Sentences with phrase «energy policy needs»

The authors believe their research shows that national energy policy needs to look at more than just the «headline worries», when it comes to the public opinion.

One such group is the Association for Research of Renewable Energy in Australia (ARREA): a band of hard - hitting, pro-farming and pro-community advocates, with a mission to ensure Australia gets the sensible energy policy it needs.

CEC chief executive Kane Thornton said: «The Clean Energy Target was the best opportunity in years to lock in the long - term bipartisan energy policy needed to encourage investment in cleaner energy while improving system reliability and pushing down power prices.»

To do this: measures are needed to support the integration of variable renewable energy policies need to be more comprehensive than those devised for the energy sector alone These are two key conclusions from this latest report on Renewable Energy Policies in a Time of Transition Renewables have experienced a remarkable evolution over the past decade now forming the cutting edge — with energy efficiency — of a global energy transition.

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CB: This project is progressing in a climate where the U.S.'s and the world's energy needs and policies are under scrutiny.

On the supply side, IEA said governments need to develop policies that encourage the spread of offshore wind power, nuclear energy and natural gas, while discouraging the continued use of the most inefficient coal - fired technology.

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.

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.

A smart climate policy for our country needs a long - term perspective: energy projects last for decades, so would - be developers need a feel for what to expect in Canada into 2040 and 2050.

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall did not agree to the new climate framework, and said the likely direction of U.S. climate and energy policy under president - elect Donald Trump means we need to be very cautious about adopting climate policies in Canada.

Meanwhile, Jason Chee - Aloy, senior electricity market analyst and electricity policy consultant at energy market consultancy, Power Advisory, noted that by 2018 Ontario will need new generation sources.

Second, we need a national vision as to the role that energy should play in our economy, and an informed discussion about the policies that will be needed to ensure that Canada's diverse array of energy resources continues to be source of competitive advantage.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

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 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 cities.

«Everybody needs the kinds of cheaper panels, not only in China, but also the world,» said Li Junfeng, a senior Chinese economic adviser and the architect of many of China's renewable energy policies, at The New York Times's Climate Tech conference on Thursday in San Francisco.

While neither is overly occupied with the policy concerns of the larger environmental movement ¯ global climate, carbon capture, alternative energy, the future of nuclear power, and so on ¯ they help illuminate a common narrative that places nature above human need.

The other is a man more conservative by nature but possessed of an unbounded need for grand display that has already led him to unconservative places even he is at a loss to explain, and that as president would leave him in constant search of the out - of - box experience — the confoundedly brilliant Nixon - to - China flipperoo regarding his fancy of the day, be it health care, taxes, energy, foreign policy, whatever.

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.

It should never be possible for a reasonable observer to think that Notre Dame cares passionately about energy conservation but reservedly or half - heartedly about the need — the moral imperative — to use the law (and other policy tools) to protect unborn children.

«Over a decade ago, building new plants in New York City was easier because Con Edison was in the business of both generating and distributing power, and could build new plants whenever they were needed, said Ashok Gupta, director of energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.»

As I point out in chapter three, Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy at Oxford, and one of the most authoritative writers on the subject, has shown that the world's response to the threat posed by climate change has so far been hopelessly inadequate, and that a world - wide programme of «de-carbonization» is urgently needed.

«With the U.S. Senate's recent failure to act on comprehensive energy and climate legislation, we need strong environmental leaders at the state level to move the ball forward on new energy policies that will put America on the path to a clean energy future.»

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.

Dr Tony Whitehead, Director of Policy at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), said: «The large investment and long timescales involved in all types of energy generation need consistent, long - term energy policies.

In the longer term, we need to fuel - poverty - proof older households through much more serious energy efficiency policies and programmes, such as Warm Front in England and its equivalents in other parts of the UK

A «wholesale transformation of the energy system» is required, the report says, and given the scale and complexity of the change a decarbonisation target should be included in the energy bill to provide a policy commitment for the investors who will need to provide the capital for the development of new technologies.

«Policy makers at every level of government need to look at all opportunities to lower energy costs and create well - paying jobs,» he said in a statement.

Different government departments moving in different directions is not a new development, but the prospect of collapse in a policy area of such vital importance to our national energy, economic and environmental needs bears the hallmarks of incoherent government and now risks becoming a national scandal.

The only credible Plan B for energy policy is to make Plan A work and give nuclear the support it needs.

Ron Campbell, Chief Policy and Research Analyst for National Energy Action said: «The original UK Fuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map».

They also co-founded the Pataki - Cahill Group, a strategic consulting firm that focuses on the economic and policy implications of domestic energy needs.

However, the Bill still falls short of providing the long - term certainty over energy policy that businesses need to drive green investment.

We need to abandon this crazy and costly policy of spending untold millions on littering the countryside with useless wind turbines and solar panels and moving from a sensible energy policy of having cheap and reliable forms of energy to a policy of having unreliable and costly energy.

Andrew Hawkins of ComRes reveals a new poll, exclusively for Total Politics, which shows that 50 % of the public believe the party has «almost no influence over government policy» · Interview with shadow energy Caroline Flint who says: «I'm ambitious to be seen as someone who has made, and can make, a mega-contribution, but too often politicians focus on that big job and not on with what they need to do.

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

Excerpt: «Public policy needs to «listen the science» to build a sustainable economy made of relocalized (meaning to make local again) manufacturing clean energy industries and creating conditions so that small businesses can thrive.

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.

But we need the policy to encourage investors in developing the technology for Africa and to also embolden financials to allocate huge funds to renewable energy development in Africa.

ES: Because I believe we need to have an «all of the above» energy policy in this country.

Sixty - one percent of Americans think climate change is a problem that the government needs to address, including 43 percent of Republicans and 80 percent of Democrats, according to a new survey from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and The Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

«Before policy makers can integrate energy considerations into food security interventions, it is necessary to consider the state of wood fuel research and how it might be expanded to better serve social needs,» Mendum said.

But you need the government to provide policy that helps to push these new energy technologies.

Energy Minister Rene Jean - Jumeau says his country badly needs a clear energy policy to drive private investment but acknowledges that bureaucratic inertia and uninterest seem to be winning thEnergy Minister Rene Jean - Jumeau says his country badly needs a clear energy policy to drive private investment but acknowledges that bureaucratic inertia and uninterest seem to be winning thenergy policy to drive private investment but acknowledges that bureaucratic inertia and uninterest seem to be winning the day.

More work is also needed in consulting with polluters under the system, according to Alvin Lin, climate and energy policy director for China at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization based in New York.

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

Hamilton and Kaul are cheerleaders for the renewable energy industry, but even hardened policy types see the need for new sources of energy.

Governments need to give technical experts more autonomy and hold their nerve to provide more long - term stability when investing in clean energy, argue researchers in climate change and innovation policy in a new paper published today.

«As the window of opportunity to avert dangerous climate change narrows, we urgently need to take stock of policy initiatives around the world that aim to accelerate new energy technologies and stem greenhouse gas emissions,» said Laura Diaz Anadon, Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of Cambpolicy initiatives around the world that aim to accelerate new energy technologies and stem greenhouse gas emissions,» said Laura Diaz Anadon, Professor of Climate Change Policy at the University of CambPolicy at the University of Cambridge.

The study, published in the journal Nature Energy, looks unsparingly at the history of hype around alternative fuel vehicles and what policies and innovations are needed to move from current shortfalls to widespread commercialization of low - carbon vehicles.