Sentences with phrase «new national energy policy»

Alan J. Krupnick, Ian W.H. Parry, Margaret Walls, Tony Knowles, and Kristin Hayes, «Toward a New National Energy Policy: Assessing the Options,» Full Report, National Energy Policy Institute and Resources for the Future, November 2010, p. 104, Accessed December 21, 2010.

A new national energy policy is due by the end of the summer, and observers expect it could call for a phase - out of nuclear power.

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One forum for this type of discussion is the April 2013 Pacific Energy Summit, co-sponsored by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) and the U.S. - based National Bureau of Asian Research, that will bring together private sector, government and policy leaders from a number of Asian countries, as well as the United States and Canada, to discuss how to forge trans - Pacific co-operation for this new energEnergy Summit, co-sponsored by the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) and the U.S. - based National Bureau of Asian Research, that will bring together private sector, government and policy leaders from a number of Asian countries, as well as the United States and Canada, to discuss how to forge trans - Pacific co-operation for this new energyenergy era.

Specific policies include encouraging job creation and innovation in the new energy economy; improving the fairness of employment standards (including re-establishing the National Minimum Wage; reversing «tax giveaways» to corporations; introducing and maintaining balanced budgets; protecting Canadians from «price gouging» by businesses; implementing income stabilization programs for farmers; promoting long - term economic and environmental sustainability of marine and forestry resources; and re-investing in education, skills training and apprenticeships to help Canadians succeed in the economy.

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.

Energy policy in New York has entered the national conversation as the media focuses on the state's April 19 presidential primary, one of the most competitive in years.

The model produces different jobs and growth projections for a business - as - usual scenario with no technology breakthroughs or major new policies, and then generates different outcomes by factoring in new policies such as a national clean energy standards such as proposed by President Obama; increases in corporate average fuel economy standards; tougher environmental controls on coal - fired power generators; extended investment and production tax credits for clean energy sources and an expanded federal energy loan guarantee program.

James A. Edmonds • Member, IPCC Steering Committee on «New Integrated Scenarios» (2006 - present) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Framing Issues,» IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (2007) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Global, Regional, and National Costs and Ancillary Benefits of Mitigation,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Decision - Making Frameworks,» IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group III, Summary for Policy Makers, IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Energy Supply Mitigation Options,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group II, «Mitigation: Cross-Sectoral and Other Issues,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Estimating the Costs of Mitigating Greenhouse Gases,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «A Review of Mitigation Cost Studies,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, Working Group III, «Integrated Assessment of Climate Change: An Overview and Comparison of Approaches and Results,» IPCC Second Assessment Report (1996) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1994: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change and An Evaluation of the IPCC IS92 Emission Scenarios (1994) • Lead Author, IPCC Special Report, Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment (1992) • Major contributor, IPCC First Assessment Report, Working Group III, Response Strategies Working Group (1991).

This report argues that over the next decade and beyond, U.S. national, state, and local policy must focus on developing sustainable biofuels — rather than just more biofuels — that can play a role in the emerging new energy economy.

A new paper in Climate Policy, «Energy research within the UNFCCC: A proposal to guard against ongoing climate - deadlock,» cites the need and proposes that research commitments be included in national pledges under the climate treaty.

Australian Solar Council chief executive John Grimes, said the government's decision meant there would be no renewable energy policy after 2020, while the new National Energy Guarantee would increase the cost of renewable energy proenergy policy after 2020, while the new National Energy Guarantee would increase the cost of renewable energy proEnergy Guarantee would increase the cost of renewable energy proenergy projects.

UPDATED: India's Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has released its «National Wind - Solar Hybrid Policy» seeking to encourage hybridisation of projects due to the benefits they offer for grid integration.

RPS policies apply to 55 percent of total U.S. retail electricity sales (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 2016) and are largely responsible for driving recent investment in renewable energy generation in New England, New York, the Mid-Atlantic, the Upper Midwest, and along the West Coast.

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He is a thought leader on defending policies from attacks by incumbent energy interests and his work has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Daily Mail, The Australian, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, MSNBC, and National Public Radio.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 granted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission the authority to approve and issue siting permits for new transmission lines in areas designated by the Department of Energy as National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors (NIETC).

