Energy

587. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the commencement date for the introduction of the renewable heat incentives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39858/16]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2016

587. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the commencement date for the introduction of the renewable heat incentives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39858/16]

253. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for the delay in bringing forward guidelines for wind farm developments. [38504/16]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 13 December 2016

253. Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for the delay in bringing forward guidelines for wind farm developments. [38504/16]

Housing: Energy

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, when he plans to outline his Department's strategy for promoting the use of sustainable and efficient energy measures in residential homes.

Energy Intensive Industries: Trade Competitiveness

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to secure contingency funding for the continuation of compensation for the indirect costs of the Renewables Obligation and small-scale Feed-in Tariffs for

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Civil Servants

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether it is his Department's policy to increase the number of policy-making civil servants based outside London.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Civil Servants

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what proportion of (a) the Senior Civil Service and (b) policy-making civil servants in his Department are based in London.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Unpaid Work

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many interns are currently working in his Department; at what rate those interns are paid; and what the maximum length of an internship is.

Energy Supply

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the public investment needed to maintain the UK's energy capacity in the next 20 years.

Energy: Meters

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many people are registered as using a pre-payment meter to access their electricity and other utilities in (a) Wansbeck constituency, (b) the North East and (c) nationally.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Pay

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the percentage gap in earnings is between the highest-paid and lowest-paid full-time employee in his Department.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Pay

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the percentage gap in earnings is between the pay of full-time staff in the highest pay grade in his Department and average full-time pay in that Department.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what measures his Department has in place to support those of its staff who have mental health problems.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Staff

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department has to include worker representation on its departmental board.

Energy Intensive Industries: Trade Competitiveness

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what steps he is taking to (a) expedite the Government's application to the European Commission to exempt energy-intensive industries from the indirect costs of the Renewables Obl

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Surveys

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what annual staff surveys are carried out at the (a) Competition and Markets Authority, (b) Land Registry and (c) Ordnance Survey; and if he will place the results of each of thos

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Apprentices

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many civil service apprentices have been appointed by his Department since it was created.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Appointments

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what public appointments he has made in 2016.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Senior Civil Servants

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what estimate he has made of the cost of using external agencies for recruitment of senior civil service posts in (a) his Department, (b) the former Department for Business, Innov

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Temporary Employment

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much (a) his Department, (b) the former Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and (c) the former Department for Energy and Climate Change spent on non-payroll staff i

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Temporary Employment

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many non-payroll staff are employed by his Department; and how many such staff were employed by the former Department for (a) Business, Innovation and Skills and (b) Energy an

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Buildings

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the location is of each office from which his Department operates; and which of those offices are planned for closure.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Civil Servants

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many civil servants his Department employs; and how many such staff his Department plans to employ in each of the next three years.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Cost Effectiveness

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the planned efficiency savings from his Department's administrative budget are in each year to 2020.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Labour Mobility

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how many civil servants in each unit of his Department are in the redeployment pool.

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Redundancy

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what redundancy schemes his Department is currently operating.

Energy performance of buildings

European Union · European Parliament · 12 December 2016

Energy efficiency

European Union · European Parliament · 12 December 2016

Council Decision (EU) 2016/2355 of 12 December 2016 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union within the Association Committee in Trade configuration established by the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and the Republic of Moldova, of the other part, as regards the establishment of a list of arbitrators

European Union · EUR-Lex · 12 December 2016

Council Decision (EU) 2017/43 of 12 December 2016 on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, in the Association Committee in Trade configuration established by the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Ukraine, of the other part, in relation to the update of Annexes XXI-A to XXI-P on regulatory approximation in the area of public procurement

European Union · EUR-Lex · 12 December 2016

Council Decision (EU) 2016/2354 of 12 December 2016 on the position to be adopted, on behalf of the European Union, within the Sanitary and Phytosanitary Sub-Committee established by the Association Agreement between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and their Member States, of the one part, and Georgia, of the other, as regards the modification of Annex XI-B to that Agreement

European Union · EUR-Lex · 12 December 2016

Pläne von RWE und E.ON zum Verkauf ihrer Anteile am Urananreicherungsunternehmen URENCO

