Sentences with phrase «capacity than nuclear»

Worldwide, by the end of 2004, these supposedly inadeqaute alternatives had more installed capacity than nuclear, produced 92 percent as much electricity, and were growing 5.9 times faster and accelerating, while nuclear was fading.»

Not exact matches

Looking ahead to 2040, China is forecast to capture more than 40 percent of the world EV market, according to a recent report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), as well as nearly 30 percent of total new wind, solar and nuclear capacity additions.

And he understood, better than many churchmen but in harmony with the thinking of John Paul II, that the key to resolving the dangers posed by the nuclear deterrence system, in which the United States and the Soviet Union both had the capacity to «bounce the rubble,» was the collapse of the communist project and dramatic change in the governance of what was then the USSR.

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

More than half of Belgium's nuclear capacity is offline for maintenance.

Now, when Japan has only two reactors operating and its future nuclear capacity is uncertain, there is less rationale than ever to continue separating plutonium.

While the average U.S. nuclear plant in 1980 had a capacity factor of less than 60 percent, today's average is over 90 percent.

The world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

Worldwide, nuclear capacity continues to rise, but more slowly than before Fukushima.

December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy use by 2040

Operating nuclear power reactors have a generating capacity of more than 380,000 megawatts of electric power.

-- China in 2012 increased electricity output more from non-hydro renewables than from all fossil - fueled and nuclear sources, and in 2013, added more PV capacity than the US had added since it invented PVs in 1954.

[D] espite additions of substantial wind, solar, and nuclear capacity, when properly adjusted for capacity factor (the amount of annual energy produced per unit of capacity) to reflect production capability, the amount of new coal energy added to the China grid last year exceeded new solar energy by 17 times, new wind energy by more than 4 times, and even new hydro by more than 3 times.

Today, two of Taiwan's six operable nuclear reactors are shuttered due to local and national political opposition, representing more than 1.5 GW of lost capacity.

But because nuclear plants operate at a 90 % and higher capacity factor while offshore wind at 40 %, the electricity generated from the new wind will be less than Pilgrim's.

«The world added more solar capacity than coal, gas, and nuclear plants combined,» Nils Stieglitz, president of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, said in the report.

This much wind capacity will produce about as much electricity as 30 nuclear plants, and that will be a bit less than 5 % of the country's electricity.

As we covered previously, working with China, Saudi Arabia will spend more than $ 100 billion to build 16 nuclear energy plants within the next few years, as part of ramping up its electric capacity.

This is because the same capacity nuclear plant generates three times more power than a wind turbine.

«In a record - breaking year for renewable energy creation worldwide, the 98 gigawatts of new solar capacity was higher than all other technologies, including other renewables, nuclear and fossil fuels.»

The US actually has more nuclear power capacity than France or Japan (who have turned most of theirs off now), but it is a lower percentage of its total than France.

Investment in renewable generation capacity will therefore largely be in addition to, rather than replacement for, the massive investment in fossil fuel and nuclear plant required...» — UK House of Lords, «The Economics of Renewable Energy,» Nov. 25, 2008

China is building more than a third of the world's nuclear reactors currently under construction, and has plans to triple its nuclear power capacity by 2020.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

For example, nighttime energy demand is much lower than during the day, and yet we waste a great deal of energy from coal and nuclear power plants, which are difficult to power up quickly, and are thus left running at high capacity even when demand is low.

It says this means brown coal and nuclear generating capacity could fall quicker than most people would expect from the average increase in solar and wind.

Thus, for the month, renewables provided more than seven times the amount of new capacity as that from fossil fuels and nuclear power.

From the wider environmental perspective, meanwhile, even a tenfold expansion in nuclear capacity by 2100 would by itself barely reduce the atmospheric burden of CO2 — from a projected 900 ppm (parts per million) to 820 ppm, both catastrophically higher than today's concentration of 380 ppm, according to Daniel Schrag.

Oil and nuclear power installations dropped, with more capacity decommissioned than installed.

Unless governments start routinely granting operating permits for reactors more than 40 years old, a half - century of growth in world nuclear generating capacity is about to be replaced by a long - term decline.

Nevertheless, as shown in the figure, these combined capacity factors for wind and solar are far less than those for the dispatchable technologies — natural gas, coal, and nuclear.

In short, if we want a 100 percent renewables world, with no coal, gas, or nuclear, we'll need to build more power generation capacity, faster, than at any time in history.

This effectively doubles the cost of supplying electricity since two generating and even transmission fleets must be built and maintained rather than only one — fossil fuel and nuclear generation — except where abundant hydro capacity is available.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) in its analysis of EPA's Clean Power Plan had to consider new nuclear capacity as a separate case analysis because construction of new nuclear capacity other than what is currently under construction or at risk for retirement is not a major compliance option based on EPA's proposed rule despite nuclear power's zero carbon dioxide emissions.

Electricity prices in the nuclear sensitivity case are the same or slightly less than in the compliance case where new wind and solar capacity are the major compliance options.

2017 saw more money spent on solar capacity than oil, coal, gas and nuclear combined, and in the United States, its projected that the solar industry will return to job growth after a 2017 tightening.

And in any case, there is no alternative at the moment to supplying reliable and cheap base load capacity with any sources other than fossil fuels and nuclear energy.

Because wind and solar power have a lower capacity factor than nuclear or fossil fuels, their actual contribution will be much lower.)

Over the last 12 months, the nation's nuclear fleet had a 92 % capacity factor and produced more than 800 million MWh.

«In the first quarter of 2016, 1,665 megawatts of solar PV were installed in the United States with the solar industry adding more new capacity during this period than coal, natural gas and nuclear combined.»

The loss of nuclear capacity from retirements is expected to be offset by the construction of five nuclear reactors with a combined capacity of more than 5,600 MW.

Wind power is 42 % more expensive than nuclear and natural gas power... Wind and solar's» «capacity factor» or availability to supply power is around 33 %, which means 67 % of the time wind and solar can not supply power and must be supplemented by a traditional energy source such as nuclear, natural gas or coal.»

A pre-Fukushima scenario from the International Energy Agency that allowed for a little more action on carbon dioxide than has yet been taken predicted a rise of about 70 % in nuclear capacity between 2010 and 2035; since other generating capacity will be growing too, that would keep nuclear's 13 % share roughly constant.

First Solar's annual production capacity will double in 2009 to more than 1 gigawatt, the equivalent of an average - sized nuclear power plant.

The US has 10 % of its capacity (19 % average power) from nuclear, but 440GW of NG peak and 70GW hydro peak capacity (and some from Canada) that's X4 larger than nuclear.

The fact is that over the last five years, wind power has added more new electric generating capacity in the USA than coal and nuclear combined — in spite of the fact that both coal and nuclear have enjoyed large, and permanent public subsidies, while subsidies for wind have been small, short - term and therefore unreliable.

With all due respect, Rod, I see the ongoing transition to clean renewable energy sources through paying very close attention to what is actually going on in the real world, including for example the fact that for the last two years, in both the United States and Europe, more renewable power capacity was added than coal, gas and nuclear combined.

I'm glad that China is expanding nuclear capacity, because I see it as much less dangerous than coal.

So, on current form, the world's most ambitious nuclear program will account for less than 20 % of capacity — probably much less, but the mismatch in projection dates obscures the exact number.