Sentences with phrase «after generations of energy»

Here's an essay from Botkin reflecting on ways to move toward a sustained expansion of clean energy technology after generations of energy policies shaped by abundant supplies of coal and oil and disregard for their indirect impacts.

Not exact matches

A PERTH company is a step closer to commercialising a new form of renewable energy power generation after being recognised as a leading low - carbon innovator.

Instead, a private consortium of investors, including investment bank Goldman Sachs and private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., purchased the power generation company and last week changed its name to Energy Future Holdings Corporation after withdrawing eight of the planned applications.

After a timid start, the approval of the «Law 20/25» in 2013 — which set a target of 20 percent nonconventional renewable energy (NCRE) generation by 2025 — triggered a boom in NCRE, according to data from the Chilean Association of Renewable Energy (Aenergy (NCRE) generation by 2025 — triggered a boom in NCRE, according to data from the Chilean Association of Renewable Energy (AEnergy (ACERA).

These two well - known stories speak to the youthful entrepreneurial energy that has helped young people from each generation launch businesses either right out of school or soon after.

I would liken the predicament more to a Faustian bargain in which humanity has been granted supernatural power through the bounty of divine energy stored in fossil fuels; and after a few generations of blissful consumption, the devil has returned for his due.

They are approaching the theoretical limiting efficiency of 33 % and achieve cost parity with fossil fuel energy generation after a payback period of 5 - 7 years.

Japan says its focus will be promotion of energy efficiency «at the same level as the significant energy efficiency improvement after the oil crisis», as well as «maximum introduction of renewable energy, promotion of high efficiency in thermal power generation, and utilization of nuclear power generations whose safety is approved».

The Ontario Ministry of Energy, in its latest progress report on commitments issued shortly after COP21, prioritized the involvement of First Nation and Métis communities in new generation and transmission projects, as well as in conservation and community energy planning initiaEnergy, in its latest progress report on commitments issued shortly after COP21, prioritized the involvement of First Nation and Métis communities in new generation and transmission projects, as well as in conservation and community energy planning initiaenergy planning initiatives.

Requires FERC to: (1) issue to each generator of renewable electricity a REC for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated after December 31, 2011; (2) issue three RECs for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated by an existing distributed renewable generation facility; and (3) review the effect of issuing three RECs and to reduce such number for any given energy source or technology to ensure that such number is no higher than is necessary to make such facilities using such source or technology cost competitive with other sources of renewable electricity generation.

Just weeks after the solar industry installed the one millionth system in Germany, the country's solar trade association announced that the technology accounted for 3 % of total energy generation in 2011 — increasing 60 % over 2010 to 18.6 terawatt - hours (18.6 billion kilowatt - hours.)

In 2014, 21 countries, including the United States, generated a total of about 69 billion kWh of electricity from geothermal energy.1 The Philippines was the second - largest geothermal electricity producer after the United States, at about 10 billion kWh of electricity, which equaled approximately 14 % of the Philippines» total electricity generation.

After a long and cloudy winter we are now observing surplus energy generation, which will offset the winter - use of electricity.

After energy consumption is reduced to a minimum, onsite renewable energy generation, likely PV in the majority of cases, would complete the balance.

Researchers from the University of Tennessee wrote: «The evidence that consumers increase energy consumption after being exposed to conservation calls, yet no reduction in generation is observed over critical superpeak hours, is consistent with an emergent body of work in environmental economics exploring the unintended consequences of various policy actions.»

Tier 1 RECs are derived from the energy production of megawatt - hour (MWh) by RES - eligible electric generation sources which first entered commercial operation on or after January 1, 2015.

Previously, solar power plants had depended on back up energy plants powered by carbon emitting fuels because a solar system's peak generation hours do not coincide with the utility's peak load hours after 5 p.m. Low sunlight meant low energy generation, and this challenge scaled back the environmental benefits of solar plants.

