Sentences with phrase «cent of its energy from»

It was Tony Blair who originally committed to the target, which demands the UK generate 20 per cent of all energy from renewable sources by 2020.

The previous version said Estonia got 66 per cent of its energy from coal.

France gets 42 per cent of its energy from nuclear (light green areas in the chart above), following its huge 1980s nuclear building programme.

For all the talk of the German Energiewende and its pivot towards renewable energy, Germany was still only getting 10 per cent of its energy from renewables in 2013.

A package of new renewable energy policies in 2016 - 17 will aim to ensure that the EU's 2030 target to source 27 per cent of its energy from renewables can be met cost - effectively.

In 1971, China derived 40 per cent of its energy from renewables.

Ensure future energy and transport infrastructure is consistent with a rapid transition to a low - carbon economy by generating at least 15 per cent of energy from renewables by 2020; introducing an immediate ban on new unabated or substantially unabated coal plants and an end to airport expansion.

Today, China gets a trifling 0.23 per cent of its energy from unreliable wind and solar.

... Africa is the renewable utopia, getting 50 per cent of its energy from renewables — though nobody wants to emulate it.

Scotland also shares the UK's EU obligation to get 15 per cent of energy from renewable sources by 2020.

Yet, today, after endless climate summits and good intentions, the world gets just 0.4 per cent of its energy from solar and wind power.

It has also promised to aim to produce 20 per cent of its energy from low carbon sources by the same date.

China got 9.8 per cent of its energy from sources not linked to fossil fuels at the end of 2013, and the government intends that to reach 15 per cent by 2020, the New York Times points out.

China's pledge to get 20 per cent of its energy from renewables and nuclear by 2030 is also not that ambitious, experts say.

Not exact matches

There was also a non-cash gain of $ 133 million from a deal to buy a 37 per cent interest in Canbriam Energy Inc. in exchange for northeastern B.C. mineral land holdings and $ 52 million.

«This is one in the list of things that we are doing to remove costs from the system, whether it's the suspension of the long - term energy plan, whether it's renegotiating the Samsung (green energy) deal... and removing the eight per cent provincial portion of the HST (from hydro bills) as of January,» she said.

It is possible the Bank of Canada believes the 70 - cent dollar may be keeping some energy companies from going bust.

The world is on the cusp of a major energy shift that will see 60 per cent of the planet's power mix come from zero - emission sources in the next 25 years.

A new Melbourne hotel will set new design standards in energy efficiency to help cut as much as 25 per cent of its energy consumption, drawing on a $ 39 million investment commitment from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (energy efficiency to help cut as much as 25 per cent of its energy consumption, drawing on a $ 39 million investment commitment from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (energy consumption, drawing on a $ 39 million investment commitment from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC).

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.

It found 89 per cent of managers agreed energy transition risks - such as increasing emissions regulations or growing competition from clean tech alternatives - will significantly impact the valuations of the oil companies in the next five years, compared to 46 per cent when the survey was conducted in 2017.

The noisiness is quite important; 75 per cent of the variation in total headline inflation is coming from energy prices, which fluctuate a lot.

The TSX Composite Index followed a similar course, gaining 2.4 per cent in Q1 2017 yet down from 4.5 per cent in Q1 2016, primarily due to weakness in the energy sector at the beginning of the year.

An offer from TransCanada to build a new natural gas line to the province seems good on the surface, but considerably less magnanimous when you consider it's asking the Ontario Energy Board to approve a 52.3 per cent increase to the rates it charges to some of its customers.

According to the International Energy Agency's most recent Medium - Term Market Report, between 2014 and 2020 global LNG capacity will increase by 164 bcm, 90 per cent of which will originate from the US and Australia.

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.

Speaking after Beach completed the $ 1.585 billion takeover of Origin Energy's Lattice Energy division, the owner of 50 per cent of Waitsia, Mr Kay said Beach is «watching closely» developments at AWE, which has attracted three takeover offers and looks set to agree to a $ 602 million cash bid from Japan's Mitsui.

«We're going to pose some tough questions to both candidates about economic issues, stemming directly from the survey results,» said Black, noting that 66 per cent of survey respondents said they want the City of Vancouver to pursue ways to champion the development of energy, natural resources and Port facilities.

A 20 per cent jump in feed and energy costs, a hard, dry summer and lower farmgate milk payments have triggered a new exodus of dairy farmers from the industry this year.

The energy yield from the anaerobic digestion of the starch factory's wastewater is double that which is required for the mill's production, making the factory 100 per cent self - sufficient for its energy needs.

«Methane from this process will also power a third boiler which will reduce our energy consumption by about 15 per cent» said Mr Michael Bambridge, Managing Director of CST Wastewater Solutions.

The energy cost of soft drinks was, on average, 30 cents / MJ (875 kcal / $), whereas that of orange juice from concentrate was 143 cents / MJ (170 kcal / $).

Our stores include a range of features such as treated roofs to deflect heat and keep stores cooler, insulated precast concrete exterior walls which require much less energy to make compared to bricks, and cladding made from 70 per cent softwood content sourced from renewable forests.

Launching the campaign, environment secretary Hilary Benn said 40 per cent of the UK's emissions come from homes and travel, but too few people are making real changes to cut their energy use.

The contract sum dished out to the couple through Messrs Imperial World, a memo from the Internal Audit Unit of the Ministry of Energy also available to The Herald, revealed was fourteen million, nine hundred and ninety six thousand, three hundred and eight US dollars, eighty eight cents (US$ 14,996,308.88)

He said that this winter will see 600,000 insulation measures this winter, up 70 per cent from last winter as part of the Home Energy Saving Programme.

Ben Caldecott, head of Policy Exchange's environment and energy unit, said: «We know what works from abroad, where schemes have cut littering rates by up to 80 per cent.»

At least 20 per cent of energy should come from renewable sources by 2020, the commission further states.

The PMOS insisted the UK was committed to renewable energy, pointing to the energy white paper which stipulates 15 per cent of energy should come from renewable sources by 2015.

Vince Cable asked why energy minister Malcolm Wicks had spoken publicly of reducing the figure to ten per cent and suggested that Mr Wicks was acting under pressure from the nuclear lobby.

The Government is on target to meet its aim of generating 10 per cent of Britain's energy from renewable sources by 2010, but there could be a cost to consumers.

«Over 80 per cent of our energy still comes from oil and gas, so we must think about how to make them more sustainable,» says Ranjith.

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.

The limiting factor is the energy needed to get to an asteroid with enough mining equipment and return with the mined ore, meaning only 2.5 per cent of asteroids are accessible from Earth.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

Every year between 1973 and 2008, according to the US Energy Information Administration, the US gained an average of just under 3 per cent more economic benefit from every unit of energy conEnergy Information Administration, the US gained an average of just under 3 per cent more economic benefit from every unit of energy conenergy consumed.

Such tags, costing just a few cents, carry a small, non-powered chip that, when hit by radio waves from a nearby «reader,» converts some of the radio energy into its own radio pulse in return.

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

Using waste heat from a coal plant to power the heat pump can mean 80 per cent of the energy put into the slush can be retrieved.

Only 7 per cent of new energy is coming from big power companies; most is coming from small players, consumer cooperatives, producer cooperatives, farmers and people living in cities.