Germany · German Bundestag · 12 December 2016

Vereinbarung zwischen den Almelo-Vertragsstaaten Großbritannien, Deutschland und Niederlande sowie rechtliche Regelung zum Ausschlusses einer Börsennotierung der URENCO Ltd. nach einem Verkauf, Inhalt des niederländischen "Gesetzgebungspakets" und Mitwirkung der Bundesregierung, Ablehnung der Regelung durch RWE und E.ON, Gesprächskontakte der Beteiligten, weitere Aktivitäten zum geplanten Verkauf, nicht erfolgte Unterrichtung des Deutschen Bundestages<br /> (insgesamt 15 Einzelfragen)

Kontrolle der Abgasminderungseinrichtungen von Kraftfahrzeugen

Austria · National Council · 9 December 2016

Bericht des Verkehrsausschusses über den Antrag 1834/A(E) der Abgeordneten Georg Willi, Kolleginnen und Kollegen betreffend Kontrolle der Abgasminderungseinrichtungen von Kraftfahrzeugen

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate on the plan of the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy for modernizing the nuclear weapons of the United States.

United States · United States Congress · 9 December 2016

Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should: (1) ensure the affordability and feasibility of the Department of Defense and Department of Energy plan for modernizing U.S. nuclear weapons by reevaluating and modifying proposals for programs to modernize such weapons and their delivery systems to ensure that such proposals focus on refurbishment to ensure security, safety, and efficiency of existing weapons and delivery systems; and (2) prioritize planned programs so that the United States retains a nuclear arsenal robust enough to meet deterrence needs and so that such programs do not jeopardize other economic investments and security expenditures appropriate to U.S. needs in the 21st century.

Developing Countries: Energy

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what estimate she has made of the effectiveness and value for money of projects to provide energy to developing countries in the last five years.

Energy: Prices

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 8 December 2016

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 3.22 in the Autumn Statement 2016, whether he will make an announcement on the future of the Levy Control Framework in (a) the Spring Budget 2017 or (b) the Autumn Budget 2017.

233. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the assessment that has been carried out on the impact of EU fines as a result of missing binding renewable targets by 2020; the possible implications for the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39185/16]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2016

233. Deputy Michael McGrath asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the assessment that has been carried out on the impact of EU fines as a result of missing binding renewable targets by 2020; the possible implications for the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39185/16]

103. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated percentage of housing stock here that is at the different BER ratings, for example, the percentage of the housing stock that is A1, A3, B1 and so on. [39299/16]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 8 December 2016

103. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated percentage of housing stock here that is at the different BER ratings, for example, the percentage of the housing stock that is A1, A3, B1 and so on. [39299/16]

RECLAIM Act of 2016

United States · United States Congress · 8 December 2016

Revitalizing the Economy of Coal Communities by Leveraging Local Activities and Investing More Act of 2016 or the RECLAIM Act of 2016 This bill amends the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to make specified funds available to the Department of the Interior for each of FY2017-FY2021 for distribution to states and Indian tribes to promote economic revitalization, diversification, and development in economically distressed communities through the reclamation and restoration of land and water resources adversely affected by coal mining carried out before August 3, 1977. The bill prescribes general requirements for projects to reclaim abandoned mine lands and waters that are likely to create favorable conditions for the economic development of the project site or promote the general welfare through economic and community development of the area in which the project is conducted. Any such project shall be located in a community affected by a recent decline in mining. A state or Indian tribe that receives funds under this bill may retain a portion of them as necessary to supplement its acid mine drainage abatement and treatment fund for future operation and maintenance costs for the treatment of acid mine drainage associated with individual projects.

