Many Parties provided information on alternative energy resources and mentioned that these include photovoltaic, solar thermal, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, oil shale, and biomass energy.

The IEA has identified certain HS codes on the APEC list as currently valid for renewable energy equipment, e.g. solar collectors, PV panels and wind chargers, and has argued for the inclusion of other items, e.g. small hydro electric plants, photovoltaic generators and biomass related equipment.

DoE program activities in 1994 focused on production of both GPHS components and GPHS RTG thermoelectric converters to meet the requirements for power of the Cassini mission to Saturn, scheduled for a 1997 launch.

The development of hydroelectric energy is one solution to Africa's energy deficit.

Other important measures which may impact on CO2 emissions from the energy sector include incentives for independent producers (i.e. small hydropower producers and other renewable sources) to generate electricity, which must be purchased by the recently restructured Eletricidade de Portugal.

China's tenth five year Energy Development Plan (2001) gives priority to hydropower, optimization of thermal power, development of the electricity grid and increased use of nuclear power.

In South Africa, nuclear power is the second largest source of electricity, accounting for 6.8 per cent of the country's electricity generation capacity and 3 per cent of the primary energy supply.

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Examples of UNIDO's rural energy projects being developed or replicated include renewable energy based electricity generation for isolated mini grids, renewable energy based rural ICT systems and the application of modern biomass technologies in rural areas.

They turned out to be lightning or sources of electrical power.

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20. Most OECD countries have de facto energy policies.One expert expressed doubts about the extent tto which this assertion applied to the United States where he felt that policies were reduced to certain regulatory functions rather than to a conscious energy development strategy.

Colombia has hydropower potential amounting to 25,000 MW and potential from other renewables amounting to 1,200 MW.

Many Parties provided information on alternative energy resources and mentioned that these include photovoltaic, solar thermal, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, oil shale, and biomass energy.

The province also played a leading role in promoting clean energy, such as wind energy and hydroelectricity, with the latter accounting for over 90 per cent of the province's electrical output.

So far there is only three sources of baseload electricity coal, some gas, nuclear and hydro.

Renewable energies include biomass for fuel (wood and straw), biogas, biofuel (bioethanol and biodiesel), electricity cogenerated from sugar cane, solar energy, wind energy, thermal hydroelectricity, and fuel cells.

India, for example, has large renewable energy programmes and exports renewable energy systems and products, such as wind powered generating systems and photovoltaic cells.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) emphasizes the need to promote energy crops on degraded lands.

Also, more efficient use of electricity from hydropower may limit the demand for electricity from other sources.

Later in 1994, DoE will issue a comprehensive report responding to a General Accounting Office inquiry regarding the long term production capability of RTG apos s.

Numerous networks and partnerships have emerged in response to the gaps in global energy governance. For example, the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership, founded in the United Kingdom, has grown into a multi stakeholder body supporting renewables and efficiency in numerous countries.

The energy and transformation sector includes activities related to the exploration and production of energy resources, transformation from primary to secondary forms such as burning coal to produce electricity and distribution to end users.

Even in the US, where cheap shale gas is reshaping the energy industry, more wind power was connected to the grid last year than gas, and, in the first three months of this year, more than 80 of new capacity was renewable.

One example of UNIDO's rural energy projects is that for renewable energy based electricity generation for isolated mini grids in Zambia, which was approved for financing by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in May 2004.

(f) Improvement of the energy efficiency of power plants and other combustion plants and

Other Georgia proposed 10 renewable energy projects targeting hydropower and geothermal energy sources.

The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the Twenty first Century has recently issued a comprehensive global status report on renewable energy developments, which notes that some 30 billion was invested in renewable energy projects in 2004 and that renewables currently contribute 160 GW of capacity, approximately 4 per cent of the global total power supply.

And hydrogen and fuel cells give us that opportunity to actually use our cars and trucks when they're parked to generate electricity for the grid.

It may also lower the market entry barriers for CHP and renewables.

The Parties also attach importance to mutually beneficial cooperation based on equal rights in the field of energy, including the study of projects on reciprocal deliveries and the transit of electrical energy to other countries.

Along with the market liberalization, regulations set a guaranteed market for alternative electricity generation, e.g. from renewables, combined heat and power (CHP) and waste.

There is no nuclear generating capacity in Ireland and peat represents approximately 14 per cent of total primary energy supply.

(a) Introduction of renewable energy (such as photovoltaic systems one hundred million (kilowatt hour) and wind power generation kilolitre oil equivalent share in primary energy supply (per cent) ).

(a) Energy and resource saving measures in the field of electricity generation, its distribution and consumption, in transport, industry, residential, commercial and other sectors

Renewable energy technologies supported include solar water heating, photovoltaics, biogas, wind power, small hydro installations, and landfill methane recovery.

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Increasing construction and operation of nuclear reactors in electricity production around the globe indicate that more and more States are pursuing nuclear energy as a component of their energy mix in the new century.

A biomass utilization constituting 15 per cent of the energy balance is the highest among countries of the Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development (OECD) and non fossil fuels in total represent about 35 per cent of the energy balance.

To look for electrical energy alternatives, as a way to avoid the impact of the hydroelectric stations on local communities and on the environment.

The most commonly supported renewable energy technologies are biomass, small hydro, solar, and wind, but two Parties (ISL, NZL) indicated support for geothermal energy technologies.

In the first years after the accident, WHO, jointly with other international organizations (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, IAEA, the International Labour Organization, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Nuclear Energy Agency, and the Pan American Health Organization), initiated the development of International Basic Safety Standards for protection against ionizing radiation and for the safety of radiation sources.

The Department of Energy (DoE) has developed a new model RTG with a more efficient fuel design called the General Purpose Heat Source (GPHS).

This is why the OECD Secretary General has suggested that it is time for a moratorium on the construction of conventional coal fired power plants. Governments have far more cost effective electricity generation technologies at their disposal.

UNCTAD has also been actively participating in the activities of the United Nations ICT Task Force and the Global e Policy Resource Network (ePol Net).