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Renewable Energy Gets Boost From Chancellor
Author: Duncan Freer
The government gave a significant boost to the wind power industry by promising to extend the Renewables Obligation of financial support until 2037. The Renewables Obligation, which places a legal requirement on UK electricity suppliers to source any growing percentage of their power from green sources, was originally only in place until 2027. The Chancellor's 10-year extension is intended to "ensure investors can plan with confidence for the future". The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) said that the move was "really encouraging" and would stimulate companies looking at plans to build expensive projects deep into the North Sea. These projects include tidal projects as well as offshore windfarms and other renewable energy sources. This extension of the Renewables Obligation gives these companies a reassurance that the government will be investing in renewable energy, which translates into a greater confidence and business growth, which in turn inevitably leads to more job opportunities.
With government targets for 10% of UK electricity supplies to come from renewable supplies only two years away, the renewable energy industry is pumping investment into new methods of meeting those targets, again all good news for those looking for careers in the UK's energy market. Nuclear power will be part of that package, so nuclear jobs look set to increase as new stations come online as part of the UK's long-term plans to meet its energy needs. Despite a real desire for environmental energy to be the key to Britain's future energy needs, there is a shortfall in supply and demand. It is probable that this shortfall will be taken up by the nuclear industry, whether the public wants it or not. The alternative is a country that cannot meet its own energy demands, so a compromise has to be made.
But not only has the Renewables Obligation been given an additional 10 year lifespan - the Chancellor also announced that the government would be bringing capital spending forward to finance the environmental sector as a whole. Mr. Darling said that this could potentially create one million jobs in the low-carbon industry over the next 20 years, giving the UK a new growth industry that has a long-term future. This obviously means a big increase in the number of potential energy jobs available and a stable career platform for thousands of people. Philip Wolfe, director general of the Renewable Energy Association said that "energy projects are significant undertakings and companies require 15 to 20 years of a stable policy framework stretching ahead of them to give them the confidence to invest." It is this investment confidence that not only would benefit the environment, but the jobs market as well.
Although the oil industry is in surprisingly fine fettle and currently meets most of our energy demands, renewable energy is the future of both supply and production not just in the UK but globally as well. The Environmental Industries Commission calls on the government to go further, saying that the development and implementation of a long-term growth strategy that includes a clear environmental policy framework, incentives, research funding and skills development is a matter of urgency if the UK is not to be left behind in the race to become a leading low-carbon economy. All of this again bodes well for those seeking careers in the energy industry and renewable energy jobs in particular.
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Nope but libs, no matter the truth will find someone to blame!!!
You, like most of the country, only look at the headlines. Have you read any part of HP6? There was loads of R&D money earmarked in it, some good and some bad (aka pork). Most notably there was no provision for opening up domestic oil drilling, something the Republicans were trying to get. Filibusters are ways to force compromise, not just to kill legislation.
Tax credits are ok to a certain extent, but if an industry so desperately needs one to survive, perhaps it is not time for that industry to exist. The tax credits headline was the only one the average person would even notice, so that’s what the media used.
Open your eyes people, and do your own research. Stop taking everthing you see in the news at face value.
Ok, message understood. Will do.
Too bad this will be wasted money. The environmental groups will never allow building nuclear power plants which is our best and most economical hope for reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
Any energy program that doesn’t expand the use of, and clear the way for, more nuke plants is not addressing the problem, just pandering to special interest groups. No research is necessary, the solution exists.
ASK THEM INSTEAD TO HELP REDUCE POPULATION GROWTH.
should we or should we not? congress wants to know.?
Only Environmental Bill in First 100 Hours Up for Vote
WASHINGTON, DC, January 12, 2007 (ENS) – The last of the six designated bills up for consideration during the House Democrats’ first 100 legislative hours is the legislative program’s only environmental measure.
Introduced today with 199 cosponsors, H.R.6 will shift roughly $13 billion in oil industry subsidies toward renewable energy and energy efficiency.
The House is scheduled to vote on H.R. 6 on January 18.
Specifically, the measure ensures oil companies that were awarded the 1998 and 1999 leases for drilling paid their fair share in royalties. It also closes loopholes and ends giveaways in the tax code for Big Oil, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says on her website.
The bill creates a Strategic Renewable Energy Reserve to invest in clean, renewable energy resources, promoting new emerging technologies, developing greater efficiency and improving energy conservation.
