Sentences with phrase «more investments in energy efficiency»

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At the onset of a crisis the consuming countries insist on the need for more market transparency and investment in energy efficiency, whilst putting pressure on exporters (Saudi Arabia in particular) to increase production.

Partnership, if precisely planned and structured, can be a powerful tool not only to keep public company viable but also to address cost and investment challenges, improve efficiency and service quality, increase expertise, attract more rapid and substantial investments in infrastructure and new energy technologies.

That makes investment in energy and material efficiency more attractive.

-- Targeted energy efficiency measures in buildings, industry and transport account for nearly half the emissions reduction in 2020, with the additional investment required being more than offset by reduced spending on fuel bills.

However, if some (or many) of these efforts have some smoke - and - mirror aspect to them, or if they become the seemingly easy «solution du jour» and allow us to think that we can avoid larger solutions (fuel efficiency standards; carbon tax, or firm carbon cap combined with a robust and regulated carbon credit trading mechanism; substantial investments in new energy technologies; energy conservation; etc.), their net impact can be more damaging than beneficial.

Today the GEF is one of the public sector's largest funders for energy efficiency in the world, with direct investments of US$ 850 million in more than 90 developing and transition countries and an additional US$ 5.9 billion in cofinancing.

We need to stop further development of this dirty fuel — along with projects like Keystone XL — and instead speed the transition to clean energy with more investments in wind, solar and energy efficiency,» Swift said.

«As long as we spend more on subsidizing energy suppliers than we do on investments in energy efficiency, we are on a path to pain.

REV is building a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers by stimulating investment in clean technologies like solar, wind, and energy efficiency and generating 50 percent of the state's electricity needs from renewable energy by 2030.

While more investment in renewable and energy efficiency could lead to greater emissions reductions, this policy is not designed to increase the tax burden of DC residents.

REV is building a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers by stimulating investment in clean technologies like solar, wind, and energy efficiency and requiring 50 percent of the state's electricity needs to be generated from renewable energy by 2030.

Efficiency investments have reduced the cost of doing business, lowered consumer energy bills by billions of dollars, and provided healthier, more comfortable spaces to live and work in.

Specifically, investments in low - carbon power would need to more than triple from current levels to $ 730 billion per year in 2035 and investments in energy efficiency would need to increase more than eight times to $ 1.1 trillion per year in 2035.

Accelerating the Governor's BuildSmartNY and K - Solar initiatives, NYPA will double annual investments in energy efficiency and solar deployments from $ 150 million to $ 300 million to get more clean, renewable energy into our local governments, public facilities, and schools.

Reforming the Energy Vision is building a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers by stimulating investment in clean technologies like solar, wind, and energy efficiency and generating 50 percent of the state's electricity needs from renewable energy byEnergy Vision is building a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers by stimulating investment in clean technologies like solar, wind, and energy efficiency and generating 50 percent of the state's electricity needs from renewable energy byenergy system for all New Yorkers by stimulating investment in clean technologies like solar, wind, and energy efficiency and generating 50 percent of the state's electricity needs from renewable energy byenergy efficiency and generating 50 percent of the state's electricity needs from renewable energy byenergy by 2030.

As a result, he told me, «The end - of - year passage by Congress of extensions for the entire portfolio of energy efficiency and renewable energy, coupled with the infrastructure incentives for renewable energy in the highway bill, will more than double private investment into these sectors over the next six years.»

This Pollyanna view of fossil fuel alternatives and efficiency, which makes going green seem cheap and easy — little more than the cost of «a postage stamp a day» — has provided the justification for green - policy advocacy that has overwhelmingly focused on pollution regulations and carbon pricing while ignoring serious investment in energy research and development.

REV is building a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers by stimulating investment in clean technologies like solar, wind, and energy efficiency and requiring 50 percent of the state's electricity needs from renewable energy by 2030.

REV is building a cleaner, more resilient and affordable energy system for all New Yorkers by stimulating investment in clean technologies like solar, wind, and energy efficiency and requiring 50 percent of the state's electricity needs be generated from renewable energy by 2030.

Obama went on to talk about the significant cuts in carbon emissions that will result from the fuel efficiency standards, clean energy investments, and energy efficiency initiatives he's implemented — and called for more action.

