Sentence examples for green obligations from inspiring English sources

But there remains a prospect that thousands of houses in Edmonton could be insulated by BG under its green obligations and using local companies with local workers.

But there are practical difficulties and many of the energy companies insist they need the profits to invest in new technology and meet government-imposed green obligations.

The good news is that by the time electricity reaches us it's already got all the legal green obligations priced into it.

Many big six energy suppliers in Britain believe that the loss of trust in their industry has come about because they are unfairly blamed for rising costs to consumers.The industry has successfully lobbied the government to slow down or remove some of its social and "green" obligations.

After June was declared the second warmest on record, the European commission pledged to help farmers with a raft of measures, including the temporary suspension of "greening" obligations partly intended to prevent climate change.

Earlier this week, the Scottish government set out its argument that the rest of the UK would rely on imports to meet its green power obligations.

Compensation for the green Renewable Obligation and Feed-In tariffs worth almost £1bn will be introduced, and an existing tax compensation scheme for heavy industry will be extended until 2019-2020.

Around 40% of the revenue for the fund will come from the electricity produced by the solar panels and sold into the national grid, while the other 60% will come from payments linked to "Renewable Obligations Certificates" – green certificates used by electricity suppliers to demonstrate they have met their obligations to generate power from renewable resources.

The cap-and-trade scheme that America's Senate began debating this week would also allow firms to fulfil some of their obligations through green investments in other countries.But the bill in Congress would allow only a small number of offsets, and only from factories that do not compete with American firms a big hurdle in a globalised world.

"We believe that market structures like cap-and-trade are essential for businesses to meet their obligations until green technology comes to market," adds Amisha Patel, policy advocate for climate change and energy issues for the California Chamber of Commerce.

It said this was in response to the "clear indication that the government has given that it will remove the mandatory energy companies obligation (ECO) green taxes on gas and electricity bills".