Sentences with phrase «by renewables now»

But the even more astounding feature is that the additions powered by renewables now exceed those powered by fossil fuels (coal and gas) and nuclear.

Not exact matches

Now, Matthews's wildly ambitious goal is to «democratize on - demand power for everyone» by rebranding her company as M.O.R.E. (motion - based, off - grid, renewable energy), an energy company that's creating a microgenerating system that can harness the kinetic energy of just about anything that moves.

A viewpoint common in the energy industry, and articulated in a recent report by Calgary - based Altacorp Capital Inc., The Energy Reality, is that the transition to renewable energy will be much more expensive and take much longer than is now imagined.

The Fitzsimmons Creek Renewable Energy Project, a run - of - river power generating facility between Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains, came online in 2009 and now returns as much power to the grid as is consumed annually by Whistler Blackcomb's operations.

The reasons are familiar by now: cheap natural gas, cheap renewables, stagnant electricity demand, and old coal plants getting outcompeted on the market.

«And so now it's just really just a question of execution of core policies including the 50 percent by 2030 renewables program that was adopted last August by the Public Service Commission,» Morris says.

«Together, we have won more than just a ban — today, we have a strong movement that must now use our people power to win the transition to 100 % renewable energy for New York by 2030 in order to fight climate change.»

«Now that New York has built a foundation for the renewable energy system of the future, the state must double down by investing in the fight against dirty fossil fuels and fracked gas from neighboring states,» Cuomo said in his 2017 state - of - the - state address.

«By my calculations, this means for every $ 1 that the clean energy standard puts toward renewable energy between now and 2030, they'd be putting $ 2 toward this nuclear bailout,» Azulay said.

Ultimately, Kovacs said, because the town does not have a municipal - owned utility — Windham is served by two electricity distribution companies — the best the city can do right now is to choose renewable energy for government buildings if the price is right.

But one of the things that I have been very impressed by here is a lot of the stories of hope; many folks have traveled a long way to share what they are doing on a very local level to help combat climate change, and that's everything from, kind of, rural electrification in Africa and India, you know, bringing light to people who are still using dung or coal for cooking and heating and dying from indoor air pollution to, you know, major renewable energy projects, say, here in Denmark where they now get 20 percent of their electricity from wind power.

University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Education 193 million green kWh, 46 % of total power used This Ivy League university has greened its halls by locking into a 10 - year renewable energy credit contract with Community Energy (now owned by international giant Iberdrola Renewables), which has a wind farm in Bear Creek, Pa..

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

Now they have largely closed in on the goal, primarily by embracing smart updates of traditional ways to tap renewable energy sources — sun, wind, biological gases, and wood.

Now, Wyss Institute researchers led by Church have developed a new suite of such sensors, reported in Nucleic Acids Research journal, that not only increase the number of cellular «switches and levers» that scientists can use for complex genetic re-programming, but also respond to valuable products such as renewable plastics or costly pharmaceuticals and give microbes a voice to report on their own efficiency in making these products.

Shocks to ratepayers In fact, Japan's electricity prices are now among the highest in Asia, a condition created partly by high - priced renewables, but also by its heavy reliance on imported energy fuels following the closure of its nuclear plants, which provided 26 percent of the country's power before 2011.

Further to presentations by the Head of Engineering Department, the PDA in Project Management is now a core PDA for the newly developed Scottish qualification of Higher National Diploma in Energy Skills, addressing the looming skills shortage in Oil and Gas, and Renewable Industry.

With the City of Portland and Multnomah County, in Oregon, now committing to 100 % electricity from renewable energy sources by 2035, NW Natural has huge opportunities ahead, which is great news for income investors.

We previously covered this food - growing, electric - car - charging Solar Garage by Vermont's Green Mountain College, now their Renewable Energy and Ecological Design (REED) students have come up with the OTIS, a 70 - square foot mobile tiny home.

If you want to know what's really going on with these technologies — e.g. the state of the art of mainstream technology that's being deployed on large scales today, the new developments and breakthroughs that have the potential to produce even more renewable energy at ever lower cost, the major projects that are now being built or are planned all over the world — then please take advantage of the numerous online resources offered by trade groups like AWEA, or manufacturers, or business - oriented publications that track the renewable energy industry to educate yourself.

For a lot of reasons there is, at least by now, no «solution» with renewable sources to power a civilization of 7 + billion people.

It may be in doldrums, and Germany's emissions targets are certainly precarious right now, but it's not due to some failing in terms of renewable energy; it's partly due to the fact that they chose to make their task enormously harder by simultaneously ending nuclear power, and partly due to the fact that they were among the technical and policy pioneering nations, and consequently made more mistakes than those who came later.