American Innovation and Competitiveness Act

United States · United States Congress · 8 December 2016

American Innovation and Competitiveness Act This bill requires the National Science Foundation (NSF) to maintain the intellectual merit and broader impacts criteria as the basis for evaluating grant proposals in the merit review process. The NSF shall issue and periodically update policy guidance for both NSF staff and other NSF merit review process participants on the importance of transparency and accountability to the outcomes made through the merit review process. The bill renames the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research as the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and revises program requirements. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shall research information systems for future cybersecurity needs. The bill renames the National High Performance Computing Program as the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program and revises program requirements. The National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) shall continue to coordinate federal research in high-energy physics, radiation biology, and fusion energy sciences. NIST shall implement a comprehensive strategic plan for laboratory programs expanding interactions with academia, international researchers, and industry, and commercial and industrial applications. The NSF shall: evaluate the existing and future needs, across all NSF-supported disciplines, for mid-scale projects; strengthen oversight and accountability over the full life-cycle of major multi-user research facility projects; and continue to review its efforts to sustain scientific efforts in the face of logistical challenges for the U.S. Antarctic Program. The Department of Commerce Office of Security shall directly manage NIST's law enforcement and site security programs through an assigned Director of Security for NIST. The Office of Management and Budget shall establish an interagency working group to reduce administrative burdens of federally funded researchers while protecting the public's interest in the transparency of, and accountability for, federally funded activities. The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) shall establish a body under the NSTC to identify and coordinate international science and technology cooperation in order to strengthen U.S. science and technology enterprise, improve economic and national security, and support U.S. foreign policy goals. The NSF, the Department of Education, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shall establish the STEM Education Advisory Panel to advise the NSTC Committee on STEM Education on matters related to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The NSF shall award grants to increase the participation of underrepresented populations in STEM fields. The National Institute of Standards and Technology Act is amended to revise requirements for the NIST post-doctoral fellowship program , and the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership. Federal science agencies may use crowdsourcing and voluntary, collaborative citizen science to advance their missions. The OSTP shall establish an interagency working group to: (1) summarize available research and best practices on how to promote diversity and inclusions in STEM fields, and (2) examine whether barriers exist to promoting diversity and inclusion within federal agencies employing scientists and engineers. Each federal agency shall recommend to the President how it could expand research opportunities for undergraduate students attending institutions of higher education. The NSF shall award grants for: research on computer science education and computational thinking; and Innovation Corps entrepreneurship and commercialization education, training, and mentoring. The OSTP shall arrange with the National Research Council to study technologies employed at institutions of higher education to provide notifications to students, faculty, and other personnel during emergencies.

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017

United States · United States Congress · 8 December 2016

Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 This bill authorizes FY2017 appropriations for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of: the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI); the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); the Department of Defense; the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA); the National Security Agency (NSA); the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; the U.S. Coast Guard; the Departments of State, the Treasury, Energy, and Justice; the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); the Drug Enforcement Administration; the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO); the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The bill authorizes FY2017 appropriations for: (1) the Intelligence Community Management Account, and (2) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund. The ODNI must: (1) submit a five-year investment strategy for outreach and recruiting efforts in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) that includes cybersecurity and computer literacy; (2) implement a multisector workforce initiative to enable the intelligence community to build and maintain an appropriate ratio of employees and core contractors; (3) issue guidance regarding the intelligence community's engagements with the entertainment industry; and (4) implement a uniform policy to ensure the independence of inspectors general of the intelligence community, the ODNI, the CIA, the NSA, the DIA, the NGA, and the NRO. For FY2017 and FY2018, personnel of the intelligence community must be managed solely on the basis of: (1) the workload required to carry out intelligence community functions, and (2) the funds made available for each such fiscal year. Management of intelligence personnel during this period shall not be subject to any constraint or limitation in terms of man years, end strength, positions, or maximum number of employees. DHS's national cybersecurity and communications integration center must carry out a program to provide assistance to certain critical infrastructure entities to reduce the risk of regional or national catastrophic harm caused by a cyber attack. The Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive is redesignated as the National Counterintelligence and Security Center with a director to be appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The bill revises or sets forth requirements for: the ODNI to participate in fund-raising events for nonprofit organizations that support intelligence community employees and their families, CIA employee death and retirement benefits, publication of the logos of terrorist organizations, space-based environmental monitoring missions and acquisition programs to meet national security requirements for cloud characterization and theater weather imagery, an evaluation of aerial imagery technologies that can be used to share intelligence with other countries as a replacement for the current regime of observation flights, a declassification review of intelligence reports regarding past terrorist activities of detainees transferred or released from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and a concept for a combined interagency space operations center and an updated strategy for national security satellite systems. The bill establishes an executive branch interagency committee to counter active measures by the Russian Federation to exert covert influence over peoples and governments. The State Department must coordinate with the FBI and the ODNI to establish a mandatory advance notification regime governing all travel by accredited diplomatic and consular personnel of the Russian Federation in the United States.

