While renewables are currently a small slice of our total electricity supply, a number of them small hydro, solar, and wind are growing very rapidly, although solar doesn't turn up in this graph as much because the graph is looking at just the electricity side.

[Text] Question No. 66 Mr. Bill Casey: With regard to the government project known as the national energy science and technology strategy: (a) what is the total amount of funding the government will allocate to industry, universities, and scientific research foundations for the purpose of developing the tidal and wave energy industry in Canada; (b) what are the expected time frames within the national energy technology strategy for Canada to meet the emission-reduction targets established under the Kyoto protocol; (c) what are the government’s total estimates on the level of emissions that will be reduced as a result of tidal and wave energy projects; (d) what are the Government’s total estimates on the amount of ...[+++]electrical power that could be generated as a result of support to the tidal and wave energy industry with the national energy science and technology strategy; (e) what is the total amount of support funding planned, by sector (wind, tidal, wave, geo-thermal, etc), within the national energy science and technology strategy?

Under Law 2773/99, which transposed Community Directive 96/92, the Greek electricity market has officially been liberalised since 19 February 2001 and the Ministry for Development has to date granted prospective investors seven operating licences for natural gas thermo-electric plants.

The Moroccan Government is constructing a nuclear power-station at Tan­Tan, with Chinese technology; it has also built a nuclear research centre in Maamora, in cooperation with the French Government and a number of French companies, and plans to build a further nuclear power station with French technology. In addition, it has obtained from the Spanish Government the right to buy and sell electricity in Spain.

Electric vehicle technology may be non-polluting itself, but the environmental effects of the energy source for production of electricity, whether it is nuclear, hydro or fossil fuel, has to also be brought into the equation (1415 ) Environmental impacts associated with after market vehicle conversions which currently dominate alternative transportation fuel applications have not been favourable in comparison with ordinary gasoline.

NUCLEAR SAFETY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE AND IN THE CIS Following a discussion of nuclear safety and related energy supply needs in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and in the EC, the Council adopted the following conclusions: "THE COUNCIL, reaffirming its commitment to assist with improving nuclear safety in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, and its awareness of the need to pursue such improvements within the framework of sustainable medium and long term energy strategies for those countries; 1. recalls the Council conclusions of 7 December 1992 and of 25 Ju ...[+++]ne 1993 and notes the Commission report on "Community assistance in the energy sector to the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union"; notes the report submitted to it and to the European Parliament by the Commission on 9 December 1993 under the title "Nuclear safety in the context of the electricity sector in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS"; 2. urges the Commission and the Member States, in the framework of their ongoing co-operation with the countries concerned and, in particular, in appropriate international fora; - to prevail on the governments concerned to agree to the earliest practical closure of the less safe reactors that cannot be upgraded to adequate standards of safety at a reasonable cost, - to press for the achievement of safety levels for new nuclear power plants and for those maintained in service, equivalent to those in practice in the European Union, - to seek actively the development of independent nuclear safety authorities enjoying adequate means and resources in order to ensure their effective operation, and - to promote the development and implementation of adequate safeguards and controls of nuclear materials and installations. 3. supports, through the relevant European Union and Member States' means taking into account the wider energy situation and the individual charac ...