FEMA and the industry should be required to operate in an open way with public participation and minimum secrecy. The public interest should take precedence over commercial confidentiality. FEMA should address the criteria that determine depreciation provisions in energy industry accounting practice. The major environmental effect of the energy sector is carbon dioxide emissions from burning of fossil fuels which contributes to the enhanced greenhouse effect. We should work to minimise the energy demand for fossil fuels.
Energy efficiency can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create direct and indirect jobs.
Energy efficiency employs more people than any other energy production industry with renewable energies coming second. There are no technical reasons why every household could not install a roof top PV to sell excess electricity to the grid. The development of renewable energy technologies will generate new business and employment opportunities. Energy supply systems have lives of 30 to 40 years. The economic and social systems dependent on them have longer lives.