Sentences with phrase «already building the energy»

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Even though most modern office buildings already meet the energy efficiency standards detailed in the 179D, the tax benefits often go unclaimed.

The deal is already favourable to the French: the agreed - on strike price for Hinkley C's electricity — around $ 150 per megawatt hour — is double current energy rates and could increase further if another U.K. nuclear plant currently on the drawing board is not built.

The Tesla factory is already being used to build Tesla's Powerwall and Powerpack home batteries, which pull energy from solar panels and the power grid and store it for later use.

Already, more than 68,000 British Columbians work in the «clean economy» — a sector that includes green buildings, clean energy, professional services, waste management and more, and contributed $ 6.3 billion to B.C.'s GDP in 2014, according to the Delphi Group.

Reports suggest the government is considering several measures, ranging from speeding up the cash disbursements under the already - planned infrastructure program to incentives for energy - saving retrofits of buildings.

Companies like Tesla, Duracell, and the German energy storage firm Sonnen are already sending battery and solar supplies to Puerto Rico, building a toehold in what may be a lucrative rebuilding project.

«The Green Jobs - Green NY program will build on the significant efforts our State has already taken to help put New Yorkers to work in the clean energy economy,» Governor Paterson said.

Catsimatidis, who owns United Metro Energy Corp., is building a new biodiesel - processing facility in Greenpoint, and was already awarded a $ 62 million contract last year that provided city government with «heating oil, bio-blend and bio-heat bulk deliveries,» records show.

I live in the Southern Tier and hope that the state will invest in making our region a renewable energy center, building on programs already in place.

Data has already begun to be collected on the energy efficiency of New York's buildings and work has begun on about 30 million square feet of real estate.

I look forward to continuing to engage voters with passion and energy, and building on the strong support our campaign has already received.»

«You can feel it building on the energy that Jamestown is developing already.

The laser, built for fusion research, has already shown the ability to fire 4 megajoules of infrared energy for up to 20 nanoseconds.

The concept has already been proven and is operating successfully on a building in Swansea: the UK's first energy - positive classroom.

Already, in northern China, where decades - old residential buildings swallow two to three times more energy than comparable European buildings, local authorities struggle to come up with sufficient money to retrofit them.

The EPSRC Energy Programme will build on the large amount of research already being conducted through a number of consortia and research programs at various institutions working in areas such as biomass and bioenergy, marine energy, and extending the lifetime of conventional power plants through the Supergen progEnergy Programme will build on the large amount of research already being conducted through a number of consortia and research programs at various institutions working in areas such as biomass and bioenergy, marine energy, and extending the lifetime of conventional power plants through the Supergen progenergy, and extending the lifetime of conventional power plants through the Supergen programme.

can i eat peanut butter for energy just started the cleanse and i am starving already... im going to stick it out,,, i weigh 210 lbs and im 5ft 9in but im stocky build... i want to drop down to 190 - 195 lbs... is it okay to eat a spoonful of peanut butter for energy?

With such strong players at the core, the resulting drama is gripping and builds momentum at a slow but steady pace, ending with a final conflict that should generate sufficient energy for those that have already seen the first film to re-watch it in an all - new, fleshed - out light.

Before an investment is made in renewable energy or low carbon energy systems Eco-Schools recommend that the building owner should make sure the building is already as energy efficient as possible, so that the Solar PV energy generated is not wasted.

One movement in education that has already begun linking schools directly to communities by engaging kids in building more sustainable environments through food, water, and energy is systems thinking — the process of understanding how things influence one another other within a whole.

It came across as, «You're broken and you need fixing,» rather than, «We've got extra hands, we've got extra energy, let's build up what you already have.»

In building systems, we are moving to levels far greater: Technology already exists to replace all these systems, radiators and appliances that are energy - intensive consuming and do not produce the necessary heat or refrigeration required.

The CEI process re-energizes the entire learning environment by taking all of the physical resources that already exist in a public school (people and the building itself) and all the intangibles (ideas, time and relationships) and re-arranging them to free up the energy and creativity of the educators and students.

We already mentioned that Yorkshire terriers require higher proteins for two fundamental reasons: for continuous building and maintenance of tissues especially the muscles and for augmenting losses due to energy utilization.

Not many technical details on what kind of measures might have been taken to make the building more energy - efficient, but at the minimum the project plays out the idea that the greenest building is the one that's already standing, by re-adapting an existing structure for a second life.

Better forms of energy storage are being proven — right now; some already built; others are being tested.

Industrialized cities are already built out, with enormous long - term investments in physical infrastructure that were built specifically for a society that uses a lot of energy.

Four - fifths of the total energy - related CO2 emissions permissible by 2035 in the 450 Scenario are already «locked - in» by our existing capital stock (power plants, buildings, factories, etc.).

High energy density and pipelines are built already, but combustion produces CO2.

