Sentences with phrase «of emission credits»

EPRI assumes, for the sake of its study, that there will be no trading of emission credits across state lines.

Another issue is the lack of emission credits in the South Coast Air Quality Management District that makes it difficult to obtain the necessary permits to build reliable replacement power before aging, less - efficient power plants can be retired or repowered.

The Western Climate Initiative got a critical boost in October when California approved its final cap and trade regulations which will enable the trade of emission credits by 2013.

Both Democrats previously have favored a large auction of the emission credits, an approach backed by the Obama administration.

At any rate, in my personal view, we should not prescribe exactly what needs to be done but should instead implement flexible schemes like Kyoto or the McCain - Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act that allow trading of emissions credits, credits for carbon sequestration (provided it can truly be shown to work) and so on.

The audience was similarly made up of likely buyers of emissions credits (Stanwell and other electricity generators), sellers (geothermal and other carbon - free sources) and intermediaries (accounting companies, consulting engineers and so on).

Prices are low because there is a surplus of emissions credits as a result of over-generous allocations and reduced demand after the financial crisis.

The UNEP Emissions Gap report underscored this lack of ambition and transparency by finding that weak rules, bad LULUCF accounting, and the potential carry - over of emissions credits could add 1 - 2 Gt CO2e to the already sizeable Gigatonne Gap.

Since any sensible program for global climate change stabilisation involves the purchase of emissions credits from poor countries, achieving both goal together would not cost much more than 5 per cent of global income.

Not exact matches

However, its automotive gross margin, which doesn't include the sale of zero - emission vehicle credits, dropped to 13.8 % from 22.2 % in the same period last year.

Virginia's limit, or «cap,» on carbon dioxide emissions would tighten 30 percent between 2020 and 2030, while adding measures to maintain market stability with a reserve of credits that power plant owners can purchase to help them comply.

Some of them, including Italy and Spain, will only be able to do so by buying credits to offset their own emissions, for example by investing in projects that reduce carbon emissions in developing countries.

Revenue from the sales of our Tesla Roadster as well as from zero emission vehicle, or ZEV, credits did not exceed costs of sales related to our Tesla Roadster, until the nine months ended September 30, 2009.

Shell's emissions last year were 5Mt, so with their credits from Quest and their use of cogeneration, more than half of this could be offset, far exceeding the reductions which will be required under Alberta law.

So, as far as I can see, essentially the same outcome as the double - credits achieves, both in terms of revenue for Shell and cost to the CCEMF could have been achieved with a $ 15 per - ton - sequestered payment from the CCEMC without sacrificing the integrity of emissions reduction accounting within the offset program.

Tesla also collects hundreds of millions from competing automakers by selling environmental credits in California and more than half a dozen other states to car companies that can't meet the states» «zero emissions» sales mandates.

Analysts say high use of UN offsets in EU emissions trading scheme suggests industrial gas credits are being ditched before 2013 cut off point

Although the wine industry and most other agricultural industries are considered low producers of carbon emissions, GHG issues, such as gaining market access to retailers interested in carbon foot printing, providing data for marketing purposes and / or carbon credit accounting, are becoming more significant to brands and image.

Emissions from revegetation, forest management, and cropland and grazing land management — while not currently counted towards Australia's obligations under the Kyoto Protocol target — are eligible for the generation of carbon offset credits under NCOS.

If the effects of the European emissions trading scheme (ETS)- which gives industries pollution credits to use or sell - are included, this reduction would be 23.6 per cent.

But to their credit, the Conservatives came up with a particularly zany way of banning these gatherings, which was to outlaw «sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats» played above a certain volume to a certain number of people.

A Quality Assurance Scheme (QAS) was launched in 2009 with a Quality Mark, so that consumers could be sure the offset credits they bought were mitigating the effect of their emissions.

«These zero emissions credits will represent the emissions - free value of energy produced by the nuclear power plants specifically,» said Scott Weiner, deputy for markets and innovation at DPS, at Thursday's meeting.

ALBANY — The Cuomo administration's plan to save nuclear power plants will force utilities to pay for emissions credits that cover their losses in the face of cheap natural gas.

The report accepts minister's efforts to include aviation in the EU emissions trading scheme, where firms would be given a certain allocation of carbon credits to buy and sell on the open market, but warns this is still «years away».

