Rough Draft- Peer Review Discussion

Construction of the National Energy Policy

Weltee Wolo

Rasmussen College

Author Note

This paper is being submitted on November 28, 2017 for Jaime Farrow’s

Human Uses of the Environment

G328/EVR3410 course

Construction of the National Energy Policy

In the present day world, non-renewable energy has been heavily utilized as an ultimate source of energy both in for domestic and industrial use. Although the prospecting of energy has proven to be well-organized in the manufacturing of energy, the perpetual utilization of fossil fuels keeps posing a danger to the future generations as well as to the environment. The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) research well indicated that the continuous emission of Green House Gas by the numerous industries across the globe have increased by a significant degree in the atmosphere. This trend has no doubt posed an imminent threat to the environment since the accumulation of hydro chlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) in the atmosphere has reached the alarming proportions as compared to the previous research, which was conducted way back in 1996 (Making National Energy Policy, 2017). It is for these worrying symptoms that there dire need for a national energy policy arises to orchestrate the manufacturing and utilization of renewable energy; solar, hydro, thermal as opposed to non-renewable sources of power; which entails oil, coal and natural gas.

How to construct this policy

The National Energy Policy will be concerned with the creating mechanisms to process or rather establish the sources of energy, which are essentially environmentally friendly and which would still be moderate on the gross domestic product (GDP). The best example is displayed by the government of the United Kingdom (UK), which recently proposed the adoption of Photovoltaic innovation to be converting solar energy into electric energy for domestic and industrial usage (Anger, Zannier & Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels, Belgium), 2017). This initiative has proven to be brilliant idea, which most manufacturing industries in particular must embrace as solar energy is renewable and freely available at each person’s disposal. Above all, this form of energy is overly friendly with the environmental and is not associated with any health threats to the users.

There is every need therefore, for the government to select wind and solar power energy as sources of renewable energy. In the new National Energy Policy, the government is required to exhaustively deliberate upon the effects of perpetual utilization of the non-renewable energy, not just to the environment alone, but also to individual health. The government should work with speed to launch a policy mechanism through the Energy Saving Trust to begin effecting the proposed changes as soon as possible. This mechanism should be designed to accelerate investment in energy technologies that are renewable across the nation. Consequently, people who are committed to the task of generating their own green or renewable energy should be reimbursed for embracing the policies that would be stipulated by the Renewables Obligation Scheme (ROS). The scheme will as well as outline conditions that are supposed to be heeded by their respective clients regarding the safe use of the energy in place (Smil, 2017). The conditions should comprise the ultimate use of products and installers who are duly certified by the scheme of Micro-Generation Certification and thereby possessing a certificate of Energy Perforce that ought to rate above grade D. the moment the producer of this type of energy is able to comply with the afore mentioned conditions, the ROS will then be under obligation to advance the clean Energy Cash-back of any choice to serve as a subsidy to the energy generators.

CONCLUSION

Renewable sources of energy have a low impact on the environment. This is the reason why most households should be encouraged to embrace them as described in the National Energy Act (NEA) and reiterated in the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA). Based on the stipulated regulations in these Acts, domestic and industrial energy consumers across the country are encouraged to recycle materials, which are possibly recyclable instead of sending them to landfills for disposal. Furthermore, the society needs to learn to participate in recycling programs, which often provide trash-bins as they educate the society in matters of green energy generation as well as usage.

References

Anger, N., Zannier, L., & Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels, Belgium). (2017). A new era of EU energy policy: Delivering on the Energy Union by national plans. Brussels: CEPS.

MAKING NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY. (2017). Place of publication not identified: ROUTLEDGE.

Smil, V. (2017). Energy transitions: Global and national perspectives. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.

Construction of the National Energy Policy

In the present day world, non-renewable energy has been heavily utilized as an ultimate source of energy both in for domestic and industrial use. Although the prospecting of energy has proven to be well-organized in the manufacturing of energy, the perpetual utilization of fossil fuels keeps posing a danger to the future generations as well as to the environment. The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) research well indicated that the continuous emission of Green House Gas by the numerous industries across the globe have increased by a significant degree in the atmosphere. This trend has no doubt posed an imminent threat to the environment since the accumulation of hydro chlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) in the atmosphere has reached the alarming proportions as compared to the previous research, which was conducted way back in 1996 (Making National Energy Policy, 2017). It is for these worrying symptoms that there a dire need for a national energy policy arises to orchestrate the manufacturing and utilization of renewable energy; solar, hydro, thermal as opposed to non-renewable sources of power; which entails oil, coal and natural gas.

How to construct this policy

The National Energy Policy will be concerned with the creating mechanisms to processor rather establish the sources of energy, which are mainly environmentally friendly and which would still be moderate on the gross domestic product (GDP). The best example is displayed by the government of the United Kingdom (UK), which recently proposed the adoption of Photovoltaic innovation to be converting solar energy into electric energy for domestic and industrial usage (Anger, Zannier & Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels, Belgium), 2017). This initiative has proven to be a brilliant idea, which most manufacturing industries, in particular, must embrace as solar energy is renewable and freely available at each person’s disposal. Above all, this form of energy is overly friendly with the environmental and is not associated with any health threats to the users.

There is every need, therefore, for the government to select wind and solar power energy as sources of renewable energy. In the new National Energy Policy, the government is required to exhaustively deliberate upon the effects of perpetual utilization of the non-renewable energy, not just to the environment alone, but also to individual health. The government should work with speed to launch a policy mechanism through the Energy Saving Trust to begin affecting the proposed changes as soon as possible. This mechanism should be designed to accelerate investment in energy technologies that are renewable across the nation. Consequently, people who are committed to the task of generating their green or renewable energy should be reimbursed for embracing the policies that would be stipulated by the Renewables Obligation Scheme (ROS). The scheme will as well as outline conditions that are supposed to be heeded by their respective clients regarding the safe use of the energy in place (Smil, 2017). The conditions should comprise the ultimate use of products and installers who are duly certified by the scheme of Micro-Generation Certification and thereby possessing a certificate of Energy Perforce that ought to rate above grade D. the moment the producer of this type of energy is able to comply with the afore mentioned conditions, the ROS will then be under obligation to advance the clean Energy Cash-back of any choice to serve as a subsidy to the energy generators.

CONCLUSION

Renewable sources of energy have a low impact on the environment. This is the reason why most households should be encouraged to embrace them as described in the National Energy Act (NEA) and reiterated in the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA). Based on the stipulated regulations in these Acts, domestic and industrial energy consumers across the country are encouraged to recycle materials, which are possibly recyclable instead of sending them to landfills for disposal. Furthermore, the society needs to learn to participate in recycling programs, which often provide trash-bins as they educate the society in matters of green energy generation as well as usage.

References

Anger, N., Zannier, L., & Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels, Belgium). (2017). A new era of EU energy policy: Delivering on the Energy Union by national plans. Brussels: CEPS.

MAKING NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY. (2017). Place of publication not identified: ROUTLEDGE.

Smil, V. (2017). Energy transitions: Global and national perspectives. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC.