Sentences with phrase «cent of its electricity from»

Canada has committed to achieving 90 per cent of its electricity from zero - emission sources by 2030, and it's critical that target is achieved.

Coca - Cola European Partners has announced a solar farm and a commitment to getting 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources as it advances sustainability in its UK operations.

Back in 2000, the country generated barely 6 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources, mostly hydropower.

The US Department of Energy set a goal for the country to generate 20 per cent of its electricity from wind by 2030.

If the UK government caves into pressure and lowers its ambitions for onshore wind, it will make more expensive forms of low - carbon generation a necessity to hit the UK's target of producing 30 per cent of its electricity from renewables by 2020.

While France, which generates over 75 per cent of its electricity from nuclear sources, avoided blackouts, Italy did not.

This set of commitments includes the adoption of science - based greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, pledging to procure 100 per cent of their electricity from renewable sources or commitments to eliminate deforestation from the companies» value chains.

It gets over 90 per cent of its electricity from coal though it is attempting to diversify its energy mix.

Recharge News reports that the German state of Bavaria — the biggest in area and second most populous with 12 million people — last year sourced 10 per cent of its electricity from solar energy.

The Central American nation already sources 98 per cent of its electricity from renewables, according to the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE).

In the run up to the referendum, now former first minister Alex Salmond said an independent Scotland would remain committed to getting the equivalent of 100 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020, but would also exploit every last drop of North Sea oil and gas.

Not exact matches

«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.

The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

While the Ontario government's recently updated long - term energy plan said the province's industrial electricity consumers currently face prices lower than that of the average for the Great Lakes region, the plan also showed that the cost will rise to $ 116 per megawatt hour by 2035, a nearly 40 per cent increase from the projected 2017 price of $ 83 per megawatt hour.

Results achieved over hundreds of plants globally have achieved removal of organic waste from discharge water of between 70 - 99 per cent, with many of the plants installed by Global Water Engineering also capturing the organic waste converted to methane and using it to power boilers and electricity generators.

Mr Salmond pledged last year that 100 per cent of Scotland's gross electricity consumption will come from renewable sources by 2020, supplied mainly by thousands of wind turbines.

It currently estimated that Ghana imports about 185 megawatts of power from Cote d'Ivoire and according to the electricity sector players, Côte d'Ivoire generates thermal power at the cost of 9 cents per kilowatt hour and sells it to Ghana for 11 cents.

The town had hoped to take advantage of LIPA's plan to buy 50 megawatts of electricity from solar projects throughout Long Island at a rate of 22 cents per kilowatt / hour over the next 20 years.

When Miyasaka reported the results from his first perovskite solar cell in 2009, it converted just 4 per cent of the sunlight's energy to electricity.

Thanks to a two cents per kilowatt - hour production incentive from the U.S. government, they are being built at a rate that will increase the amount of wind - generated electricity by nearly three gigawatts a year.

Moniz notes that just 0.1 cent per kilowatt - hour of electricity and 2 cents per gallon of transportation fuels would yield about $ 8 billion per year, although such surcharges would need to be developed «with collaboration from industry and consumers.

This means that drivers can plug in their vehicles to recharge overnight and get up to 40 miles of driving the next day from about 80 cents» worth of electricity.

In the past decade, the amount of electricity generated from renewables worldwide almost doubled, according to the International Energy Agency, and by 2006 they accounted for 2.3 per cent of the 19 million gigawatt - hours of electrical energy the world produced.

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).

Generating 30 per cent of Britain's electricity needs from renewable energy projects is a feasible goal, a senior government adviser insisted in London last week.

Life - cycle study: Accounting for total harm from coal would add «close to 17.8 cents / kWh of electricity generated» In a groundbreaking article to be released this month in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Dr.

There have been posited limits on what fraction of electricity can reliably come from variable renewables — that is photovoltaics and wind power, which vary according to the weather and the Earth's rotation and so on — and those limits used to be said to be a few per cent, five per cent, ten per cent, 15, 20, 25, 30 etc..

Aberdeen generates the greatest share of electricity from on - site renewables with eight per cent.

Thirty - eight universities buy green electricity from the grid (of which eight buy 100 per cent green energy), while 37 generate some of their electricity on - site, and the number with CHP installed is also 37.

«In the same time, the pricing of electricity has increased from 6.6 cents to 9.9 cents, a change of only 50 %, making electricity a far more attractive commodity from a pricing standpoint.»

Electricity from new installations — which are being erected at a pace of roughly one turbine every two and a half hours around the country — sells for less than 6 cents per kWh, a price competitive with natural gas.

As a result, the proportion of electricity generated by coal fell from 16.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2015, to just 3.6 per cent over the same period in 2016.

Approximately seven per cent of our electricity comes from imports or other sources

The federal production tax credit (PTC), which offers wind energy developers 2.2 cents for every kilowatt - hour of electricity produced from grid - tied projects, was a key case in point at the conference.

Speaking to Sky News last night, he equivocated on his previous support for the scheme, which aims to ensure 20 per cent of electricity comes from renewable sources by 2020.

Alberta has a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity and have 30 per cent of electricity used by Albertans come from renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro by 2030.

How do we get from this point to the same sort of no - brainer point that the 100 per cent renewable electricity campaign now enjoys?

* In the original June 2005 draft of this paper the reader would have seen an estimate that the cost of powering a hybrid with average (8.5 cents / kwh) residential electricity from the grid would be about one - quarter the cost of powering the same vehicle in its normal operating mode using $ 2 / gallon gasoline.

Right now, the price of electricity generated from PV solar is about 12.2 cents per kilowatt - hour in the U.S., only slightly higher than the average cost of retail electricity at 12 cents per kWh across the country.

Currently it reduces the price of electricity from wind farms by 2.2 cents / kWh — from 6 - 8 cents / kWh to 4 - 6 cents / kWh.

The lifecycle cost of electricity from new nuclear plants is now $ 148 per megawatt - hour, or 14.8 cents per kilowatt, while it is 5 c / kwh for utility scale solar and 4.5 c / kwh for wind.

A new New York State Department of Public Service study projects New Yorkers can get 50 percent of their electricity from renewable sources for less than four cents a day.

The report's author, Prof Gordon Hughes, an economist at Edinburgh University and a former energy adviser to the World Bank, discovered that the «load factor» — the efficiency rating of a turbine based on the percentage of electricity it actually produces compared with its theoretical maximum — is reduced from 24 per cent in the first 12 months of operation to just 11 per cent after 15 years.

A $ 15 carbon tax increases the levelized cost of electricity, from coal - fired power plants, from 6 cents to 9.5 cents per kWh.

Electricity from biofuels more than doubled, but still represents less than 1 per cent of the mix.

Cost of electricity from the unit -.1 cent per KWh.

The proportion of electricity coming from renewables excluding large hydro rose from 10.3 per cent to 11.3 per cent.

From the article:... Germans pay some of the highest electricity prices in Europe — 31 cents per kWhr compared to 17 cents in France and 18 cents in the UK (Economic Times).

The Australian government has announced that greenhouse gas emissions fell 0.2 per cent in 2012, mostly due to lower greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity generation sector, despite growth in real GDP of 3.4 per cent over the same period.

In October 2017, SolarReserve was first to bid CSP with storage at somewhere «under 5 cents» per kWh in Chile, according to CEO Kevin Smith From New Energy Update: The levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of Middle East CSP projects could fall below $ 50 / MWh next year, two of the industry's leading consultants predicted at CSP -LSB-...]