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The Sustainable Funded Renewable Energy Project

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President, Energy Efficiency Done Right

About the author: Dennis G. Roberts President of Energy Efficiency Done Right Consultant to Gerson Lehrman Group and TGR Research for Energy Efficiency and Windows Past contributing author...

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Last year over one trillion dollars was spent on renewable energy projects globally. This is the ultimate wrong headed approach to good clean climate planning. As we have poured more and more funding into a renewable energy focus, we continue to fall further and further behind on energy demand and emission reduction goals! The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that humans and nature are being pushed beyond their abilities to adapt. "So this is really a key moment. Our report points out very clearly, this is the decade of action, if we are going to turn things around." But as great thinkers have stated, we can not keep doing the same things and expect different results..                                    The most economical, ecological, and sustainable energy is the energy that is not used! Our US Department of Energy estimates that thirty per cent of the energy produced now is wasted. As a planet we need to wake up and "Reduce before we produce". We are spending millions trying to store produced renewable energy while much of that energy is wasted.                                                                                                                                        The Sustainability Funded Renewable Energy Project is a much better approach for net zero energy consumption planning.  The India Earth Zero Emission Task Force (IEZETF) is preparing a global plan to focus on reducing energy consumption on a wide scale and using the generated savings to fund renewable energy projects. Initial estimations show that we can achieve double to triple the energy demand and emission reduction by maximizing energy demand reduction first! The primary focus will be on buildings that use over severty three per cent of all the electricity produced and the highest per centage of heating fuels. Major retrofits can produce up to forty per cent energy demand reductions! The first priority of a good net zero energy consumption plan must be stop the waste then rightsize our energy sources. A better India net zero energy consumption 2036 and earth 2040 plan is being developed now and the IEZETF plans to initiate case studies to prove it's validy. I have no doubt it will be a more productive and sound approach than we is being done now.

 

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2021/07/21/how-managing-building-energy-demand-can-aid-the-clean-energy-transition/

 

 

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