Sentences with phrase «electricity requirements for»

Electricity requirements for mining Bitcoin are astronomical, and they're increasing.

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Last week: Requirements were signed into law for nursing homes and assisted living facilities to have backup electricity to power air conditioners for at least four days.

* Establish a Planning Council on Electricity to help predict and prepare for future energy requirements using the lowest - cost options.

«New York State has set visionary climate and clean energy goals — what was missing until today was the requirement to turn those goals for the electricity sector into action,» said Peter Iwanowicz, the executive director of the Environmental Advocates of new York.

To qualify for additional assistance, a household must meet income eligibility requirements; have exhausted both regular and first emergency benefits during the 2010 - 11 HEAP season; and have a current shut - off notice on either heat or «heat - related» electricity or an oil, propane, wood or other fuel supply with less than 1/4 tank remaining.

Stricter emissions requirements on coal - fired power plants, together with low natural gas prices, have contributed to a recent decline in the use of coal for electricity generation in the United States, she said.

A previous NREL report, «Land - use Requirements and the Per - capita Solar Footprint for Photovoltaic Generation in the United States,» had estimated that if solar energy was to meet 100 % of all electricity demand in the United States, it would take up 0.6 % of the total area in the United States.

The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids: due to low power requirements it can be powered by cheap local solar power.

More specifically, the 73 - page bill will remove the requirements of consumers to pay for the extra costs included in providing clean electricity generation.

In addition, rising requirements for renewable energy will shift demand away from coal, reducing investment in this source of electricity.

The rising requirement for electricity from renewables will only cement Oregon's reputation as a leader in renewable energy.

In our few journeys around the world, we've established a list of «must haves» for the family adventuring in countries with unique requirements for electricity, units of measurement, and even dress codes.

Others say that any state or federal requirements for non-polluting power should include nuclear reactors, which also produce no greenhouse gases when generating electricity.

We will be ramping up the grid anyway over the next few years and so we should plan for the requirements for an electricity based vehicle transportation system.

The TSOs» so - called «Grid Development Plan» forms the basis of the «Federal Requirement Plan for Transmission Networks,» which identifies as «urgent» under the German Energy Act a total of 36 projects, including three north - to - south electricity highways and 21 projects that traverse state or country borders.

The POUs should focus their RPS investments on signing contracts lasting at least ten years or building their own clean energy facilities, which will help stabilize electricity prices for customers and ensure compliance with future RPS requirements.

«We were astonished a few weeks ago to learn that 51 renewable energy projects are being considered in an RFP process, and that many of those projects would have catastrophic consequences for Maine, all to provide insignificant amounts of expensive electricity to meet arbitrary requirements» in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

The IEA first assessed the water - energy nexus in the World Energy Outlook 2012, dedicating a chapter to analysis of the water - for - energy relationship, reviewing water requirements for different energy sources (primary energy production and electricity generation) and estimating total freshwater needs by scenario, energy source and region.

With the increase in energy required the effect will be a requirement for say 6 - 10 times more electricity generation in total than now.

Focusing the LCA on three key impacts — direct land use, life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and fossil fuel requirements — the researchers identified PV electricity for battery electric vehicles as the superior sun - to - wheels conversion method.

Material requirements per unit of electricity supplied through life for nuclear power are about 1 / 10th those of renewables

This technical evolution is occurring at the same time that overall electric demand growth has been stagnant for several years and rising infrastructure requirements are putting upward pressure on the price of delivered electricity.

Creating an ISO is, in any case, a requirement under the EU Directive creating the Internal Market for Electricity.

Photovoltaic systems must provide electricity for the residence, and must meet applicable fire and electrical code requirements.

Well, in 2006 the group provided $ 100,000 to support the work of Patrick Michaels, one of the country's most distinguished climatologists and a prominent skeptic, and in general IREA opposes measures that drive up electricity costs for customers, such as requirements for the use of high - cost non-carbon energy.

