Sentences with phrase «changing electricity needs»

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«This is a much - needed, pragmatic look at U.S. electricity reliability and resilience, including the priority of maintaining critical clean baseload power as electricity markets change,» said Rich Powell, director of ClearPath, which advocates for nuclear and hydropower.

These aren't the kind of hacks that mean tech - savvy folks need to change their login credentials, but precursors to something far more serious: potentially devastating and life - threatening infrastructure disruptions that could leave thousands or millions of people without electricity or other utilities.

«We're underbudget on what we budgeted for electricity, and since some of these bulbs don't need to be changed for seven to 10 years, we're saving on manpower as well.»

In Nyanyano Kakraba, water is a problem, paying for electricity is a problem, paying school fees has become a problem, there are no jobs and this is why there is the need for change.

Before real change could come, researchers would need to develop new technologies to improve renewable energy's integration into the electricity mix.

Perhaps the simplest change to make is eliminating so - called «standby» electricity, or the energy needed to run devices, such as televisions, even when they are turned off.

Today, solar power meets a tiny fraction of the world's electricity needs, but that could change in the next decade, IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said at a conference in Valencia, Spain.

At the same time, the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity and the 3 billion or so who still rely on burning wood or dung to fuel cooking or heating would need modern energy supplies, although this might prove to have minimal impacts on climate change through saving forests and other side effects.

The research team also has demonstrated the feasibility of using environmentally powered muscles to automatically open and close the windows of greenhouses or buildings in response to ambient temperature changes, thereby eliminating the need for electricity or noisy and costly motors.

«In order to sustain water and energy security in the next decades, the electricity focus will need to increase their focus on climate change adaptation in addition to mitigation.»

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that by 2100, the need for electricity to power cooling will have surged to more than 30 times what it was in 2000.

The warmest winter on record — driven by climate change — is also driving down the need for wintertime electricity required for home heating, which drives down the need for more coal, IEEFA analyst Seth Feaster said in the report.

«Gazprom's customers in Europe — in particular utilities that burn gas to generate electricity — often need to offset their emissions under a European Union pollution trading scheme or the broader Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

Accounting for losses in generating and transmitting electricity would be equally relevant for BEVs or FCV so including them does not change the fact that FCVs need to spend four times as much energy to drive a mile than BEVs.

Electricity, the telephone, the radio, the automobile — and the need to work with them, repair them and live with them — created social change.

«We need those jobs, we need clean electricity and we need to assume our responsibility in the face of climate change.»

«eLab Ignite: Finding Value at the Distribution Edge» will convene corporate customers, innovators, utilities and other key industry stakeholders to address the challenges and opportunities arising from the convergence of increasing capability and affordability of distributed resources, climate change and the need for a more resilient U.S. electricity system.

However, a natural gas - dominated electricity system would continue to heat up the planet — heat - trapping emissions from electricity production will barely change if we shift primarily to natural gas for our electricity needs.

To effectively address climate change, how much do we need to reduce emissions from the electricity sector?

Wind energy is well positioned to meet Canada's future electricity needs in a clean, reliable and cost - competitive way while also helping Canada to address the global climate change challenge.

Not that even overlooking the effective pollution subsidy given to the fossil fuel generators, the retail price of electricity would not need to rise very greatly to change to sustainable electricity - it would go from $ 232 / MWh to $ 272 / MWh.

The demand for electricity fluctuates throughout the day, so the market needs to provide incremental amounts of energy to meet those changing needs.

Even fission was assuredly going to «change the world» (your words pillock, Im not traducing you, do nt need to) seventy years ago, with promise of free electricity from nighbourhood reactors and even reactor driven cars and airplanes.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is proposing to radically alter the electricity industry to bring in an extra # 110 billion needed to generate more low - carbon energy.

Typical examples include: the expectation of high return on investment (short payback period); high capital costs and long project development times for some measures; lack of access to capital for energy efficiency improvements and feedstock / fuel change; fair market value for cogenerated electricity to the grid; and costs / lack of awareness of need for control of HFC leakage.

We do not need expensive new natural gas pipelines or to develop counterproductive bailouts to uneconomic fossil fuel generators, which would only raise electricity bills, bring more polluting energy into the region, exacerbate climate change, and slow New England's progress toward a clean, resilient, and fuel secure grid.

«There are too many compelling reasons for renewable energy to be used for electricity,» he said, including increasingly competitive costs and the need to reduce emissions that contribute to climate change.

«We need those jobs, we need clean electricity and we need to assume our responsibility in the face of climate change,» McGuinty said.