Recent legislation in Pennsylvania that aims to encourage energy efficiency and renewable energy investments (the Alternative Energy Investment Fund and Act 129) and a growing awareness of the value of these resources demonstrate a growing consensus that the Commonwealth must do more to realize these clean energy resoenergy efficiency and renewable energy investments (the Alternative Energy Investment Fund and Act 129) and a growing awareness of the value of these resources demonstrate a growing consensus that the Commonwealth must do more to realize these clean energy resoenergy investments (the Alternative Energy Investment Fund and Act 129) and a growing awareness of the value of these resources demonstrate a growing consensus that the Commonwealth must do more to realize these clean energy resoEnergy Investment Fund and Act 129) and a growing awareness of the value of these resources demonstrate a growing consensus that the Commonwealth must do more to realize these clean energy resoenergy resources.

Burning Coal, Burning Cash shows the scale of this annual drain on state economies, and suggests how they can keep more of those funds in - state through investments in energy efficiency and homegrown renewable energy.

What's more, DEQ's proposed rules would inexplicably bypass an economic opportunity for North Carolina, particularly for those areas that need it most: Participation in the Clean Energy Investment Program, which rewards renewable energy and energy efficiency investments in low - income areas during the early years of the Clean Power Plan at no additional cost to the Energy Investment Program, which rewards renewable energy and energy efficiency investments in low - income areas during the early years of the Clean Power Plan at no additional cost to the energy and energy efficiency investments in low - income areas during the early years of the Clean Power Plan at no additional cost to the energy efficiency investments in low - income areas during the early years of the Clean Power Plan at no additional cost to the state.

Passage would mean a significant step toward a vision of 100 % Clean, by capping climate pollution and providing major investment into the rapid acceleration of more renewables, more energy efficiency, more solutions particularly in rural and urban communities most impacted by climate change.

The so called Renewable Energy technologies such as Wind and Solar even if further refined and made more efficient, sought after efficiency increases that are now running into the problems of ever diminishing returns for the investments needed to raise those levels of efficiency, are now just one of the limiting factors in the hope of the so called Renewable Energy systems ever replacing today's base load coal, gas, oil, nuclear powered generators.

«We stand ready to play our part,» Shell, BP, Total, Statoil, Eni and BG Group wrote, pointing to a number of actions they are already taking to limit emissions, from greater investment in lower - carbon natural gas and operational efficiency to supplying more renewable energy and exploring the use of carbon capture and storage.

It goes on to summarize financial arguments for investments in energy efficiency, including that: they can repay themselves quickly, depreciate slowly and deliver decades - long returns; efficient buildings, higher rents and higher sale price are correlated; considering energy performance is an important component of risk management and an investor's fiduciary duty; and at a time when energy prices are becoming more and more volatile, efficiency investments represent a good hedging strategy.

(There's a lot more in the paper to support this, including a whole big thing about how IAMs unduly constrain energy - efficiency investments, but I sense patience exhausted.)

In reality, investments in renewable energy or energy efficiency have been shown to create far more jobs than equal investments in fossil fuel industries (see Green For All citing UC Berkeley, SolarLove citing U-Mass at Amherst, Citizen's Climate Lobby referencesIn reality, investments in renewable energy or energy efficiency have been shown to create far more jobs than equal investments in fossil fuel industries (see Green For All citing UC Berkeley, SolarLove citing U-Mass at Amherst, Citizen's Climate Lobby referencesin renewable energy or energy efficiency have been shown to create far more jobs than equal investments in fossil fuel industries (see Green For All citing UC Berkeley, SolarLove citing U-Mass at Amherst, Citizen's Climate Lobby referencesin fossil fuel industries (see Green For All citing UC Berkeley, SolarLove citing U-Mass at Amherst, Citizen's Climate Lobby references).

However, REMI also showed that the high - efficiency - investment scenario produced the most positive economic impacts of all, reinforcing the principle that efficiency investment stimulates local economies more effectively than investment in conventional energy supply projects.

Included in the bill are provisions that affect real estate investment and operations — such as energy - efficiency tax credits, capital gains, and more.