But low electricity prices make it more difficult for truly low carbon energy sources, like nuclear, solar, and wind, to compete.
By Memorial Day, the White House would like the House Energy and Commerce Committee to approve a sweeping energy plan that caps total carbon emissions, sets up a program to sell permits for future emissions, then cycles billions of dollars to renewable and other low-carbon energy sources.
So there is an appetite to wean us off of carbon producing energy sources with seemingly increasing public support.
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Another is to allow local people to be able to choose low-carbon local energy sources, rather than being obliged to rely on large-scale electricity grids run on polluting coal.
By 2050, 82% of our energy should come from sources including renewable energy and low-carbon coal, achieved through the use of carbon capture and storage.
The need to develop carbon-free energy sources is greater than ever, and Germany is leading the charge, breaking all previous solar installation records in 2012.
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In the effort to mitigate carbon emissions and climate change, sources of carbon-free renewable energy are sought, particularly wind power.
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Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency would go on a regulatory binge like nothing in modern U.S. history against traditional carbon-based sources of energy, coal in particular.
Democratic leaders blocked such a vote arguing such an approach could hurt the environment as well as delay a transition to carbon-free, renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy.
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Bill would laugh at the idea that the U.S. government, or any government, is smart enough to convert carbon-tax revenue to new energy sources.
Shale gas is also likely to divert investment in Britain from pricier but carbon-free nuclear and renewable-energy sources.
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This need has served as a strong stimulus for the sustainability reporting software market, which sits at the top of the enterprise to aggregate carbon, energy and resource information from various data sources.
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It was, in essence, a tax on carbon, designed to raise money from traditional energy sources in Scotland to invest in renewable power.
Further complicating the picture for all of these rival energy sources is uncertainty about what kind of new carbon regulations might come from Congress and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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The Obama administration has said it wants to speed construction of nuclear-power facilities as part of a strategy to support sources of energy that emit little or no carbon dioxide or other gases linked to climate change.
The gradual switch to cleaner sources of energy has contributed to a 13% decline in carbon emissions from 2007 to 2012, the report said.
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Costs not captured include electrical grid upgrade, connectivity of renewables and buffering of their intermittency by rapid cycling of fossil fuel plants as presently practiced in this country, and non-carbon-tax externalities such as pollution and health care costs associated with energy sources, especially for coal.
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On energy, there will be legislation aimed at incentivising businesses to invest in new sources of low-carbon power, from wind farms to nuclear power stations.
Second, he can use this visit to spotlight efforts China is making, or has pledged to make, to hold down the growth of carbon emissions, promote efficiency and invest in the development of solar, wind and other renewable energy sources.
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But the company's California offices use power from wind and nuclear power sources as well--and consequently get the same amount of energy for a third of the carbon emissions.
Rather, Bill believes that higher carbon prices, even if artificially buoyed by taxes, are needed to motivate private industry to develop new energy sources.
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