Sentences with phrase «caused by renewable energy»

Researchers are coming up with ways to solve the problems that are being caused by renewable energy, investors are putting capital to the task, and apparently the Chinese have discovered that sick people is a bigger problem than power generation.

Surplus base load generation caused by renewable energy will add more costs for electricity ratepayers 25.

It's amazing how so few people cared about birds but suddenly a few deaths are being caused by renewable energy wind mills and suddenly they are public enemy number 1.

Not exact matches

I interviewed Yeo last week and was surprised by how unabashed Yeo is about the large amount of cash he receives every year from the renewable energy firms whose cause he advances in parliament.

The greatest strength of the Five Stars movement is its network of genuinely motivated citizens who mobilize consensus by championing popular causes like anti-nuclear campaigns, direct political participation, renewable energy reform and the end of conflicts of interest between the public and the private sectors.

That's causing problems for a wind project that's been in development by Avangrid Renewables, an international energy company with wind farms in Herkimer and Lewis counties, for years.

«New Yorkers know too well the devastation caused by climate change, and in order to slow the effects of extreme weather and build our communities to be stronger and more resilient, we must make significant investments in renewable energy,» Cuomo said.

The laboratory spun off a company, Spirae, and built a futuristic, computer - driven test bed that could simulate the operations of a large power grid and instantly adjust for power fluctuations caused by the often fickle nature of renewable energy.

Electric power generated by renewable energy sources causes substantially less pollution than energy generated from fossil fuels, the report says.

More Information: Further details of Mr. Vaad's deep and substantive ties with ALEC, details of IRS 501 (c)(3) tax fraud charges filed against ALEC by Common Cause and ALEC model legislation calling for repeal of state Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards (RPS) and the ALEC Market - Power Renewables Act that directly seeks to influence state legislators and public utility commissioners to weaken clean energy regulations can be viewed at the website of: Friends of the ColoraEnergy Portfolio Standards (RPS) and the ALEC Market - Power Renewables Act that directly seeks to influence state legislators and public utility commissioners to weaken clean energy regulations can be viewed at the website of: Friends of the Coloraenergy regulations can be viewed at the website of: Friends of the Colorado PUC

The only way to block a project with a renewable energy approval (REA), according to the legislation, is that an appellant must prove the risk posed by the project will cause «serious harm to human health,» or «serious and irreversible harm to plant life, animal life or the natural environment.»

As a result, despite periodic energy price spikes caused by disruptive world events and about $ 50 billion (in real terms) in energy R&D funding since 1978, the United States has made only steady incremental progress in developing and deploying advanced renewable, coal, and nuclear technologies that can compete with conventional energy technologies.

When that inevitability comes about will California suffer the fate of Europe's crashing energy policies mainly caused by expanding the market penetration of renewable energy to a point where solar power became so cheap it was economically infeasible to produce it?

People are familiar with the cost efficiency gains caused by the use of renewable energy, such as wind and solar power.

All this consumes more fuel and emits more CO2 than would be the case if the fossil fuels were operating at their optimum efficiency, or just responding to demand without the added inefficiency caused by the intermittent renewable energy generators.

Research institute Verso Economics reveals that for every «green job» created by taxpayer subsidy, 3.7 jobs are killed in the real economy and that, thanks to the artificial rise in energy prices caused by renewable subsidies, at least 50,000 people a year in Britain alone are driven into fuel poverty.

Yet there is a significant proportion of Australians who believe it is not happening or it is not caused by mankind, and while our government does recognise ACC it is steadfastly supporting the fossil fuel industry, not supporting renewable energy and doing very little to reduce Australia's exceptionally high rate of greenhouse gas production.

«The Idea of Renewable Energy Is Reported to Have Originated with the Nazis; at Least They Were Wise Enough to Reject It The Real Potential Climate Problem Is Caused by the Climate Alarmists Themselves»

More important would be to add the higher emissions caused by cycling the fossil fuel generator plants to back up for intermittent renewable energy generators.

The change was made to comply with Ontario Regulation 405/12 and we surmise was to deflect on rising electricity costs caused by more and more renewable energy added to the grid.

As mentioned elsewere in this page and site, a renewable energy installation such as a wind farm or solar farm will reduce the damage caused by climate change; it will reduce the amount of air pollution resulting from the burning of coal; it will therefore be to the advantage of all life on Earth.

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Using the tag «renewable energy» in a cynical effort to «justify» the suffering caused to the health and well - being of hard - working, tax - paying citizens by incessant turbine generated low - frequency noise and infrasound is nothing short of monstrous (see our post here).

In Oregon, for example, Governor Kate Brown signed a bill that will move the state to 50 percent renewable energy production by 2040 and end the state's use of coal power by 2030; in Montana, sagging demand and economic pressures caused Arch Coal to scrap its plans for a massive strip - mining operation on federal land; and in a recent Gallup poll, 64 percent of Americans said they worried a «great deal» or «fair amount» about global warming, up from 55 percent only a year ago.

This follows on the release of a new paper by three scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) which explores the issue of minimum requirements for conventional generation in California and Texas and how this causes curtailment of renewable eEnergy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) which explores the issue of minimum requirements for conventional generation in California and Texas and how this causes curtailment of renewablRenewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) which explores the issue of minimum requirements for conventional generation in California and Texas and how this causes curtailment of renewable eEnergy Laboratory (NREL) which explores the issue of minimum requirements for conventional generation in California and Texas and how this causes curtailment of renewablerenewable energyenergy.

After some adventures, Tore becomes aware of the problems caused by climate change and promotes the use of renewable energy in his village.

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.»

This transition has gone very smoothly, and while several major power outages that were caused by storms have been, without justification, blamed on the state's renewable energy, South Australians have suffered no inconvenience from the transition.

Blaming damage caused by burning coal on the renewable energy industry is classic Orwellian political reasoning by a political party devoted to the dying coal industry.

The truth is that while there are certainly challenges in adopting high percentages of renewable energy, South Australia has had no serious problems that could be ascribed to the intermittency of wind or solar power and, with the exception of blackouts that were caused by storms, has had a very smooth transition from near zero to 50 % renewables.