The energy policy of a decision-making body or government, whether local, state, national, regional, or international, is a broad course of action comprising a portfolio of strategies and objectives to guide the system of production and use of energy. Governments utilize a suite of energy policies in seeking to achieve different goals in both the short term and the long term. Governments can use fiscal and regulatory policies to control short-term prices of energy and thereby consumer behavior;... więcej

Salem Press Encyclopedia, 2023. 3p.