Sentences with phrase «u.s. electricity system»

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.

Fuel and technology options already available provide the means to strengthen the U.S. electricity system.

The U.S. electricity system is undergoing the biggest change in its 130 - year history.

The White House's climate action plan aims to transform the U.S. electricity system in the coming decades.

«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.

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The order gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the authority to repeal and replace the Clean Power Plan, the set of rules that established goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil - fueled electricity plants through a national trading system.

The U.S. healthcare system, the most expensive in the world, uses vast amounts of energy in the form of heating, electricity, and energy - intensive goods and services.

But such reactors still require the same electricity - generating, safety, and waste disposal systems as the hulking light - water reactors presently being built as well as identical rigorous licensing requirements, at least in the U.S. — and that may cost them.

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.

Philadelphia's mass transit system used more than 500,000 megawatt - hours (pdf) of electricity in 2011, equivalent to the annual consumption of around 46,000 average U.S. homes.

The system generates 235 megawatt - hours of electricity annually in an effort to boost the energy efficiency of this office complex, the headquarters for the U.S. Department of Energy.

A new study co-authored by Steven Davis, associate professor of Earth system science, shows that the U.S. can meet 80 percent of its electricity demand with renewable solar and wind resources.

Here's how it would work: Let's say a state's fourth - grade science standards include the circulatory system, atoms and molecules, electricity, and Earth's geologic layers and weather; and social - studies standards include world geography, Europe in the Middle Ages, the American Revolution, and the U.S. Constitution, among other domains.

Lache estimated that solar - plus - storage systems of the type SolarCity and Tesla are packaging could bring the price of electricity to 39 cents per kilowatt hour, which compares favorably against peak demand electricity prices of 49 cents per kilowatt hour in some U.S. markets today.

And right now the U.S. is moving toward a natural - gas dominated electricity system.

The tool features nearly real - time demand data, plus analysis and visualizations of hourly, daily, and weekly electricity supply and demand on a national and regional level for all of the 66 electric system balancing authorities that make up the U.S. electric grid.

EIA recently launched a new U.S. Electric System Operating Data tool, which provides hourly electricity operating data, including actual and forecast demand, net generation, and the power flowing between electric systems.

Includes provisions: (1) creating a combined energy efficiency and renewable electricity standard and requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet 20 % of their demand through renewable electricity and electricity savings by 2020; (2) setting a goal of, and requiring a strategic plan for, improving overall U.S. energy productivity by at least 2.5 % per year by 2012 and maintaining that improvement rate through 2030; and (3) establishing a cap - and - trade system for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and setting goals for reducing such emissions from covered sources by 83 % of 2005 levels by 2050.

According to the study, «renewable electricity generation from technologies that are commercially available today, in combination with a more flexible electric system, is more than adequate to supply 80 % of total U.S. electricity generation in 2050 while meeting electricity demand on an hourly basis in every region of the country.»

4:40 PM ENERGY TECH AND SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS This panel will feature American businesses that are implementing solutions to reduce GHG emissions and increase resilience in the electricity grid, the built environment, transportations systems, and in homes and communities in the U.S. and abroad.

This was primarily due to the low cost of decarbonizing coal - based electricity in the U.S. versus Canada's largely decarbonized electricity system and high costs of reducing emissions in the oil sands.

The outcome of those perks has been a contribution of distributed solar PV from rooftop systems of 0.3 percent of U.S. electricity generation in the first 11 months of 2015, according to the Energy Information Administration.

Using a «high - resolution electricity system planning model» of the DOE's two - year - old SunShot Initiative (meant to knock down the cost of solar electricity to market prices by 2020) alongside likely carbon - limitation policies, Kammen and company found that it's not unrealistic for solar to capture a third of the Western U.S. electricity market within 40 years, displacing currently more - attractive technologies like nuclear and natural gas.

Caught in the middle are the public power systems, municipal and cooperative utilities, which serve a seventh of all electricity consumers in the U.S. and some of the largest cities, such as Los Angeles, Jacksonville, and Memphis.

This analysis explores the costs associated with future scenarios for the electricity system across the eastern and midwestern U.S., which supplies electricity to 39 states from the Rockies to the Atlantic Ocean.

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.

Over the coming weeks, our blog series, Lower Emissions, Brighter Economy, will evaluate these opportunities across five key areas — power generation, electricity consumption, passenger vehicles, natural gas systems, and hydrofluorocarbons — which together represent 55 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

That report predicted that without new carbon regulations, the U.S. would still have an electricity system in 2040 based largely on coal and natural gas:

They modeled a range of electricity systems for the year 2050, including moderately decarbonized grids with emissions intensity that would be 60 % to 80 % below that of the U.S. grid today.

By the end of the year, there were a total of 440,000 operating solar electric systems in the U.S., generating enough electricity to power 2.2 million homes.

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The SAI's goal is to reduce the cost of solar energy systems to make them competitive with conventional U.S. electricity sources by 2015.

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.