Sentences with phrase «u.s. electricity needs»

The decision has angered climate activists and scientists who argue that there is enough hot water underground to meet all U.S. electricity needs.

Scientists in California have modeled a solar - heavy / wind power electricity grid, without nationwide HVDC, that could reliably deliver 80 % of U.S. electricity needs.

«In 1970, two University of Arizona scientists attracted national attention with an ambitious proposal to turn more than 5,000 square miles of the southwestern United States desert into what they called a «national solar power firm» capable of supplying all U.S. electricity needs in the twenty - first century.»

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the United States has enough harnessable wind power to satisfy total U.S. electricity needs several times over.

A comprehensive study by the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has demonstrated that currently available renewable technologies could affordably and reliably provide 80 percent of U.S. electricity needs by 2050.

The fuel supplied 10 % of U.S. electricity needs for two decades while permanently eliminating 20,000 warheads worth of weapons - grade material by the time the last shipment of fuel was received at the end of 2013.

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And more is needed to protect overseas bases, which are vulnerable because other countries» civilian electricity grids are as vulnerable as those in the U.S.

«This is a much - needed, pragmatic look at U.S. electricity reliability and resilience, including the priority of maintaining critical clean baseload power as electricity markets change,» said Rich Powell, director of ClearPath, which advocates for nuclear and hydropower.

Meanwhile, the rise of electric cars — half of all U.S. electric vehicles (EVs) are in California — means PG&E needs to deliver electricity in places where it was never needed before.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), the U.S. is presently facing a funding gap of $ 1.7 trillion on roads, bridges and transit alone — to say nothing of electricity, schools, airports and other needs.

A new report from M.I.T. predict that the U.S. will expand its use of natural gas to produce electricity and as vehicle fuel — but will eventually need to capture its carbon dioxide emissions

The U.S. electricity infrastructure is sorely in need of modernization; whatever our choice for generation, we must invest in a newer, more efficient electricity grid.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that this switch would reduce electricity demand for lighting by 62 percent and avoid the need for at least 133 new power plants.

As long as countries like China or the U.S. employ big grids to deliver electricity, there will be a need for generation from nuclear, coal or gas, the kinds of electricity generation that can be available at all times.

Electricity in the Solomons is 230 volts, 50 cycles, so an adapter will be needed for U.S. visitors.

Electricity in Mexico is 120 volts, 60 cycles, no adapter will be needed for U.S. visitors.

Electricity in St. Vincent is 110 / 220volts, 60 cycles, so U.S. appliances and electronics do not need an adapter.

Electricity in Mexico is 120 volts, 60 cycle, so no adapter will be needed for U.S. visitors.

Electricity in PNG is 240 volts, 50 Hz, similar to Australia, so an adapter will be needed for U.S. visitors.

Electricity in the Galapagos is 110 volts, 60 cycles, so no adapter is generally needed for U.S. Visitors.

Electricity is also heavily utilised as the U.S. militaries defensive structures need a constant supply to operate, thus opponents will likely look to knock out power quickly in order to bring in helicopters and more.

Just in the U.S., if waste heat recovery devices were used at every oil, gas and manufacturing plant, 11.4 million homes could be powered by the electricity produced and it would have the bonus benefit of offsetting the need for the same amount of energy to be produced using fossil fuels.

In South Dakota, a wind - rich, sparsely populated state, development has begun on a vast 5,050 - megawatt wind farm (1 megawatt of wind capacity supplies 300 U.S. homes) that when completed will produce nearly five times as much electricity as the 810,000 people living in the state need.

«eLab Ignite: Finding Value at the Distribution Edge» will convene corporate customers, innovators, utilities and other key industry stakeholders to address the challenges and opportunities arising from the convergence of increasing capability and affordability of distributed resources, climate change and the need for a more resilient U.S. electricity system.

A 1999 report from the U.S. - based Geothermal Energy Association (GEA) identified 39 countries, now with a combined 800 million people, whose geothermal resources could meet 100 percent of their electricity needs.

The 10,900 megawatts of capacity installed worldwide generate enough renewable electricity to meet the needs of more than 6 million U.S. homes.

That was enough to meet the electricity needs of 1,513,703 average U.S. homes, and represented about 0.4 percent of the nation's electricity.

