Sentences with phrase «annual electricity generation»

By the end of 2016, these technologies — collectively referred to as variable renewable energy (VRE)-- had reached double - digit shares of annual electricity generation in fifteen countries.

In no other country has wind's share of annual electricity generation yet topped 30 percent.

As a number of countries and jurisdictions reach high levels of renewable energy penetration, they are adapting FITs to address new needs and opportunities (High RE penetration can be defined as at least 15 % of annual electricity generation from RE.

This additional potential is equivalent to nearly 20 percent of total U.S. annual electricity generation from all sources in 2014.

This is equivalent to the annual electricity generation by three large gas power plants.

The chart below, based on data from the Department of Energy's EIA, shows annual electricity generation from 2001 through 2016.

Not exact matches

«Hydropower is an essential source of electricity in California providing, on average, 15 percent of our annual generation,» California Energy Commission Chairman Robert Weisenmiller said in a news release on the study.

In the United States, wood and wood - derived fuels accounted for nearly 40 million megawatt - hours of electricity generation in 2013, just under 1 percent of the U.S. annual total, according to federal energy data.

Between 2002 and 2012, the annual electrical generation from coal - fired plants fell by 2 %, while the amount of electricity generated by natural gas plants rose by 37 %.

In 2016, Denmark and Germany successfully managed peaks of 140 % and 86.3 %, respectively, of electricity generation from renewable sources, and in several countries (Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus, for example), achieving annual shares of 20 - 30 % electricity from variable renewables without additional storage is becoming feasible.

-- The government reaffirmed its commitment to domestic climate goals — It promised # 730m of annual support for renewable electricity generation over the course of this parliament — It appears the government is still committed to phasing out all remaining coal plants by 2025 at the latest

Although U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with electricity generation have fallen from the 2005 level, they are projected to increase in the coming decades, based on analysis in EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) that reflects current laws and regulations, and therefore does not include proposed rules such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.

Those units would annually generate approximately 17 terawatts (TWh) of electricity — about 3/4 % of annual electricity consumption in the UK — and produce 150 % of C02 emissions of coal generation and 300 % of gas generation.

Canada now has 11,898 MW of installed wind generation capacity, enough to supply six percent of Canada's electricity demand and meet the annual electricity needs of more than three million homes.

Step 1: Estimate annual changes in electric generation and emissions of air pollutants at power plants as a result of RGGI implementation from 2009 to 2014 using electricity dispatch modeling and EPA emissions data for EGUs.

Lastly, in a grid with 100 % renewable power production, the generation capacity would need to be ten times larger than the peak load, and excess electricity would surpass the EU annual electricity consumption.

In the case of a grid with 80 % renewables, the generation capacity needs to be six times larger than the peak load, while the excess electricity would be equal to 60 % of the EU's current annual electricity consumption.

The installations at the two Regional Food Bank facilities are comprised of a total of 2,673 solar panels and expected to combine for approximately 973,000 kilowatt - hours of annual generation, to meet approximately 60 percent of the facilities» electricity needs.

Using the latest available national data on power generation, this most recent look at data on annual and quarterly electricity generation nationwide from the Energy Democracy Initiative at ILSR illustrates how small - scale, distributed solar energy stacks up against its big, fossil fuel and utility - scale renewable energy competitors.

«(B) the net sales of electricity by the facility to customers not consuming the thermal output from that facility will not exceed 50 percent of total annual electric generation by the facility.

-- The term «efficiency» means the operating efficiency of an electric generation facility as determined by the average annual heat rate of the facility, measured in British thermal units required to generate a kilowatt - hour of electricity from the facility.

In its annual World Energy Outlook 2016 report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that coal will remain the largest single source of electricity generation through to 2040, most of the new demand for coal will be driven by India and Southeast Asia.

In 2009, China boosted its clean energy generation to 226 Megawatts four times the annual electricity use of the United Kingdom.

Power — According to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), natural gas accounted for nearly one - third of U.S. electricity generation last year — the first time natural gas was the leading fuel for power generation on an annual basis.

Heavily reliant on oil imports and with an annual energy deficit of 3,478 GWh as of 2009, electricity in Lebanon is for the most part generated by hydroelectric and thermal generation at present and in addition, there are power reliability issues «such as load shedding, technical losses, and the aging of power plants», which again the addition of dispatchable renewable energy facilities is intended to counteract.

In addition to the electricity generation's revenues shared with the 16 municipalities, an annual financial contribution of $ 61,500 will be paid by the project during the 20 - year operational phase to the RCM of La Mitis.

Each utility must compensate customers with systems less than 40 kW in size for net excess generation (NEG) at the average retail utility energy rate, defined as the total annual class revenue from sales of electricity minus the annual revenue resulting from fixed charges, divided by the annual class kilowatt - hour sales.

3 Pumped storage hydroelectricity generation is negative because most pumped storage electricity generation facilities use more electricity than they produce on an annual basis.

From Green Mountain College's innovative biomass electricity generation to Georgia Tech's sustainable engineering classes, the magazine's September / October cover story spotlights the schools that are making a true difference for the planet, and marks Sierra's fourth annual listing of America's greenest universities and colleges.

The researchers who carried out the study estimate that a solar generation grid that met 1 percent of Britain's electricity demand could save close to 1.5 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions on an annual basis.