Over the last several years, profits and subsidies for Big Oil have climbed, as has our dependence on foreign oil, Pelosi says. In 2006, the big five oil companies made $97 billion – nearly five times their profits in 2002. Gas prices have topped $3 per gallon at the pump.
The United States now has a record dependence on foreign oil, which has climbed to 65 percent, and the country is sending about $800 million per day to the Middle East and other oil producing countries.
Reducing our dependence on foreign oil is critical to bolstering our national security and creating good-paying new jobs.
American farms abound with crops that can be used to fuel our cars and trucks – from corn to soybeans to switchgrass,” Pelosi points out. In 2005, the ethanol industry supported the creation of more than 150,000 jobs in all sectors of the U.S. economy, boosting U.S. household income by $5.7 billion, according to a report for the Renewable Fuels Association.
Pelosi says that the President’s current budget funds renewable energy and energy efficiency at below the 2001 level, in real terms, and provides nearly 50 percent less for research on renewable energy than was promised in the energy law.
The Independent Petroleum Association of America, IPAA, is opposed to the measure. “If the goal is to lessen our dependence on foreign oil, then this bill falls far short,” said IPAA President Barry Russell today.
“The American oil and natural gas industry is our most precious and primary defense against increased oil imports,” Russell said. “This is a time to encourage American investment in energy projects here at home, not discourage it. This bill takes capital from U.S. oil and natural gas companies that otherwise would be spent on domestic energy exploration.”
The IPAA represents more than 5,000 oil and natural gas companies, most of them small, independent businesses, who drill 90 percent of the oil and natural gas wells in the United States.
But there is broad bipartisan support for ending the addiction to oil by investing in clean renewable fuels, Pelosi says, quoting an Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll taken last August that found 52 percent of those surveyed said the U.S. government should invest in alternative energy sources to reduce dependence on foreign oil.
The measure is popular with conservationists. “In a 180 degree shift from energy policies that line the pockets of polluting industries, the introduction of H.R. 6 is clear signal that Congress is ready to start solving our energy problems,” said Kate Johnson of U.S. PIRG, the federation of state Public Interest Research Groups.
“We also commend Speaker Pelosi’s commitment to building a new energy future, and look forward to working with Congress to continue to move America’s energy policy in this new direction well beyond the first 100 hours,” said USPIRG.
The House has already passed four of the six bills scheduled for the First 100 Hours – anti-terrorism measures, a minimum wage increase, expanding federally funded stem cell research, and a bill to make the government negotiate for lower Medicare prescription drug prices.
As UK lays out Green plans later, what should we email/ring to lunchtime radio/TV phone-ins 4 best effect, eh?
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Green energy plans to be outlined
The number of wind turbines could be increased under the plans
Proposals on renewable energy aimed at meeting EU climate change targets and securing the UK’s future supply are to be unveiled by the government later.
More wind turbines and solar panels are expected to be signalled as ministers aim for 15% renewable power by 2020.
Less than 5% of Britain’s electricity currently comes from green sources.
Environmental groups have hailed the strategy but say past promises have not been met and some industry groups have expressed caution over its timetable.
Philip Wolfe, director of the Renewable Energy Association, said: “The key missing factor is a greater sense of urgency.
“We have only 12 years left and government still wants to use two of those talking about it. The industry has a very short space of time in which to meet challenging targets.
“There are still gaps and
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Your fuel: What are you doing to lower your fuel bill?
Record high prices of oil have affected households’ budgets in the UK. Are you changing your energy consumption habits?
Representatives of energy firms have confirmed that gas and electricity bills could rise by as much as 40% this winter, and petrol prices have gone up to around £1.20 a litre.
Are you walking and cycling more?
Are you driving slowly?
Are you spending some money on low energy light bulbs or energy efficient appliances?
Or are you just more conscious about switching off your lights and computers?
Are you using alternative energy sources like biofuels, solar or wind energy?
We’d like to hear how you’re changing your fuel consumption, and your concerns for the future.
As part of a Fuel Day, the BBC will be showing special reports looking at the impact of high fuel prices across the UK
O no..
I feel a Hughie Green voice comin on..
& I mean that sincerely, friends…
I really do ..
So then, *1 – U R a judge ..
would you say that a fair translation of your reply would be..
‘give em da bird’??
Li’l’ ol’ joke there, 4 the folks @ home..
& half of ‘em need 2 be in a home after watchin my show for 26 yrs!
O no ..
I feel a Jim Cash & Carry Green Grinch voice comin’ on..
