Sentences with phrase «u.s. electricity sector»

For the analysis, EPRI integrated two widely - accepted, advanced economic models: the state - level Multi-Region National (MR) model and a detailed model of the U.S. electricity sector, the North American Electricity and Environment Model (NEEM).

WASHINGTON (October 10, 2017)-- Despite political rhetoric to the contrary and recent actions by the Trump administration, the market reality is that coal - fired power has become increasingly uneconomic and is the main factor driving the U.S. electricity sector to rapidly transition away from coal.

Sanya, Carley (2011): Decarbonization of the U.S. electricity sector: Are state energy policy portfolios the solution?

«The massive transformations underway in the U.S. electricity sector will likely continue, but they won't be driven by federal climate policy,» depending instead on state policy and technical innovation, he said.

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In the U.S. commercial sector, the EIA estimates that refrigeration was «the largest single end use» of electricity.

Breaking the figures down further, the EIA estimates that «space cooling» — in other words, air conditioning — was the single biggest use of electricity in the U.S. residential sector.

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.

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.

In the United States, the residential and commercial sectors consumed 412 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity in 2014, amounting to 11 percent of total electricity use, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Wellinghoff's goal is to enable a near total transformation of the electricity sector, allowing for renewable resources, such as the sun, wind and flow of rivers, to meet a greater proportion of U.S. electricity demand.

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.

Innovators gather in DC this week to discuss how to modernize the U.S. electric grid in the face of a changing electricity sector.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), meanwhile, is considering how to treat wood - burning power plants under the Clean Power Plan, the Obama Administration's initiative to cut greenhouse gases coming from the electricity sector.

For the U.S.'s most energy - hungry sectors — automotive and electricity — the study identifies timetables for action, after which the researchers say it will be too late to stave off a climate tipping point.

Ms. Lau serves on the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council which represents the North American electric sector with the U.S. government and has been highlighted as one of the most successful public - private partnerships.

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).

Scientists say electricity generation is responsible for one - quarter of the world's total CO2 emissions — the main cause of global warming — and U.S. power plants account for fully 25 percent of the emissions generated by the power sector worldwide.

... In the U.S. electricity supply sector, the cost benchmark for reducing carbon dioxide emissions lies with substitution of natural gas for coal, especially older, less efficient units.

Cases with higher or lower world energy prices, represented by oil prices, have relatively little direct impact on power - sector emissions, as petroleum provides a small fraction of U.S. electricity generation.

For this analysis, the end - use sector models determine results of incremental demand - side energy efficiency activities by U.S. Census division (Figure 2) and then map the savings to Electricity Market Module regions.

This was equal to about 17 % of the total electricity consumed by both of these sectors and about 12 % of total U.S. electricity consumption.

«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.

However, recent regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act threaten to upend the competitive markets that guarantee just and reasonable wholesale rates in many parts of the U.S. Those organized wholesale markets are based on using the least - cost generation to satisfy demand, whereas the EPA continues to impose tighter and more complex environmental constraints on the electricity generation sector.

Looking at just emissions from the electric power sector, emissions in Minnesota dropped by slightly more than the U.S.. However, since 2009, the state has made little to no progress on emissions even as electricity generation by wind increased by 92 percent.

«Unlike in the 1970s, today only 2 % of U.S. electricity is generated from oil, so plug in hybrids enable the transportation sector to tap into the array of vast domestic and much easier to secure energy resources which power our grid, and thus can increase vehicle fuel choice and greatly reduce our dependence on hostile suppliers of oil.»

Other studies of nearly decarbonizing the power sector by mid-century show that more efficient, advanced biopower technologies using low - carbon feedstocks, such as agricultural residues and energy crops, could provide a modest contribution of up to 15 percent of U.S. electricity generation (NREL 2012, UCS 2013).

It is conceivable that such enhanced actions, repeated across willing states and cities across the U.S., and with support from independent consumers in non-participating states, could achieve substantial reductions of emissions, particularly within the electricity and transportation sectors.

According to the U.S. EPA's Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, the electricity and industrial sectors combined account for 52 % of all GHG emissions in the U.S. CCS technologies possess great potential to permanently store CO2 emissions from these sectors, and this methodology aims to provide a first of its kind incentive designed to spur increased investment in CCS projects.

The analysis is the first to combine detailed models of the U.S. electric system and transportation sector with sophisticated atmospheric air quality models — accounting for the future evolution of both sectors in technological advances, electricity load growth and capacity expansion.

The bill would apply to emissions from the electricity generation, petroleum refining, industrial and commercial economic sectors, which together account for 85 percent of overall U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Renewable energy provides a small fraction of electricity used today, but the wind and solar sectors are the fastest growing in the U.S..

The great sidebar to the story above is that U.S. economic and energy growth is being accompanied by reductions in carbon dioxide emissions from the electricity - generating sector.

The heat waves and drought that hit the U.S. in 2011 and 2012 shined a harsh light on the vulnerability of the U.S. power sector to extreme weather, and revealed water - related electricity risks across the country.

The second report from the Energy and Water in a Warming World initiative, Water - Smart Power: Strengthening the U.S. Electricity System in a Warming World, takes up this challenge by exploring how energy choices affect the resilience of our energy sector in the face of both periodic drought and long - term changes in water availability.

The biggest shift in half a century is underway in the U.S. power sector, as electricity from coal plants shrinks and power from natural gas and renewables grows.

With this change and the ongoing shrinkage in coal - fired power generation, driving is gaining on electricity for the dubious distinction of most climate - damaging U.S. sector.

We're working in the U.S. to decarbonize the electricity system; supporting power sector reform in China; helping island economies transition to renewables; improving electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa; and providing renewable energy at mining operations.

Questions have also been raised as to whether the shale gas sector needs to be developed, given the province's recent electricity surplus and the availability of U.S. gas.

Despite the challenges facing the Mexican power sector, especially its inability to access natural gas from the U.S. and the widespread theft of electricity, international firms are very optimistic and believe these problems to be some of the «vast and varied» opportunities they believe they can avail.