Sentences with phrase «more electricity generated»

More electricity generated by renewable sources in 2017 signals strong commitment to addressing climate change and reducing carbon emissions.

2012 was the first year in which Ontario saw more electricity generated by wind than by coal.

A new law in Maryland scheduled to take effect on January 1st will require state utility companies to purchase more electricity generated from solar energy resources sooner than originally scheduled.

2012 was the first year in which Ontario saw more electricity generated by wind than by coal.

The greater the load applied to the textile and the wetter it becomes the more electricity it generates.

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The darker the shade of red dot, the more electricity the ground will generate and conduct voltage into the power grid.

Other analysts predict a solar wall would generate much more electricity.

Small - scale solar panels generate electricity more cheaply than buying from the grid in certain parts of the United States.

For example, generating efficient, renewable energy is a priority of the federal government, so businesses involving Cogeneration (using one fuel to simultaneously produce heat and electricity) or renewable energy technologies will find more government grant opportunities than others.

Tesla founder Elon Musk says he can build a new and more efficient grid that would use solar power to generate electricity.

Just over a decade ago, coal - fired power generated more than 50 % of U.S. electricity.

The plant's original plan called for producing enough solar panels to generate 1,000 megawatts of electricity, although Peter Rive, SolarCity's chief technology officer, said this month that improvements to the equipment design and factory layout could allow it to produce more than 1 gigawatt in panels.

Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate over 320,000 MWh of electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.

Solar power, which now generates almost 2 percent of the nation's electricity, has become popular among Democrats and Republicans alike, as people consider ways to have more control over their energy use and to reduce pollution as well as create jobs.

This has fostered more energy independence, giving individuals the freedom to generate electricity outside of the grasp of a central utility.

Wind power generated a record 6.3 - percent share of total US electricity last year, with four states — Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and South Dakota — generating more than 30 percent of their electricity from wind power, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said in its newly released US Wind Industry Annual Market Report 2017.

But until the Ether price explosion last month, mining on the Ethereum network cost more in electricity than it generated in revenue.

Alberta, which relies on coal to generate about half its power, would see electricity rates rise more slowly in coming decades if use of renewable energy increased, according to a study published today.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

The proven GWE anaerobic technology has been demonstrated in more than 300 projects completed worldwide, including more than 70 that generate biogas to replace fossil fuels in fuelling boilers and processing plant or to sellback to the electricity grid.

Similar global expertise is embodied in the GWE anaerobic technologies of which more than 300 have been completed worldwide, including more than 70 that generate biogas to replace fossil fuels in fuelling boilers and processing plant or to sellback to the electricity grid.

And with larger panels, the more electricity you can generate.

Watch along as they create a working volcano, generate electricity with a lemon, launch a vinegar - powered rocket and more!

They also give competitive advantage to certain businesses against others - so, certain «green» businesses get preferential tax treatment compared to, say, traditional energy companies, thus making it more profitable to engage in, say, wind energy than in building other means of generating electricity.

We will trust ourselves more to build our own cars, transform our subsistence farming to profitable and industrial agriculture, and even build nuclear power plants to generate electricity.

These include the «renewables obligation», which is effectively a quota mechanism imposing costs on generators who fail to generate a set proportion of their electricity from renewables and more recently, courtesy of the energy bill, a most peculiar mechanism, otherwise known as «contracts for difference».

Despite efforts to reduce emissions, unusually high gas prices in 2006 meant more electricity was generated by coal, the environment secretary explained.

Windpower is more expensive than electricity generated by conventional means.

According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce ethanol from sugarcane.

Pretreating with thermal depolymerization also makes coal more friable, so less energy is needed to crush it before combustion in electricity - generating plants.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

The spread of urban centers increases the demand for electricity, more than 75 percent of which in China is generated from coal - fired power plants.

Even the oil sands ultimate consumption in a gasoline, diesel or jet engine only results in 500 kilograms of CO2 - equivalent per barrel of refined petroleum products, meaning total oil sands emissions from well to wheel are considerably lower than those of this nation's more than 500 power plants burning coal to generate electricity.

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

But storing surplus wind - generated electricity in batteries results in even greater reductions — from about 20 percent for lithium - ion batteries to more than 50 percent for lead - acid.

But there are times when solar and wind farms generate more electricity than is needed by consumers.

Therefore, it would actually be more energetically efficient to shut down a wind turbine than to store the surplus electricity it generates.»

The reason: it requires extra energy to turn the coal to gas and then to capture the CO2 as well — in effect requiring the burning of more coal to generate the same amount of electricity.

A new technology might be able to strip the CO2 from power plant emissions, and generate more electricity at the same time

Uranium 238 is much more common in nature than uranium 235 but does not fission well, so fuel manufacturers boost the uranium 235 content to a few percent, which is enough to maintain a continuous fission reaction and generate electricity.

The latest figures show that on some days of the year the electricity being generated from sun, wind, biomass, water and geothermal production already accounts for more than half of the load required in the country.

But it doesn't add much to the cost of the resulting electricity because it allows the turbines to be generating for longer periods and those costs can be spread out over more hours of electricity production.

Using a massive battery to store electricity generated by wind may make it more reliable — and cheaper

Despite long - standing public concern about the safety of nuclear energy, more and more people are realizing that it may be the most environmentally friendly way to generate large amounts of electricity.

«For wind turbines, we want to apply them to generate more wind power at a lower cost of electricity.

The Energy Information Administration projects that by 2035 natural gas will generate more electricity than coal.

Starting with the natural pigments that help plants harvest solar rays, Velev and his team have crafted a flexible, nontoxic photovoltaic device that he hopes could eventually generate clean electricity far more cheaply than today's silicon - based solar panels.

Thermal power plants — those that consume coal, oil, natural gas or uranium — generate more than 90 percent of U.S. electricity, and they are water hogs.

We have demonstrated that in winter Helsinki, black cells generate considerably more electricity than traditional cells even though both cells have identical efficiency values,» she adds.

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.