Amuria has a very diverse economy and is the center hub for Zemia’s clean and green energy technology. As of now, Amuria is phasing out harmful energy resources, such as mining, and has completely eliminated the use of fossil fuel-based manufacturing. Instead, there is more of a focus on Green energy resources, such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric, in the Green Coast through the GoGreen movement and practices. This is all in order to combat climate change and protect a popular nature reserve, large animal farms, wildlife, lumber extraction mills, and fishing populations.
Currently, there many different types of harmful energy sources that are polluting the air and land, which is very unhealthy for the environment, and makes it difficult to extract certain materials. Climate change also negatively affects people and wildlife, by causing natural disasters at a more frequent rate and decreasing ecosystems, most notably shrinking glaciers, more intense and longer heat waves, and higher sea levels (NASA, 2021, para. 1), forcing wildlife to relocate and die. Better energy policies using green technology will help combat such issues and prevent them from happening, and effectively completely eliminate negative energy sources, like coal, oil, and gas.
Amuria plans to increase funding for more renewable energy sources, including solar panels, windmills, and hydro plants. All of these different green energy sources will create jobs and bring about stable economic growth to provide clean energy services and goods by employing green labor forces and using renewable energy technologies. These various green energy sources would also broaden energy access, reduce energy costs, and inspire other states to follow in Amuria’s footsteps. Amuria is also known for its Power Corridor and its GoGreen practice. The Power Corridor emphasizes eco-friendly and green practices while ensuring an abundant supply of energy for businesses and residents. This is achieved through policies requiring innovation and recycling, in other words, to find ways to reduce, or eliminate, the amount of waste and requiring companies to recycle as much as possible. Recycling is extremely beneficial because it reduces the amount of waste, conserves natural resources, saves energy, creates new products from the recycled materials, and much more. These policies will put requirements as to how much waste can be recycled and conditions to create more state-owned recycling plants. Recycling also creates massive economic benefits because with more recycling plants, there will be more jobs available, which will allow for more people to make money and thus contribute more to the economy and in taxes.
Amuria is also known for being “powered by the sun”, emphasizing the benefit of utilizing solar panels. There will be massive state-owned solar panel farms as well as providing solar panels to citizens and businesses, if they so choose. There will be an agency to oversee solar-related programs, named the Solar Energy Technologies Office, an office that was originally created in the United States of America. The Solar Energy Technologies Office works towards supporting research and development and improving the reliability and benefits of solar technologies on the grid (“The Federal and State”, 2021, para. 16). There will also be incentives for citizens who do have solar panels installed, such as lower energy taxes and bills, low-interest loans, and clean energy funds, which directly pay for renewable energy projects and fund research and development projects.
Windmill farms will also be part of the GoGreen practices. The Bay of Amur, Nord Coast, and various valleys throughout the land of Amuria provide strong winds, in addition to the powerful coastal winds bearing down from the north, which can be used to create renewable energy. Similarly to solar power and solar farms, wind power and wind farms will be state-owned and distributed. The policy will create an agency to oversee wind-related programs, named the Wind Energy Technologies Office, doing much of the same as the solar agency, but focusing on wind programs and farms instead.
Hydro-electric plants are a great way to harvest green energy, especially on the coasts on Amuria in the Bay of Amur. As the hydro-plants need a continuous supply of running water in order to keep the turbines running, dams will be built with funds allocated. These dams will also have nets in place to prevent fish from reaching the turbines and dying, which would hurt the fish population and thus reduce a major source of food. To also counteract this, there will be designated areas with dams for the hydroelectric plants / turbines that will have a very small population of fish and work towards relocating them, and designated areas for fishing. Along with these measures, the policy will create an agency to oversee hydro-electric-related programs, named the Hydro-Electric Energy Technologies Office (HEETO), doing much of the same as the solar and wind agency, but focusing on hydro-electric programs and plants instead.
Along with these programs and policies created towards green energy and GoGreen practices, Amuria will enact resolutions that completely remove the use of mining and fossil fuels, such as coal and gas, as it completely transitions to solar power, wind energy, hydro-electric energy, and other possible renewable energy sources. Amuria will accomplish this by developing new technology that decarbonzies carbon emissions by twenty-five percent every two years. This change will provide room to safely incorporate more kinds of renewable energy while protecting lumber mills, wildlife, the large natural preserve, people, and the environment from the harmful effects of climate change.
Increasing Amuria’s renewable green energy and terminating the use of non-renewable energy is an important step in its future and the future of Zemia. Elected leaders across all political spectrums recognize its importance, to both the people and various ecosystems. We must continue to curb the negative impacts of nonrenewable energy to better protect Amuria’s huge natural preserve, lumber mills, wildlife, large animal farms, and fishing populations in order to ensure that our harvesters, fishers, farmers, and indigenous populations who rely on those animal and wildlife populations do lose sources of food and income. Utilizing all of the various natural and renewable resources will provide businesses and residents with an abundant supply of green energy and move towards a more sustainable Amuria, as well as inspire other countries within Zemia to move towards more renewable and clean energy and away from harmful, non-renewable sources.
Created by: [Reem Elsaad; Head of State]