And this deceitful result is for a limited contribution to the energy mix of the renewables whose intermittence can only be tolerated by the grid up to now because neighbor countries are there to damp the wild fluctuations in production.

Now they've achieved a very important milestone: The total ouput from the investments by the LEGO Group in renewables now exceeds the energy consumed at all LEGO factories, stores and offices globalNow they've achieved a very important milestone: The total ouput from the investments by the LEGO Group in renewables now exceeds the energy consumed at all LEGO factories, stores and offices globalnow exceeds the energy consumed at all LEGO factories, stores and offices globally.

The second step I'll take is to require that 10 percent of our energy comes from renewable sources by the end of my first term — more than double what we have now.

The flaw being that one thought one could address the climate threat by a combination emissions reductions, renewable energy use increase, and conservation efforts because we mistakenly thought the CO2 we emitted would stay in the atmosphere for a relatively short time - under 50 - 100 years, instead of the 500 and above years we now know a significant portion stays in the atmosphere.

Speaking at Energy Storage and Connected Systems, an event hosted last week in London by the national Renewable Energy Association (REA), shadow minister for energy and climate change Alan Whitehead claimed current energy legislation was now «obsolete» in the face of the changes underway in the sector.

Through the RE100 initiative, they set a goal to achieve 100 percent renewable electricity use in their global operations, with an interim target of 40 percent by 2020 — just two years from now.

This is a modern world now, not one to be driven back to the Middle Ages with previously discarded renewables and by cranks» takes on technology.

Environmental considerations aside, as the percentage of electricity generated by wind increases, renewable energy is coming under a lot more scrutiny now for one simple reason — money.

Compared with the past twenty - five years, the way that the world meets its growing energy needs changes dramatically in the New Policies Scenario, with the lead now taken by natural gas, by the rapid rise of renewables and by energy efficiency.

Renewables are increasingly more accessible, and many cities now offer subsidies or rebates for buildings that are powered by solar.

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

Up to now, the relatively small share of renewable power sources added to the grid has been balanced by dispatchable forms of electricity, mainly rapidly deployable gas power plants.

Now the conservative Danish government has adopted a virtually self - financing strategy to get completely off fossil fuels by 2050 by further boosting efficiency and switching to renewables (already 36 % of electric generation, which is the most reliable and among the cheapest pretax in Europe).

In a statement announcing the award, the AEE recognised efforts by the IEA and Dr Birol at highlighting the fact that renewables are no longer a niche and should now be considered a conventional source of energy.

With renewed political will, countries must now collectively assess progress on their national climate plans and come to COP24 in Poland with an intention to step up ambition by 2020 in order to transition to a renewable energy future.

This renewable energy tariff (RET) is Connecticut's first step toward the kind of successor tariff first introduced in Hawaii and now being redesigned by regulators from California to Maine.

Similarly the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's pre-commercial research into thin - film solar technology was adopted and commercialized by First Solar, now the world's leading private thin film solar company.

That Chairman Phil Mendelson has proposed an expansion of the renewable energy standard to 100 % by 2050 should be applauded, but it should not distract from the urgent need to implement a stronger climate policy right now.

Now, one of the ways America is leading is by transitioning away from dirty energy sources that threaten our health and our environment, and by going all - in on clean, renewable energy sources like wind and solar.

It now is dominated by renewable energy advocates, researchers and bureaucrats.

Cumulative global offshore wind capacity is now over 11,800 MW and it is on track to reach as much as 47,000 MW by 2020, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

Now it is time to double our efforts and double Maryland's Renewable Portfolio Standard to 50 % by 2030.

For instance, renewable power production will increase by half between 2013 and 2020, the IEA says, with some green sources now competitive with new fossil generation in come countries.

Renewables Now The Facilitating Offshore Wind in India (FOWIND) consortium is to commission by the end of the month an offshore Light Detecting and Ranging (LiDAR) system off the coast of the state of Gujarat.

Data released in May by the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena) said employment in wind grew 5 % in 2015 and now stand at more than 1.1 million jobs.

Download our 100 % Committed Toolkit now to get a step - by - step guide to building your campaign, as well as all the tips and resources you'll need to organize your community and work with your school, city or town, or local businesses to shift to 100 - percent renewable electricity.

Absent some crash programs for renewables (or temporary reprieve via unconventional fossil fuels), civilization must get by on a small fraction of the energy it now uses (and in far less convenient forms).

After a decade of germination and growth, the basic ideas of cradle - to - cradle design — the development of circular rather than linear material flows, a reliance on renewable energy, the scientific assessment of the environmental health and safety of product ingredients, and design based on the effectiveness of natural systems — are now being embraced by a critical mass of the business community.