It has slashed local energy demand, reducing chronic pollution and leaving more oil for export.
Local energy prices tend to be around a third (or less) than prevailing market rates in Russia.
As a local energy official, Ms Rousseff kept the lights on after a drought in 2001 led to electricity rationing.
Many innovators are suggesting implementing new local energy networks called microgrids to improve this ability to pool and share locally generated electricity.
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Money from the Local Energy Assessment Fund, known as a LEAF grant, was awarded by the Department for Energy and Climate Change.
The power station would mean reduced local energy prices, hundreds of new jobs during construction, and a new business park creating up to 2, 000.
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Texas and Oklahoma weathered the downturn better than most, thanks to strong local energy industries and the absence of a housing boom and bust.
Alternative energy technologies have begun contributing to the stability and safety of the international energy system, energy resilience, diversity of supply, local energy independence, and global interdependence.
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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.
The alliance's manifesto calls for measures to reduce demand on the main electricity transmission grid, including smart meters, encouragement for community and small-scale local energy generation, and further research on methods of storage of electricity.
Up on the committee corridor there's the first meeting of the new Energy and Climate Change sub-committee on local energy (2pm) looking at the contribution small and medium-sized projects could make to the UK's energy supply, and at barriers to medium-sized and community-owned projects.
As a result of a variety of investments made under the Recovery Act, including state and local energy grants, we're on pace to upgrade the homes of half a million Americans by this time next year -- half a million Americans: boosting the economy, saving money and energy, creating clean energy jobs that can't be outsourced.
The more shale gas America uses, the more local the energy business becomes.
You want your local authority to help with home insulation, and invest in local green energy which will protect you from perennial price hikes.
Esbjorn Wilmar, managing director of Infinergy said Isle of Wight councillors had "missed a huge opportunity to show leadership and make a considerable contribution to local renewable energy production".
The idea of EID is to encourage deployment of local clean-energy systems for specific business needs.
Urban Realm editor John Glenday said judges had warmed to the "plight" of local people whose energy was "as strong as ever".
Whale bones for example are known to constitute an excellent surface on which benthic communities deprived of local sources of energy can settle and develop.
In addition to easing the exploration process with a simplified single permit for both oil and gas, the plan will be accompanied by a parallel effort to minimize local authority over energy projects.
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Duncan MacKay, a local marine-energy consultant, says that if all the energy companies' plans come to fruition, something like 500 seabed and surface turbines will be installed within 18 miles of Thurso over the next decade.
Most utilities maintain that they will be unable to deal with local, renewable energy that provides more than 15 percent of the power supply because any more would destabilize the grid, according to Shalom Flank, the chief technology officer of Pareto Energy, a Washington, D.
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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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The other offices involved are transportation, electricity and energy, local development, civil aviation and environmental affairs.
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Financial firms and local businessmen with little energy experience began snapping up offshore leases from the government.
The opposition hoped that having ceded finance and other key ministries, they would get energy, local government and foreign affairs.
However, politicians in the region are keen to break free of Russian influence and seem to be warming up to the idea of opening up their local reserves to foreign energy companies.
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The local utility, Xcel Energy, did not skimp.
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To get clean energy to them requires a decentralised approach using local resources such as wind power, solar energy or small hydroelectric projects.
Already, Pacific Power and Delta Energy, two local firms, and Tokyo Electric Power Company have signed on.
On one hand, France has led the world in deploying nuclear energy and forcing local competition in broadband provisioning.
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