The Hybrid Application Of Hegelian And Kantian Philosophical Policy

In the absence of federal legislation, states have the liberty to address climate change and formulate policies that mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Texas and California have similar deregulated energy markets and economic goals, yet have pursued different policies, providing a fitting opportunity for Texas to analyze, compare and consider California’s comprehensive law and regulations designed to mitigate GHG emissions. Key focus areas include electricity generation and use , transportation, and industry . Given the comprehensive focus of energy policies, this report specifically emphasizes electricity generation and use. ,

Conference Focus: Implement a new policy within five years to move into renewable energy, with a focus on solar power, while decreasing the use of fossil fuels. This policy will examine the barriers to implement new renewable energy technologies that will decrease the carbon dioxide emissions and identify ways to overcome these barriers through incentives, tax breaks, and attitudinal changes.

Critique of “The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence” by Robert Bryce For the past forty years, many of our former presidents have made the promise that our country would become energy independent. However, even though it is one of the most discussed political issues, and many Americans seem to agree that our country needs energy independence, we have still yet to see it happen. Well, according to Bryce in his article “The Dangerous Delusions of Energy Independence” not only is energy independence unachievable, it is also undesirable. Bryce argues that energy independence is just a lot of hype, because even with all the renewable energy options out there, America’s demand for energy is just too high for them to ever be sufficient. Bryce is an American author and journalist who has been writing about the topic of energy for the past 20 years.

Site C at BCUC will be a numbers game. Forget about the sunk costs - can renewables save the ratepayer money going forward?

While I trying to research a hot topic in California Real Estate, I came cross and found solar energy penal interesting effect in real estate market. The country’s major professional association of real estate appraisers stated that solar photovoltaic systems classically increase market value and almost always reduction marketing time of single-family homes in the San Diego metropolitan area. A group of California economists observed at that question in a recent study and found that on average, homeowners in California who connect photovoltaic solar panels to power their homes can recover nearly all the investment costs if they move–and that’s on top of the annual energy savings.

This article discusses the problems with switching to renewable energy. Obama's Clean Power Plan sets a goal for the United States to have 28% of its power come from renewable energy sources by the year 2030 and the two following problems came from it.

Each year the cost of designing, building, and maintaining renewable energy infrastructure and technology decreases. This trend is most prominently visible in the solar and wind industries which have both “seen stock prices jump since Congress approved an extension of tax credits for renewables” in late 2015 (Warrick). One cause for the renewable industry’s growth is the influx of investors. In November 2015, Goldman Sachs “quadruple[d] its investments in renewables to $150 billion,” a trend that has only become more prevalent in 2017 (Warrick). Part of the strong appeal of renewable energy is that it pays itself off over time. Instead of paying an electric bill every month, year after year, one can pay to have solar panels installed, that while initially expensive, never require additional payments. Not only are they free after the initial payment, some electric companies pay customers for installing panels and investing in clean energy. Many people complain that renewables produce far less power per dollar than coal, natural gas, and oil. While this may be true, the gap is quickly closing as renewable technology improves and prices drop. The convenience of only needing to pay once for renewable infrastructure far outweighs the greater power output that non-renewables provide for

Since the gasoline and fuel oil shortages of the 1970’s, the topic of renewable energy has been

Colorado is famous for being rich in natural resources. From the treasured gold and silver that helped incorporate the state into the Union, to the great Colorado River that provides millions of people throughout the west with water everyday. Yet, some of the most impactful contributors to the history and culture have been the resources of coal, oil, gas and as other "energy" supplies. These energy resources have provided jobs along with wealth in abundance across the state in classic boom and bust fashion. Colorado’s coal, oil and gas industries have also fueled controversial topics, including coke mining and hydraulic fracking. Today the switch to sustainable measures taking place in Colorado, such as solar and wind power, continue to shape history and culture. The steps provide constructive jobs, advocate for energy efficiency and produce a positive model to inspire as well as guide other states into a environmentally conscious world.

