Sentences with phrase «cent of power generation»

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The result will be power generation in a local area with growing power demands - enough power for over 150,000 homes - with a 90 per cent reduction in the emission of carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas.

The budget carrier pointed out the airline industry accounts for just 1.6 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, while road transport accounts for 18 per cent and power generation for over 25 per cent of carbon emissions.

«At a time when aviation generates just 1.6 per cent of greenhouse gasses, isn't it time that Minister Pearson and other equally foolish politicians actually tackled the real causes of climate change which is road transport and power generation.»

In Ireland, wind power accounts for almost a quarter of electricity generation, and the country wants that to be 40 per cent by 2020.

This risk factor pushes the «levelized» or all - in price of nuclear power from new units to 8.4 cents per kilowatt - hour, the MIT study concludes, versus 6.2 cents for coal - fired plants and 6.5 cents for natural gas generation (if gas is priced at $ 7 per million British thermal units, or roughly 1,000 cubic feet of flowing gas).

By combining the high - revving performance of petrol power and superior torque and fuel economy of diesel propulsion, Mazda quotes 10 - 30 per cent increases in torque and 20 - 30 per cent gains in engine efficiency over the current Skyactive - G generation engines.

Much as with the Convertible, it's the 552bhp 4.4 - litre twin - turbo V8 that takes centre stage, pulling off the impressive trick, for a blown motor, of seamlessly melding masses of low and mid range urge (500 lb ft of torque from just 1500rpm) with an equally fierce rush to the 7200rpm red line while managing to use 30 per cent less petrol than the V10 that powered the previous generation M6.

Promises of «more than 316bhp» have been kept, with the new RS Ford actually getting 10 per cent more power that the Mustang with the same engine — a full 345bhp and 347lb / ft of torque, almost exactly the same power as the run - out RS 500 of the last generation Focus RS had.

(PS in terms of costs of replacement to maintain total generation capacity, solar power is also quite cheap — maybe 2 to 3 cents / kWh, or maybe even less, depending.

Also, the government should decide whether an 80 per cent or 90 per cent share of gas in power generation is too much.

Coal fired power generation provides more than 80 per cent of Australia's electricity and coal is the nation's biggest export commodity, earning more than $ 25 billion in 2006.

After assessing comments received on the June draft paper we are now convinced that, whatever the proper number for hybrids» power generation at an earlier time, the better estimate for the cost of operating the most modern hybrids in their normal mode as of August 2005 is a little less than half this 35 - cents / kwh estimate.

Such costs include an imposed cost due to solar power's intermittency of over 3 cents per kilowatt hour and other hidden costs that can add an additional 2.5 to 5 cents per kilowatt to the cost of solar power, making central - station solar radically uneconomic compared to readily available alternatives, including natural - gas - fired generation.

Coal was the basis of the country's industrialization, and today coal fired power still accounts for over 80 per cent of total electricity generation.

If one adds the spilled hydro and curtailed wind to the net exports, the 21.2 TWh could have provided over half of all average Ontario households with power for a full year, yet we sold it 2.36 cents / kWh while we paid 10.14 cents / kWh for its generation.

According to Wind Power in Europe, wind energy was not only the leading source of new electricity generation in 2014 (representing 44 per cent of new installed capacity), it has been the largest source of new electricity generating capacity in Europe over the last 15 years.

According to the Wikipedia article on wind power generation in Iowa, the industry is subsidized by a one cent per KwH tax credit, plus property and sales tax breaks for generation facilities and equipment, plus unenumerated but presumably meaningful support by taxpayers of other states in the form of federal subsidies.

The other interesting aspect of the surplus power generation on March 16th, 2016 and March 8th, 2017 is revealed in IESO's Daily Market Summaries: the hourly Ontario energy price (HOEP) March 16th, 2016 was negative at - $ 1.25 / MWh and on March 8th, 2017 was also negative at -.49 cents / MWh.

In terms of carbon emissions, new technology coal is still around 30 per cent higher than LNG but much lower than conventional coal powered generation.

China is certainly anxious to clean up its power generation because of the pollution, but it is now clear that the 3 per cent coal tariff was aimed not so much at reducing emissions but to try and make Australia agree to free trade agreement concessions — which it should not do.

Investment in renewables capacity was roughly double that in fossil fuel generation; the corresponding new capacity from renewables was equivalent to 55 per cent of all new power, the highest to date.

The Pan-Canadian Wind Integration Study is timely, given the commitments by Canada and the provinces to shift to a low - carbon economy and the current North American goal of 50 per cent clean power generation by 2025.

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.

Major sources of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities include power generation (about 25 per cent of all emissions), transport, industrial activities, deforestation and agriculture.

The research found that almost 80 per cent of Albertans surveyed say the Government of Alberta has not done enough to develop wind power and other renewable forms of large - scale electricity generation.

This study uses electric and gas program cost values from a new ACEEE survey, Energy Efficiency Holds Steady at 2.5 Cents per Kilowatt - Hour, Even as Costs of New Power Generation Rise.

Britain currently has 11 coal power stations in operation, responsible for roughly 30 per cent of the U.K.'s electricity generation.

China is now also the largest producer of wind and solar power on the planet: in 2013, nearly 60 per cent of its new power generation was renewable.