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The Paris-based agency, set up by developing nations to monitor energy use, in a new report warned that growth in conventional-power generation was outpacing renewable-electricity generation, requiring a massive increase in projects to capture and store carbon dioxide.

IEA Says More Renewable Power Needed to Curb Emissions Angus McDowall 2011

A Familiar Balance MR. BALL: I'm just curious for your sense of the likely scale of renewable-electricity technology.

Energy of the Past? 2011

In its recently released 25 Percent By 2025 initiative, the UCS, a nonprofit alliance of more than 250,000 citizens and scientists, suggests that a national renewable-electricity standard would also produce: • $263.4 billion in new capital investment; $13.5 billion in income to farmers, ranchers, and rural landowners; and $11.5 billion in new local tax revenues.

By the Numbers: Generating renewable energy will also generate new jobs, says UCS 2009

In its recently released 25 Percent By 2025 initiative, the UCS, a nonprofit alliance of more than 250,000 citizens and scientists, suggests that a national renewable-electricity standard would also produce:• $263.4 billion in new capital investment; $13.5 billion in income to farmers, ranchers, and rural landowners; and $11.5 billion in new local tax revenues.

By the Numbers: Generating renewable energy will also generate new jobs, says UCS 2009

Specifically, several energy-related provisions in H.R. 2454 that CBO estimated would increase direct spending such as the renewable-electricity standard and the establishment of a Clean Energy Deployment Administration are not included in S.

Director's Blog » Blog Archive » Cost Estimate for S. 1733, the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act 2009

The U.S. Department of Energy reports that, on average, state renewable-electricity standards, which require electricity providers to increase the amount of renewable energy, raise consumer bills by just 38 cents a month.

Steve Fleischli: Clean Coal is a Dirty Lie 2009

Calling Minnesota the "birthplace of the renewable energy movement," he signed the 2007 law that raised the state's renewable-electricity standard to 25%.

In Minnesota, Sen. McCain 2008

In June 2005, he voted against a congressional proposal to establish a renewable-electricity standard of 10% by 2020.

McCain Woos Democrats on Environment 2008

The draft proposal includes several measures that Republicans have already blocked in Congress: releasing oil from the strategic petroleum reserve and a renewable-electricity standard that would require a rising percentage of power to come from sources such as wind and wave generation.

Republicans Are Skeptical 2008

The measure would likely include subsidies to promote renewable fuels, tax increases on oil companies and a revival of a proposal to impose a national renewable-electricity standard.

Campaign Spills Over to Congress 2008