Sentences with phrase «co2e emissions intensity»

A new combined - cycle natural gas power generator would generally expect to have an emissions intensity of less than 400 kg per megawatt hour, so these regulations are unlikely to be binding.

He did manage to rattle off the well - known facts: the oilsands account for only of 1 / 10th of 1 % of global emissions; the pipeline would create thousands of American jobs; Canada has already reduced the emission intensity from heavy - oil extraction by 25 %.

Impact on oil and gas production: compared to a carbon tax, Alberta's policy offers emitters less of an incentive to reduce production in order to cut GHGs, notes Leach: «assuming that the facility reduced production by 10 percent, and that emissions decreased proportionately (a simplifying assumption), the facility's emissions intensity would not change, so its carbon liability per barrel of oil produced would also remain constant.»

«Arnott's expects they will reduce the carbon emissions intensity of the refrigeration equipment by 13 % resulting in savings of $ 50,000 in energy costs per year.»

Our GHG emissions intensity is 0.339 metric tons CO2 - e per ton of product sold (0.155 metric tons in direct energy and 0.184 metric tons in indirect energy).

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

«Growing use of coal globally is overshadowing progress in renewable energy deployment, and the emissions intensity of the electricity system has not changed in 20 years.

The United States needs to develop strong new post-2020 targets; the European Union will decide on its 2030 targets later this year; and China needs to move from its current emissions intensity goal to setting a year in which absolute emissions will peak.

Currently, China is working on a pledge to curb emissions intensity — the amount of carbon pumped into the atmosphere per unit of gross domestic product — but has not indicated when it might cut absolute emissions.

The study finds that by 2020, the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of electricity generation in certain areas will have improved by as much as 30 percent over 2010 levels.

(Specifically, in 2002 he called for cutting the U.S. emissions intensity by 18 % by 2012.)

India has announced it will cut its carbon emissions intensity of its economy by as much as a quarter from 2005 levels by 2020.

Although the country ranks among the top 20 percent most efficient in the world in terms of emissions intensity by the intergovernmental organization International Energy Agency, its total greenhouse gas emissions jumped by 74 percent from 1990 to 2012, according to the estimates of D.C. - based think tank World Resources Institute.

Those steps include deriving 40 % of electric power capacity from fossil fuel — free sources by 2030, reducing its emissions intensity by 33 % to 35 % by 2030, and expanding forests to create a carbon sink capable of absorbing 2.5 billion to 3 billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere.

Here, f (λex) is the absorption factor at the excitation wavelength λex, F the integral emission intensity, i.e., the area under the blank and spectrally corrected emission spectrum on a wavelength scale, and n the refractive index of the solvent (s) used.

The first and last picture of each set measured had ten single corresponding spots compared for loss of emission intensity.

[AR: Quite a few analysts have shown pretty convincingly that the reduction in energy and emissions intensity over the last seven years has basically followed an «anyway» path, meaning it was not a function of new policies or leadership or the like.

Emissions intensity per unit of useful energy is the «technology» question (think «breakthrough»...)

With the world watching, China's president Hu Jintao offered his country's biggest climate change initiative yet at the UN this morning, saying China would establish emissions intensity targets — not absolute targets, but cuts in emissions per unit of

Among other initiatives, we're proud to have reduced our greenhouse gas emissions intensity by more than 30 % since 1990; to be the initial developer of a supercritical coal plant that will emit 15 % lower carbon dioxide than existing plants; to be a founding member of the FutureGen Alliance; to be a part of Australia's low - carbon Coal 21 program; and to be the only non-Chinese partner in China's zero - emissions GreenGen project.

Thanks to that, France's emissions intensity of electricity was 42 g / kWhCO2 in 2014.

Much of the higher energy ocean emissions (ignoring conduction because it is lunch money and ocean surface emission intensity is maybe 110 % of TSI) is absorbed by IR resonating molecules in the atmosphere.

The move comes because the company has made big inroads into its original target by cutting aircraft emissions intensity by 13.8 % efficiency and improving vehicle fuel efficiency by 16.6 % up until the end of the 2011 financial year.

To reach Singapore's Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement — to reduce emissions intensity by 36 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, and peak carbon emissions by 2030 — the public has to engage in dialogue with the government and help shape a carbon tax that reflects Singapore's ambition.

