The legislation also opens the Utah energy market to new players who are leading the transition to a clean energy economy.
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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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And that is exactly health care, education, the transition to clean energy, and spurring innovation and trade.
Also, the construction of pipelines and other infrastructure to accelerate the transition to greater energy independence while providing employment.
So whether Facebook will actually be able to drive the transition to cleaner energy for data centers remains to be seen.
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Finally, the president should publicly commit to making sure coal miners emerge as winners in the transition to clean energy jobs.
In the near term, as we transition to cleaner energy sources, we're going to have to make some tough decisions about opening up new offshore areas for oil and gas development.
But the only way the transition to clean energy will ultimately succeed is if the private sector is fully invested in this future -- if capital comes off the sidelines and the ingenuity of our entrepreneurs is unleashed.
This week President Barack Obama set the tone for the coming year in his 2013 State of the Union address, which advocated 3D printing and called for a speedy transition towards renewable energy to help combat climate change.
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By the same token, the yearning for government spending on "infrastructure" to stimulate economic activity creates an opening for the new president to push the kind of green projects that fit his call for a transition to alternative energy sources, including new kinds of mass-transit systems.
Such a strategy will inevitably contribute to skyrocketing energy prices, erode U.S. energy security and force an unnecessarily complicated and costly transition to newer technologies that have not been fully developed.
At the transition centre we provided energy drinks and information regarding the registration of displaced people.
Obviously I think there are continual reminders that we have to transition to a clean energy economy.
Only then can we accept further development of these resources as we transition to a clean energy economy.
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And making the transition to a clean energy economy will help us do that in two very important ways.
HyGen and other technologies developed by Planetary Power allow companies to transition to more sustainable energy without sacrificing reliability or compromising cost or performance in any way.
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The Administration is also working to improve our education system, to promote the transition to a clean energy economy, and to foster faster productivity growth through greater innovation.
"It is long past time for this industry to make a transition to clean, safe energy sources, " Jeffords said.
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Obama told senators that he believed the best way to make a transition to a clean-energy economy is with a bill that "makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for America's businesses by putting a price on pollution, " the statement said.
Steven has helped us to speed the transition to more sustainable sources of energy.
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Many believe the natural gas bonanza may be a transition fuel for the larger clean energy transformation.
Implementing these pollution reduction standards are proven to improve public health, create new jobs, drive technological innovations and transition our nation to a cleaner energy future.
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It may be part of the mix as a bridge to a transition to new technologies and new energy sources, but we should be pretty modest in understanding that the easily accessible oil has already been sucked up out of the ground.
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Instead of fantasizing about catastrophes (running out of oil) and miracles (a rapid transition to solar power), our energy thinking needs to emphasize the achievable and the incremental.
Democratic leaders blocked such a vote arguing such an approach could hurt the environment as well as delay a transition to carbon-free, renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy.
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While the energy topic has become a political issue, it should first and foremost be viewed as an economic driver that regions with strong energy assets can leverage to transition their economies.
But we are going to over time transition to ourselves and we will become more energy efficient, which will be good for our national security, it will be good for our economy, it will be good for our environment, it will be good for our future.
Corneli, whose company is a major provider of electricity in New York City and other markets, said that consumers will be more likely to begin making the transition to electric cars if car companies and energy providers can make electric cars that can perform as well or better than traditional vehicles while also matching them in price.
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Over time I think the transition is going to be more and more clean energy and over time fossil fuels become less prominent in our overall energy mix.
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