Sentences with phrase «energy policy mistakes»
Dr. Helm, a professor of energy policy at Oxford and an economic adviser to Britain's secretary of state for energy and climate change, recently discussed what he views as America's lucky break with natural gas and what we can learn from Europe's energy policy mistakes.
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Pahle, whose results appear in Energy Policy (DOI: 10.1016 / j.enpol.2011.01.027), says that the mistake in 2005 was to allocate permits according to demand from existing technology, which meant coal - fired generators got the lion's share.
It may be in doldrums, and Germany's emissions targets are certainly precarious right now, but it's not due to some failing in terms of renewable energy; it's partly due to the fact that they chose to make their task enormously harder by simultaneously ending nuclear power, and partly due to the fact that they were among the technical and policy pioneering nations, and consequently made more mistakes than those who came later.
This misguided belief can be traced to a major mistake made in the 1980s in energy and trade policy, to stake Australia's competitiveness on coal exports.
A low SCC can make all but the lowest - cost clean - energy policies pencil out as expensive; higher estimates justify more rapid and aggressive measures, since moving too slowly to reduce emissions shows up as a mistake whose costs accumulate at a frightening pace.
«Obama's global - warming propaganda Down Under: Entangling climate concerns with energy policy is a costly mistake,» The Washington Times, November 18, 2014.
Although concern with energy may not immediately be associated with the Fund's ongoing involvement in international monetary and fiscal - policy issues, it would be a mistake to view energy subsidies as extraneous to those traditional areas of responsibility.
The memo — sent by the American Petroleum Institute and obtained by Greenpeace, which sent it to reporters — urges oil companies to recruit their employees for events that will «put a human face on the impacts of unsound energy policy,» and will urge senators to «avoid the mistakes embodied in the House climate bill.»
If there's one thing we've learned from the last four decades of energy policy is that it's a mistake to bet against market realities.