Sentences with phrase «electricity futures study»

A recent update to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's Renewable Electricity Futures study indicates 80 % renewables can be attained by 2050 at almost no increased cost relative to business as usual.

Another example is the 2012 Renewable Electricity Futures study by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

Not exact matches

While turkeys at Thanksgiving are an age - old custom, a new study shows that turkey excrement may have a future as a fuel for heat and electricity.

As with his energy - waste figure, Lomborg has a reference for this improbably precise number, in the form of a 1996 «Resources for the Future» report that reviews and summarizes a number of studies of the social (including environmental) costs of electricity generation.6 Consulting the reference is instructive.

The purpose of this study is to critically examine the government's electricity development plans and to determine if there is a more sustainable and economically efficient solution to meet the country's future electricity needs.

In comments we recently submitted, NRDC, other environmental groups, consumer advocates, customers, and electricity generation and supply companies detailed numerous errors in the ISO's assumptions, including its assumptions about future growth in gas and electricity demand, energy efficiency, and renewable energy, which skew the study results toward a grid that appears more susceptible to fuel security risks.

The researchers have also studied the challenges linked to how renewable energy can be integrated into existing and future energy systems including electricity grids and likely cost benefits from these developments.

The detailed findings of the Canadian Wind Integration Study are great news for electricity system planners and policy makers at a time when each province is striving to keep electricity affordable into the future while planning to meet climate change commitments.

In support of the 2009 Integrated Energy Policy Report (2009 IEPR), the California Energy Commission (Energy Commission) staff will conduct a workshop to receive comments on draft results from a study on the present and future costs of electricity generation from central station renewable energy facilities and other generation sources.

A new study in the journal Energy Economics by our own Martin Ross examines how changes in market trends and technology costs are likely to affect electricity generation in the United States in the context of possible future carbon taxes.

In reality, the world faces an even more daunting challenge than that outlined in the study, which assumed that future electricity use would stay at today's levels.

A recent study found that the newest Xbox One and PS4 consoles use up to three times as much energy as their predecessors and video game consoles in the United States are projected to use more electricity annually than all the households in Houston, America's fourth - largest city, in the near future.