Sentences with phrase «wind energy policy»

Authored by Rep. Dennis Casey, a former educator and rancher from Morrison, his «Oklahoma Wind Energy Policy Review Act of 2018» would create a $ 10 million cap on the zero emissions tax credit received by any wind generation company.

Texas's wind energy policy under Rick Perry ultimately resulted in the creation of 24,000 wind - related jobs and $ 33 billion in capital investment.

Wind energy policy Current wind energy policy is not far off the mark on average.

Current wind energy policy is so murky that when asked for help on evaluating wind subsidies, they throw up there hands and say it's impossible.

We must DEMAND a public inquiry into the wind energy policy!

Christopher Booker has been writing some great stuff on the UK's wind energy policies.

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On the supply side, IEA said governments need to develop policies that encourage the spread of offshore wind power, nuclear energy and natural gas, while discouraging the continued use of the most inefficient coal - fired technology.

The technology categories that are on track to deliver results — electric vehicles, solar and onshore wind power, and energy storage — have all benefited from government support and clear policies, IEA notes.

AWEA Wind Power on Capitol Hill is a rare opportunity for AWEA members and others who want to help advance wind energy to participate in advocacy training and then put that training to work to educate legislators and their staff on the wind industry's top policy initiatives at both the state and federal leWind Power on Capitol Hill is a rare opportunity for AWEA members and others who want to help advance wind energy to participate in advocacy training and then put that training to work to educate legislators and their staff on the wind industry's top policy initiatives at both the state and federal lewind energy to participate in advocacy training and then put that training to work to educate legislators and their staff on the wind industry's top policy initiatives at both the state and federal lewind industry's top policy initiatives at both the state and federal level.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds&renergy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds&rEnergy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

Although the final tax reform policy keeps the subsidies in place, some market analysts have grown concerned that these developments — as well as regulatory hurdles for new wind projects — will prohibit or slow the rate of deployment of renewable energy by utilities in the U.S.

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

A report by the Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute noted that European nations included offshore wind in national energy policies and established feed - in tariffs to provide incentives for deployment.

We need to abandon this crazy and costly policy of spending untold millions on littering the countryside with useless wind turbines and solar panels and moving from a sensible energy policy of having cheap and reliable forms of energy to a policy of having unreliable and costly energy.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.

Coupled with increased transmission infrastructure, favorable policies, subsidies, and renewable energy goals in states and cities, it's becoming more common to see wind, solar, hydropower and biomass use.

Technological innovations have dropped the price of wind and solar in some markets to be not only competitive with traditional fossil fuel power generation, but sometimes less expensive, said Malcolm Woolf, senior vice president of policy and government affairs for Advanced Energy Economy.

«It's a difficult time at the moment, and the policy uncertainty is the main cause of it,» said Shaq Mohajerani, an Australian spokesman for wind farm company Union Fenosa, owned by Spanish energy giant Gas Natural.

Policy makers and managers could use the index to guide decision making — for example, about whether offshore wind energy should be expanded in the U.S., whether land or ocean conservation measures will benefit coral reefs in Fiji and how marine - zoning plans in Brazil might affect overall ocean health.

He envisages wind and solar providing 90 per cent of this (Energy Policy, vol 39, p 1154).

Concerns about global warming and oil's imminent demise have caused scientists and policy - makers to look for solutions in both the future and the past: to new technologies such as nuclear fusion, multijunction photovoltaics, and fuel cells — and to traditional energy sources such as water power, wind power, and (sustainable) biomass cultivation (coupled with clean and energy - efficient combustion).

«Wind energy is already pretty cost - competitive and solar energy is quickly getting there,» said Anna Kelly, a graduate student in the School of Public Policy at Oregon State University, and an energy policy anPolicy at Oregon State University, and an energy policy anpolicy analyst.

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The renewables milestone comes amid actions by the Trump administration to turn back federal climate policies intended to cut greenhouse gas emissions by embracing wind, solar and other renewable energy.

President - elect Barack Obama today named his picks to run the nation's energy and environment policy in a move that shows a strong commitment to getting climate change under control and exploring alternative energy sources such as solar and wind.

(A) produces energy from solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, tidal, wave, ocean, and other renewable energy resources (as such term is defined in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978);

John Rogers is a senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists with expertise in clean energy technologies and policies and a focus on solar, wind, and natural gas.

«By rapidly advancing this bill, the Ohio House is needlessly jeopardizing jobs, private investment and rural development potential that wind energy has demonstrated in Ohio and across the nation,» said Andrew Gohn, Director, Eastern State Policy, for the American Wind Energy Associatwind energy has demonstrated in Ohio and across the nation,» said Andrew Gohn, Director, Eastern State Policy, for the American Wind Energy Associenergy has demonstrated in Ohio and across the nation,» said Andrew Gohn, Director, Eastern State Policy, for the American Wind Energy AssociatWind Energy AssociEnergy Association.

