Sentence examples for energy efficiency efforts from inspiring English sources
Yet California's energy efficiency efforts to date have not kept pace with increasing demand.
Yet California's energy efficiency efforts to date have not kept pace with increasing demand, primarily because they rely largely on voluntary, consumer-financed programs.
Even without the aggressive and pervasive energy efficiency efforts, annual savings from the best lighting, heating, and insulation programs save the nation several hundred billion dollars per year.
Europeans need to end subsidies for fossil fuels, multiply energy efficiency efforts, improve mass public transport systems and accelerate the roll-out of electric cars in order to live up to their commitments, Stern told the Guardian in an interview.
Deep problems in Europe's carbon trading scheme – its flagship climate change policy – are set to cancel out over 700m tonnes of emissions saved through renewable energy and energy efficiency efforts, according to a new report.
Although it is best known for its cap-and-trade plans, the initiative also promotes renewable energy and energy efficiency, efforts the state will continue to support, Mr. Grumbles said.
Federal officials initially praised the city for taking a step in the right direction when it announced its plan last month as part of a wider energy efficiency effort.
Mr. Wen went to the Copenhagen climate meeting three weeks later and opposed any international monitoring of China's energy efficiency effort or binding limits on China's overall energy consumption.
The good news is that the administration is taking steps to help homes save energy with a program that will invest almost $8 billion in state and local weatherization and energy-efficiency efforts.
Certainly the many hundreds of millions of dollars that the U.S. government, GM and GM's competitors have poured into the effort might have been better spent on more plausible energy-efficiency efforts, such as advanced internal combustion engines.
Officials overseeing the energy-efficiency effort want to fundamentally alter the way the country uses energy.
