Which business models may contribute to the development of new inclusive energy markets?
Given the size of the prize and technical complexity of producing value from efficiency reserves, a new breed of energy development comparable to the oil and gas industry has begun to take shape.
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We can create tens of thousands of new American jobs by encouraging the development of America's vast energy resources and supporting truly shovel-ready projects like the Keystone XL pipeline, which would create an estimated 20, 000 jobs, according to TransCanada, while boosting domestic energy production.
Spurring the development of clean energy industry clusters by funding new regional cluster initiatives and clean energy research consortia.
Altogether, additional development of domestic energy resources could more than 1 million new jobs by 2030.
Prime Minister Tony Blair told the CBI last November that the new Energy Review would consider the development of a new generation of nuclear power stations.
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Among the people required to attend Disaster Preparedness Commission meetings but didn't was Francis Murray, president of the New York State Energy and Research Development Authority, according to state records.
The Colorado Association for Manufacturing and Technology (CAMT) is at the core of this exciting initiative, with the Departments of Energy and Commerce joining along with NASA. Through this collaboration, private sector partners are financing the development of an Aerospace and Clean Energy Park that will host new businesses interested in using NASA technologies and expertise to develop new commercial products and services.
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This latter criteria has become especially important in North African nations where local populations have been wary about the involvement of international partners and eager to make sure that any new energy development from Tangiers to Cairo include strict stipulations that ensure more local jobs, training and that domestic energy demand is met before shipping out to the European or Asian markets.
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If Shell Oil, Chevron Appalachia and other companies are found to be abiding by a list of stringent measures to protect the air and water from pollution, they will receive the blessing of the new Pittsburgh-based Center for Sustainable Shale Development, created by environmentalists and the energy industry.
Meanwhile, the Interior Department has set aside about 285, 000 acres of land in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah development for solar energy.
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In areas as diverse as energy management, accounting, agile development, device management, a whole new generation of IT management applications are coming to market.
Today, the energy industry invests only three tenths of one percent of revenues in the research and development of new technologies.
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The new energy development is "almost a spider web coming down to the forest, " said Nels Johnson of the Pennsylvania chapter of The Nature Conservancy, which estimates the state could see thousands of miles of new pipelines over the next two decades.
But President George W. Bush's administration has pushed nuclear power as a fuel of choice for the future through various financial incentives, including the "Nuclear Power 2010" initiative launched five years ago, which provides matching funds for the early stages of new plant development, as well as loan guarantees and tax credits offered to new nuclear developers in 2005's Energy Policy Act, sometimes known as EPACT.
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