Sentences with phrase «carbon electricity future»

There are lots of different ways California can create its low - carbon electricity future.

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The EMR sets out the Government's commitment to transform the UK's electricity system to ensure that our future electricity supply is secure, low - carbon and affordable.

«Our analysis clearly shows the imperative for the electricity sector to move aggressively to deploy a full portfolio of technologies that will lead to low - carbon energy future while limiting costs to the nation's economy,» EPRI president Steve Specker said in presenting the findings yesterday to a meeting of industry executives and regulators in Westlake Village, Calif..

Mr Porritt shared more of his findings from his book «The World We Made» on how low - carbon technology and innovations in electricity could prove to hold a promise for a new and sustainable future.

The Compendium concludes that moving towards carbon - free electricity is possible by 2050, while achieving a carbon - free future in the transportation sector will take considerably longer.

If in the future carbon dioxide emissions carry a significant «price,» however, nuclear energy could be an important — indeed vital — option for generating electricity.

The 2014 report of the Global Electricity Initiative (GEI) identifies the untapped opportunities for electricity utilities to further deliver a low - carElectricity Initiative (GEI) identifies the untapped opportunities for electricity utilities to further deliver a low - carelectricity utilities to further deliver a low - carbon future.

The claim to a bright future which the nuclear industry clung to for the last 20 years was that the technology produced large quantities of low carbon electricity at a low price — something that intermittent renewables could not do.

Building the electricity markets of the future, Re-powering Markets explains, requires a comprehensive framework that encourages low - carbon investments and operational efficiency but also keeps security of supply as a top priority.

However, Australia's electricity system will require low - carbon generation sources to meet future global emissions reduction targets.

The Harmony goal, put forward on behalf of the nuclear industry by World Nuclear Association, is a vision of a future energy system where nuclear energy supplies 25 % of global electricity demand by 2050 as part of a low - carbon generation mix, which would require 1000 GW of new nuclear build.

The proposed rules would limit future coal plants to 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions per megawatt hour of electricity.

As electricity plays an increasing role in future energy systems, it should be relatively easy to strip black carbon emissions at fossil fuel power plants.

This session will showcase global investment trends in the global low - carbon future, and the solutions — in the electricity grid, the built environment, transportation systems, and in homes and communities — that are reducing greenhouse gas emissions, increasing resilience, and at the same time creating jobs and growing economies.

Mr Porritt shared more of his findings from his book «The World We Made» on how low - carbon technology and innovations in electricity could prove to hold a promise for a new and sustainable future.

Long ‐ term step ‐ change options, including a shift to low carbon electricity or radical product innovations (e.g., alternatives to cement), may have the potential to contribute to significant mitigation in the future.

Investments in electricity transmission and distribution (T&D), vital to a low - carbon future, account for the highest share of the World Bank and ADB's recent and approved financing for energy supply, around half of the volume of financing and about 40 percent of the number of projects in both banks.

Today at the Bloomberg New Energy Finance Future of Energy Summit, Southern CEO Thomas A Fanning announced that his company's fleet would be transitioning to «low - to - no - carbon» electricity sources by 2050.

The problem is both the high cost per BTU and importing it from countries that hate us, neither of which is a great concern for electricity unless you're worried about CO2 production and I'm not concerned about CO2 production which I consider a huge net benefit to agriculture and, in the future, a handy source of carbon for the fabrication of durable goods.

In a low - carbon future, cleanly generated electricity reduces the carbon footprint of light bulbs and TVs.

Jesse, and a group of MIT engineers, have modeled future electricity systems to determine the mix of low carbon energy resources that will create tomorrow's most resilient, cost - effective, and low - carbon electricity systems.

A new study in the journal Energy Economics by our own Martin Ross examines how changes in market trends and technology costs are likely to affect electricity generation in the United States in the context of possible future carbon taxes.

The key is to understand what a low - carbon, «water - smart» electricity future looks like — and to make decisions today that move the country down that path.

Modeling low - carbon US electricity futures to explore impacts on national and regional water use.

When we talk about a global transition to a low - carbon future, we need to look at cleaning the electricity system that we currently have as well as expanding our use of the system.

Below is a transcript of our talk, in which McCarthy discusses whether these rules could really make a difference on climate change, responds to Republican opposition to the rule, and explains how the US electricity sector may have to reinvent itself to move toward a low - carbon future.

Just as much of the world languishes in uncertainty over the future of a low carbon transition, the Globe and Mail reports that Canada steps up and announces an almost complete phase out of coal for electricity by 2030 at the latest.

The practical means to dispose the carbon from generating electricity consistent with the future context is the very large ZEPP.

It's also important to point out why fossil fuel electricity is relatively cheap in the United States: The behind - the - scenes costs of burning fuel that produces carbon dioxide and noxious pollutants — health care costs, environmental cleanup, and the current and future expenses of adapting to a warmer world — are not included in the US electric bill.

That increase comes largely because natural gas eventually replaces more coal in electricity generation thanks to future carbon emissions reduction policy.

Now that the carbon price has gone, both future electricity prices and government policy are less certain.

Significantly, this remarkable projection about the future of electricity is simply what the IEA believes is now going to happen given the pledges made in Paris by the world's leading countries to rapidly expand renewable energy investment while restraining and, in many cases, reducing carbon pollution from fossil fuels through 2030.