Sentences with phrase «because wind energy companies»

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Berkshire Hathaway Energy has been able to tap into wind tax credits like almost no other company because of its sheer size and integration.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds&renergy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds&rEnergy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

New York's chairman of energy and finance, Richard Kauffman, will exclude himself from meetings with the world's largest offshore wind - energy developer about a wind farm off Long Island because of an investment he has in a Goldman Sachs subsidiary that owns a large stake in the company.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

But a recent study in PNAS suggested that wind (and other renewables) will fall short of slashing carbon emissions, because there just isn't enough of it in the U.S. Based on data from a company owned by one of the study's authors, this map's white areas show where wind turbines would be most effective — but because wind isn't available all the time, they'd only produce roughly 50 percent of the energy wind turbines could at maximum capacity.

«The relative cost of new energy is lower and lower because fossil fuel is more and more expensive,» explained Lu Jinxiang, CEO of A-Power, a Chinese builder of power plants, during a visit to the company's Shenyang wind turbine factory.

Because of white nose syndrome, mounting public pressure and scrutiny from wildlife officials have become a major motivator for wind energy companies to figure out how to prevent bat deaths.

Because of the course, I have committed to choosing the wind energy option from our electric company, finding out more about Portland's Climate Plan, and reducing / eliminating packaging from our grocery purchases.

However, the company told us that it tries to combine negative and positive approaches, and that it invests in SSE plc despite its involvement in fossil fuels because of its significance in the wind power industry and transitioning the UK towards renewable energy.

In the UK and in China, they grew to occupy sizeable percentage of total energy production, partly due to the hydro - electric companies but also because solar and wind power have built a large following in the private and public industry.

«It is appropriate and necessary to grant the AWC Companies» requested incentives,» AWC argued in its most recent FERC filing, because doing otherwise would «frustrate the extraordinary efforts of the Mid-Atlantic States, the Department of Interior (DOI) and the Department of Energy (DOE) to expedite large - scale offshore wind development.»

Because of this, the Danish energy company DONG had taken the decision to no longer erect wind turbines in the countryside, and to put them offshore instead.

«GREEN» ENERGY THAT IS N'T Wind ENERGY IS BAD BUSINESS: • Because Ontario has the highest industrial hydro rates in North America, companies like Magna International are suspending investment in the province or moving out entirely and taking these jobs elsewhere.

Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, noted in an interview that a spokesman for the Colorado - based utility Xcel Energy explained that his company was expanding its investments in solar and wind power because they are the «most cost - effective and most reliable.»

A: Because Skystream is a renewable energy source, produces no pollution and uses wind power; you will be offsetting pollution that would have been generated by your utility company.