The government could come under pressure to give out extra credits if people found it too hard to reduce their emissions, the report said, and it would also be an expensive option compared to other ways of cutting emissions, like carbon taxation.

In return, Joseph Percoco took a series of actions intended to benefit CPV, prosecutors say — namely, he helped it secure emission reduction credits and tried to help it obtain the lucrative power - purchase agreement.

The Democratic - controlled state Assembly on Monday introduced a budget bill that would prohibit the purchase of zero - emission credits mandated under the clean energy plan until leaders of the PSC and the New York Energy Research and Development Authority appear before a joint hearing of the Senate and Assembly to answer questions.

The agency agreed to purchase zero emissions credits to subsidize the upstate nuclear power plants, although NYPA is not under the authority of the Public Service Commission which mandated other power providers buy the credits.

The state would instead subsidize the plants using proceeds from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a market - based program that requires conventional power plants to purchase credits as a mechanism for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, «in recognition of their zero carbon emitting attributes,» according to the bill memo.

New York will end an agreement with New Jersey allowing companies to trade emission credits in order to meet pollution standards, a decision that follows accusations by federal prosecutors that the credits were part of a corruption scheme involving a Competitive Power Ventures power plant in New Jersey.

Among them: Competitive Power wanted the Department of Environmental Conservation's OK to let it purchase emission credits in New York for a plant it was building in New Jersey — a «reciprocity agreement.»

Preserving nuclear plants also allows the administration to move toward its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030, through a zero - emission credit program that awards companies for producing energy without carbon emissions.

below 1990 levels by 2010, taking into account the impact of credits surrendered through the EU emissions trading scheme.

And the U.S. can take credit for about 21 percent of those emissions, according to the report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Dell Round Rock, TX Information Technology 554 million green kWh, 158 % of total power used In August 2008 managers declared Dell's headquarters «carbon - neutral» after buying energy credits, increasing efficiency and reducing emissions.

He went on to urge Blair to support the U.S. position in favor of more credit for carbon sequestered by forests and sinks, assuring him that it would allow the United States to curtail even more emissions.

So companies in the developed world have an annual limit on the level of greenhouse gas emissions they can produce, and if they exceed their cap, they can purchase credits generated by the emission reduction projects or low - carbon technologies in developing countries.

If the UNFCCC is happy with the project, it issues us with a certificate for a number of carbon credits (1 tonne of carbon, or the equivalent, abated equals 1 carbon credit) which can then be sold to companies who need to reduce their net emissions.

«On the phone a lot» to save Kyoto The exchange took place nearly three years after U.S. negotiators helped to broker the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement that allowed wealthy countries to trade for emissions credits to cover some of their reduction responsibilities.

Seventeen hundred diplomats established how, in a complex accounting of greenhouse gas emissions and uptakes, countries will receive credit for fighting warming.

Developed countries got some of the flexibility they wanted: For instance, they can purchase emission credits from countries able to cut emissions beyond their required amount, or receive credit for emission reductions achieved through a project like a hydroelectric dam in a developing country.

Assuming a global system that would put a price on carbon emissions, the scientists then calculated the value of carbon credits awarded to homeowners and businesses for making their roofs and streets lighter.

They credited drops in CO2 emissions from the United States and China as the primary drivers of the trend.

But in «Making Carbon Markets Work,» David G. Victor and Danny Cullenward describe the process of allocating emission credits as «politically charged and corruption - prone.»

In return, the US will be credited with a share of the cuts in emissions of greenhouse gases.

As the nation's aging power grid is upgraded with cleaner energy sources — spurred by federal and state - level regulations on air pollution, renewable portfolio standards and tax credits — the emissions profiles of EVs across the country are expected to improve.

Blue carbon markets, in which countries or corporations could offset CO2 emissions by buying carbon credits from projects that create or protect carbon - rich habitat, could become viable in two to three years, says John Bruno, a marine ecologist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

Nor is the problem confined to the private sector; the government of Hungary explicitly sold carbon credits to Japan that had already been used to offset domestic emissions — in effect, double counting the same theoretical emission reductions.

The UN expects China to account for 41 % of all carbon credits issued by 2012, but a recent paper in Nature suggests that a loophole in the system has allowed investors to get rich without cutting significant amounts of emissions.