Sentences with phrase «renewable electricity standards»

Twenty - four states already have renewable electricity standards and several have strengthened those standards over the past few years.

These include strong renewable electricity standards, financial incentives like clean energy tax credits, and investment in a smarter electrical grid.

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Carbon pricing programs can also work in a complementary manner with other renewable energy and energy efficiency policies, such as renewable electricity standards, energy efficiency standards, and vehicle fuel economy rules.

Among the options receiving attention are various types of renewable portfolio standards, also known as renewable electricity standards or clean energy standards, depending upon their specific design.

Renewable electricity standards or clean energy standards would accomplish considerably less and would impose much higher costs per ton of emissions reduction than cap - and - trade would.

If policymakers provide financial assistance to existing nuclear plants, they should at the same time strengthen policies such as renewable electricity standards (RES) that stimulate the growth of low - carbon renewable energy as well as energy efficiency programs and policies.

Feed - in tariffs (FITs), along with renewable electricity standards, are one of the most widely adopted renewable energy support policies around the world.

Safety valves, renewable electricity standards Lawmakers also sifted through other key requests from the industry groups.

A nationwide renewable electricity standard is a major goal for Democratic leaders and environmentalists.

The report was released today as lawmakers negotiate over whether to scale back the renewable electricity standard in the bill sponsored by Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D - Calif.)

There will also be a battle over the renewable electricity standard (RES) as environmental groups and allied lawmakers call to raise the renewable - electricity goals.

The bill's major provisions would, among other things, impose a national renewable electricity standard, overhaul federal financing for «clean energy» projects, establish a suite of efficiency measures, mandate new federal electricity - transmission siting power, and allow wider oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

The U.S. Congress is currently considering whether to implement a national renewable electricity standard.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

Renewing America's Economy: A 20 percent national renewable electricity standard will create jobs and save consumers money.

And an agreement on a Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard provides for a combined 20 percent standard by 2020.

Savings from the bill could have been much improved by strengthening the combined efficiency and renewable electricity standard to require utilities to reduce electricity demand by 10 % by 2020.

Grassley said that the Senate is likely to take up an energy bill, perhaps including a renewable electricity standard, but not the controversial emissions reduction system approved last year by the House but left undone by the Senate.

Other common names for the same concept: Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) at the United States federal level and Renewables Obligation in the UK.

One step Australia has taken to reduce its global warming emissions is implementing a national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES).

Australia and a National Renewable Electricity Standard.

Includes provisions: (1) creating a combined energy efficiency and renewable electricity standard and requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet 20 % of their demand through renewable electricity and electricity savings by 2020; (2) setting a goal of, and requiring a strategic plan for, improving overall U.S. energy productivity by at least 2.5 % per year by 2012 and maintaining that improvement rate through 2030; and (3) establishing a cap - and - trade system for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and setting goals for reducing such emissions from covered sources by 83 % of 2005 levels by 2050.

Sets forth provisions concerning enforcement and judicial review of such combined efficiency and renewable electricity standard.

One bill that could reach the Senate floor in a lame - duck session is the Bingaman - Brownback renewable electricity standard bill, S. 3813.

A Renewable Electricity Standard (RES)-- also called a Renewable Portfolio Standard — requires utility companies to obtain a certain percentage of their electricity from renewable sources.

If a national renewable electricity standard is nonetheless inevitable, it should not impose excess costs on businesses or consumers.

One day after the election, the White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that a national renewable electricity standard could be an area of bipartisan energy cooperation, after President Obama had said cap - and - trade was not the only way «to skin the cat.»

A national renewable electricity standard would mandate that a given share of an electric company's production come from renewable sources (most likely wind power), or, in the case of a «clean energy standard,» from an expanded list including nuclear and hydroelectric power.

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.

«(ii) additions of capacity made on or after January 1, 2001, or the effective commencement date of an existing applicable State renewable electricity standard program at an existing nonhydroelectric dam, if --

«(C) issue renewable energy credits to electric utilities associated with State renewable electricity standard compliance mechanisms pursuant to subsection (h);

Perhaps no topic garnered more scrutiny during the previous Congress's markup that the Renewable Electricity Standard.

This is the key reason why I have long supported a Renewable Electricity Standard.

Pass stable, long - term policies to increase the deployment of renewables, including a renewable electricity standard (RES), tax and financial incentives, and more funding for research and development

For a number of years, I have advanced a proposal for a Renewable Electricity Standard to ensure long - term and predictable demand for renewable clean energy resources.

For example, a 2009 UCS analysis found that a 25 percent by 2025 national renewable electricity standard would lower power plant CO2 emissions 277 million metric tons annually by 2025 — the equivalent of the annual output from 70 typical (600 MW) new coal plants [4].

Most likely the «renewable electricity standard» (as Congress prefers to call it) will be part of a comprehensive energy bill that contains provisions on everything from the «smart grid» to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

This analysis also demonstrates that improving the energy efficiency provisions in ACES by including a stand - alone energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) requiring 10 % cumulative savings by 2020 (instead of the ACES Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the original bill.

40 % Renewable Electricity Standard by 2050?

Not only will the bill not contain any restrictions on greenhouse gases — not even a watered - down utility - only cap — it won't even contain the two other key policies that would have moved clean energy forward: the Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) and the energy efficiency standards.

The bill's renewable electricity standard is another component that may be weakened.

Passage of the renewable electricity standard was a long time in the making.

This year, a vote on a renewable electricity standard was blocked during the Senate's energy bill debate.Representative Tom Udall (D - N.M.), the amendment's lead sponsor in the House called the vote «a great victory for the planet.»

ACEEE's analysis of this legislation demonstrates that improving the energy efficiency provisions in ACESA by including a stand - alone energy efficiency resource standard (EERS) requiring 10 % cumulative savings by 2020 (instead of the ACESA Combined Efficiency and Renewable Electricity Standard, or CERES), directing one - third of electric local distribution company allowances to energy efficiency, and sustaining State Energy and Environmental Development funding at 9.5 % of allowance revenue through 2030 provides significant additional consumer savings and carbon reductions and creates more jobs than the original bill.

For the next week on Capitol Hill, Republicans and Democrats will tussle over whether or not to include a renewable electricity standard (RES) in legislation that may be put to vote in the Senate within the next week.

Every kilowatt - hour of renewable energy purchased by a utility earns it a REC that applies toward renewably - sourced electricity requirements imposed by the state Renewable Electricity Standard (RES).

Climate Bill Analysis, Part 7: Renewable Electricity Standard Severely Weakened; May Have Little to No Impact

Not exact matches

The others were the explosive growth of renewable energy sources, especially solar photo - voltaic energy; China's increasing prioritization of cleaner energy; and the huge long - term rise in global electricity demand, reflecting higher living standards in the emerging world — notably in the shape of demand for air conditioning.