The National Commission on Energy Policy reported in December that, if fleet mileage in the U.S. rises to 40 mpg — somewhat below the current European Union fleet average for new vehicles of 42 mpg and well below the current Japanese average of 47 mpg - then as switchgrass yields improve modestly to around 10 tons / acre it would take only 30 million acres of land to produce sufficient cellulosic ethanol to fuel half the U.S. passenger fleet.

Carbon pricing instruments are a policy option that a growing number of countries and regions are utilizing to implement new and complement existing national climate and energy policies and to achieve emission reductions.

Nevertheless, he says that a major impact of the Programme is that during the period of its implementation, new and renewable energy sources have begun entering the mainstream of national and international energy policy formulation and now constitute a major element of the global vision for sustainable development.

The energy trends envisioned in the New Policies Scenario imply that national commitments to reduce greenhouse - gas emissions, while expected to have some impact, are collectively inadequate to meet the Copenhagen Accord's overall goal of holding the global temperature increase to below 2 °C.

Well, maybe, but Tom Borelli pointed out in a National Center for Public Policy Research press release that the new rules will actually work against the promoters of energy - rationing policies.

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The possible components of such an approach that would be relevant in the context of climate change include: a national renewable electricity standard; Federal financing for clean energy projects: energy efficiency measures (building, appliance, and industrial efficiency standards; home retrofit subsidies; and smart grid standards, subsidies, and dynamic pricing policies); and new Federal electricity ‑ transmission siting authority.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

With Australia facing a policy crisis over energy security and the winding back of reliance on coal, construction of new coal - fired power plants was increasing in at least 35 countries, according to data analysis supplied to the Nationals by the federal parliamentary library.

«New York has been a national solar leader, eliciting over a billion dollars in investments by solar companies to help create a cleaner more reliable energy system for New York,» said Valessa Souter - Kline, Policy Coordinator at the New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYenergy system for New York,» said Valessa Souter - Kline, Policy Coordinator at the New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYEnergy Industries Association (NYSEIA).

While this system has been in place for some time now, 2017 has seen national security used as a pretense for renewed political attacks on new wind power projects and clean energy policies at the local and state level.

In announcing his appointment, IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven said that Mr. Millard's work at DECC «resulted in the production of quality data meeting both national and international needs, as well as establishing new approaches for monitoring energy efficiency policies, improving the timeliness of data, e.g. quarterly renewables data, and new analysis such as diversity measures in oil and gas imports».

India's Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has released its «National Wind - Solar Hybrid Policy» seeking to encourage hybridisation of projects due to the benefits they offer for grid integration.

The National Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires the United States Department of Energy (DOE), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and U.S. Forest Service (USFS), in cooperation with the Departments of Commerce and Defense, to designate new right - of - way corridors on federal lands for electricity transmission and distribution facilities, and oil, gas, and hydrogen pipelines.

Mr. Woolf has reviewed and critiqued utility energy efficiency programs and policies in more than a dozen states and Canadian provinces — including Arkansas, British Columbia, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Nova Scotia, Rhode Island, Québec, and Vermont — and has led several national and regional studies addressing energy efficiency program and policy issues.

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Once a national leader in these categories, in recent years the state has slipped behind many others, including neighbors New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island, each of which is pursuing aggressive, if not radical, clean energy agendas and taking risks with policies never attempted before.

A new database aims to make parsing of the mind - boggling array of different national and regional policies governing individual states» renewable energy sectors an easier and more approachable task.

On Thursday, a new bill was introduced in the House that could be the best chance to finally pass strong, national renewable energy policy — but early support is needed.

On 20 April 2018, the COAG Energy Council (Council) released its high level design document (High Level Design Document) for the national energy guarantee (NEG), which has been «designed to integrate energy and emissions policy in a way that will encourage new investment in clean and Energy Council (Council) released its high level design document (High Level Design Document) for the national energy guarantee (NEG), which has been «designed to integrate energy and emissions policy in a way that will encourage new investment in clean and energy guarantee (NEG), which has been «designed to integrate energy and emissions policy in a way that will encourage new investment in clean and energy and emissions policy in a way that will encourage new investment in clean and low...