Sentences with phrase «compete against fossil fuels»

In spite of generating clean energy from sustainable sources, renewables still have to compete against fossil fuels economically.

All the while, Puerto Ricans don't have the luxury of waiting for the grid of the future, so renewable energy entrepreneurs must compete against fossil fuel generators.

Another critic argues that the studies fail to consider no - till cultivation of biofuel crops, which actually increase soil carbon storage, and that corn ethanol plants are converting to renewable energy, thus decreasing their emissions - meanwhile they are competing against fossil fuels like oil from tar sands that have an increased carbon footprint even compared to conventional gasoline.

Not exact matches

Such work may have a shot at creating low - carbon alternatives that can compete against the bargain basement fossil fuels that will very likely result if alternative fuels start to contribute substantial supply.

And so that was competing against all kinds of energy resources, including traditional fossil fuels.»

By the 2040s, the Blueprints world sees renewable energy technologies compete on price against fossil fuels, which are well managed with carbon capture and storage.

Her plan is based entirely on other means of achieving the target - even though wind is by far the lowest cost form of renewable energy, and solar is likely to become cheaper by 2020 with continued support to the point where it competes directly against fossil fuel generation.

At this price, coal fired, gas fired and biomass generation is priced out of the market, so to ensure that at least some new gas - fired capacity is built, the agency is introducing separate categories — allowing fossil fuel and biomass plants to bid against each other, while wind projects compete in a separate auction.

A frequent argument against renewable sources of electricity is that they are much too expensive to compete with nuclear or fossil fuel power plants.

Certainly non-capitalist enterprise — eg cooperatives — if the try to maximise their own workers incomes by competing against other cooperatives, will be tempted to utilise fossil fuels.