This additional analysis will also include the effects of proposed changes to the LCFS, such as potential revisions to the calculation of ILUC (indirect land use change) values, options for refineries to generate credits via a refinery credit provisions, provisions for electricity credits for off - road applications, and a cost containment provision, which may affect the volumes and types of fuels needed for compliance.

I do believe that wind has value in the energy mix, though it is pricey and due to capacity factor issues must be supplemented with a load base that includes dispatch - able fuel sources that can be started up and shut down fairly quickly, such as gas.We do need variety in our electricity fuel mix (including coal), just as we need it in our genome pool... for rapid changes in the external environment.

Amber Rudd, a minister at the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC), attended an event hosted in Westminster, London by the Electricity Storage Network, a UK trade association which has suggested the country needs a target of 2GW of energy storage deployed by 2020.

More importantly, however, making more gas generation capacity available is only a short - term fix and does not seriously address the changes needed to maintain, in the words of the National Electricity Objective, a secure, reliable and affordable supply of eElectricity Objective, a secure, reliable and affordable supply of electricityelectricity.

«Wind energy will stabilize and reduce electricity prices over time relative to alternative forms of generation and a steady stream of new wind energy helps provide Ontario with much - needed flexibility to align electricity supply needs with changing economic and environmental circumstances,» he added.

If Premier Prentice is committed to achieving cost - effective, long - term GHG emission reductions in the electricity sector as part of addressing climate change, wind energy will need to play a primary and growing role in Alberta's electricity system.

Today's electricity system can not meet our needs in a future of growing demand for power, worsening strains on water resources, and an urgent need to mitigate climate change.

The fact that around 26 % of South Australia's power was produced by wind farms in 2011, and greenhouse emissions from power generation in SA declined by about 20 % from 2005 to 2010, with no reduction in power reliability, proves that renewable energy can provide a substantial part of Australia's electricity needs and produce a positive contribution to the climate change crisis.

«Gazprom's customers in Europe — in particular utilities that burn gas to generate electricity — often need to offset their emissions under a European Union pollution trading scheme or the broader Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

By reducing the need for the burning of fossil - fuels to generate electricity wind farms will reduce climate change / global warming.

While our existing climate change strategy was already focused on efficiency improvements, 60 % of our operational footprint comes from our electricity use so it was clear to us that we would need to switch to renewable electricity.

Nuclear energy, which is dominant in electricity generation, will enter a phase of substantial change with the decommissioning of a second plant in Bohunice, the need for important waste management investments and the privatisation of Slovenské Elektrárne (SE), the operating company, which is planning to complete a new plant in Mochovce.

However, he noted that for the plan to be effective, other changes across the board have to be made, citing the example of free electricity given to farmers who add to the problem by overdrawing the supply of groundwater through electrical pump sets.On top of privatization measures, Singh encouraged local governments to take an active role in determining local needs and strategies for water conservation, drawing on the large South Indian metropolis of Chennai as a prime example: «We have the impressive example of Chennai city that had a city - based, neighbourhood - based strategy.

«A significant change in electricity generation sources is clearly needed to achieve that goal,» Dr. Makhijani explained.

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Any move to ban ICE powered cars and replace them with electric cars should be done together with other actions that reduce the need for cars, including changing planning rules to promote walkable cities, changing building codes to dramatically reduce demand for electricity for air conditioning, changing transportation priorities to encourage cycling and walking, and do a massive rollout of new sources of renewable energy.

I do nt see that as a limitation Not sure where Allan is getting the 25 - 30TW figure for business as usual, perhaps manufacturing synthetic oil and using it to power 2Billion low mpg SUV's This seemingly unavoidable shortfall between supply and demand needs to be brought to the attention of the general public, because massive improvements in efficiency, eradication of trivial uses of electricity, and lifestyle changes, particularly in relation to transport seem inevitable.

«Climate change is going to be uncontrollable if we can't get carbon - free electricity... Environmental groups need to look at the real world.»

Wind energy is ideally positioned to help Canada meet its future electricity needs while tackling the global climate change challenge.

Instead of a single or other simple (e.g. night and day) tariff, dynamic pricing and more complex tariff structures are expected to be introduced to allow «demand response», in other words, to allow customers to buy electricity at constantly changing prices, thereby cutting demand at peak times, and thus, resulting in a lower need for peak capacity as well as better integration of renewable energy sources.

Through this argument, one can see that India is walking a tightrope between the twin challenges of ending energy poverty for its 400 million citizens living without electricity access while balancing the needs of the hundreds of millions more who will be impacted by a changing climate.

In an interview earlier this year, the Australian climate change minister conceded as much: «For baseload electricity generation,» said minister Greg Combet, «it will be gas - fired electricity that we see emerge, and for that investment to be committed, we need a carbon price in the economy.»