Motie van het lid Van Tongeren over verplichtende energiebesparingsmaatregelen voor de energie-intensieve industrie

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 8 December 2016

Motie van het lid Van Tongeren over verplichtende energiebesparingsmaatregelen voor de energie-intensieve industrie

BNC-fiches voorstellen energie-unie Europese Commissie

Netherlands · House of Representatives · 8 December 2016

BNC-fiches voorstellen energie-unie Europese Commissie

Umweltförderungsgesetz und Bundesgesetz, mit dem zusätzliche Mittel für Energieeffizienz bereitgestellt werden

Austria · National Council · 7 December 2016

Bericht des Umweltausschusses über die Regierungsvorlage (1361 d.B.): Bundesgesetz, mit dem das Umweltförderungsgesetz geändert und das Bundesgesetz, mit dem zusätzliche Mittel für Energieeffizienz bereitgestellt werden, aufgehoben wird

Elfter Umweltkontrollbericht

Austria · National Council · 7 December 2016

Bericht des Umweltausschusses betreffend Elfter Umweltkontrollbericht des Bundesministers für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft (III-316 und Zu III-316 d.B.)

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Equal Pay

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2016

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what plans his Department has to publish information on the gender pay gap among its employees.

Renewable Energy: Northern Ireland

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2016

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they were consulted by the Northern Ireland Executive about renewable energy schemes; and if so, what was the nature of those consultations.

Renewable Energy

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 7 December 2016

To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they provided information to the Northern Ireland Executive and other devolved administrations on the introduction of renewable energy schemes; and if so, whether models were suggested and advice given on the approp

254. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options open to a person (details supplied) who has been refused an SEAI grant despite their home having been built in 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39059/16]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 December 2016

254. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the options open to a person (details supplied) who has been refused an SEAI grant despite their home having been built in 2005; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39059/16]

252. Deputy Brendan Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the national grants that are available for persons who wish to build either solar farms or wind farms on their property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39056/16]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 7 December 2016

252. Deputy Brendan Ryan asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the national grants that are available for persons who wish to build either solar farms or wind farms on their property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39056/16]

Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2016

United States · United States Congress · 7 December 2016

Inspector General Empowerment Act of 2016 This bill amends the Inspector General Act of 1978 to exempt inspectors general (when they are conducting an authorized audit, investigation, inspection, evaluation, or review) from: (1) information privacy protections that require agreements between agencies for computerized comparisons of automated federal records systems under the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, and (2) procedural requirements for information collections under the Paperwork Reduction Act. The Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) must mediate disputes that involve the jurisdiction of more than one office of inspector general, except for matters coordinated by intelligence community inspectors general. The membership structure of CIGIE's Integrity Committee is modified to eliminate: (1) the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as chairperson of the committee, and (2) the Special Counsel of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC) as a committee member. The committee must elect one of the inspectors general on the committee as chairperson to serve for a term of two years. The bill revises procedures and establishes time lines for the committee to refer allegations of wrongdoing against an inspector general, or against a staff member of an inspector general's office, to: (1) the Department of Justice (DOJ) or the OSC for investigation, or (2) the committee for review. Concurrent investigations may be conducted by the committee, DOJ, and the OSC. The committee may also receive, review, and refer allegations of wrongdoing against the Special Counsel or Deputy Special Counsel (officials appointed to investigate prohibited personnel practices and government waste and abuse). An inspector general may access federal grand jury materials that are protected from disclosure under the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure by submitting a request to the head of his or her establishment, who must then transmit the request to DOJ. DOJ must grant such a request unless access to the grand jury materials would: (1) interfere with an ongoing criminal investigation, prosecution, or undercover operation; (2) identify a confidential source or protected witness; (3) pose a serious threat to national security; or (4) significantly impair the trade or economic interests of the United States. If DOJ denies such a request, it must submit a statement to Congress explaining the reason for the denial. The Attorney General or the Secretaries of Defense, the Treasury, Homeland Security, or Energy may prohibit inspectors general from accessing certain sensitive or national security information.