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Book Synopsis Renewable Energy Initiatives Supported by Federal Agencies by : Rickey Taylor
Download or read book Renewable Energy Initiatives Supported by Federal Agencies written by Rickey Taylor and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation's reliance on imported oil, rising energy costs, and fossil fuels' potential contribution to climate change have renewed the federal focus on renewable energy. Many federal agencies support renewable energy activities, raising congressional concerns about the number and roles of agencies implementing such efforts. This book examines the wide range of federal activities related to renewable energy and the recent increase in these efforts that have raised congressional concerns about the number of agencies implementing such activities, as well as the roles of agencies responsible for regulating and providing funding to various segments of the renewable energy industry.
Book Synopsis Renewable Energy by : U.s. Government Accountability Office
Download or read book Renewable Energy written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The nation's reliance on imported oil, rising energy costs, and fossil fuels' potential contribution to climate change have renewed the federal focus on renewable energy. Many federal agencies support renewable energy activities, raising congressional concerns about the number and roles of agencies implementing such efforts. Currently, there is no comprehensive inventory of federal renewable energy initiatives, making it difficult to identify potential fragmentation or duplication.GAO was asked to (1) identify agencies' renewable energy-related initiatives and (2) examine the federal roles agencies' initiatives supported. GAO collected data from agencies' budget documents, strategic plans, websites, and through agency data requests and interviews with officials from most of the 24 federal agencies subject to the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990. These 24 agencies accounted for roughly 98 percent of all federal outlays in 2009. GAO developed an inventory of agencies' renewable energy initiatives, including initiatives for which renewable energy was the focus, as well as initiatives for which it was part of a broader effort. GAO focused on developing this inventory, and as such, did not evaluate initiatives based on financial support or other factors.This report contains no recommendations. In response to the draft report, Commerce agreed with the overall findings as they relate to the Department, while Homeland Security"
Book Synopsis Renewable Energy by : Franklin W. Rusco
Download or read book Renewable Energy written by Franklin W. Rusco and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-20 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nation's reliance on imported oil, rising energy costs, and fossil fuels' potential contribution to climate change have renewed the federal focus on renewable energy. Many federal agencies support renewable energy activities, raising congressional concerns about the number and roles of agencies implementing such efforts. Currently, there is no comprehensive inventory of federal renewable energy initiatives, making it difficult to identify potential fragmentation or duplication. This report: (1) identifies agencies' renewable energy-related initiatives; and (2) examines the federal roles agencies' initiatives supported. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand edition of an important, hard-to-find report.
Author :United States Government Accountability Office Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781983508066 Total Pages :172 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (8 download)
Book Synopsis Renewable Energy by : United States Government Accountability Office
Download or read book Renewable Energy written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renewable Energy: Federal Agencies Implement Hundreds of Initiatives
Book Synopsis Renewable energy by : United States. Government Accountability Office
Download or read book Renewable energy written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Solar Energy by : U.s. Government Accountability Office
Download or read book Solar Energy written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United States has abundant solarenergy resources and solar, along withwind, offers the greatest energy andpower potential among all currentlyavailable domestic renewableresources. In February 2012, GAOreported that 23 federal agencies hadimplemented nearly 700 renewableenergy initiatives in fiscal year 2010-including initiatives that supportedsolar energy technologies(GAO-12-260). The existence of suchinitiatives at multiple agencies raisedquestions about the potential forduplication, which can occur whenmultiple initiatives support the sametechnology advancement activities andtechnologies, direct funding to thesame recipients, and have the samegoals.GAO was asked to identify (1) solar-related initiatives supported by federalagencies in fiscal years 2010 and 2011and key characteristics of thoseinitiatives and (2) the extent offragmentation, overlap, andduplication, if any, of federal solar-related initiatives, as well as the extentof any coordination among theseinitiatives. GAO reviewed its previouswork and interviewed officials at eachof the agencies identified as havingfederal solar initiatives active in fiscalyears 2010 and 2011. GAO developeda questionnaire and administered it toofficials involved in each initiative tocollect information on: initiative goals,technology advancement activities,funding obligations, number ofprojects, and coordination activities"
Book Synopsis Large-Scale Renewable Energy Guide by : U. S. Department Energy
Download or read book Large-Scale Renewable Energy Guide written by U. S. Department Energy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide has been created to help Federal agencies effectively develop large-scale renewable energy projects at Federal facilities. For the purposes of this Guide, large-scale Federal renewable energy projects are defined as renewable energy facilities larger than 10 megawatts (MW) that are sited on Federal facilities, property, and lands, and are typically financed and owned by third parties. Because these projects often rely on private investment, it is necessary for Federal agencies to understand the types of large-scale renewable energy projects that the private sector is pursuing. In other words, if the projects that need private sector funding do not attract the private sector, they will never be built. Therefore, this Guide provides the Federal employee with an understanding of a common process that private sector developers use to select projects for investment. To accomplish Federal goals for renewable energy, sustainability, and energy security, large-scale renewable energy projects must be developed and constructed on Federal sites at a significant scale with significant private investment. The U.S. Department of Energy's Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP) helps Federal agencies meet these goals and assists agency personnel navigate the complexities of developing such projects and attract the necessary private capital to complete them. This Guide is intended to provide a general resource that will begin to develop the Federal employee's awareness and understanding of the project developer's operating environment and the private sector's awareness and understanding of the Federal environment. Because the vast majority of the investment that is required to meet the goals for large-scale renewable energy projects will come from the private sector, this Guide has been organized to match Federal processes with typical phases of commercial project development. FEMP collaborated with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and professional project developers on this Guide to ensure that Federal projects have key elements recognizable to private sector developers and investors. The main purpose of this Guide is to provide a project development framework to allow the Federal Government, private developers, and investors to work in a coordinated fashion on large-scale renewable energy projects. The framework includes key elements that describe a successful, financially attractive large-scale renewable energy project.
