He wanted to know the costs to energy consumers of these proposals compared to other forms of low carbon energy.
The government must ensure that cost effectiveness is at the heart of its approach to securing investment in new low carbon energy.
But low electricity prices make it more difficult for truly low carbon energy sources, like nuclear, solar, and wind, to compete.
Energy companies have been invited to bring forward proposals for new nuclear power stations as part of the solution to the UK's future low carbon energy needs.
"This investment at Hull, Immingham and Goole looks set to secure the Humber region's position as a centre of excellence for the development of the low carbon energy future".
Yet in order to have any significant effect on demand for low carbon energy technologies, the price of carbon would need to be higher than any political economy has been willing to bear.
The electricity market reforms (EMR) proposed by the UK government as part of the UK Energy Bill are aimed at incentivising investment in low carbon energy while also ensuring the security of electricity supply.
By focusing on renewable energy technologies rather than low carbon energy technologies, the net zero energy building agenda seems more like an exercise in futility than a serious challenge the risk of catastrophic climate change.
There's also an interesting point about environmental spending, with Mr Raab arguing that money might be better spent on flood defences to improve the UK's ability to deal with climate change, rather than on subsidies to low carbon energy.
Alongside the Bill, ministers will announce plans to exempt energy-intensive industries from additional costs arising from the transition to low-carbon energy.
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That would be the surest way to spur the development and adoption of low-carbon energy technologies.
The Green Investment Bank, securing investment in low-carbon energy, and tree-planting were among the other government successes, he said.
It is a source of low-carbon energy and can contribute to the UK's energy mix and security of supply longer-term.
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Present low-carbon energy deployment strategies assume that greater economies of scale will drive big cost reductions, but the historical record suggest that this is less the case than normally assumed.
Welsh Secretary Cheryl Gillan said the UK government was determined to attract investors to provide affordable low-carbon energy as some of the country's generating capacity is lost over the coming years.
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.
But the chapter marks a significant departure from the Freakonomists' modus operandi: it contains little in the way of economics, other than a brief discussion of externalities and the observation that the hose system would be much cheaper than building an entirely new low-carbon energy infrastructure for the world.
Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur's amendment, which said the UK Government's plans for a Green Investment Bank to fund low-carbon transport and energy schemes would benefit Scotland's efforts to build a low-carbon economy, was passed without opposition with 75 MSPs voting for it and with 46 MSPs abstaining.
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.
Their report says that there is an urgent need for investment in low carbon, interconnected and innovative energy systems.
The laws achieve low-carbon growth, greater energy security and a reduction in greenhouse gases and local air pollution.
But they oppose nuclear power, a position that puts them at odds with a fair number of environmentalists who have concluded, reluctantly, that a low-carbon future without nuclear energy is a pipe-dream.
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Once we turn that corner, the energy-environment trade-off will start to work to our advantage, and possibly to the advantage of the whole world if we can develop low- or no-carbon energy technologies that can compete with cheap fossil fuels.
As part of its smart-grid activities, aimed at achieving a low-carbon society through efficient energy use, TMC is conducting trials in Japan of its Toyota Smart Center pilot program, which plans to link people, automobiles and homes for integrated control of energy consumption.
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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 committee also said that energy costs due to low-carbon policies are expected to rise by 20-25% from 2011 to 2020 for industrial users.
The AfDB is helping Africa with its low carbon growth, helping finance 630MW in clean energy in 2011, with plans to double that in 2012.
Energy and climate change minister Lord Marland, opening the debate, said the government's aims were energy security, a low-carbon economy, and value for money for the taxpayer.
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So we need to urgently change our policies substantially towards using energy more efficiently and fostering low-carbon technologies.
In an earlier report, the Royal Academy of Engineering had mapped out the scale of the task involved in moving to a low-carbon electricity supply - with a mix of energy efficiency, renewables, nuclear and clean coal.
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