Sentences with phrase «cent of electricity demand»

Calgary, Alberta, November 3, 2016 — The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) applauds the Alberta Government's announcement today that it will legislate its renewable energy target and initiate a process in November to procure the first 400 MW of the 5,000 MW of new renewable energy it will be seeking to ensure electricity from renewable energy meets 30 per cent of electricity demand in the province by 2030.

The Scottish government has pledged to get the equivalent of 100 per cent of electricity demand from renewable sources by 2020.

Even as soon as 2020, up to 43GW of unsubsidised solar could be installed in Germany, Italy and Spain, replacing up to 9 per cent of electricity demand.

Not exact matches

When demand for electricity is again high, the system is reversed: The weight of the water forces the air back to the surface, where it collects the stored heat and drives an expander, reproducing approximately 70 per cent of the input electricity and releasing the air back into the environment.

The African average growth rate predicted by the world bank and IMF is 3 per cent and for Ghana they predict 3.3 per cent, I'm more bullish, I believe that Ghana will grow closer to 4 per cent, maybe between 3.8 and 4 per cent, and we predict that in 2017, Ghana's economy is going to grow by about 6 per cent, and, so, this country is doing well, we have resolved the power crisis, we've been able to match demand to supply and so the electricity crisis that hit us is gradually becoming a thing of the past.

It produces 40 per cent of Scottish electricity demand from renewable sources, and models suggest this could rise to 67 per cent by 2018 (see diagram).

In July last year, in an attempt to reduce demand for elec - tricity, a group of power companies offered the prize to the first company to build a prototype fridge that would use at least 25 per cent less electricity than current standards demand while using no ozone - depleting CFCs.

Lache estimated that solar - plus - storage systems of the type SolarCity and Tesla are packaging could bring the price of electricity to 39 cents per kilowatt hour, which compares favorably against peak demand electricity prices of 49 cents per kilowatt hour in some U.S. markets today.

However, electricity demand has fallen instead of risen, leaving the 41,000 GWh target more likely to represent 27 per cent.

One scenario foresees wind sup plying more than 33 per cent of global electricity demand, but...

The report argues that, even if electricity demand were to grow at around 1 to 1.5 per cent per annum between 2010 and 2020 and fossil fuel prices were to remain relatively high, the share of renewables in UK electricity sales is only expected to increase to around 10.25 per cent by 2015.

Commercial businesses could cut even greater amounts, and even a car manufacturing giant like BMW could produce 490MWh of solar electricity per year using its own land, or 29 per cent of the group - wide electricity demand.

On sunny days in Germany in 2012, solar oftentimes met 35 percent of the demand for electricity, driving the wholesale cost of electricity to $ 2.5 cents per kWh, less than the average cost at night when loads are very low.

The UK Government has already committed the country to meeting 15 per cent of all energy and 30 per cent electricity demand via renewable sources by 2020 but at the moment energy crops are responsible for less than 0.1 per cent of UK electricity.

While total demand for electricity was 1,031,448 MWh over the three days the HOEP market valued it at - $ 869,220 or an average of -.84 cents / MWh.

Led by Professor Gail Taylor, and funded by the UK Energy Research Centre, the report looked at energy crops such as poplar and willow and concluded that England is able to produce enough biomass to generate approximately four per cent of current UK electricity demand.

Around 25 per cent of electricity bills are driven by these «super peaks», because we built infrastructure to meet peak demand and generation is more expensive during peaks.

Wind energy is now as or less expensive than all other sources of new electricity generation and supplies approximately six per cent of Canada's electricity demand with enough power to meet the needs of over three million homes.

Canada is a global leader in the responsible and sustainable development of wind energy, producing enough clean wind power to meet 20 per cent of Canada's domestic electricity demand by 2025.

«Solar radiation is the largest renewable resource on earth and, if harnessed by existing technology, approximately 1.5 per cent of the world's desert area could generate the world's entire electricity demand,» the report says.

For normal commuters (not NYC, or anywhere else with a good metro system), a plug - in hybrid with a 40 mile range will almost completely eliminate the need for gasoline as the average commute is only 29 miles and the only time any gas will be used will be on the odd ski trip or other long trip, and with no demand for gasoline, gas will drop to 90 cents / gallon to compete with electricity which costs the equivalent of about 60 cents / gallon.

Canada finished 2016 with 11,898 MW of wind energy capacity — enough to power 3 million homes, or six per cent of our country's electricity demand.

For example, if the federal wind PTC stays constant at 2.2 cents / kWh in 2011 dollars and wind installations grow to provide 20 percent of U.S. electricity in 2030 (the stated goal of the wind industry), the public cost of the PTC would total more than $ 20 billion annually (assuming EIA estimates for 2030 electricity demand).

Using timers to recharge batteries with electricity coming from wind farms during the low demand hours between 1 and 6 a.m. costs the equivalent of 50 cents - a-gallon gasoline.

UK wind farms have a theoretical maximum capacity of more than 13,000 megawatts, but produced less than 400 megawatts of power for much of the peak demand period — meeting less than one per cent of the UK's electricity needs, published data suggests.

By also making the effort to change lights to LEDs, install a smart thermostat, use more energy efficient appliances, unplug your old beater beer fridge and eliminate phantom power, you could dramatically reduce your electricity demand by 20 to 50 per cent, which would reduce the size of the solar system you require, saving even more money.