Module3.docx
Sources of Energy
Robert Jamerson
Rasmussen College
Sources of Energy
National policies that are made to develop the efficacy of energy are crucial to economic development as well as job creation, developing the reliability of the electric grid, reduction of oil imports, air pollution and lowering the prices of energy (Hannon, et.al, 2015).
Yes, I think it is prudent for the government to establish a national energy policy. It is because the network, that are the same and are related to the United States energy, remains rigid and centralized. Just as the electricity gets generated centrally, the policies of energy should be shaped by a single centralized body.
The energy policy usually recommends to attain goals via diverse measures like capacity building, institutional reform, private participation and fiscal incentives. The policy I would construct would outline the policies, challenges and goals including: - energy conservation and efficiency and renewable energy. The policy should target to achieve at least 80 % of national electricity access as well as the universal access.
Non-renewable resources such as coal, natural gas and oil get available in supplies that are limited. Normally, this is as a result of the long time they take to get refilled. Renewable resources on the other hand, are restocked naturally and above comparatively short time phases (Shafiei & Salim, 2014). I would emphasize on renewable energy because it can be used repeatedly and cannot get exhausted. As far as I am concerned, renewable energy is the most appropriate future for earth. Basically, it is among the best models to bring forth value to the planet or environment; and since this energy gets generated from resources that are natural.
The problems in energy are currently getting ignored largely despite their continuing significance. This lack of concern in the long term is somewhat natural since the supplies in fuel are overall adequate and prices are rather low relatively (Dogan & Seker, 2016). As years pass by, the costs of energy and technologies involved are also falling at a rate that is sustainable, whilst the trend for general costs for fossil fuels is usually in the other direction despite their current volatility. It is fortunate that the available energy that can be renewed is more than satisfactory if it gets well harnessed. On the other hand though, everyone is starting from a point in which less than 2 % of the energy in the universe is got from renewables such as geothermal, solar and wind.
Renewable energies are a source of inexhaustible, clean and a competitive energy that is increasing. Diverse countries that are poor, such as Malawi, that are encountering issues in energy can make enormous improvements. These technologies are different from fossil fuels mainly in their potential, abundance and diversity for use all over the planet. However, above all, they get to produce neither polluting emissions nor greenhouse gases that result in changes in climate. Also, energies that are clean are available like the sun since they originate there as well as adapt to cycles naturally, therefore the name “renewables.” I still support renewable energy more because that aspect makes them substantial in an energy system that is sustainable and which permits for development in the contemporary world not risking the generations to come.
References
Dogan, E., & Seker, F. (2016). The influence of real output, renewable and non-renewable energy, trade and financial development on carbon emissions in the top renewable energy countries. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 60, 1074-1085.
Hannon, M. J., Foxon, T. J., & Gale, W. F. (2015). ‘Demand pull’government policies to support Product-Service System activity: the case of Energy Service Companies (ESCos) in the UK. Journal of Cleaner Production, 108, 900-915.
Shafiei, S., & Salim, R. A. (2014). Non-renewable and renewable energy consumption and CO2 emissions in OECD countries: A comparative analysis. Energy Policy, 66, 547-556.
