlds» energy demand that is estimated to grow by more than 50 percent in the year 2020 by competent energy researchers.

The participants in the research workshop were: Joseph Aldy, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; Denny Ellerman, Part - time Professor, European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies; Michael Greenstone, 3M Professor of Environmental Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lawrence H. Goulder, Shuzo Nishihara Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Stanford University; Robert Hahn, Director of Economics, Smith School, University of Oxford; Paul L. Joskow, President, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; Erin T. Mansur, Associate Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; Albert McGartland, Director, National Center for Environmental Economics, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Brian J. McLean, Former Director, Office of Atmospheric Programs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; W. David Montgomery, Senior Vice President, NERA Economic Consulting; Erich J. Muehlegger, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Karen L. Palmer, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future; John Parsons, Executive Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT Sloan School of Management; Forest L. Reinhardt, John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management; Daniel Schrag, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Harvard University; Robert N. Stavins, Albert Pratt Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School; Thomas Tietenberg, Mitchell Family Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Colby College; and Jonathan B. Wiener, William R. and Thomas L. Perkins Professor of Law, Duke University Law School.

Major shifts in federal energy policy under the Trump administration alongside technological and policy changes underway across electricity markets and states raise important questions about the future of US energy policy, at federal and state levels.

The participants in the policy and politics roundtable were: Robert Grady, General Partner, Cheyenne Capital Fund (1989 — 1991: Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget for Natural Resources, Energy & Science; 1991 — 1993 Executive Associate Director, OMB, and Deputy Assistant to the President); C. Boyden Gray, Principal, Boyden Gray & Associates (1989 — 1993: White House Counsel); Fred Krupp, President (1984 — present), Environmental Defense Fund; Mary D. Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board (1993 — 1997: Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency); Roger Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School (1989 — 1993: Assistant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy); Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management (1989 — 1991: Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers); and Philip Sharp, President, Resources for the Future (1975 — 1995: Member, U.S. House of Representatives, Indiana, and Chairman, Energy and Power Subcommittee, House Committee on Natural Resoupolicy and politics roundtable were: Robert Grady, General Partner, Cheyenne Capital Fund (1989 — 1991: Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget for Natural Resources, Energy & Science; 1991 — 1993 Executive Associate Director, OMB, and Deputy Assistant to the President); C. Boyden Gray, Principal, Boyden Gray & Associates (1989 — 1993: White House Counsel); Fred Krupp, President (1984 — present), Environmental Defense Fund; Mary D. Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board (1993 — 1997: Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency); Roger Porter, IBM Professor of Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School (1989 — 1993: Assistant to the President for Economic and Domestic Policy); Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management (1989 — 1991: Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers); and Philip Sharp, President, Resources for the Future (1975 — 1995: Member, U.S. House of Representatives, Indiana, and Chairman, Energy and Power Subcommittee, House Committee on Natural ResouPolicy); Richard L. Schmalensee, Howard W. Johnson Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management (1989 — 1991: Member, President's Council of Economic Advisers); and Philip Sharp, President, Resources for the Future (1975 — 1995: Member, U.S. House of Representatives, Indiana, and Chairman, Energy and Power Subcommittee, House Committee on Natural Resources).