Sentences with phrase «electricity and gas sectors»
Market Reform in Electricity and Gas Sectors Austria is to be commended for fully opening its electricity and natural gas markets to competition well in advance of the EU timeline and before most other European countries.
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Morgan Lewis lawyers also have been counsel to parties in most of the significant electricity and gas sector bankruptcies in the last decade.
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The pair split the gas and electricity sectors so we got a monopoly, Western Power — the former SECWA's electricity transmission / distribution, generating and sales arms — and, initially, two separate publicly - owned monopolies, Alinta Gas, owners of the gas distribution across Perth, and the Dampier - to - Bunbury natural gas pipeline (DBNGgas and electricity sectors so we got a monopoly, Western Power — the former SECWA's electricity transmission / distribution, generating and sales arms — and, initially, two separate publicly - owned monopolies, Alinta Gas, owners of the gas distribution across Perth, and the Dampier - to - Bunbury natural gas pipeline (DBNGGas, owners of the gas distribution across Perth, and the Dampier - to - Bunbury natural gas pipeline (DBNGgas distribution across Perth, and the Dampier - to - Bunbury natural gas pipeline (DBNGgas pipeline (DBNGP).
The Lawrence Labor Government showed foresight in its 1992 decision to convene an inquiry into WA's energy sector (gas and electricity).
Output across the mining sector fell 1.6 %, offset by strength in manufacturing and electricity, heat, gas and water output which rose by 7.3 % and 8.4 % respectively.
The concept has been effective in numerous infrastructure - based sectors that are inclined to natural monopolies, including railroads, gas and electricity.
Moreover, our electricity sector is already shifting to greener fuels, including wind, solar and natural gas and away from coal.
Dominion is one of the largest producers and transporters of electricity and natural gas in the United States utility sector.
One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.
The group also recommended that the government should «reinvigorate independent sector oversight with an appropriately resourced» Ontario Energy Board, the regulator of the electricity and natural gas industries in the province.
That same Clean Power Plan predicted that by 2030, under the policy's changes to the electricity sector, natural gas would provide 33 percent of U.S. electricity, and coal would provide 27 percent.
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The non-oil sector, the report stated, was driven in the quarter under review mainly by Agriculture (Crop), other services and Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply.
The government manages several natural resources like Gas, Coal, Iron, Gold, Oil, Sea, Water, Mass Transport Services (subway), Trains, Sea transport, Electricity, and has a company in the telecommunications sector.
EPA's greenhouse gas inventory released yesterday shows that the transportation and electricity sectors now supply about the same amount of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions.
That means the world will maintain its voracious appetite for natural gas, according to Exxon Mobil, and continue its heavy reliance on petroleum to meet electricity and transportation sector needs in both developed and developing countries.
The findings suggest that as the U.S. energy market continues to shift from coal to natural gas, the overall «toxicity burden» of the electricity sector will decrease, said study corresponding author Shelie Miller, an environmental engineer and an associate professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability's Center for Sustainable Systems.
Using a combined trade and water model, the researchers compared freshwater consumption associated with energy production supply chains of three energy sectors (petroleum, gas, and electricity) across the world.
They made comparisons within the five sectors they studied — power plants, furnaces, exports for electricity generation overseas, buses and cars — and across sectors to see which use of natural gas pays the greatest dividend for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
For each sector, they then analyzed the current amount and source of the fuel consumed — coal, oil, gas, nuclear, renewables — and calculated the fuel demands if all fuel usage were replaced with electricity.
Substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector are achievable over the next two to three decades through a portfolio approach involving the widespread deployment of energy efficiency technologies; renewable energy; coal, natural gas, and biomass with carbon capture and storage; and nuclear technologies.
According to the most recent data available, in 2014, highway and aviation congestion cost the U.S. economy about $ 160 billion in lost time, productivity, and fuel and the transportation sector produced 26 % of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions (second to electricity production).
Dominion is one of the largest producers and transporters of electricity and natural gas in the United States utility sector.
These increasingly important roles for natural gas in the electricity sector call for a detailed analysis of the interdependencies of the natural gas and power generation infrastructures.
It gets a third of its energy from this source, following the discovery of gas fields in the North sea and the 1990s dash for gas in the UK electricity sector.
Merkel's assessment that the renewable sector was not capable of filling the energy gap if Germany was entirely rid of nuclear power was directly in line with the coalition's newly unveiled «Energy Concept» — the ambitious energy policy with a 40 - year trajectory that called for, by 2050, greenhouse gas cuts of at least 80 %, increasing renewables to 80 % in electricity supply, and a 50 % reduction in primary energy consumption compared to 2008 levels.
According to estimates produced by the Obama administration's EPA, the plan would have reduced the electricity sector's greenhouse - gas emissions approximately 25 % below 2005 levels by 2020, and 30 % by 2030.
In developing Asia, the share of biomass in the residential sector declines from around 50 % today to 33 % in 2030 as demand for gas and electricity for cooking increases in the New Policies Scenario.
