Sentences with phrase «balanced by natural gas»

As the shift occurred to renewable energy load - balanced by natural gas and hydro, aging coal - fired power plants could be relegated to seasonal use.

Not exact matches

By 2030, Dubai hopes to balance natural gas and solar and get 7 % of its energy from coal.

This stability in methane levels had led scientists to believe that emissions of the gas from natural sources like livestock and wetlands, as well as from human activities like coal and gas production, were balanced by the rate of destruction of methane in the atmosphere.

A new fleet of power plants fired by natural gas may have better fit the jagged generation gap left by the nuclear phaseout, given gas power's reduced carbon emissions and flexibility to balance feed - in variations.

The authors reject the idea that one expensive measure — the practice of «firming» wind energy by balancing it with natural gas generation at every hour — is necessary in light of other low - cost options.

Most of us acknowledge the existence of the internal variables, but an attempt to substitute them for known effects of greenhouse gases rather than to try to see how natural and anthropogenic factors balance out at different timescales will be seen as a dead end by individuals familiar with the abundant data in these areas.

Proceedings: Friday 4 May Opening remarks Welcome by Mr, Sefa Sadık AYTEKIN, Deputy Undersecretary, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Turkey Keynote address by H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Workplan of WEO - 2012 Iraq Energy Outlook by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA Session 1: Energy in Iraq — fuelling Iraq's reconstruction and development Chair: Mr. Simon STOLP, World Bank Introductory interventions: H.E. Martin KOBLER, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Iraq Dr. Usama KARIM, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Iraq Dr. Kamal AL - BASRI, Chairman of the Iraq Institute for Economic Reform Open discussion Session 2: Iraq's electricity sector — short term needs and long - term interests Chair: Mr. Hamish MCNINCH, International Expert Introductory interventions: Dr. Majeed ABDUL - HUSSAIN, Parsons Brinckerhoff Dr. Abdul Qader AHMED, Mass Global Open discussion Special address: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Session 3: Iraq's oil and gas supply — managing the development of a huge resource Chair: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Dr. Ali AL - MASHAT, Advisor, Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Ms. Ruba HUSARI, Managing Director, Iraq Insight Open discussion Session 4: Iraq and international markets — impacts on regional and global balances Chair: H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Introductory interventions: Dr. Mussab AL - DUJAYLI, former Director General, State Oil Marketing Organisation Mr. Jonathan ELKIND, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy of the United States Ms. Coby VAN DER LINDE, Director of the Energy Programme, Clingendael Institute, the Netherlands Open discussion Session 5: Summary and conclusions Co-Chairs: H.E. Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to France and H.E. Nick Bridge, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the OECD Tour de table with recommendations for key topics and areas of study for consideration in the WEO - 2012 Concluding remarks by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA

Since January 1, 2012, renewable energy sources have accounted for nearly half (47.83 %) of all new installed U.S. electrical generating capacity followed by natural gas (38.34 %) and coal (13.40 %) with oil, waste heat, and «other» accounting for the balance.

By setting modest carbon reduction goals and providing maximum compliance flexibility, including carbon reductions achieved through increased use of natural gas and nuclear, the Clean Power Plan established a balance of environmental and economic development goals.

Residual load - balancing needs could be met through rapid - response hydropower (seconds to minutes) followed by natural gas with prices further adjusted by congestion, distance and volume needed.

Environmental regulatory requirements may have been the straw that broke a baseload's camel's back — particularly for coal plants — but it appears that most baseload plants were already burdened by the effects of low natural gas prices, eroding customer demand, and lower capacity factors before the incremental burden of new regulations tipped the balance over to retirement.»

About 60 percent of Ontario's current generation capacity is already accounted for by low - emission hydro or nuclear - generated electricity, with the balance provided by natural - gas generation and to a lesser extent by renewables.

That means seeking what the treaty calls a «balance» between sources of carbon like the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, and its absorption from the atmosphere by forest growth, or, possibly, techniques like capturing emissions of CO2 and burying them in the ground.

Already this year, the balance of electricity production will be 71 % natural gas, 25 % -27 % coal, and 2 % renewable energy, with the economy transitioning to using coal only for emergency and backup purposes by 2030.

A more literal translation would read that the «increase» in CO2 from hard coal was «balanced» by the drop in consumption of natural gas and lignite for power.