Sentences with phrase «current electricity needs»

Facts Hydroelectricity supplies 19 per cent of the world's current electricity needs and over 63 per cent of renewable energy (Figures in 2005) The first hydroelectric power station in history started producing electricity in 1882.

Beyond being adequate to meet Japan's current electricity needs many times over, geothermal and wind energy could also displace much of the expensive imported oil now used in transportation.

Nine of the top 10 carbon dioxide emitting countries in 2010 have more than enough offshore wind energy potential to meet all their current electricity needs.

Canada's current electricity needs could be met 36 times over with domestic offshore wind energy.

Almost every state along the Atlantic coast — 12 out of 14 — has offshore wind potential that exceeds its current electricity needs, according to a new study.

To make it renewable means increasing current provision of renewable energy — that means scaling renewables not just to current electricity needs, but to this much larger number.

Not exact matches

At its current growth rate SolarCity will need enough panels to produce two gigawatts of electricity by 2017.

Businesses need enhancements to tax laws, access to property and finance, improvements in regulatory and business environment, improvements in petrol and electricity availability, and in the context of current policy, a flexible exchange rate policy that allows producers secure foreign currency to procure imported inputs!

The Carbon Trust has estimated that wave power could eventually meet between 15 % and 20 % of our current power needs and that, given time, it might produce enough electricity to power 11 million homes.

We need to increase the current height from 4.8 metres to 6.5 metres, because we may want to use electricity to power the engine (in future).»

Current specialized tests that depend on microscopic or fluorescent analysis of stool samples or polymerase chain reactions (PCR) that amplify pathogen DNA are considered impractical for deployment in developing countries because of the need for expensive equipment and / or the electricity to operate it.

Dirty electricity occurs when electronic devices need to manipulate the electric currents into the format and voltage that the devices need.

Radio waves are actually just a high frequency type of alternating current (AC), which is the type of electricity in our power grids, but devices need DC power to operate.

I am merely trying to set the record straight as to how much (carbon free) electricity we are going to need to replace our current fleet of petroleum powered cars.

According to NComputing, the access devices eliminate the need for air conditioning when there is a room full of the devices, since they create little heat, produce significantly less e-waste at the end of their extra long lifetimes, and according to their calculations, the company's current user base is right now saving 144 million kWh of electricity annually, 17,700 metric tons of coal, 112,300 metric tons of CO2, and about 8,100 metric tons of e-waste.

Enel, Italy's leading utility, sees the country reaching 30,000 megawatts by 2020 — enough to satisfy half of its current residential electricity needs.

Hydro storage expansion would need political action on Norway's current electricity policy that far exceeds 2020 and would have to consider a multitude of technical, economic, and environmental implications.

Many also believe that electricity rates will rise substantially — since the current power grid needs maintained alongside the wind farms for when the wind doesn't blow, the maintenance costs could outweigh the benefit of free fuel from the wind.

If the government is to make meaningful progress toward its national goal to extend a constant supply of electricity to every household in the coming years, it will need to learn from and adapt its current financing structures for off - grid solar (and other renewable energy) technologies.

«For both nations to achieve the same per capita electricity use as the European Union, for instance, they would need the equivalent of 7 billion tons of coal each year, approximately the world's current use,» he wrote in the company's 2010 annual report.

In the case of a grid with 80 % renewables, the generation capacity needs to be six times larger than the peak load, while the excess electricity would be equal to 60 % of the EU's current annual electricity consumption.

Most community solar providers will recommend that you size your system to meet approximately 100 % of your current annual electricity needs.

As California moves toward increasing renewable energy beyond the current requirement of 33 percent by 2020, the state's approach to managing the electricity grid needs to evolve to take full advantage of its low - carbon resources.

To ensure a reliable electricity system now and in the future, we need to plan for current and worsening flood exposure over the lifetime of equipment, and deploy resilient clean energy solutions to keep critical facilities powered up even when severe weather strikes.

A while back I took on Gore's suggestion that all of America's electricity needs could be met with current Solar technology with a 90 mile x 90 mile tract of solar.

India's rapid economic growth will increase significantly the electricity demand during the next decades, therefore India needs to make massive investments in order to expand its current installed capacity and to improve the stability of its electric grid.

A new analysis by ClimateWorks Australia says that the electricity sector needs to do far more to cut its carbon emissions than will be delivered by current policies.

Maryland's current «hosting capacity» — essentially how much solar would be needed to meet the state's electricity demand — is about 32 GW.

Development of high voltage direct current cables and transmission systems — Although initial loss of electricity of DC cables is higher than for AC, there is no incremental loss of electricity as the length of the cable increases, making it possible to build offshore wind farms in very windy areas and transmit the energy over vast distances to areas with poor wind regimes, and to combine wind generators from different areas to reduce the impact of low - wind days and the need to use backup hydrocarbons on those days

Theoretically, he says, we could produce all the electricity we need, with 90 % less carbon emissions, with a combination of scrubbed natural gas burning generators and wind energy from high - wind regime areas transported through high voltage direct current lines.

The report notes that wind could meet one - quarter of the world's electricity needs by 2050 if current growth rates continue, and sets that as its goal.

Electricity is a huge part of our energy future and we will need a complete overhaul of the current system, so I think any energy plan for the future must pay much attention to the issue of scale.

It concludes that since the inconsistency between the objectives of EML and results of BSS in practice is obvious, Turkish policy makers need to modify current electricity market policy in line with suggestions presented in the paper.

India's Electricity Central Electricity Authority has said that after the current crop of coal - fired power stations under construction are completed, the country will need no new ones until 2027.

Power Compare further notes that Bitcoin's current estimated annual electricity consumption stands at 29.05 TWh — the equivalent of 0.13 percent of the world's overall electricity needs.