Congress

334 Resources Found, Displaying 231 thru 240

Proposed HR 8, the North American Energy Security and Infrastructure Act of 2015

Pathway: Promoting Efficiency in the Hydropower Licensing Process

Would have prescribed requirements for concurrent federal and state hydropower license application reviews, agency failure to meet schedules, remote environmental surveys, and more.

2017’s Proposed HR 3043

Pathway: Promoting Efficiency in the Hydropower Licensing Process

Would have designated FERC as the lead agency for coordinating all federal authorizations and reviews related to hydropower license applications, and required FERC to establish a schedule for the reviewing applications.

2017’s Proposed S. 1460

Pathway: Promoting Efficiency in the Hydropower Licensing Process

Would have reformed the hydropower licensing and permitting program by statutorily designating FERC as the lead agency, and requiring FERC to set a centralized permitting schedule.

IEA report, Flexible hydropower providing value to renewable energy integration

Pathway: Promoting Pumped Storage Hydro Facilities

Provides a global perspective on the need for flexibility to enable renewable integration and hydropower’s capabilities to provide this flexibility across a range of time scales.

Report, Challenges and Opportunities for New Pumped Storage Development

Pathway: Promoting Pumped Storage Hydro Facilities

Surveys the potential for hydropower pumped storage to support greater grid reliability, as well as the obstacles posed by current market structures and regulatory frameworks.

2013 Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act

Pathway: Promoting Conduit Hydro Facilities

Authorized all small (5 MW and under) Bureau of Reclamation conduit facilities for hydropower development.

CAA rules delegating shipping emissions authority to states

Pathway: State In-Use Rules

Gives US states the right to draw up their own “in-use” rules on reducing greenhouse gases from international shipping.

Resources on Industrial Symbiosis

Pathway: Material Efficiency

Industrial symbiosis engages traditionally separate industries that seek competitive advantage through physical exchange of materials, energy, water, and byproducts.

Report, Review of Policies and Measures for Energy Efficiency in Industry Sector

Pathway: Subsidy Support for Industrial Process Improvements

Reviews over 300 policies, encompassing about 570 measures, implemented by governments in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia and South Africa aimed at improving their manufacturing industries’ energy efficiency.

LBNL report, The Role of Emerging Technologies Improving Energy Efficiency: Examples From the Food Processing Industry

Pathway: Sectoral Emissions Controls: Food Processing

Analyzes the impacts that several emerging technologies have had in the food processing industry.