Two US renewable energy associations, the American Wind Energy Association and the Solar Energy Industries Association, have jointly published a handbook that details how states can incorporate renewable energy into their plans to comply with US policy regulaenergy associations, the American Wind Energy Association and the Solar Energy Industries Association, have jointly published a handbook that details how states can incorporate renewable energy into their plans to comply with US policy regulaEnergy Association and the Solar Energy Industries Association, have jointly published a handbook that details how states can incorporate renewable energy into their plans to comply with US policy regulaEnergy Industries Association, have jointly published a handbook that details how states can incorporate renewable energy into their plans to comply with US policy regulaenergy into their plans to comply with US policy regulations.

The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) is a non-profit trade association that promotes the appropriate development and application of all aspects of wind energy in Canada, including the creation of a suitable policy environmWind Energy Association (CanWEA) is a non-profit trade association that promotes the appropriate development and application of all aspects of wind energy in Canada, including the creation of a suitable policy enviroEnergy Association (CanWEA) is a non-profit trade association that promotes the appropriate development and application of all aspects of wind energy in Canada, including the creation of a suitable policy environmwind energy in Canada, including the creation of a suitable policy enviroenergy in Canada, including the creation of a suitable policy environment.

Dr. Jon Christensen, his opponent, an adjunct assistant professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, emphasized the «consensus» and the «existential threat» of climate change, extolled the expansion of renewable energy sources like wind and solar in California, and insisted that politicians in the Golden State are focused on not burdening poor people with their «green» policies.

I'm not suggesting a credit crisis now, but it is useful to keep a list of areas where caution is being thrown to the wind — I can think of a few areas: student loans, agricultural loans, energy loans, lending to certain weak governments with large liabilities and no independent monetary policy... there may be more — can you think of any?

I Guess the Bush Administration Doesn't Think Highly of Pickens» or Gore's Proposals The fact that this proposal is announced just days after Al Gore calls for all U.S. electricity be generated renewably within 10 years, and two weeks after T. Boone Pickens unveiled his plan to radically increase U.S. wind power and use natural gas to offset petroleum in transportation, shows how mired in business - as - usual thinking regarding energy and environmental policy the current administration is.

The plan, «Examining the Feasibility of Converting New York State's All - Purpose Energy Infrastructure to One Using Wind, Water and Sunlight,» is slated for publication in the journal Energy Policy.

I've also seen abundant, and non-partisan, blinders deployed when advocates for various climate policies ignore the ongoing coal boom in Asia when excitedly pointing to a far smaller boom in wind and sun - powered technologies there and here as evidence that massive deployment of today's energy technologies can win the day.

Obama's recent opening of new offshore areas for oil and gas exploration, the recent Gulf oil spill, and the approval of a wind farm offshore from Cape Cod, Mass., bring energy to the forefront once again, and motivate us to consider carefully where government policies are taking American citizens and the world.

The electricity industry already is — and has been for years — in a rapid transition away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Clean Power Plan.

WASHINGTON, DC — The global economy is now undergoing a transition from fossil and nuclear energy to clean power from solar, wind, and other renewable sources, according to the latest book from environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues at the Earth Policy Institute (EPI).

Power companies are well on their way to meet the Plan's targets, thanks to the fact that the electricity industry has already started rapidly moving away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Plan.

At the May 2017 AWEA Wind Power Conference, the AWEA policy committee concluded that the new administration is not targeting renewable energy.

Using data from the province's electricity market operator, this joint study by Energy Probe and Consumer Policy Institute1 estimates that at least $ 1.7 billion in wind subsidies have been given to wind farm operators in Ontario since 2006, the earliest date for data.

Premature deaths worldwide from outdoor air pollution rise from 3 million today to more than 4 million in 2040 in the New Policies Scenario, even though pollution control technologies are applied more widely and other emissions are avoided because energy services are provided more efficiently or (as with wind and solar) without fuel combustion.

The Earth Policy Institute's 11th and final book, The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy will be hitting bookstores on April 20.

WINDPOWER features over 30 sessions ranging from market and policy analysis, to project performance and technical advancements in wind energy.

The scale of China's clean energy deployment, technology exports and outward investment makes it a key determinant of momentum behind the low - carbon transition: one - third of the world's new wind power and solar PV is installed in China in the New Policies Scenario, and China also accounts for more than 40 % of global investment in electric vehicles (EVs).

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«Shooting the professional messengers» as the Energy and Policy Institute publication by Barnard [14] has tried to do, will not stop the litigation for noise nuisance, negligence against complicit acousticians, or applications for injunctions to cease the operation of turbines, and will only further reduce the diminishing social licence for the wind industry to operate.

Vice-president of public affairs at the American Wind Energy Association, Peter Kelley used his keynote address on the forum's opening day to discuss the future prospects for wind energy development in the U.S. and the potential impact of President Donald Trump's policWind Energy Association, Peter Kelley used his keynote address on the forum's opening day to discuss the future prospects for wind energy development in the U.S. and the potential impact of President Donald Trump's polEnergy Association, Peter Kelley used his keynote address on the forum's opening day to discuss the future prospects for wind energy development in the U.S. and the potential impact of President Donald Trump's policwind energy development in the U.S. and the potential impact of President Donald Trump's polenergy development in the U.S. and the potential impact of President Donald Trump's policies.

«Though expert surveys are not without weaknesses, these results can inform policy discussions, R&D decisions, and industry strategy development while improving the representation of wind energy in energy - sector and integrated - assessment models,» concludes Wiser.