Sentences with phrase «avoided by your renewable energy»

Choosing a project in a more carbon intensive grid rather than your potentially less intense local grid can therefore dramatically increase the actual greenhouse gas emissions avoided by your renewable energy choice.

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«Further, the plant helps avoid millions of metric tons of harmful carbon dioxide emissions each year and serves as a clean energy bridge to meeting the state's 50 % renewable energy goal by 2030.»

It's too late to avoid dangerous climate change just by switching to renewable energy, so we will also have to pull the greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere

Humanity must become aware of the urgent need to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources to avoid the catastrophic scenario of using coal as an energy source as well as to replace the current model of development for sustainable development, which, by reverse logistics, with the reuse, recovery and recycling of materials, thus reaching the so - called closed production cycle, could delay the exhaustion of natural resources of the planet Earth.

If we make the switch and rely on renewable sources of energy like the sun, we can save billions of dollars by avoiding not only the costs of replacing these plants, but also the increasingly higher costs of climate change in areas like healthcare expenses and damage from extreme weather.

Fortunately, the US has so far largely avoided wasting enormous resources by over promoting renewable energy.

Usual investment criteria may not deliver the super low - cost, clean, renewable energy soon enough to avoid the worst effects of climate change,» said Dr. Larry Brilliant, Executive Director of Google.org, Google's philanthropic arm, «Google.org's hope is that by funding research on promising technologies, investing in promising new companies, and doing a lot of R&D ourselves, we may help spark a green electricity revolution that will deliver breakthrough technologies priced lower than coal.»

It may be too late to prevent an ice - free Arctic in the summertime, but there is still time to avoid the worst consequences of rising temperatures by leaving fossil fuels underground and rapidly transitioning to an energy economy centered on renewables.

A recent report by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recommended that consumers compare as many solar options as possible to avoid paying inflated prices offered by the large installers in the solar industry.

NCSEA's regulatory engagement encourages clean energy development by working for fair rules on issues such as implementing North Carolina's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS), interconnection and net - metering standards, energy pricing mechanisms like avoided cost rates, and energy efficiency proenergy development by working for fair rules on issues such as implementing North Carolina's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS), interconnection and net - metering standards, energy pricing mechanisms like avoided cost rates, and energy efficiency proEnergy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS), interconnection and net - metering standards, energy pricing mechanisms like avoided cost rates, and energy efficiency proEnergy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS), interconnection and net - metering standards, energy pricing mechanisms like avoided cost rates, and energy efficiency proenergy pricing mechanisms like avoided cost rates, and energy efficiency proenergy efficiency programs.

We can help to avoid the dangerous effects of global warming by enacting strong and mandatory policies to shift to renewable sources of energy and improve energy efficiency.

It is paid by all consumers of electricity with the exception of energy intensive industries (in order to avoid damage to international competitiveness) and operators of renewable and small conventional power plants that use electricity they generate themselves.