Sentences with phrase «by renewable sources such»

But what makes Cointed special is that all the mining farms are 100 % powered by renewable sources such as hydro and wind power.

• Security of energy supply is improved by renewable sources such as the wind because there is no reliance on extensive fuel supply chains or politically unstable countries for the supply of fuel.

Not exact matches

Nikola plans to process its own hydrogen fuel at each station with on - site solar power, wind power or by buying electricity created through renewable sources such as hydropower.

he proposed Clean Energy Standard requires that 50 percent of energy in New York come from renewable sources such as wind and solar by 2030.

As of 2017, New York's Clean Energy Fund budget comes in at $ 5 billion and the proposed Clean Energy Standard requires that 50 percent of energy in New York come from renewable sources such as wind and solar by 2030.

The Cuomo Administration has set a goal of New York obtaining 50 percent of its energy needs through renewable sources such as wind and solar by the year 2030.

The new method can be useful in analyzing any kind of time series, such as predicting a power outage by accounting for power plant production, the fluctuating input of renewable energy sources and the changing demands of consumers.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

Renewable energy sources, such as the sun and wind, advances in technology to capture and store the carbon created by burning coal, and even the harvesting of uranium's energy will all likely be required.

The German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) still encourages such usage until 2019, e.g. by subsidizing the generation of heat from wood energy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating systems.

«(2) The Secretary shall require, with respect to any single - or multi-family residential housing subject to a mortgage insured under this Act, that any approval or certification of the housing for meeting any energy efficiency or conservation criteria, standards, or requirements pursuant to this title and any approval or certification required pursuant to this title with respect to energy - conserving improvements or any renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar energy geothermal, or biomass, shall be conducted only by an individual certified by a home energy rating system provider who has been accredited to conduct such ratings by the Home Energy Ratings System Council, the Residential Energy Services Network, or such other appropriate national organization, as the Secretary may provide, or by licensed professional architect or engineer.

The completed project will not be commercialized anytime soon, but it does represent an important milestone in the push for a clean - energy economy, fueled by renewable energy sources, such as solar power.

The plan also calls for an increase in the percentage of energy that electric utilities must get from renewable sources such as wind and solar from 25 percent by 2025 to 50 percent by 2040.

Grattan Institute energy director Tony Wood said Sunday's and Monday's blackouts and high pricing showed that the state had botched its energy transition program by allowing baseload power sources — such as the Hazelwood power station — to be replaced by renewables, which delivered intermittent power.

Instead, Sierra Club Canada advocates a sensible mix of solutions, involving the highest possible level of energy efficiency by North American households and businesses alike, the deployment of renewable sources such as wind and solar power, and a widespread shift to new, innovative technologies like hybrid and fuel cells to move people and goods around.

In 2006, Washington voters approved Initiative 937 requiring electric utilities to produce at least 15 % of their energy using renewable sources such as wind, solar and biomass by 2020.

Under the legislation, which builds upon standards already on the books, California will need to generate half of its electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind by 2030.

For Europeans opposed to nuclear energy (the biggest source of low - carbon energy in the EU), the portmanteau places a huge bet on technologies such as wind and wave power, setting a target to triple Europe's overall use of renewable energies by 2020.

Coal, which once supplied about half the nation's electricity, has dropped to 40 percent as it has been replaced by booming supplies of natural gas and renewable sources such as wind and solar.

For example, we are working with the Renewable Energy Group, Inc. to study the production of biodiesel by fermenting renewable cellulosic sugars from sources such as agriculturRenewable Energy Group, Inc. to study the production of biodiesel by fermenting renewable cellulosic sugars from sources such as agriculturrenewable cellulosic sugars from sources such as agricultural waste.

Instead, it complements DC's existing sustainability policies — such as a robust renewable portfolio standard (RPS) that requires the district's utilities to source 50 % of their electricity from renewable sources by 2032.

To decrease Monoglia's dependency on such fuels and to reduce the environmental impact of the Mongolian energy sector, the government has set an ambitious objective: By 2020, clean energy from renewable sources is supposed to reach twenty to twenty - five percent of the Mongolian energy mix.

Includes provisions: (1) creating a combined energy efficiency and renewable electricity standard and requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet 20 % of their demand through renewable electricity and electricity savings by 2020; (2) setting a goal of, and requiring a strategic plan for, improving overall U.S. energy productivity by at least 2.5 % per year by 2012 and maintaining that improvement rate through 2030; and (3) establishing a cap - and - trade system for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and setting goals for reducing such emissions from covered sources by 83 % of 2005 levels by 2050.

Requires FERC to: (1) issue to each generator of renewable electricity a REC for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated after December 31, 2011; (2) issue three RECs for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated by an existing distributed renewable generation facility; and (3) review the effect of issuing three RECs and to reduce such number for any given energy source or technology to ensure that such number is no higher than is necessary to make such facilities using such source or technology cost competitive with other sources of renewable electricity generation.

«By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.&raquBy the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.&raquby 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.»

But the CPP guidelines could be followed only by changing the power sources themselves, from coal to natural gas, and from fossil fuels altogether to renewables such as wind and solar.

It allows renewable sources such as wind and solar power to operate at full capacity during peak generation periods by storing excess energy until it is needed to meet later demand.

Finally, it should be noted that socioeconomic hypotheses associated with the lower emission trajectories (such as the one commented upon by Tim Worstall) imply a greatly increased use of nuclear and fossil fuels, especially cooal and natural gas, and the share of renewable sources reaching much less than the «80 %» claimed by the recent «renewable energy» IPCC report.