The chart below breaks down sector emissions from electricity, natural gas, and petroleum use.
The first projects using floating wind turbines are also now entering into operation, based on concepts widely deployed in the offshore oil and gas sector; cost - competitive floating technologies would widen the economic resource base for offshore electricity generation considerably.
The electricity sector has a range of low - and zero - carbon technologies that could contribute to this carbon budget including energy efficiency, renewable energy, nuclear power, and coal or natural gas plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS).
Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.
The North Sea, a relatively mature oil and gas basin with a thriving renewable electricity industry, is already seeing some crossover between the sectors: some large oil and gas companies are major players in offshore wind; one former oil and gas company, Ørsted in Denmark, has moved entirely to wind and other renewables.
Proceedings: Friday 4 May Opening remarks Welcome by Mr, Sefa Sadık AYTEKIN, Deputy Undersecretary, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Turkey Keynote address by H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Workplan of WEO - 2012 Iraq Energy Outlook by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA Session 1: Energy in Iraq — fuelling Iraq's reconstruction and development Chair: Mr. Simon STOLP, World Bank Introductory interventions: H.E. Martin KOBLER, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Iraq Dr. Usama KARIM, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Iraq Dr. Kamal AL - BASRI, Chairman of the Iraq Institute for Economic Reform Open discussion Session 2: Iraq's electricity sector — short term needs and long - term interests Chair: Mr. Hamish MCNINCH, International Expert Introductory interventions: Dr. Majeed ABDUL - HUSSAIN, Parsons Brinckerhoff Dr. Abdul Qader AHMED, Mass Global Open discussion Special address: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Session 3: Iraq's oil and gas supply — managing the development of a huge resource Chair: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Dr. Ali AL - MASHAT, Advisor, Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Ms. Ruba HUSARI, Managing Director, Iraq Insight Open discussion Session 4: Iraq and international markets — impacts on regional and global balances Chair: H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Introductory interventions: Dr. Mussab AL - DUJAYLI, former Director General, State Oil Marketing Organisation Mr. Jonathan ELKIND, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy of the United States Ms. Coby VAN DER LINDE, Director of the Energy Programme, Clingendael Institute, the Netherlands Open discussion Session 5: Summary and conclusions Co-Chairs: H.E. Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to France and H.E. Nick Bridge, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the OECD Tour de table with recommendations for key topics and areas of study for consideration in the WEO - 2012 Concluding remarks by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA
«With a clean electricity system comes opportunities to reduce fossil fuel usage in these sectors: for example, electric vehicles displace petroleum use and electric heat pumps avoid the use of natural gas and oil for space and water heating in buildings.»
The analysis finds that, although a massive shift to CNG vehicles would also lower oil consumption and emissions dramatically, it wouldn't be nearly as effective as simply electrifying a gigantic portion of our transportation sector and then using our abundant natural gas to provide the electricity.
In recent years, the use of natural gas by electricity - generating plants has increased greatly, and today power sector CO2 emission levels are at their lowest levels in nearly 30 years.
Canada needs a variety of reliable, clean and safe sources of new energy to meet our growing electricity demand and to help reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from our electricity sector.
Global energy investment fell for a second year in 2016 as oil and gas spending continues to drop IEA's annual investment benchmark shows spending on electricity sector for the first time exceeded combined spending on fossil fuels 11 July 2017
«(aa) the number 20 multiplied by the number of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas emissions (including direct emissions from fuel combustion, process emissions, and indirect emissions from the generation of electricity used to produce the output of the sector) of the sector based on data described in subparagraph (D); by
The IEA found that about 60 percent of fossil fuel subsidies in the APEC economies is now in the residential sector, for electricity, gas and LPG.
«Key to achieving our greenhouse - gas emission reduction goals in Canada and the U.S. is cleaning our shared electricity grid and using that non-emitting electricity to power other sectors.
The AB 32 year 2020 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets (year 2020 levels reduced to year 1990 measured levels) could be achieved by primarily addressing electricity generation and industrial sector greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts through increased use of renewable energy, energy efficiency and fuel substitution efforts.
This important fact seems to have escaped T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil tycoon from Texas who is now promoting a plan to replace natural gas in the electric power sector with wind - generated electricity and use the freed up natural gas to power a fleet of NGVs.
Most of the primary energy delivered to the sector is transformed into a diverse range of final energy products including electricity, heat, refined oil products, coke, enriched coal, and natural gas.
Most discussion of declining demand for US coal focuses on the US electricity sector (which is responsible for 93 percent of domestic coal consumption), specifically the twin booms in natural gas and renewables.
To achieve this goal, SB 350 sets ambitious 2030 targets for energy efficiency and renewable electricity, among other actions aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the energy and transportation sectors.
Margie Tatro, director of fuel and water systems at Sandia National Laboratories, says, «I think natural gas is a transitioning fuel for the electricity sector until we can get a greater percentage of nuclear and renewables on the grid.»
Growth in the power sector is due to increased demand for electricity, but natural gas's share does not increase as coal and renewable energy also compete for the power sector market.
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