Sentences with phrase «push for more renewable»

It is patriotic to push for more renewable energy.

Experts believe small - scale energy generation can help in the push for more renewable energy with businesses, communities, schools and homes playing their part by installing items like solar panels for heating, biomass boilers and combined heat and power supplies.

Further steps could include pushing for more renewable energy; an aggressive cut in the use of coal and natural gas to make electricity; wider use of electric cars, biofuel, and hydrogen fuel; changes in farming practices; and putting a price on carbon pollution.

Not exact matches

Other governors have pushed for the PSC to adopt more renewable energy friendly policies, including George Pataki, who urged the PSC to implement the state's first renewable portfolio standard in a 2003 State of the State address.

Europe's powerhouse is leading the fight against climate change, but its push for renewables has left it burning ever more coal

The United States has released an ambitious, climate - and conservation - focused agenda for its 2 - year chairmanship that includes pushing for more research on black carbon, which accelerates melting in the region, and on emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane from the seabed and permafrost, as well as creating a network of marine protected areas in the Arctic and equipping Arctic villages with renewable energy sources.

But you can see that if energy prices, especially for natural gas, stay low for a long period of time, we'll be back in a trance and the imperative for other tougher pushes, whether it's a build - out of renewables, as Joe Romm would like, or much more R. and D., as I would like, it's just going to be really hard to sustain that.

For investors, China's push to add more solar, wind and other alternatives could be one of the best long term catalysts for adding renewable energy to a portfolFor investors, China's push to add more solar, wind and other alternatives could be one of the best long term catalysts for adding renewable energy to a portfolfor adding renewable energy to a portfolio.

That's why the «Gang of 10» senators - a group of five Democrats and five Republicans - is pushing what they describe as a middle course between the Republicans» insistence on more drilling and Democrats» demands for more renewables and efficiency measures.

Taylor dismissed the idea that his group pushed for the measure because it has accepted money from fossil - fuel firms: «The people who are saying that are trying to take attention away from the real issue — that alternative energy, renewable energy, is more expensive than conventional energy.»

If demand starts to fall, as I am expecting for a variety of reasons, it will push permanent oil shortages out and buys us more time to convert to renewables.

The renewable energy industry is clamoring for the additional push because in spite of the new tax credits, some renewable sources, especially solar, still cost more than conventional sources of electricity like coal or natural gas.

«You're pushing a huge amount of capital into a different sector that requires an enormous amount of growth, so you would actually see a great deal more growth from putting it into renewables than providing it for fossil fuels.»

Our GHG stabilisation targets are also based on risks assessed on a more benign history than the future will likely be — unless we push much harder targets for renewable energy penetration, and demand the absolute reduction of large scale coal burning.

As mayor of New York, Bloomberg (I) has pushed for environmentally friendly policies such as investing in renewable energy and making the city's taxi fleet more efficient.

The push for renewables in Iowa makes a difference, as the state continues to rely on coal as the primary fuel for generating electricity, at more than 45 percent, while wind supplies 37 percent, and solar panels produce less than 1 percent, according to the U.S. Energy Department.

More on Obama and Earth Day: Obama's Earth Day Push for Renewable Energy: TreeHugger Obama Gives EPA the Go - Ahead to Regulate Greenhouse Gases: TreeHugger

I think for 2009 we need to push hard on the positives of energy efficiencies, cleaner air, a more secure future using renewables and every other obvious counterpoint you can think of.

As individual entities within that block realign themselves, committing to transitioning away from coal and investing more in renewables, efficiency, demand response etc — they are not simply adding to the resources that are pushing for a low carbon future, but they are simultaneously removing a major barrier to that future.

Apple has flexed its muscles in the past to push suppliers to remove hazardous substances from products and provide more renewable energy for data centers, and it is proving the same model can work to reduce the use of conflict minerals.

Still considering giving a billion dollars of taxpayers» money to Adani to open a new coal mine, pushing for keeping the Liddell coal - fired power station open five years more than its owner, AGL, intended, and criticising the SA Government's achievment of 52 % renewable electricity as «idiocy».

While it may remain profitable to build renewable energy installations, incentives against cutting carbon emissions were not strong enough: Prices for allowances to emit carbon dioxide have dropped and cheap gas in the United States is pushing an additional supply of hard coal on the market, reducing coal prices to their lowest in four years and incentivising utilities to sell more power from brown - and hard coal - fired power stations.