Getting greenhouse gas emissions to 60 percent below the 1990 level will require four types of measures: aggressive energy efficiency, aggressive electrification, decarbonizing electricity (such as by using renewable energy sources) and decarbonizing the remaining fuel supply (such as by using biofuels).

China is heavily reliant on coal burning thermal power plants, but reportedly has set a generating target of 20 million kilowatts from renewable energy sources such as hydropower, solar power and wind power by 2020.

BNEF expects the nation's coal - power capacity in 2040 will be about half of what it is now after older plants come offline and are replaced by cheaper and less - polluting sources such as gas and renewables.

They call for a quarter of the state's energy to come from alternative sources by 2025, with half of that coming from renewable sources such as wind and solar.

China's target is to have renewable sources produce 10 percent of its power by 2010 - not counting large hydropower projects such as the Three Gorges Dam.

I - 937 was passed by the voters to diversify and clean up Washington's electric grid by requiring utilities to generate at least 15 % of their electricity from new, non-hydro, renewable sources such as wind and solar.

For the avoidance of doubt, Gross Revenues shall (A) exclude monies received from any source other than the sale of electric energy and capacity, including, without limitation, any of the following: (i) any federal, state, county or local tax benefits, grants or credits or allowances related to, derived from, or granted to the Wind Energy Project or Grantee, including, but not limited to, investment or production tax credits, or property or sales tax exemptions, (ii) proceeds from financing activities, sales, assignments, partial assignments, contracts (other than the power purchase agreement) or other dispositions of or related to the Wind Energy Project (such as damages for breach of contract or liquidated damages for delays in project completion or failures in equipment performance), (iii) amounts received as reimbursements or compensation for wheeling costs or other electricity transmission or delivery costs, and (iv) any proceeds received by Grantee as a result of damage or casualty to the Wind Energy Project, or any portion thereof and (B) include any revenues derived from Grantee's sale of carbon dioxide trading credits, renewable energy credits or certificates, emissions reduction credits, emissions allowances, green tags, tradable renewable credits, or Green - e ® products, any of which are allocated to Grantee, if applicable, through its participation in any voluntary registry, association or market - based exchange.

Critics of «clean coal» contend that there is no such thing as «clean coal,» since even technology projected by 2020 will still release large amounts of pollutants compared to renewable energy sources such as wind, concentrated solar power, photovoltaic power, hydropower, and geothermal power.

... By integrating electricity from renewable sources such as wind power into our electric generating mix, we can help ensure a clean environment and a robust economy for the Commonwealth.»

Additional goals set with WWF include covering the equivalent of 100 percent of electricity consumption at Avery Dennison's U.S. operations with renewable energy by 2025 and addressing climate change through other areas of operations, such as maximizing use of paper made with recycled or certified wood fiber (sourcing only from certified sources by 2025).

The green proposition of electric cars, especially the plug - in variety, is that by promoting the development of electricity generation and energy storage technology development (in the form of energy storage devices such as batteries), electric cars are not only reducing the need for gasoline, but also creates pull factors for the development of grid - connected renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy by creating new electricity demand and provide energy storage solutions to address the problems of the intermittent nature of solar and wind power.

«Since intermittent renewables by definition can not provide a reliable supply of electricity, they must be backed up by conventional fuel sources such as coal, gas, hydro or nuclear.»

British consumer goods group Reckitt Benckiser Group plc — which owns «Powerbrands» such as Durex, Air Wick and Dettol — has also committed to sourcing 100 % renewable electricity by 2030.

Days later Siemens AG (SIE) announced it's selling Marine Current Turbines Ltd... Already the top 20 wave and tidal - stream businesses have amassed losses of $ 903 million over their lifetimes, according to BNEF data... «This is the capitalist survival - of - the - fittest process working as normal in any new market area,» McCrone said by e-mail... As other renewables such as solar and wind have reduced cost to become commercially viable, waves and tides remain the most expensive sources of power, costing four times more than coal, BNEF estimates... Oceanlinx Ltd. and Wavebob Ltd. both failed in the past 18 months, and Ocean Power Technologies Inc., one of the only listed marine energy businesses, canceled a project inAustralia.

By reducing energy usage, using such renewable energy sources as wind and solar power and putting in place other measures, News Corp. plans to nearly eliminate its emissions from a 2006 footprint of 641,150 tons of carbon dioxide equivalents across its operations in 52 countries.

This demand is likely to be met by increasing use of fossil fuels along with other sources, such as nuclear and renewable.»

A more certain method of reducing global arming caused by both fossil - fuel soot and carbon dioxide is to convert vehicles from fossil fuels to electric, plug - in hybrid or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, where the electricity or hydrogen is produced by a renewable energy sources [sic], such as wind, solar geothermal, hydroelectric, wave, or tidal power.»

«Nuclear power plants provide the nation with a source of clean energy at a time when renewables such as solar and wind are not yet ready to fill the potential gap in the nation's base power needs created by the loss of nuclear power.

Italy - based Leoplast Group, which uses natural vegetable - based and renewable sources such as biopolymer produced by NatureWorks LLC, said companies don't realize the kind of impact they can have by using more eco-friendly packaging.

While natural gas has a slight environmental benefit relative to the use of conventional liquid fuels, such as gasoline and diesel, the environmental performance of natural gas can be greatly improved by procurement from renewable sources.

Alongside policy support, drivers supporting the roll out of district heating include the decarboni - sation trend, as district heating can harness a range of renewable or low - carbon energy sources such as biomass and geothermal; energy security, as district heat - ing can improve the reliability of access to energy at both the user and national levels by re - ducing reliance on cen - tral energy networks; and energy efficiency, which is higher with district heating than traditional boilers.