U.S. coal peaked a few years ago in terms of BTU (heat value) per pound — meaning that we need to burn more coal for the same amount of heat / electricity.

When the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released its first wind resource inventory in 1991, it pointed out that three wind - rich states — North Dakota, Kansas, and Texas — had enough harnessable wind energy to satisfy national electricity needs.

Concentrated solar thermal (CST) energy with storage, a proven technology for electricity generation (4), can provide variable energy, to compensate for fluctuations in demand, for a large fraction of U.S. energy needs.

Perhaps more interesting, however, is the idea of the «supergrid,» where HVDC lines are used to interconnect entire continents with electricity so that electricity created in one place (such as solar power in the U.S. desert southwest or the Sahara Desert or wind power from offshore wind farms in the windy North Sea) is available wherever it's needed, no matter how far away that electricity is used.

Expanding U.S. biofuel production will require tradeoffs between ambitious fuel production targets and other societal goals, including protection of the water we need for drinking, growing food, preserving aquatic habitats, and producing electricity.

A new analysis from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) shows how this is working in California, a big state with big electricity needs.

But the U.S. needs a diversified fuel mix portfolio on all of its electricity generation resources to meet base load, intermediate load, and peaking loads.

Energizing Rural America: How Renewable Electricity Standards Generate Rural Economic Prosperity (2007) A niche producer of clean energy today, agriculture could grow to supply 20 - 25 percent of U.S. energy needs over the next two decades.

In 1991 the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a national wind resource inventory, noting that three wind - rich states — North Dakota, Kansas, and Texas — had enough harnessable wind energy to satisfy national electricity needs.

In addition, a 2005 DOE assessment of offshore wind energy concluded that U.S. offshore wind out to a distance of 50 miles alone is sufficient to meet 70 percent of national electricity needs.

Preliminary data for 2012 from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) indicate that, for the first time, more wind generating capacity was brought online than any other resource type to meet the nation's electricity needs.

To narrow the gap with PV panels, which make up 95 percent of the solar market, the U.S. - based Solar Energy Industries Association says CSP needs to reduce hardware costs and to twin its output with an energy storage element that will allow electricity production at night.

In 2000, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson directed the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to purchase 3 percent of total electricity needs from non-hydro renewable sources by 2005, and 7.5 percent of total electricity purchases by 2010.

Assuming that our photovoltaic cells had a 100 % conversion rate, and we had unlimited, uniform Phoenix AZ sunshine everywhere in the U.S. we would need (3.9 × 10 ^ 12 kilowatt - hours / year) / (2389 kilowatt - hours / m ^ 2 / year) = 1.6 x10 ^ 6 km ^ 2 of photovoltaic cells to generate the electricity used in the U.S in 2008.

Three wind - rich U.S. states — North Dakota, Kansas, and Texas — have enough harnessable wind to meet national electricity needs.

Even though we plan to add over 60 billion square feet of new buildings to our building stock (a 23.3 % increase) over the next two decades, and renovate as much or more, Building Sector operational energy consumption — which accounts for 75.7 % of electricity use — will be low enough to prevent the need for any new power plant capacity in the U.S.

The book also details economically competitive alternative fuel sources which can address U.S. and world electricity needs.

Germany, which has much lower sunlight potential that the continental U.S., nevertheless leads the world in the deployment of solar power and now is meeting 4 percent of its overall annual electricity needs from the sun.

Analysts expect wind power to take a breather next year in the U.S. after a record - setting 2001... But few think France, Italy or other countries newly won over to wind power will take up the slack from the coming slowdown in Spain, Germany and the U.S. Which puts the onus on the likes of Brazil, North Africa, India and Chinaóall which need new sources of electricity.

Natural gas, nuclear, and coal power plants produce 86 percent of the electricity needs of the U.S..

In a 2010 study, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory reported over 10 million MW of wind resource in the U.S., enough to power the equivalent of the nation's total electricity needs 10 times over.

In nine states it provided more than 12 percent and in 17 states, more than five percent... In a 2010 study, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory reported over 10 million MW of wind resource in the U.S., enough to power the equivalent of the nation's total electricity needs 10 times over.»

To get there, it is making a $ 2 billion investment in renewable energy projects, including a massive wind farm in Illinois that will product 165 percent of the electricity needed to run its U.S. operations.