Sentences with phrase «recent efficiency standards»

A provision to address concerns that recent efficiency standards for water heaters could interfere with their use in demand response programs run by rural and other utilities.

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The EPA's recent move to roll back automobile fuel efficiency standards benefits almost no one except auto manufacturers, who save on R&D costs, and oil companies, for whom greater fuel consumption translates into more revenues.

Public awareness seems to be increasing, and there are a lot of good things happening at the executive level: tighter fuel - efficiency standards, the carbon - pricing initiatives by the New England and West Coast states, the recent agreement between the U. S. and China on emissions.

The IEA makes clear that recent efficiency gains have come as a result of an expansion of national policies, such as energy efficiency standards for vehicles and appliances.

A recent study by the International Council on Clean Transportation suggests that it is possible to improve energy efficiency in trucks by 35 % by 2035 as a result of introducing new standards across major economies.

Until the recent spike in gas prices, much of the discussion about solving our transportation problems — namely, emissions from cars and dependence on foreign oil — centered on increasing the efficiency of the vehicles we drive through higher CAFE standards and new designs.

The energy savings compare favorably to any other efficiency policy out there: an ACEEE analysis of primary energy savings from recent and prospective policies — including the Clean Power Plan — showed vehicle standards to be the biggest saver from today through 2040.

That's backed by MPEG - H Encoding and Decoding, which is among the most recent of audio compression standards meant to bolster the efficiency of audio encoding, decoding, and transport.