The ongoing saga of the conversion of Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) Thunder Bay 300 - MW coal plant took another twist on Budget Day, May 1, 2014, as Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli used his hammer to force a contract between the Ontario Power Authority and the OPG in respect to the allowable cost recoveries after conversion.

This is a bill for energy independence after a devastating oil spill, a bill to hold polluters accountable, a bill for billions of dollars to create the next generation of jobs, and a bill to end America's addiction to foreign oil.»

While another of Finkel's recommendations - a Clean Energy Target (CET) to replace the Renewable Energy Target (RET) after 2020 - would incentivise new low emissions generation, it also contains a controversial caveat.

Australia's chief scientist Dr Alan Finkel has recommended that after 2020, wind and solar projects should be required to pair with energy storage capacity or dispatchable generation plants to enhance the security of the power system.

After the restructuring, RWE will own even larger shares of conventional generation in Germany, which gives this company more market power and political weight when discussing the future of energy production in Germany

On the other hand, based on measurements (for example the Perry curves in this posting as well as others in his book), I am quite certain that a substantial portion of the LWIR energy emitted from the Surface ultimately, after a number of absorption and re-emission transactions, does make its way back down and that some of that downwelling LWIR is due to layers above the initial, first - generation extinction level.

Building type: 1950s solid wall brick house, east - west orientation, detached (91sqm extended to 125sqm) Location: Nottingham Budget: Approx # 200k including extensions, full refurbishment, full and internal fit - out, garage rebuild, landscaping Space heating demand Before: 458 kWh / m2 / yr according to EPC at time of purchase After: 24kWh / m2 / yr (PHPP) Heat load Before: not known After: 10 W / m2 Primary energy demand (PHPP) Before: not known After: 81 kWh / m2 / yr Primary energy demand (measured) Before: 330 kWh / m2 / yr After: 81 kWh / m2 / yr Energy performance certificate (EPC) Before: E 39 After: B90 (predicting space and water heating total of over 13,000 kWh / yr compared with actual value of 5,345 kWh in 2013) Measured total energy consumption Before: 275 kWh / m2 / yr (Apr 2010 - Mar 2011) After: 56 kWh / m2 / yr (Jan - Dec 2013), not including PV use or generenergy demand (PHPP) Before: not known After: 81 kWh / m2 / yr Primary energy demand (measured) Before: 330 kWh / m2 / yr After: 81 kWh / m2 / yr Energy performance certificate (EPC) Before: E 39 After: B90 (predicting space and water heating total of over 13,000 kWh / yr compared with actual value of 5,345 kWh in 2013) Measured total energy consumption Before: 275 kWh / m2 / yr (Apr 2010 - Mar 2011) After: 56 kWh / m2 / yr (Jan - Dec 2013), not including PV use or generenergy demand (measured) Before: 330 kWh / m2 / yr After: 81 kWh / m2 / yr Energy performance certificate (EPC) Before: E 39 After: B90 (predicting space and water heating total of over 13,000 kWh / yr compared with actual value of 5,345 kWh in 2013) Measured total energy consumption Before: 275 kWh / m2 / yr (Apr 2010 - Mar 2011) After: 56 kWh / m2 / yr (Jan - Dec 2013), not including PV use or generEnergy performance certificate (EPC) Before: E 39 After: B90 (predicting space and water heating total of over 13,000 kWh / yr compared with actual value of 5,345 kWh in 2013) Measured total energy consumption Before: 275 kWh / m2 / yr (Apr 2010 - Mar 2011) After: 56 kWh / m2 / yr (Jan - Dec 2013), not including PV use or generenergy consumption Before: 275 kWh / m2 / yr (Apr 2010 - Mar 2011) After: 56 kWh / m2 / yr (Jan - Dec 2013), not including PV use or generation.

[9] The merger would mean «increased emissions from coal - fired generation» with an increase of 9.5 million MWH of coal - fired generation over the first five years after the merger... and would also result in the creation of a dominant procurer of renewable energy that would limit the pool of renewable energy developers.