Energy Policy Act

Further incentives to use energy-efficient motors are provided by various cost rebate programs offered by utilities based on norsepower rating and efficiency level. Another factor that will have a significant impact is the Energy Policy Act of 1992, in which the U.S. Congress established limits on the lowest level of nominal efficiency that certain classes of motors of standard design can have after 1997. 

National Research Council. (1995). EMF Research Activities Completed Under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 Interim Report, J995. Washington, DC National Academy Press. 

Additionally, as a response to rising energy prices and uncertainty of supply, several states adopted appliance efficiency standards. At the federal level, the National Appliance Energy Consei vation Act of 1987 established the first national standards for refrigerators and freezers, furnaces, air conditioners, and other appliances. The Energy Policy Act of 1992 added national standards for incandescent and fluorescent lights, small electric motors, office equipment, and plumbing products. 

Most scientists do not debate whether global warming has occurred, they accept it, but the cause of the warming and future projections about the results is questioned. The proposed National Energy Policy Act of 1988,... 

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). The RFS was mandated by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. It requires that by 2012, at least 7.5 billion gallons of renewable fuel be blended into motor vehicle fuel sold in the U.S. 

The United States passed the Energy Policy Act in 1992. One goal was to reduce the amount of petroleum used for transportation by promoting the use of alternative fuels in cars and light trucks. These fuels included natural gas, methanol, ethanol, propane, electricity, and biodiesel. Alternative fuel vehicles (AFVs) can operate on these fuels and many are dual fueled also running on gasoline. 

Fleet use is one strategy for alternative fuel commercialization. It was the main strategy that the DOE used in the 1990s to meet the goals of the Energy Policy Act of 1992. Vehicle fleets are typically driven twice as many miles compared to private vehicles and make up about one fourth of all U.S. light-duty vehicle sales. Many fleet vehicles have fixed daily routes and are regularly fueled at one location, so less infrastructure is needed to support fleet-based vehicles. 

A.C.Dillon. K.M.Jones, T.A.Bekkedahl. C.H.Kiang. D.SBethune. M.J.Heben. Nature,1997, 386(6623), p.377 Energy policy Act 2005 National Security Review of International Energy Requirements, U.S Department of Energy, 2006... 

The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (H.R. 776) has liberalized the rules concerning biofuels and provides tax incentives for increased usage. Many states also have gasohol fuel tax exemptions in place, and some have enacted legislation that requires use of oxygenated fuels under certain conditions. Most of these laws impact favorably on biofuels usage. 

REGULATORYAGENCIES - CHEMICAL PROCESS INDUSTRY] (Vol21) National Energy Policy Act... 

Under the National Energy Policy Act of 1992 nonpetroleum-based transportation fuels are to be introduced in the United States. Such fuels include natural gas (see Gas, natural), liquefied petroleum gas (qv) (LPG), methanol (qv), ethanol (qv), and hydrogen (qv), although hydrogen fuels are not expected to be a factor until after the year 2000 (see also Alcohol FUELS Hydrogen energy). 

Legal impediments to development of a new waste classification system would be ignored. These include, for example, the distinction between radioactive waste that arises from operations of the nuclear fuel-cycle and NARM waste, which is based on provisions of AEA, the distinction between radioactive and hazardous chemical wastes, which is based on provisions of AEA and RCRA, and the provision in the National Energy Policy Act that prohibits NRC from establishing a general class of exempt radioactive waste. 

The provision of the National Energy Policy Act (NEPA, 1992) that prohibits NRC from establishing dose criteria that could be used to exempt radioactive wastes from licensing requirements for disposal clearly is an impediment to development of generally applicable exemption levels for radioactive waste. An exempt class of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste is the cornerstone of the risk-based waste classification system developed in this Report, and any legal and regulatory impediments to establishment of generally applicable exemption levels would need to be removed. 

NEPA (1992). National Energy Policy Act. Public Law 102-486 (October 24), 106 Stat. 2795 (U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington). 

Alternative Fuel Includes methanol, denatured ethanol and other alcohols, separately or in mixtures of 85% by volume or more with gasoline or other fuels, CNG, LNG, LPG, hydrogen, coal derived liquid fuels, fuels other than alcohols derived from biological materials, electricity, neat biodiesel, or any other fuel determined to be substantially not petroleum and yielding substantial energy security benefits and substantial environmental benefits. It is defined pursuant to the EPACT (Energy Policy Act of 1992), alternative fuels. 

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