All Electricity is Not Created Equal Efforts to bring competition to utility industry mean that both government and consumers can act to ensure cleaner power. Our electricity system subsidizes polluters. Unless we fix it, Americans will pay an unconscionable price in degraded air, water and land. Few of us think about our use of electricity in environmental terms. Reserving a small fraction of every electricity bill for new investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy resources will help ensure that we can get more energy service for less pollution.
Environmental Benefits of SMUD PV Pioneers Every day, SMUD PV pioneers leave their homes knowing that their roofs are providing more than shelter to their families. The know that the PV power plants on their roofs are also producing clean, green, and renewable energy for Sacramento. SMUD has formed a partnership with our customers to advance the use of photovoltaic (PV) power. Each PV Pioneer has a 499 square foot, 4 kW SMUD rooftop PV power plant feeding solar generated electricity into the SMUD power grid. The PV Pioneers share in this partnership through "green pricing" and providing the roof area to place these environmentally friendly PV power plants.
Factsheet: Conservation and Renewable Energy Reserve The Acid Rain Program promotes pollution prevention through its SO2 allowance trading program. Since allowances are assigned a market value, utilities have an incentive to emit less SO2 in order to conserve these allowances. The Conservation and Renewable Energy Reserve (the Reserve) portion of the program provides further incentive to lower SO2 emissions.
Hydrogen Expert Says Health Hazards of Fossil Fuels Dwarf Tobacco Speaking before the World Hydrogen Energy Conference in Germany this past summer, T. Nejat Veziroglu of the University of Miami's Clean Energy Research Institute charged that fossil fuels pose a greater health threat internationally than does tobacco smoke.
Renewable Energy Benefits and Applications In all parts of the world, renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies provide solutions to a multitude of energy supply and demand challenges. Quality of life is dramatically improved through increased access to non-polluting sources of energy and reduce urban migration. Renewable energy is generated with indigenous resources, which eliminates the need to import fuels or extract finite fossil fuels, and increases economic independence.
The Environmental Benefits of Cellulosic Energy Crops at a Landscape Scale This paper presents a broad overview of the potential environmental impacts of biomass energy from energy crops, particularly the cellulosic energy crops currently under development. The authors use the term energy crop to mean a crop grown primarily to provide a feedstock for biofuels such as ethanol or to be burned for heat or electricity.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPERATIVE: A Driving Force in the Development and Deployment of Renewable Energy Technologies Energy technologies drawing on renewable energy avoid the severe environmental impacts of the fossil fuel cycle. An energy market that considered the total cost to society of our energy choices would greatly encourage the deployment of renewable energy technologies. This paper outlines the environmental imperative for accelerating the exploitation of renewable resources.
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