Download or read book Wind Energy written by Anas Desmet and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wind energy has been the fastest growing source of U.S. electric power generation in recent years. The increase in federal funding for wind technologies and involvement of multiple agencies has raised questions about fragmented, overlapping, or duplicative federal support. This book examines federal wind-related initiatives; programs or groups of agency activities that promoted wind energy through a specific emphasis or focus. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) identifies wind-related initiatives implemented by federal agencies in fiscal year 2011; assesses the extent of fragmentation, overlap, and duplication, if any, among these initiatives, and the extent to which they were co-ordinated; and examines how agencies allocate support to projects through their initiatives and the extent to which they assess applicant need for support.
Author :United States. Department of Energy. Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :160 pages Book Rating :4.E/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Comprehensive Program & Plan for Federal Energy Education, Extension & Information Activities by : United States. Department of Energy. Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy
Download or read book Comprehensive Program & Plan for Federal Energy Education, Extension & Information Activities written by United States. Department of Energy. Office of Conservation and Renewable Energy and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Energy Initiative: DOI officials by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources
Download or read book American Energy Initiative: DOI officials written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Department of Defense Facilities by : Anthony Andrews
Download or read book Department of Defense Facilities written by Anthony Andrews and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1970s, Congress began mandating reductions in energy consumed by fed. agencies; primarily by improving building efficiency, and reducing fossil fuel use. Early legislation mandated a 10% reduction in fed. building energy and a recent Exec. Order mandates a 30% further reduction by 2015. This report reviews energy conservation legislation and Exec. Orders that apply to the DoD. Contents: Background; Energy Efficiency Legislation; Defense Energy Policies; Defense Energy Consumption and Spending; Renewable Electric Energy Purchases; Defense Energy Efficiency Improvements; Policy Considerations and Options for Congress. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand publication.
Author :U. s. Government Accountability Office Publisher :Createspace Independent Pub ISBN 13 :9781482771695 Total Pages :60 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (716 download)
Book Synopsis Solar energy by : U. s. Government Accountability Office
Download or read book Solar energy written by U. s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-five solar-related initiatives with a variety of key characteristics were supported by six federal agencies. Over half of these 65 initiatives supported solar projects exclusively; the remaining initiatives supported solar and other renewable energy technologies. The 65 initiatives exhibited a variety of key characteristics, including multiple technology advancement activities ranging from basic research to commercialization by providing funding to various types of recipients including universities, industry, and federal laboratories and researchers, primarily through grants and contracts. Agency officials reported that they obligated about $2.6 billion for the solar projects in these initiatives in fiscal years 2010 and 2011, an amount higher than in previous years, in part, because of additional funding from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The 65 solar-related initiatives are fragmented across six agencies and overlap to some degree in their key characteristics, but most agency officials reported coordination efforts to avoid duplication. The initiatives are fragmented in that they are implemented by various offices across the six agencies and address the same broad areas of national need. However, the agencies tailor their initiatives to meet their specific missions, such as DOD's energy security mission and NASA's space exploration mission. Many of the initiatives overlapped with at least one other initiative in the technology advancement activity, technology type, funding recipient, or goal. However, GAO found no clear instances of duplicative initiatives. Furthermore, officials at 57 of the 65 initiatives (88 percent) indicated that they coordinated in some way with other solar-related initiatives, including both within their own agencies and with other agencies. Such coordination may reduce the risk of duplication. Moreover, 59 of the 65 initiatives (91 percent) require applicants to disclose other federal sources of funding on their applications to help ensure that they do not receive duplicative funding.