The least cost option to achieve the same emissions intensity as France, i.e. 42 g / kWh, is with 31 GW of nuclear.

By the end of 2015, Yingli Solar will: • Reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity per megawatt (MW) of solar (PV) panel; production by 13 % from 2010 levels (Scope 1 and... Read More»

By the end of 2010, CLP met its first carbon - emission intensity reduction target of 0.8 kilograms of CO2 per kilowatt - hour and exceeded its 5 % renewable energy target for 2010.

But the required reduction of emissions intensity by 40 to 45 percent in 2020 compared with the level of 2005 means the emissions of [greenhouse gases] in 2020 has to be roughly the same as emissions now,» Qi Jianguo, of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told Xinhua.

«My view is that a Chinese target of a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions intensity between 2005 and 2020 would be a continuation of historical trends,» said Jim Watson, from the Tyndall Centre for climate change research in Britain [and whose report on China's carbon scenarios we've discussed on this blog; see previous post «Tyndall Centre Climate Report: High Hopes for Low Carbon»].

HP worked with WWF specialists to develop a science - based target for Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions and a supply chain GHG emissions intensity reduction goal for Scope 3 emissions.

From 2015 to 2040, further gains in efficiency and CO2 emissions intensity will be significant, helping slow global energy - related CO2 emissions so that they will likely peak before 2040.

The chart also illustrates a range of 2040 «performance levels» reflecting hypothetical combinations of global energy intensity and CO2 emission intensity levels that, if reached in 2040, might indicate the world was on a 2oC pathway.

From my perspective, we can reduce the emissions intensity of electricity by around 90 % by rolling out nuclear power using the types of plants that are best fit for purpose at the time.

The table above highlights a likely distribution of technologies and other efforts across various energy demand sectors to boost efficiency and lower the CO2 emissions intensity of energy use.

Unless significant efforts are made on the U.S. end (through a commitment to a more stringent emission reduction target), China will stick to the emission intensity target announced in November 2009 as its international commitment.

This will provide 80 % -90 % of the solution to reducing the GHG emissions intensity of electricity; this will reduce global GHG emissions by 50 % as electricity's share of total global energy increases.

To reconcile a century of 3 percent growth with the more ambitious goal of reducing resource consumption and pollutant emissions, the abatement of resource and emissions intensity would have to be even more drastic.

The default inputs for population growth rate, GDP per capita growth rate, emissions intensity per capita, fossil fuel reserves, etc. are variables in the model and people who are competent at driving these models can change them.

Antiquated so - called subcritical coal - fired power plants have an emissions intensity of just under 1,000 kg of CO2 per megawatt - hour.

But its proposed emissions intensity scheme could boost green energy without any hard target at all.

To do so, means cutting the carbon emission intensity of power plants - that is, reducing the amount of CO2 that is spewed out for each megawatt generated.

Josh Frydenberg said on Tuesday night there would not be an emissions intensity scheme under a Turnbull government.

AGL Energy's own interim accounts, released today, make much of the fact that AGL Energy has positioned itself to prosper in the low carbon environment by being a leader in clean energy and reducing the emissions intensity of its portfolio.

-- Where it is not possible to determine the precise electricity emissions intensity factor for an entity using the methodology in clause (i), the person selling electricity shall use the monthly average data reported by the Energy Information Administration or collected and reported by the Administrator for the utility serving the entity to determine the electricity emissions intensity factor.

The electricity emissions intensity factor for the entity, expressed in tons of carbon dioxide equivalents per kilowatt hour, is determined by dividing --

Assuming average CO2 emissions intensity of 0.8 t / MWh, electricity generation with coal would contribute about 15 Gt CO2 in 2055.

Our calculations are based on the average provincial CO2e emissions intensity in Canada.

This means that at current demand levels we need to burn roughly 70 % less gas if we are to stay in this emissions intensity range.

-- Each person selling electricity to the owner or operator of an entity in any sector designated as an eligible industrial sector under section 763 (b) shall provide the owner or operator of the entity and the Administrator, on an annual basis, the electricity emissions intensity factor for the entity.

While the EU does not have a policy that directly addresses coal generation, the implementation of the EU's 2020 and 2030 climate and energy targets have set the framework for lowering the emissions intensity of Europe's power system.