Sentences with phrase «clean electricity generation»

If we start using electric cars in large numbers (and I hope we do soon), then solar towers and various other forms of large scale clean electricity generation may supply a substantial fraction of our transport energy, especially for short local runs less than 100 klms a day.

The cost problem will resolve itself if the federal and state governments mandate a shift from dirty to clean electricity generation, Kempton said.

By implementing energy conservation and efficiency, and clean electricity generation, we can protect New England's environment, strengthen its economy, and secure a healthy world for our children and grandchildren.

More specifically, the 73 - page bill will remove the requirements of consumers to pay for the extra costs included in providing clean electricity generation.

While Maine has the third cleanest electricity generation fleet in the nation, and while New England as a region is also very clean, in the last few years we have made a push for lots more wind generation.

By making better energy choices and demanding more from utility vendors, cloud companies have the opportunity to be a catalyst in driving utilities and governments toward the development of cleaner electricity generation that will ensure a truly green cloud for their long - term sustainability — and a greener grid for us all.

Not exact matches

The white paper on Electricity Market Reform has mapped out a new policy to encourage the billions of investment that we need in all three families of low carbon electricity generation — renewables, nuclear and clean coElectricity Market Reform has mapped out a new policy to encourage the billions of investment that we need in all three families of low carbon electricity generation — renewables, nuclear and clean coelectricity generation — renewables, nuclear and clean coal and gas.

So that leaves dams as the cleanest, cheapest option for electricity generation in China.

Though coal still accounts for about a third of US electricity generation, utility companies are pivoting to cleaner natural gas to replace decommissioned coal plants.

Build before Memory Runs Out Although individual consumer actions can help, major changes in carbon output will likely require better electricity - generation technologies, retiring much of the coal - fired capacity and replacing it with the most cost - effective combination of modern reactors, renewables and even clean coal.

Pruitt is part of a group of state attorneys general who are suing the EPA over its Clean Power Plan, which seeks to trim greenhouse gas emissions related to electricity generation.

The NuScale Power Module can help the UK meets its energy targets through the generation of secure, clean, affordable electricity.

«I am struck by the lack of fundamental breakthroughs required for an abundant, clean energy future, whether in electricity generation from wind, coal (IGCC), ocean thermal, ocean wave, ocean tide, solar, nuclear, or liquids from coal - to - liquids, gas - to - liquids, biofuels, bio-engineered fuels, and so on.»

It is very clean that coal will remain the primary fuel used for electricity generation here in the U.S. and around the world for decades to come.

It's a grand vision for essentially being carbon - free by 2050, Producing electricity from clean generation sources including nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, and with any remaining fossil fuel plants hooked up to carbon capture and storage systems.

The electricity industry already is — and has been for years — in a rapid transition away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Clean Power Plan.

Three - quarters of new electricity generation through 2040 will come from clean energy, and the sector's emissions will peak by 2026, a new BNEF forecast says.

Power companies are well on their way to meet the Plan's targets, thanks to the fact that the electricity industry has already started rapidly moving away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Plan.

Although U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with electricity generation have fallen from the 2005 level, they are projected to increase in the coming decades, based on analysis in EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) that reflects current laws and regulations, and therefore does not include proposed rules such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.

But the green energy transition needs more than renewable power generation: Long - distance electricity transmission could play a key role in cleaning up China's brown skies.

This vision includes renewable electricity generation, energy storage and clean transportation.

A low - cost emissions - free source of electricity generation, wind energy will be essential if the province is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent in 2050 as clean electricity will be needed to substitute for fossil fuels in transportation, industries and buildings.

A series of executive orders signed by President Trump aim to roll back Obama - era climate policies, such as the Clean Power Plan that hoped to reduce emissions from electricity generation.

By amending the Internal Revenue Code Section 7704 (d) to include revenues from the generation and sale of electricity produced from clean energy sources as qualifying income, clean energy projects could qualify as MLPs.

Electricity grids also must incorporate greater levels of clean renewable energy, and electricity providers must incentivize public recharging of EVs when renewable energy generation is aElectricity grids also must incorporate greater levels of clean renewable energy, and electricity providers must incentivize public recharging of EVs when renewable energy generation is aelectricity providers must incentivize public recharging of EVs when renewable energy generation is at its peak.

Biomass for electricity generation is also poised to gain a huge boost if the final version of EPA's Clean Power Plan carries over a longstanding but highly questionable assumption that biomass burning is «carbon - neutral.»

