Sentences with phrase «century electricity supply»

These are just some of the likely components of a low - emission, 21st - century electricity supply system.

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The scientists and engineers behind the project hope that DESERTEC will be able to supply 15 to 20 percent of Europe's electricity by the middle of the century.

Many people seem to have an irrational fear of nuclear power generation plants, just as people a century ago were fearful of domestic electricity supplies using alternating current.

The wind energy sector in Canada is a mature industry and mainstream supplier of the reliable, low - cost, emissions - free electricity that will drive the next century of clean growth.

«In 1970, two University of Arizona scientists attracted national attention with an ambitious proposal to turn more than 5,000 square miles of the southwestern United States desert into what they called a «national solar power firm» capable of supplying all U.S. electricity needs in the twenty - first century.»

And the nature of electricity supply is undergoing a major transition, from a century - old foundation of dispatchable fossil fuels to ever cheaper variable renewables, with related market reforms underway.