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Publish date: August 19, 2010
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An EPS establishes a maximum level of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, or CO2 equivalent, per unit of output from an electricity-generating power plant.
RAP has published a comparative summary of key EPS components, rather than offering an evaluation of the relative merits of the alternative policies discussed in the summary. Each of the US state summaries includes links to applicable laws and rules.
The Regulatory Assistance Project is a global, non-profit team of veteran utility regulators who focus on the long-term economic and environmental sustainability of the power and natural gas sectors, providing technical and policy assistance to government officials on a range of energy and environmental issues.
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Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.