If the energy value of those projects were factored in even more non-renewable jobs would result.
Even if you assume that the soybean waste has energy value, as a feedstock for cattle, the process still results in an energy loss of 2%.
Given the steep capital costs of energy storage systems, storage technologies must be able to perform multiple services across different parts of the energy value chain.
Natural gas was selling in the teens then, in roughly a 1:6 ratio to the energy value in a barrel of oil, and pricing was proportionate.
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It is significant, then, that Shell relies on gas for 48% of its fossil fuel production by energy value, while the corresponding ratio at other giant oil companies is between 37% and 41%.
It is significant, then, that Shell relies on gas for 45% of its fossil fuel production by energy value, while the corresponding ratio at other giant oil companies is between 37% and 41%.
Instead, what the United States needs to build a competitive clean energy sector capable of supporting hundreds of thousands of good-paying jobs across the clean energy value chain is a comprehensive set of sustained public investments in cleantech research and innovation, education and workforce training, advanced manufacturing, and market creation ( more on that strategy here).
By going a little further down the energy tech value chain and viewing the nascent LED industry through this familiar lens, they can walk in and let the lights come on.
He said the Green Investment Bank had been "hobbled" by its inability to borrow and called for energy efficiency to be given "equal value" to energy supply in policy-making.
But rather like those fondly remembered epics of Hollywood past, it's got enough energy and entertainment value to carry the day.
In the past, driven by a relentless search for value, energy CEOs devoted much of their time to strategy.
Your contention that leasing creates value via energy efficiency seems a little muddy.
With ever-stricter environmental laws in combination with state-set green energy rules, the value of biomass facilities is expected to rise.
The companies involved read like a Who's Who of industrial America: high-value, energy-intensive businesses like steel, aluminum, plastics, glass, vehicles and packaging.
An exception was the Shanghai Composite index, which ended the day 1.8% higher, largely due to a surge in the value of energy companies, including a 10% jump in China Shenhua Energy Company.
"The value of energy companies has slumped since 2008, the public purse is severely constrained, but there is more than enough money around in the investment community, " said Lord Carter of Coles, who chaired the committee.
One particular attraction is that businesses supposedly pay the money and thus will roll the costs into the prices they charge for their goods and services, a sort of energy version of the value-added tax.
In addition to those demand response dispatches, Constellation Energy was providing real-time market price information to many of its customers, thus giving them information on the value of curtailing energy use during the heat wave when power prices jumped.
An ESCO provides energy-efficiency-related and other value-added services and for which performance contracting is a core part of its energy-efficiency services business.
The bottom line question is: who owns the value of that energy use data?
In the tables that follow, we offer some off-the-beaten-path metrics that shine a spotlight on possible value plays among energy producers.
Independent MLA Jim Allister was sceptical about the value of green energy.
If they have few indigenous energy resources, they may value, as Japan has done, the security offered by plants running on fuel that is cheap and easily stockpiled.
The real value of renewable energy lies not in low costs (though lower costs are certainly a laudable development), but in its environmental benefits the cleaner air, water, and land that we all enjoy, and the hope of a future without catastrophic climate change.
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One of the easiest and fastest ways to reduce energy costs is to squeeze more value out of existing equipment.
Most of these troubled energy stocks are trading below book value.
Over the years, I have worked with many successful people and they all shared a common trait: they spent their time and energy on the important, highest value tasks.
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Shares of PRB Energy have gained 40% in value since Jan. 15, and the gurus found this quick gain quite acceptable, taking profits on their entire position in the Denver-based natural gas production and pipeline company.
The near-term value proposition: lower energy costs.
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If built, Energy Tower would triple the total taxable value of downtown properties, he said.
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