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Solar Energy Research, Development and Demonstration Act of 1974: Created the Solar Energy Coordination and Management Project; Created the Solar Energy Research Institute (the predecessor to NREL) 1975 Energy Policy and Conservation Act: Created Strategic Petroleum Reserve; Established first automobile fuel economy standards
Net metering is a policy by many states in the United States designed to help the adoption of renewable energy. Net metering was pioneered in the United States as a way to allow solar and wind to provide electricity whenever available and allow use of that electricity whenever it was needed, beginning with utilities in Idaho in 1980, and in ...
This policy-stimulus combination represents the largest federal commitment in United States history for renewable energy, advanced transportation, and energy conservation initiatives. These new initiatives were expected to encourage many more utilities to strengthen their clean energy programs. [ 110 ]
The Renewable Energy Standard requires Michigan electric providers to achieve a retail supply portfolio that includes at least 10% renewable energy by 2015. [45] A ballot proposal to raise the standard to 25% renewable energy by 2025 as a constitutional amendment was put to the voters in the November 2012 General Election as Proposal 3.
Renewable energy policy gained interest after the oil shocks in the 1970s and environmental concerns because it offered diversification in the US energy portfolio Energy Policy and Conservation Act (P.L. 94-163). Wind energy was among the renewable energy options incorporated in energy policy beginning in the 1970s and continuing into the ...
Sustainable agriculture combined with renewable energy generation. Throughout the 1970s and 1990s, an economic policy to move the United States economy away from nonrenewable energy was developed by activists in the labor and the environmental movements. [14] An early use of the phrase "Green New Deal" was by journalist Thomas Friedman. [15]
The Biden-Harris administration has taken every opportunity it could to make fossil-fuel-based energy production more expensive—knowing that high energy prices cause inflation and slow economic ...
In the United States, this usage requirement is known as the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), whereby a minimum volume of biofuels is to be used in the national transportation fuel supply each year. Congress established the RFS in Title XV, Subtitle A, Section 1501 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109–58 (text)).