Sentences with phrase «energy studies»

What follows is a brief outline of an approach that I would advocate based on more than 40 years of interdisciplinary energy studies.
They turned to Clemson University's South Carolina Institute for Energy Studies for assistance in defining and implementing the project, using a grant administered by the S.C. Energy Office and funded by the S.C. Department of Agriculture.
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The Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy and the Qatar Leadership Centre hosted a roundtable on February 15 - 16, 2017, in Doha, Qatar, to discuss some of the most pressing challenges facing market participants in the global energy landscape, with a focus on several issues of paramount interest to Qatar and the broader Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
Amy Myers Jaffe, the Wallace S. Wilson Fellow in Energy Studies at Rice's Baker Institute for Public Policy, recently was in Washington, D.C., where she testified before the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming at a hearing on «The Future of Oil.»
As usual, a really interesting line up of stories... from green homes as investment opportunities to solar energy studies in Arizona (a good place for them!).
Prof. Mark Jacobson and his team at Stanford University got some flack for their 100 % global renewable energy study last year.
One study found that Daylight Savings actually increased home energy consumption and emissions, though a conflicting Department of Energy study found a small but significant decline.
INL also has a Microscopy and Characterization Suite (MaCS) located at the adjacent Center for Advanced Energy Studies.
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar has just announced that the Bureau of Land Management will designate some 24 sites in six western states as Solar Energy Study Areas; and will establish new solar power permitting offices and
Tanton was also a Senior Fellow in Energy Studies with the Pacific Research Institute until 2010.
While the project doesn't officially launch until mid-2018, it's following the University's three - year Positive Energy study which has already brought together university experts and key decision makers from industry, government, Aboriginal communities and environmental organizations to bring forward important findings.
This post is co-written by David R. Mares, the Institute of the Americas chair for Inter-American Affairs and professor for political science at the University of California San Diego and the Baker Institute scholar for Latin American energy studies at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
«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.
At our U.S. plant, we've partnered with the University of Syracuse to do a similar energy study, which has been funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, she adds.
His professional activities have focused on petroleum, alternating between academia, he was a Senior Research Fellow of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies from 2000 - 2004, and industry.
Department of Energy studies indicate that if such a facility was set on fire, it would be hot enough to melt steel at distances of 1200 feet, or result in second - degree burns on exposed skin a mile away.
American scientists have shared their scientific and technological expertise with China for decades, but until now Chinese scientists have contributed only in - kind donations, mostly salaries, to joint energy studies.
Renewable energy sources could help plug these gaps: A U.S. Department of Energy study declared in 2001 that renewables could meet 20 percent of the nation's electricity supply by 2020 at a cost increase to consumers of just over 4 percent.
«Use of electrical energy studied for treating certain type of atrial fibrillation, in place of medications.»
«The sun sets, and the wind doesn't always blow,» noted Steven Davis, UCI associate professor of Earth system science and co-author of a renewable energy study published today in the journal Energy & Environmental Science.
As a coach and soon - to - be therapist, I spend a great deal of time and energy studying relationships: what helps them to succeed, what leads to their...
By 2012, a U.S. Department of Energy study suggests, as much as 20 percent of the light - duty market could be hybrids.
But two leaders of a major energy study maintain in Issues that fuel economy standards, combined with carefully crafted fuel taxes, represent the nation's most practical bet for cutting energy use and funding infrastructure in the transportation sector.
In our White Earth energy study, we found that the tribe spends one quarter of its funding on energy in the form of fossil fuel imports for transportation, heating, and electricity.
It would also establish a Solar Energy Study Commission and phase out the use of Solar Renewable Energy Certificates, or SRECs, as a means of subsidizing solar in the state.
Global demand for coal is expected to grow to 8.9 billion tons by 2016 from 7.9 billion tons this year, with the bulk of new demand — about 700 million tons — coming from China, according to a Peabody Energy study.
Petroleum output peaked in 2006 and now will drop annually, according to a German energy study.
Jayant Sathaye (USA)-- Senior Scientist and Leader of the International Energy Studies Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California.
Kenneth Medlock of Rice University's Center for Energy Studies earlier this year:
It's worth noting briefly that any EROEI study is complex and different methods of accounting can come up with vastly different results, so any net energy study might be viewed with some suspicion.
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regulators also were supportive of Duke Energy studying capture and sequestration of a portion of the plant's carbon emissions.
External Reviewer, Department of Energy Study on «The National Ignition Facility and the Issue of Nonproliferation,» August 1995.
Yesterday afternoon, experts from abroad and from the United States shared strategies on scaling up the industry at a hearing held by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
A 2014 Department of Energy study found that exporting U.S. LNG will reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, because U.S. natural gas consumed in Europe or Asia has lower life - cycle GHG emissions than power generation from locally sourced fossil fuels.
A special RFF workshop series, sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE) in collaboration with the Center for Advanced Energy Studies» Energy Policy Institute at Boise State University and the Utton Transboundary Resource Center at the University of New Mexico.
The Interior Department would break the 670,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management property into 24 Solar Energy Study Areas, and would expedite solar projects on the parcels.
Audrey completed an MSc in Architecture: Advanced Environmental & Energy Studies with the Centre for Alternative Technology in 2010.
A March 2017 paper from the Positive Energy study, System Under Stress, notes that Canada's energy decision systems are under stress, resulting in poorer outcomes in environmental performance, investment, innovation, cost effectiveness, reliability, and our ability to transition to a much lower - carbon energy economy.
As long as natural gas prices remain low, that will keep the costs of the plan down, can said Kenneth Medlock III, director of the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University's Baker Institute in Texas.
However, NREL's 80 - percent - by - 2050 renewable energy study, which included biomass and geothermal, found that total water consumption and withdrawal would decrease significantly in a future with high renewables [7].
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