Must be rehearsin for da all-day Party In The Park @ Coronation Park, Ormskirk, L39
See @ http://www.multimap.com
If I leave in @ 3 mins I should be there for 11am start >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
John MC Cain filibustered wind energy in 2007, how can he now say he will support it?
2007: McCain Opposed Legislation Extending The Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit; Recent Study Concluded More than 116,000 Jobs Could be Lost If the Tax Credit is Not Extended. John McCain supported the filibuster of the 2007 energy bill that included an extension of the production tax credit to 2011. While McCain missed the vote to on the bill, according to his staff he did, in fact, support the continuing the filibuster, which eventually killed the bill. In its place, Congress passed another version of the legislation that did not include an extension of the tax credit. A 2008 economic study by Navigant Consulting found that “over 116,000 U.S. jobs and nearly $19 billion in U.S. investment could be lost in just one year if renewable energy tax credits are not renewed by Congress… The study concluded that over 76,000 jobs are put at risk in the wind industry, and approximately 40,000 jobs in the solar industry.” [HR 6, Vote 425, 12/13/07; Forbes, 12/13/07; U.S. News & World Report, 12/14/07; American Wind Energy Association and the Solar Energy Industries Association press release, 2/4/08] Are any as concerned as I am over this seeming contradiction? Why are you — Why not?
Do we have the Cheney oil-centric energy policy to thank for this?
January 31, 2010
**China Leading Global Race to Make Clean Energy**
By KEITH BRADSHER
TIANJIN, China — China vaulted past competitors in Denmark, Germany, Spain and the United States last year to become the world’s largest maker of wind turbines, and is poised to expand even further this year.
China has also leapfrogged the West in the last two years to emerge as the world’s largest manufacturer of solar panels. And the country is pushing equally hard to build nuclear reactors and the most efficient types of coal power plants.
These efforts to dominate the global manufacture of renewable energy technologies raise the prospect that the West may someday trade its dependence on oil from the Mideast for a reliance on solar panels, wind turbines and other gear manufactured in China.
“Most of the energy equipment will carry a brass plate, ‘Made in China,’ ” said K. K. Chan, the chief executive of Nature Elements Capital, a private equity fund in Beijing that focuses on renewable energy.
President Obama, in his State of the Union speech last week, sounded an alarm that the United States was falling behind other countries, especially China, on energy. “I do not accept a future where the jobs and industries of tomorrow take root beyond our borders — and I know you don’t either,” he told Congress.
The United States and other countries are offering incentives to develop their own renewable energy industries, and Mr. Obama called for redoubling American efforts. Yet many Western and Chinese executives expect China to prevail in the energy-technology race.
Multinational corporations are responding to the rapid growth of China’s market by building big, state-of-the-art factories in China. Vestas of Denmark has just erected the world’s biggest wind turbine manufacturing complex here in northeastern China, and transferred the technology to build the latest electronic controls and generators.
“You have to move fast with the market,” said Jens Tommerup, the president of Vestas China. “Nobody has ever seen such fast development in a wind market.”
Renewable energy industries here are adding jobs rapidly, reaching 1.12 million in 2008 and climbing by 100,000 a year, according to the government-backed Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association.
Yet renewable energy may be doing more for China’s economy than for the environment. Total power generation in China is on track to pass the United States in 2012 — and most of the added capacity will still be from coal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/energy-environment/31renew.html?ref=world&pagewanted=print
Does anyone have any suggestions for an energy resource plan?
. Assignment: Energy Resource Plan
You are a board member of your Home Owner’s Association. At your next meeting, your goal is to educate other homeowners about energy conservation.
· Review the following Energy Resource Plan outline:
o Introduction:
§ Provide information about why conserving energy is important.
o Renewable versus Nonrenewable
 Briefly distinguish between these two types of energy.
o Methods to conserve and help the environment
 What can each member do, personally, to conserve energy and help the environment at the same time?
 Provide at least three methods.
o Government efforts
 How can the government be involved in conservation efforts?
o Conclusion
 Wrap up the meeting with a brief summary of your main points.
 Provide some motivation for conserving energy with a memorable slogan, statement, or song, for example.
· Conduct either Option 1 or Option 2.
1. Create a 7- to 10-slide PowerPoint® that includes all of the elements in the Energy Resource Plan outline. Include speaker notes as appropriate.
2. Write a 350- to 700-word paper that includes all elements of the Energy Resource Plan outline.
· Format your paper according to APA guidelines.
· Post your paper as an attachment no later then 11:59 MST Sunday in your Individual Forum.