With the growth of population in Colorado there is a higher demand to produce and use energy. Unfortunately producing energy is quite bad for our environment as it is creates about 37% of CO2 that humans produce (Overview of Greenhouse Gases). This is causing our environment to change for the worse. Colorado is ranked 6th in the United States in solar energy production, and there is enough empty roof space that Colorado could become the first self-sustaining state (2015 Solar Power Rankings). Though the conversion from non-renewables to solar will be a long process, Coloradans can see a large payoff down the road.

Hegel’s critique of Kant’s philosophy is quite prevalent throughout the unfolding of Hegel’s own dialectical philosophy. Several of Hegel’s critiques of Kant’s work can especially be seen in one of his earlier works, “The Phenomenology of Spirit.” This is particularly established once Hegel begins to undertake the developing of Spirit within his Phenomenology. Here, Hegel makes several attacks on Kantian philosophy principles, and at some of the foundations of Kant’s use of pure reason in philosophy. There are several passages within the section where Hegel gives criticism of Kant’s work; critiques that strike at the very heart of what Hegel himself is trying to elucidate through his own dialectic, while discounting one of the greatest German philosophers.

S.B. 150 was presented by Senator Spearman. The purpose of this bill is to require the PUCN to establish annual goals for energy savings applicable to electric utilities in this state. The PUC originally stated that there would be no fiscal impact. After the bill was amended, the PUC submitted an “unsolicited” fiscal note of $487,618 over the biennium for a full time senior attorney, one part time senior attorney, and a part time regulatory economist.

This has deeply important implications across the state and national economy, for both individuals and businesses, as energy expenditures currently make up approximately 8% of the national gross domestic product , and Ohio as a national would nominally be the world’s 23rd ranked economy . This would be a causal study, in that the research design is fundamentally about cause and effect. In this case, the cause is the policy intervention of establishing a RPS, and the effect is the change the RPS brings to renewable energy generation and the state’s economy. This unfortunately could never be set up as a true experiment with control groups and set policy interventions, as no one governing body carries enough political clout to pull that off. However, by looking at the results of what is basically a natural experiment across the 36 other states with a RPS, it is possible to make real policy recommendations. The outcome of interest from this case study would be a method of establishing mandates that has been successful in states demographically and economically similar to Ohio. In particular, similar states to look at would be those with a heavy industrial and agricultural heritage, strong current focus on technological development, and a budding environmental based economy. Other states’ cause-effect relationships would most definitely still apply, but demographically similar states would have the most validity for comparison. The unit of analysis in this case

Created in the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the 30% Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) is the solar industry’s most important and only public policy that supports the deployment of solar energy in the United States to both the residential and commercial sectors. The 30% ITC has been successful in increasing deployment and lowering costs of solar energy. Since the eight-year extension created by the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, solar prices have consistently fallen year after year while installation rates and efficiencies have continued to rise, thus equaling the average cost of solar energy dropping by more than 73% and a 6500% annual growth rate since 2006, as reported by an independent analysis done by Bloomberg New Energy and Finance dated September 15, 2015, commissioned by the Solar Energy Industries Association. However, the ITC is set to expire December 31, 2016, and a failure to extend the ITC, according industry experts reported by PR Newswire July 22, 2015, would result in “90 percent of all solar companies going out of business and thousands of jobs lost”. In response to the looming expiration date, Ari Natter, Bloomberg Energy Reporter, reports “the solar industry is launching an all out push starting in 2015 to extend the investment tax credit”. At this point, there are 3

The state of California has set an aggressive schedule for the required amounts of renewable energy use, stepping from 20% in 2013, to 25% in 2016, and finally 33% by 2020 (DSIRE, 2011). By setting required levels of renewable energy to be used by energy companies the government leaves it up to the generator to develop the most cost effective source of renewable energy and the government faces small cost impacts because the brunt of the costs are forced on the users.