Book Synopsis The Power of Renewables by : Chinese Academy of Engineering
Download or read book The Power of Renewables written by Chinese Academy of Engineering and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-01-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States and China are the world's top two energy consumers and, as of 2010, the two largest economies. Consequently, they have a decisive role to play in the world's clean energy future. Both countries are also motivated by related goals, namely diversified energy portfolios, job creation, energy security, and pollution reduction, making renewable energy development an important strategy with wide-ranging implications. Given the size of their energy markets, any substantial progress the two countries make in advancing use of renewable energy will provide global benefits, in terms of enhanced technological understanding, reduced costs through expanded deployment, and reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relative to conventional generation from fossil fuels. Within this context, the U.S. National Academies, in collaboration with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), reviewed renewable energy development and deployment in the two countries, to highlight prospects for collaboration across the research to deployment chain and to suggest strategies which would promote more rapid and economical attainment of renewable energy goals. Main findings and concerning renewable resource assessments, technology development, environmental impacts, market infrastructure, among others, are presented. Specific recommendations have been limited to those judged to be most likely to accelerate the pace of deployment, increase cost-competitiveness, or shape the future market for renewable energy. The recommendations presented here are also pragmatic and achievable.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :132 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Solar Energy Development on Federal Lands by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
Download or read book Solar Energy Development on Federal Lands written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation by : Christopher E. Moorman
Download or read book Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation written by Christopher E. Moorman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together disparate conversations about wildlife conservation and renewable energy, suggesting ways these two critical fields can work hand in hand. Renewable energy is often termed simply "green energy," but its effects on wildlife and other forms of biodiversity can be quite complex. While capturing renewable resources like wind, solar, and energy from biomass can require more land than fossil fuel production, potentially displacing wildlife habitat, renewable energy infrastructure can also create habitat and promote species health when thoughtfully implemented. The authors of Renewable Energy and Wildlife Conservation argue that in order to achieve a balanced plan for addressing these two crucially important sustainability issues, our actions at the nexus of these fields must be directed by current scientific information related to the ecological effects of renewable energy production. Synthesizing an extensive, rapidly growing base of research and insights from practitioners into a single, comprehensive resource, contributors to this volume • describe processes to generate renewable energy, focusing on the Big Four renewables—wind, bioenergy, solar energy, and hydroelectric power • review the documented effects of renewable energy production on wildlife and wildlife habitats • consider current and future policy directives, suggesting ways industrial-scale renewables production can be developed to minimize harm to wildlife populations • explain recent advances in renewable power technologies • identify urgent research needs at the intersection of renewables and wildlife conservation Relevant to policy makers and industry professionals—many of whom believe renewables are the best path forward as the world seeks to meet its expanding energy needs—and wildlife conservationists—many of whom are alarmed at the rate of renewables-related habitat conversion—this detailed book culminates with a chapter underscoring emerging opportunities in renewable energy ecology. Contributors: Edward B. Arnett, Brian B. Boroski, Regan Dohm, David Drake, Sarah R. Fritts, Rachel Greene, Steven M. Grodsky, Amanda M. Hale, Cris D. Hein, Rebecca R. Hernandez, Jessica A. Homyack, Henriette I. Jager, Nicole M. Korfanta, James A. Martin, Christopher E. Moorman, Clint Otto, Christine A. Ribic, Susan P. Rupp, Jake Verschuyl, Lindsay M. Wickman, T. Bently Wigley, Victoria H. Zero
Book Synopsis Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Legislation in the 109th Congress by : Fred Sissine
Download or read book Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Legislation in the 109th Congress written by Fred Sissine and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Reviews the status of energy efficiency and renewable energy legislation introduced during the 109th Congress. Action in the second session has focused on appropriations bills; the first session focused on omnibus energy policy bill H.R. 6, H.R. 3, and several appropriations bills. Contents: (1) Intro.: Report Contents; Action in the 1st Session; Action in the 2nd Session; (2) Legislation: Public Laws; House Bills (with Senate Companions); House Bills Introduced after H.R. 6 Conference Report (July 27, 2005); Senate Bills (with House Companions); Senate Bills Introduced After H.R. 6 Conference Report (July 27, 2005); (3) Congressional Hearings, Reports, and Documents; 109th Congress: 1st Session, Second Session. CRS Reports. Illus.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :64 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (51 download)
Book Synopsis Energy Efficiency and Conservation by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Download or read book Energy Efficiency and Conservation written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
