Sentences with phrase «cleaner energy supply»

The biggest issue, Cohen and Jacobson agree, is motivating governments to take on the enormous challenge of phasing out cheap and abundant fossil fuels — and building a cleaner energy supply for the planet.

He is right to try to provoke a sense of obligation in this generation to future generations, but although we can all play our part in reducing demand, only government can deliver the incentives and the structure for clean energy supplies.

Unbowed by the troubles with Solyndra, Obama said he would direct the defense department to throw its buying power behind clean energy supplies for the U.S.

Given the importance of abundant, clean energy supplies, and the clock ticking toward a pivotal climate - treaty conference in December 2009, many experts see this as a prime priority.

The CEM fosters ambitious, scaled - up collaborations and acts as a platform and incubator for exchanging good practices and innovative solutions to advance a broad range of clean energy activities that include improving energy efficiency, enhancing clean energy supply, supporting energy system transformation, and expanding clean energy access.

However, in combination, what emerges is a core message about the large changes needed in investment direction, clean energy supply and price support mechanisms, as well as the significant co-benefits — such as reduced air pollution — which could result from a low - carbon transition

This investment in additional large - scale clean energy supplies will expand NYPA's leadership role as the State's largest supplier of renewable electricity.

Armond Cohen says nobody should be that confident about what it would take to convert the world to clean energy supplies.

Could we not become an «energy superpower» in the 21st Century, powering SE Asia with clean energy supplied via an HVDC link under the Timor Sea or Torres Strait?

A Breakthrough analysis found that rebound effects as high as 60 percent (the IEA's high - end scenario) will have significant implications for global climate mitigation efforts, requiring as much as 13 percent more clean energy supply by 2035 to meet higher global energy demand — equivalent to the total energy consumption of 19 Australias.

Likewise, unless clean energy supplies come online in large measures, slowing demand growth will not reduce total emissions to needed levels.

Efficiency is essential to slowing the growth of energy demand to a low enough rate that clean energy supply growth can make deep cuts in fossil fuel use.

The U.K. Independent reports the government is «facing a multi-billion pound black hole in its budget to pay for new clean energy supplies» that are threatening to raise energy prices and cause instability in the power grid.

Our work unites 24 participating CEM countries and the European Commission in efforts to improve energy efficiency, enhance clean energy supply, and expand clean energy access.

This would add 15 GWe of clean energy supply every week.

Not exact matches

There, Elon Musk's energy company, Tesla, has built a network of 5,328 solar panels and 60 Powerpack batteries that supply the entire island with clean energy.

Many have adopted strict clean - energy goals that call for reduction of emissions through a diverse energy supply.

In contrast to Ong's product - based approach, Roosegaarde's work has mainly taken the form of large - scale installations, among them a fluorescent bike path that glows like Van Gogh's night skies, giant kites that can supply up to 200 households with green energy, and «the world's largest vacuum cleaner» to suck up air pollution in public spaces.

As our energy system increasingly switches from fossil fuels to clean power, we will need both more renewable energy supply and greater integration of our power grids.

We have also committed to share best practices in procuring clean energy and building high - quality renewable energy projects, and provide hands - on assistance to some suppliers in areas such as energy efficiency audits, regulatory guidance and building strong partnerships.

So all three leaders are taking essential steps to clean up their power supply and grow their clean energy potential.

Mining for Clean Energy, which focuses on the metal and mineral requirements for solar power, finds that Canada could emerge as a key supplier of these resources.

Power from the Recurrent Energy - developed Tranquillity 8 solar project, located in Fresno County, California, will supply MCE with 100 MWac of clean solar electricity, which is sufficient to power 48,300 homes.

PCE is a public, locally - controlled community choice energy program that provides all electric customers in San Mateo County the choice of having electricity supplied from clean, renewable sources at competitive rates.

Unreasonable Capital will invest in industries where impact and profitability are maximized — currently, there is tremendous opportunity in (i) scalable clean - energy solutions, (ii) technologies designed to promote financial inclusion and access, and (iii) innovative mobile solutions focused on agriculture, and (iv) companies that are disrupting consumer supply chains between emerging markets and developed markets.

