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Title: Energy Policy

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Brief History Of The Energy Policy
Energy policy is the strategic program that’s usually decided by any system or establishment to address matters of development of energy such as the distribution, conversion, and usage of energy (Rutter & Keirstead, 2012).
1920- Federal Water Power act was carried out as the hydroelectric power projects were executed throughout and a power commission was also set up.
1935 – All the natural gas utilities and electric range were adjusted according to their sizes and geography.
1936 – The electrification lines and distribution systems were handed out through giving Federal loans in the rural areas to electrical companies.
1938 – The rates for imparting of natural gas were set reasonably by giving the authority to FPC.

Brief History of Energy Policy (cont.)
1946 – The energy policy determined that the civilians would be incharge of nuclear power management and the nuclear weapon development.
1974 – The responsibility was distributed among civilian nuclear power and between the DOE and the NRC for nuclear weapons.
Employees’ concerns were satisfied under nuclear safety (Solomon & Krishna, 2011).
1975 – The strategic Petroleum Reserve was confirmed.
1978 – Energy act was established which had 5 statuses which were the tax act, the gas policy act, energy conservation policy act, powerplant and industrial fuel act and the public utility regulatory act.
1980 – The energy security act was published with 9 titles and the ocean thermal energy conversion was promoted to limit the use of oil.

Interest Groups
350 Action
Sunrise Movement

Interest Groups

Department of Energy (DOE).
American Energy Innovation Act ( AEIA)- Senate
U.S Energy Information Administration (EIA).
Committee on Energy and Commerce- House

Bureaucracy Congressional Committee

Interest Groups Cont.
350 Action— 350 Action is a Public Interest Group on helping create clean energy… their objective/goal is to have progressive voters, to get climate “Champions” elected, holds fossil-fuels politicians accountable, and train young movement leaders. Moreover, it been endorsed my well known names like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.
Sunrise Movement— Sunrise Movement is a Public Interest Group on helping to stop climate change… their goal is to create millions of good jobs in the process of stopping climate change. In addition, end the corrupting influence of fossils-fuel executives on our politics and elect representative leaders who will stand up for the health and well being of all people. The Sunrise Movement is also endorsed by a well known name Bernie Sanders.

United Kingdom
They have worked on their energy usage on a high level due to the policy of energy they have adopted. 20% of the energy would come from renewable sources by 2020 according to latest reseach (“Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology – Energy Innovation”, 2020).
The policy of energy in the UK has a long-term goal which has been to reduce the amount of emissions of Carbon dioxide gases in order to conserve energy and maintain a toxicity-free environment because the energy resources have been very limited and they’ll be reducing with the passage of time (Heald, 1981). So it minimizes the policy record and in order to achieve this objective.
All in all, the energy policy is the successful one in the UK governmental state and they also encourage hybrid vehicles and the use of ethanol fuel which has the long-term effects to consume the transport fuel.

Germany
Germany
The government of Germany has many goals and has already planned to revolutionize the system of their national energy and there are being progressions made up till now as of 2014 (Röhling & Mohnfeld, 1985). Their motives were not very strong before the year of 2010, but after September 2010, Germans started taking the energy consumption and reduction seriously while taking into consideration that it has vast effects.
This transformation took place on a very huge level and it was given the name of Energiewende. The nuclear reactors were also prepared and the greenhouse gas consumption lessened to a degree of 80% to 95% expectedly (Doshi, 2020).

References
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Röhling, E., & Mohnfeld, J. (1985). Energy policy and the energy economy in FR Germany. Energy Policy, 13(6), 535-545. https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-4215(85)90004-7
Blok, K. (2006). Renewable energy policies in the European Union. Energy Policy, 34(3), 251-255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2004.08.032
Solomon, B., & Krishna, K. (2011). The coming sustainable energy transition: History, strategies, and outlook. Energy Policy, 39(11), 7422-7431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2011.09.009

Doshi, T. (2020). Biden vs. Trump: The Battle Over American Energy Policy And Its Consequences. Forbes. Retrieved 14 November 2020, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/tilakdoshi/2020/08/08/biden-vs-trump-the-battle-over-us-energy-policy-and-its-consequences/.
Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology – Energy Innovation. Forbes. (2020). Retrieved 14 November 2020, from https://www.forbes.com/sites/energyinnovation/.
Donnelly, W. (1989). United States energy policy 1980–1988. Energy Policy, 17(4), 430-431. https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-4215(89)90017-7
Rutter, P., & Keirstead, J. (2012). A brief history and the possible future of urban energy systems. Energy Policy, 50, 72-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2012.03.072