Hydrogen Policy

Abstract

Current energy policies address environmental issues including environmentally friendly technologies to increase energy supplies and encourage cleaner, more efficient energy use, air pollution, greenhouse effect (mainly reducing carbon dioxide emissions), global warming and climate change (Demirbas, 2008). In general, an energy policy includes issues of energy production, distribution and consumption. It is also the manner in which a given entity has decided to address these issues. The attributes of energy policy may include international treaties, legislation on commercial energy activities (trading, transport, storage, etc.), incentives to investment, guidelines for energy production, conversion and use (efficiency and emission standards), taxation and other public policy techniques, energy-related research and development, energy economy, general international trade agreements and marketing, energy diversity, and risk factors contrary to possible energy crisis.