He agreed with the president that America needed renewable and nuclear energy but promised to end the federal regulatory war against coal and build the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Mr Hu says that China will go further in the coming years, by trying to cut the carbon emissions per dollar of GDP produced, for example by developing renewable and nuclear energy.
China will "endeavor" to cut emissions of carbon dioxide -- the most prevalent of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change -- by "a notable margin" in coming years, Hu said, adding that China also will "vigorously develop renewable energy and nuclear energy" with the goal of increasing the share of non-fossil fuels in total energy consumption to 15 percent by 2020.
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During this period, power stations using gas, biomass, other renewable energy sources and nuclear energy would produce more to fill the void, the group said in a joint position paper presented to the European Commission on Friday.
We also affirm our commitment to cooperating on energy, including the development of clean and renewable energy sources, peaceful, safe, and secure uses of nuclear energy, and on energy security.
Shale gas is also likely to divert investment in Britain from pricier but carbon-free nuclear and renewable-energy sources.
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Although the government talks a lot about nuclear and renewable energy, so far much of the new capacity looks likely to be gas-fired.
He thinks that the realistic prospect for the future is a combination of nuclear and renewable energy as the best way to reduce carbon emissions quickly.
And although renewable energy, nuclear power or biofuels can help cut emissions in other sectors, scientists have yet to come up with an alternative to jet fuel.
During the following two decades, the role played by gas should gradually give way to more rapid growth of nuclear and renewable energy, mainly wind power, Mr Bjornson said.
In July, a few months after the government announced a plan to construct the King Abdullah City for Nuclear and Renewable Energy, Shaw Group, Toshiba, and Exelon Corp joined forces to secure government contracts to develop the Kingdom's nuclear program.
If it cannot be made to work commercially, and at a reasonable cost, then the UK would have to spend much more on renewable energy, nuclear power and other economic transformations, and would face having to make enormous cuts in areas such as emissions from air travel.
Germany, a world leader in renewable energy, has halted operations at some of its oldest nuclear reactors and is speeding through legislation to ramp up renewable-energy investment.
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To meet its emissions reduction and renewable energy targets, the government needs to increase the amount of energy produced by wind and nuclear power, in particular, but also other forms of clean energy such as biomass.
It is hard to think of a messier and more wasteful way of shifting from fossil and nuclear fuel to renewable energy than the one Germany has blundered into.
Siemens produces both renewable energy systems, and nuclear reactors.
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Its subsidies for renewable energy are wasteful and its nuclear pull-out looks panicky.
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The question for the long term was, he explained, how to get off the "fossil fuel price escalator" with energy sources including renewable and nuclear.
She recommended that the nation begin relying less on nuclear power and more on renewable energy sources like solar power.
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Only after the cost of generation and storage of renewable energy matches the cost of on-demand generation from fossil, nuclear and hydro we will we see a transformation of the energy industry.
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In a Commons statement on 12 July 2011, Mr Huhne said that new investment was needed in nuclear power, renewable energy, and carbon capture and storage to "keep the lights on" despite Britain's rising demand for electricity.
As the world follows the ongoing crisis in Japan and new technological developments in renewable energy, the future of nuclear power is unclear.
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The 111-page coalition agreement between the SPD and the Greens promised to turn the state into a paradise for renewable energy and a purgatory for coal and nuclear power.
It is making substantial investments in a renewable energy, and is now the largest solar, wind, nuclear and hydropower market.
It has in it the cap-and-trade system that makes it economic, it has a practically modest renewable energy portfolio system, it has some help for nuclear and cleaner coal.
In all the fighting in Washington over renewable fuels, carbon emissions and the future of nuclear power, the one thing energy experts agree on is that the nation's power grid is in desperate need of a makeover.
Some 5, 000 people rallied in Shibuya, Japan, calling for an end to nuclear power and demanding that the government switch to clean, renewable sources of energy.
The CCC thinks as do ministers that a big expansion of renewable energy and the construction of carbon-capturing coal plants and new nuclear-power stations is the way to decarbonise electricity generation.
The Energy Department, which never really did anything to effectively diminish oil imports, now largely specializes in security at nuclear facilities and handing out billions of dollars in subsidies to renewable energy companies bound for bankruptcy.
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In the first quarter of 2011, renewable energy production in the United States surpassed nuclear production in overall quantity and percentage.
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