Under the Clean Power Plan, the EPA set different targets for each state based on the carbon intensity of the electricity generation in that state.

REV supports widespread deployment of clean renewable power generation, and giving electricity customers new opportunities in determining how their electricity is generated and for lowering their utility bills.

The council would phase out much of the Environmental Protection Agency's regulatory authority over greenhouse gases and would outright repeal President Obama's Clean Power Plan to cut emissions from electricity generation.

The ad's message is as clear as America's air: Thanks to increasing use of clean, affordable natural gas, U.S. emissions of carbon dioxide from electricity generation — a major source of the greenhouse gas — are at their lowest level in 25 years.

In addition to generating some 113 MW of clean, renewable electricity — enough to supply at least 40,000 homes — bringing the project to fruition will result in the avoidance of some 300,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions as compared to coal - fired power generation

Incidentally, that much money could replace almost every coal plant in the region with clean gas - fired generation, which provides electricity much cheaper than wind while drastically reducing emissions.

As renewable energy displaces high - carbon fossil fuel generation, cleaner electricity can replace petroleum and natural gas in transportation and heating by fueling electric vehicles and heat pumps.

As for emissions, levels of carbon dioxide associated with electricity generation are near 30 - year lows, primarily because of increased use of cleaner - burning natural gas.

(9) a robust, efficient, and interactive electricity transmission grid that will allow for the incorporation of clean energy technologies, distributed generation, and demand - response in each regional electric grid;

The combination of industry standards, best practices and effective state and federal regulation is protecting communities and the environment — while making available increasing volumes of cleaner - burning natural gas that is allowing the U.S. to lead the world in reducing carbon emissions from electricity generation.

Industry growth supports the State's Clean Energy Standard, which mandates that 50 percent of electricity generation come from renewable energy sources by 2030.

However, recent regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act threaten to upend the competitive markets that guarantee just and reasonable wholesale rates in many parts of the U.S. Those organized wholesale markets are based on using the least - cost generation to satisfy demand, whereas the EPA continues to impose tighter and more complex environmental constraints on the electricity generation sector.

When the Premier made her announcement about reducing hydro bills, she also claimed «Decades of under - investment in the electricity system by governments of all stripes resulted in the need to invest more than $ 50 billion in generation, transmission and distribution assets to ensure the system is clean and reliable.»

Even without the Clean Power Plan, coal's share of national electricity generation has been in steep decline for over a decade, dropping from 49 % in 2007 to 33 % in 2015, due largely to hydraulic fracturing, which has flooded the market with cheap, lower carbon natural gas.

Solar and wind in particular, along with several other clean energy generation systems do not «burn» any fuel to produce electricity, they do not «emit» anything into the air as a byproduct of electricity generation, and hence they help solve the problem and smooth the transition to a lower carbon economy.

The project will feed solar energy to the grid operated by National Grid and will allow schools and municipalities in Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence Counties to participate in this local clean power generation and save money on their electricity bills.

Senator Hillary Clinton has also recently said that «we should strive to have new electricity generation come from other sources, such as clean coal and renewables.»

CSE also recommends enacting CEA's plan to retire 48 GW of India's oldest coal generation by 2027, allowing cleaner distributed electricity sources to meet India's power demand while raising capacity factors for newer «cleaner» coal plants, simultaneously reducing financial risks for utilities and consumers.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity is a coalition of leading companies from the electricity generation, transportation and coal production sectors, as well as other manufacturers aElectricity is a coalition of leading companies from the electricity generation, transportation and coal production sectors, as well as other manufacturers aelectricity generation, transportation and coal production sectors, as well as other manufacturers and vendors.

(Sec. 412) Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary to provide the cost of a direct loan to the owner of a clean coal technology plant located near Healy, Alaska, constructed under Department cooperative agreement number DE-FC-FY22-91PC90544, in order to place such plant into reliable operation for the generation of electricity.

Increasing the amount of clean, renewable energy on the grid will mean that more generation is variable (meaning electricity output from solar and wind depends on sunshine or windiness, respectively).

As a result, even in a future with no Clean Power Plan, natural gas and renewables produce much more electricity generation in this year's AEO than in last year's projections.

To support the transition away from coal towards cleaner sources of generation, performance standards for natural gas - fired electricity are also being developed.

However, when you think about specific sources of emission such as power generation and transport emissions there are far more effective ways of reducing these emissions that avoid the need for increasing the price of fuels and / or driving up the average price of electricity to the point where investment in clean electricity is justified.