Soluble fibre as found in chickpeas helps stabilize blood sugar levels, which one of the aims of this cleanse, by provides slow burning complex carbohydrates for steady energy supply.

* Major chain stores now carrying organic food and clothing, green cleaning supplies, and they are powering their stores with renewable energy.

Meanwhile, they stand to make billions more by keeping us hooked on increasingly expensive fossil fuels — instead of developing UK clean energy and energy saving measures needed to secure power supplies, cut emissions, and stabilise fuel bills in the long - run.

SHARE (Safe, Healthy, Affordable and Reliable Energy) is a non-profit coalition of organizations committed to ensuring the continued supply of reliable, clean and affordable electricity for all New Yorkers.

It provides a clean, homegrown, reliable supply, ticking all the boxes of our current and long - term energy needs.

He said energy prices were rising, making nuclear energy an issue across the world; anxiety about climate change and the need to find clean energy sources was rising; and security of supply meant Britain must find new domestic sources of power.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear penergy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear pEnergy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

Do we really want to deny the British public a clean, affordable, home - grown energy supply which could free us from dependency on unstable regimes and which would give a huge boost to our industry?»»

Investor - owned utilities and energy suppliers have utterly failed over the course of repeated energy crises since 1974 to convert to sustainable, locally - produced, clean energy.

Among her plans of what she'd like to accomplish once elected: Promote / support bills in Congress that adopt clean sources of energy by helping to end the intricate system of public subsidies that keep dirty sources of energy artificially cheap, and promote renewable sources: solar, wind, and hydro; Protect waterways / drinking supply by reducing the risk of contamination and ensure that when contamination is found, the responsible parties are held accountable; Fight for public financing of elections; Work every day to overturn Citizens United.

The initiative seeks to integrate clean energy throughout the supply chain, she said, and increase investment in tools for scaling up promising technologies.

After the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, Germany adopted a policy of phasing out nuclear energy by 2022 and ensuring that 80 percent of the country's electricity supply comes from clean energy by 2050, or more than three times the level of 2010.

As the Senate Majority Leader, I am working on building a clean energy future that will help provide Americans safe, reliable, and affordable supplies of clean energy.

Eight leading thinkers offered visions of how to make our energy supply cleaner, more efficient, and more abundant (for video, check out the event homepage).

With consumption growing, oil supplies tight, and the world in a warming trend, the search is on for better energy sources — clean coal, safe nuclear reactors, and more far - reaching ideas like artificial photosynthesis.

Getting energy directly from this year's plant crop, in the form of biofuels, is cleaner and more efficient than getting it from coal or oil, but Dukes found that if we tried to supply current worldwide energy demand entirely from biofuels, it would consume at least 22 percent of the production of all land - based plants annually.

Leading thinkers offer visions of how to make our energy supply cleaner, more efficient, and more abundant.

Otherwise, the U.S. risks falling further behind in the race to dominate the clean energy technology markets of the future — becoming a customer, rather than a supplier.

SCIENCE AND POLICY • The president and Congress face crucial science - and technology - related decisions in the next four years: ensuring a clean and secure energy supply; making our health care system smarter; and protecting free speech online.

It's really silly to take clean drinking water, throw filth in it and spend millions of dollars as well as lots of energy cleaning it again, especially when water is becoming quite short in supply.

But almost no one is addressing the tension between the two: water restrictions are hampering solutions for generating more energy, and energy problems, particularly rising prices, are curtailing efforts to supply more clean water.

Two primary solutions — shipping in water over long distances or cleaning nearby but dirty supplies — both require large amounts of energy, which is soaring in price.

Eight leading thinkers offer visions of how to move from a history of squandering resources to a cleaner, more efficient, and more abundant energy supply.

Despite a rise in clean, renewable energy supplies in certain countries, and a partial shift from coal to natural gas in others, global greenhouse gas pollution continues to rise — and at an increasing pace in the most recent years.