Sentences with phrase «consumption coming from renewable sources»

Households too increasingly wish to document that their electricity consumption comes from renewable sources.

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Mr Salmond pledged last year that 100 per cent of Scotland's gross electricity consumption will come from renewable sources by 2020, supplied mainly by thousands of wind turbines.

Twenty states have set targets for how much of their energy should come from renewable sources, with many as aggressive as the European Union's target of 12 percent of energy consumption from renewables by 2010.

Twenty percent of the energy used to stage the games came from renewable energy sources, even though Beijing still relies on coal for more than 40 percent of its electricity consumption.

Under its 2030 proposal, the commission proposes that 27 % of the European Union's total energy consumption should come from renewable sources, up from the current 20 % target for 2020 — but it stops short of making that target binding for individual countries.

The moves are part of the strategy agreed to in March last year of reducing emissions to at least 20 % below 1990 levels by 2020, and for 20 % of energy consumption across the EU to come from renewable sources by 2020.