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… make. Garcia is a member of the Governor’s Council on Climate Change (GC3), a group charged with creating a comprehensive climate strategy for the State of Connecticut. As of September … Day 2015 to examine the effectiveness of existing policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and identify new strategies. Connecticut’s government had already set a target … have to take into account Connecticut’s changing energy profile. Between 1996 and 2015, naturalgas largely replaced the dirtier fossil fuels coal and oil for electricity …
… government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with ethanol from sugarcane. This meant that the national oil company PEMEX had to find ways … at the pump. No bids came in under PEMEX's maximum. Considering (1) the constraints in the economics of ethanol for fuel production, (2) the potential market opportunities for PEMEX, …
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… This report examines how coastal cities in the region are engaging with offshore wind companies to promote local economicdevelopment and jobs in their community. What kinds of planning and policy levers can city …
… output profiles and the hourly electricity load data at more than 1000 geographic locations within the Eastern Interconnect of the United States for the years 2004-2006. This data was … master’s student to help create a set of scenarios of future capital and variable costs associatedwith different electricity generating technologies. To create these scenarios, a … renewable portfolio standards) will have on the cost scenarios developed in stage two. This analysis includes different costs of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and the policies can …
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