Are offshore wind farms a job creating investment that makes North Carolina’s energy portfolio more environmentally friendly? That is debatable, but, more important, who gets to make the call one way or another?
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson doesn’t think it should be the left up to one partisan politician, and so, when Gov. Roy Cooper signed an executive order last week committing the state to pursuing such a strategy, Robinson wasted no time in clapping back that the policy and the process were suspect.
On June 9, Cooper signed Executive Order 218 creating the N.C. Task Force for Offshore Wind Economic Resource Strategies within the N.C. Department of Commerce. The goal is advancing offshore wind energy projects and significantly expanding the ‘clean energy’ share of North Carolina power production.
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Drawing on international experience such as the Renewable Fuel
Standard, California s Low Carbon Fuel Standard and the EU
Renewable Energy Directive, the Brazilian Biofuels Policy
(
RenovaBio) was established in 2017 by Law No.
13,576/2017. It is designed to support Brazil s commitments
under the Paris Agreement, promote further expansion of the
production and use of biofuels in the national energy matrix and
improve the energy efficiency of biofuels.
In this Blog Post, we discuss key elements of RenovaBio, as well
as early results of the policy s implementation and other