As I wrote the other day, it looks like countries are going to remain focused on addressing real - time problems related to energy security (most notably high oil prices) for the time being, even as evidence builds that global warming could fuel turmoil, particularly in already - troubled places like sub-Saharan Africa, in the long run.

Who puts up the money to retrofit buildings when, as New York City wrote in its energy plan, «Energy use in buildings accounts for 75 percent of New York City's greenhouse gas emissions, and 80 percent of the buildings that will exist in 2050 are already here today.&energy plan, «Energy use in buildings accounts for 75 percent of New York City's greenhouse gas emissions, and 80 percent of the buildings that will exist in 2050 are already here today.&Energy use in buildings accounts for 75 percent of New York City's greenhouse gas emissions, and 80 percent of the buildings that will exist in 2050 are already here today.»

The technology for making buildings energy neutral already exists.

Try, for example, further investing in commercial - and residential - building energy retrofit, where big dividends already are being seen.

Pioneer project upgraded to Passive House Plus The world's first Passive House building has increased its already high energy efficiency level and now relies on renewable energy.

If you want to be Swamp Yankee Green, remember that a building in the hand trumps a conceptually «greener» replacement building because all the energy, material, site disruption that is already in place, embodied in the building that's already there...

California has increased its Renewable Portfolio Standards from 20 % by 2020 to 33 % by 2020.57 Germany has made a post-Fukushima commitment to increase its already leading levels of investment in renewable energy generation.58 In China's most recently released Five - Year - Plan, a majority of the «strategic industries» that are emphasized are «clean technology» industries.59 Brazil is moving ahead aggressively with building its local renewable fuels economy.60 None of these pioneers have started and then scaled back.

To me this would appear to be a worst case scenario, based on the least developed economies building up energy infrastructures largely using fossil fuels, in order to pull their populations out of poverty, as China and India are doing today (thereby reducing their rate of population growth as they become more affluent and improving their carbon efficiencies) and the remaining societies continuing to improve their overall carbon efficiencies as they have already been doing.

There is a broad array of already existing clean and more productive energy technologies, as well as renewable bioproducts that can help propel both local communities and national governments towards meeting their climate goals and building smart, sustainable infrastructure.

The good news is that from our homes, places of worship, companies, and government buildings, to buses and our smart phones, clean energy is not only possible — in many places it's already happening.

They hope to continue gaming the system by selling carbon credits of doubtful authenticity on an already corrupt market, and demanding climate reparations and technology transfers from the West, while remaining free to build their own clean modern and efficient coal / gas / nuclear / hydro energy grid.

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

Starting with the first ENERGY STAR certified building in 1999, tens of thousands of buildings and plants across America have already earned EPA's ENERGY STAR for superior energy perforENERGY STAR certified building in 1999, tens of thousands of buildings and plants across America have already earned EPA's ENERGY STAR for superior energy perforENERGY STAR for superior energy perforenergy performance.

Passive house is already mandated in the city of Brussels from 2015 — the very city that is home to the European Commission which issued the Energy Performance Building Directive and the call for nearly zero energy builEnergy Performance Building Directive and the call for nearly zero energy builenergy buildings.

Taiwan already has plans to build its first offshore wind farms by 2015, and the island's desire to diversify its energy sources could lead to development of more offshore wind power.

Given the above, China already is building out a domestic energy infrastructure well - suited for integration into a Pan-Asian Energy Infrastructure that would increase redundancy and supply security for China's huge ecenergy infrastructure well - suited for integration into a Pan-Asian Energy Infrastructure that would increase redundancy and supply security for China's huge ecEnergy Infrastructure that would increase redundancy and supply security for China's huge economy.

Some of his suggestions for local planning initiatives include: Preserve wetlands by passing local wetlands protection laws; maintain biodiversity in the Hudson Valley by protecting sensitive lands through land acquisition; refrain from building in flood plains; require all new building to be «green» and sustainable and, ideally, change local building codes to require LEED certification; switch all public and government buildings to energy suppliers that provide wind and solar options as alternatives; implement smart growth communities by keeping construction in areas that are already developed thus preserving green corridors; and support cap - and - trade laws to decrease CO2 levels.

You are right on with this comment, my concern for building more efficiently is that it is possible to build energy efficiency into a structure and do so affordably, however the market today tells us that we have to have this or that to green build a home when we do not have to have such things, everything we need is already within the local marketplace of construction materials.

Sterling and Wilson, an award - winning EPC contractor, has installed nearly 1 GW of solar energy projects in India alone, and continues to lead the industry as more than 3,500 of its highly skilled workforce build international solar operations across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, and has already commissioned nearly 150 MW in solar farms across Africa and Southeast Asia.

The move, he said, would build on existing trends in states and cities already requiring cleaner energy sources — including power companies shifting to cleaner technologies to generate electricity.

The emergence of new PV products and battery storage is likely to transform the housing market, while LED lighting has already had a huge impact in lowering energy consumption and emissions in the commercial building sector.