Energy And Climate Research Seminar

Escalating costs played a major role in the diminishing number of power plants in the United States. (Cohen, 1990). Plants completed in the 1970’s carried an average price tag of $170

In this final assignment for Environmental Policy, Regulation, and Law, I will discuss the Energy Policy Act. This discussion will be geared toward the current usage of renewable energy with reference to the incentives created in the Energy Policy Act. The introduction into this topic will include a brief synopsis of the act’s history. Following the history of the Energy Policy Act, there will be a discussion and argument for the act and its present incentives for the use of renewable energy sources. In conclusion, the expected future of the Energy Policy Act and the closing argument for its regulation will be covered.

Climate change is a heavily ignored subject to many industrialized countries and businesses. While 97 percent or more scientist agree on published peer-reviewed studies that climate change is real, many of the leading industries producing pollution turn a blind eye to the obvious detrimental effects that they are causing. In a multitude of studies on climate change data is showing rising sea levels and global temperature, warming of oceans and shrinking of ice sheets, decreased snow cover, ocean acidification, an increase of extreme events with exceeding power, rapidly declining arctic sea ice, and more. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which includes 1,300 independent climate change experts, have actualized 95

The Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change advice for policy makers is a book with various statistics and facts about what the scientific community has been noticing about the changing environment. The hope for the panel when making this booklet is that they could help guide policy makers towards making more informed decisions about their policies and the effect it is having on the environment. While some of the evidence is almost indisputable many politicians still argue their validity due to personal beliefs or because they receive campaign donations from companies who do not want to see environmental policies change. The booklet is split up into three different parts, observations of the changes in the environment around us, future risks these changes can have, and how to manage these risks and build a sustainable planet for everybody.

Undesired climatic change necessitates the need to look for solutions to curb the trend through planetary-scale interventions. However, the major challenge is the lack of integrated, top-down bargaining strategies. To deal with this challenge, the U.S. has resulted to the use of new bottom-up methods such as building blocks and climate clubs to coordinate national climate change policies (Victor & Sabel, 2015). The bottom-up approach has great uncertainty because of the feasibility and cost of implementation of various projects. However, the approach can work smoothly with the support of various institutions that promote joint exploration of possible solutions by public and private actors along scaling up of successes.

On Friday, April 25, 2014, I attended the event Global Climate Change Symposium organized by the West Valley College Global Citizen and Suitability Committees from 1:00 to 2:30 PM. In this event, the speaker was Dr. Daphane Miller, MD., family physician, writer, and Associate Professor in the department of Family Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Daphane Miller is also a family physician. One thing that I believe that is striking to know first is that she is a doctor, a writer, and a discoverer that has found a new science named Farmacology. She sits at her office three days a week and she sees patients all day long and takes care of them. One of her many prescriptions to her patients is good eating. The major

“The climate and energy requirements regardless of location are interdependent, in areas where the temperatures are mild and range from the low 60s to high 70s, for example the energy requirements for residential and commercial building temperature regulation are going to be significantly less than an area that has either extremes in cold or heat. In the areas with less variation in the mean temperature, the amount of greenhouse gas emissions resulting as a by-product of energy production is no doubt going to be less. Florida is fortunate to have an abundance of energy sources present in the environment, some of which include solar power potential, geothermal energy potential, and abundance of water sources. Some noticeable effects of climate change are rising tide and ocean levels have resulted in residential areas and streets being flooded that would not normally occur, this is more prevalent in areas further south like Miami, but I have observed during high tide and spring storms abnormal water levels along coastal areas and along the St Johns River. Other impacts are species migration and habitat destruction from an incursion of seawater or temperature variances killing native species of plants, making the entire ecosystem susceptible to incursion from non-native species. Next we will take a look at some possible ways ahead for Florida in regard to renewable energy sources.

People are inflicting major damage to the Earth's environment, and if we don't do anything to stop the destruction soon, the results could be devastating. Most people know about global warming and think it may be a serious problem in the future. What most people don't understand is that global warming is happening now, and we are already feeling some of its destructive power. Because of the dangerous effects of global warming, alternative energy sources need to be aggressively pursued. Finding and utilizing alternative energy sources may be the only way to combat the increase of global warming.

Global climate change is a pressing issue, yet still remains a quite disputable topic among both the public and the scientific community. Nevertheless, there

The main focus on the article relates to how long-festering energy policy challenges can be addressed in 2017. The article recognizes the Australia Energy Industry operates on

Personally, when talking about Energy issues, I need to analyze the topic from two aspects, ‘The history of energy’ and ‘Prospective and challenge of the new sustainable energy. The following I will show the relative information in details

This week’s reading list revolved around the topic of regulatory function of. Each reading discussed different regulations in the electricity sector, exploring how regulation/deregulation has affected the market in the jurisdiction discussed. These readings provide background about policies that have been established, problems encountered when developing policies, how to approach these problems, and possible solutions that might be used in the future. These topics were examined in the political and economic sense, and again provide background that can be used to explain the past, present, and future state of the electricity market, and help to make predictions and suggest policies for the future.

Deregulated wholesale electricity markets exhibit levels of price volatility unparalleled in traditional commodity markets. Having lower volatility will allow large industrial consumers to better plan their electricity usage.

Power flows from generation to transmission and then to distribution where it is sold to the consumers. The support of the electricity market is the funds flowing back from the consumers through the distribution segment to the rest of the electricity value chain. One of the major objectives of the privatisation exercise was to ensure that the system produces adequate revenue for the electricity value chain which is currently not happening (Ogbu, 2016).

According to world energy organization (2014), “This is a time of unprecedented uncertainty for the energy sector. Secure, reliable, affordable, clean and equitable energy supply is fundamental to global economic growth and human development and presents huge challenges for us all.”