Overall the California Energy Commission found that the requirement would be cost - effective in every climate zone, by eliminating the need for 323 gigawatt - hours of electricity, and thus eliminating 114,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions — in the first year alone.

virtually all increases in the generation of electricity from biomass are a result of regulations (e.g., federal requirements for the capture of methane from landfills)....

They calculated the full - cycle land use required to generate 1 megawatt of electricity from each source of energy in 2015, including the land required to drill and mine for natural gas and coal, the processing and transportation requirements and the power plant footprint.

It also removes the existing cap on energy efficiency program spending, adds tiered incentives to encourage utilities to exceed 1.5 % annual savings, and increases the previous RPS requirement for renewable electricity from 10 % to 15 %.

Bush administration ignored US environmental requirements for US - owned electricity plants built to feed US grid

This report considers the various direct and indirect land requirements for coal, natural gas, nuclear, hydro, wind, and solar electricity generation in the United States in 2015.

The California Energy Commission hopes that this policy will help achieve the state's requirement for 50 percent renewable electricity by 2030.

A requirement that utilities pay homeowners a premium for electricity fed back into the grid by renewable energy systems — known as a feed - in tariff or FIT — makes residential PV even more attractive.

A good place to get some background is the Electricity Storage Association web site It provides excellent charts comparing the different technologies on the basis of suitability for different requirements and cost per kW and per kWh.

This sector also includes solar thermal technologies that harness sunlight to meet thermal requirements for water or heating and cooling or create heat energy used to generate electricity for residential purposes.

This sector also includes solar thermal technologies that harness sunlight to meet thermal requirements for water or heating and cooling or create heat energy used to generate electricity for commercial or industrial purposes.

The United States provides a range of incentives for ethanol production including exclusion from excise taxes, mandating clean air performance requirements that created markets for ethanol, and tax incentives and accelerated depreciation schedules for electricity generating equipment that burn biomass (USDOE, 2005).

A basic requirement for phasing down fossil fuel emissions is abundant carbon - free electricity, which is the most rapidly growing form of energy and also has the potential to provide energy for transportation and heating of buildings.

That means that the solar array is capable of providing clean, pollution - free power for 100 per cent of the arena's electricity requirements.

In 2010, the Athena team was engaged to update the «LCI Data Submission Requirements» for the US LCI Database and worked with the National Renewable Energy Lab (the organization managing the database) on a process for automating the updating of key electricity generation profiles on a state, regional, and North American basis.

Nauen added that a competitive cost of electricity coupled with the creation of local jobs are key requirements for wind at sea to take off in the US.

So, please tell me (a) the cost and (b) the requirement for the methods you list to supply the electricity for one, solitary, medium sized, aluminium smelting works.

The White House claims that «With this requirement in place, clean sources would account for 80 % of our electricity by 2035.»

Incentives to electrify transportation and heat production would increase the requirement for electricity, but cut fuel demand by yet another third.

The measure directs how a unit's overall efficiency shall be determined on the basis of outputs of electrical generation and useful thermal energy output, which is defined in the bill as (i) including direct heat and other valid thermal end - use energy requirements for which fuel or electricity would otherwise be consumed and (ii) excluding thermal energy used for the purpose of drying or refining biomass fuel.

Expected to cost over $ 1 billion and supply 15 % of the electricity requirements of the state (1.3 million megawatt - hours), no time scales has been presented for the project.

In California in particular, this creates a situation where there is way more electricity being produced by renewables than can actually be used during the day; but there is still a requirement for peaker power plants to generate power needed at the peak evening times when people come home and crank up the air conditioning.

This is bound to ruffle a few feathers, so here are Professor Jacobson's comments on how he came to this conclusions: Jacobson Considered a Wide Range of Environmental Impacts Jacobson says he has conducted to first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, major, energy - related solutions by assessing not only their potential for delivering energy for electricity and vehicles, but also their impacts on global warming, human health, energy security, water supply, space requirements, wildlife, water pollution, reliability and sustainability.

Electricity portfolio standards are flexible, market - based policies that typically set requirements for the...

There is no requirement for the cells to produce electricity and then breakdown water to hydrogen and oxygen.