Approximately seven per
cent of our electricity comes from imports or other sources
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.
More than 65 per
cent of our electricity comes from renewable energy.
Fifty per
cent of our electricity comes from coal.
Not exact matches
In New York state, the average price
of electricity is above the national average
of 12
cents per kilowatt hour,
coming in at 17.5
cents per kilowatt hour.
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.
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..
The hike
comes as inflation remains below the bank's two per
cent target, however it said it believes the recent softness is temporary, with the effects
of food price competition,
electricity rebates in Ontario and changes in automobile pricing expected to fade.
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.
With plug - in hybrids and all - electric cars
coming to market that can run on local wind - generated
electricity at a gasoline - equivalent cost
of 80
cents per gallon, why keep burning costly fuel at four times the price?
The proportion
of electricity coming from renewables excluding large hydro rose from 10.3 per
cent to 11.3 per
cent.
It is how it
came about that today Ontario now powers about 10 per
cent of Michigan's
electricity needs.
The Australian Energy Market Commission «estimates that the RET is around 3 per
cent of the current unit cost
of electricity and that this will drop to 2.5 per
cent in the
coming years.
Health care conglomerate Kaiser Permanente announced an ambitious clean energy shift in February that will ensure 50 per
cent of electricity used at its California facilities
comes from renewable energy.
Across Canada, Bullfrog Power's green
electricity comes from a blend
of wind and low - impact hydro power sourced from new Canadian renewable energy facilities, with 50 per
cent coming from this region.
When launched in 1997, Energy Australia referred to market research indicating that 65 per
cent of its customers had expressed a willingness to pay more for
electricity that
came from «green sources».
This record low price
of green
electricity on earth, just beats out the 1.79
cents / kWh from Saudi Arabia, and is part
of a pattern marching toward 1
cents / kWh bids that are
coming in 2019 (or sooner).
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.
Allianz will no longer invest in companies if more than 30 per
cent of sales
come from coal mining or if coal generates more than 30 per
cent of electricity.
• Pledging that at least 20 per
cent of energy and 40 per
cent of electricity will
come from renewable sources by 2020 rising to 100 per
cent by 2050