Sentences with phrase «current energy supply»

Recent promotion of desalination raises additional concerns regarding overall resource efficiency and the potential for diminishing returns on investment, given the energy inputs required to ensure water supply, with current energy supply being from thirsty fossil - based processes.

Bioenergy, including energy derived from wood and other plant materials, accounts for a significant proportion of the current energy supply from renewable sources.

It's built on the idea that you can save money and have reliability with your current energy supply.

His analysis showed that this approach would be less expensive than the current energy supply system.

10.3.1 Current energy supply technology transfer 10.3.2 Stakeholders and pathways for energy supply technology transfer

Have you diarised when your current energy supply contract comes to an end?

Not exact matches

Until a balance is restored between supply and demand, though, Saudi Arabia is willing to endure the current low price of oil, even as its own budget, heavily reliant on energy revenues, faces a deficit of $ 98 billion, or 15 percent of gross domestic product, for fiscal 2016.

A majority of the OPEC and independent oil producers participating in a current deal to cut supply like the idea of a long - term producers» alliance, the energy minister of the Continue Reading

I'm somewhat disinclined to believe that the current gold price is due strictly to excess supply with discussion of price manipulation always looming, but the general thesis remains that until these global excesses are mopped up, successful commodity investing will involve focus on a narrow subset of raw materials — in our case the Energy Metals.

While we believe that current energy market fundamentals justify an oil price of $ 50 or above, we also note that productivity gains in US shale fields have increased the elasticity of supply from these critical swing producers, a factor that could cap any significant price appreciation.

* The energy costs of the supply chain need to be reduced by 25 % over the current decade to make it competitive with other regions of UK and other competitor countries.

Village trustees voted to award the contract for Orland Park's fixed - rate electricity program to a new supplier, FirstEnergy, at a board meeting Monday, as long as the village can reach an agreement with current provider Nordic Energy Services to end its contract May 1, a month early.

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

Robert Reynolds, a consultant who has studied ethanol infrastructure for the Department of Energy, says ethanol would have to make up at least 30 percent of the gasoline supply to justify the expense of making current oil pipelines fit for sharing.

This decision is not only based on a current surplus in the country's energy supply, but also on concerns over lack of efficiency in large reservoirs and the environmental impacts of these projects, themes which are central to the study.

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.

By reducing reliance on fuel convoys and increasing domestic control over the Navy's energy supply, he said, the current shift will do the same.

Each year, roughly 2.4 trillion cubic feet (68 billion cubic meters) of natural gas are used each year, according to the Energy Information Administration — a more than 30 - year supply at current consumption levels.

With oil prices soaring and concerns about global warming and climate change growing, the pressure is on to find new ways of managing the current and future energy supply.

Very large flares can even create currents within electricity grids and knock out energy supplies.»

In spite of current energy trends moving towards green and renewable options, Alberta is planning on double its production of fossil fuels by 2030, meaning that higher supply will generate lower market rates, presenting a more affordable alternative to the American market.

Similarly dependent on its actors» comic energies is This is the End (Sony, 15), an intentionally sketchy goof - off in which Hollywood's current frat pack — James Franco, Seth Rogen, Michael Cera and the like, all playing themselves — face the apocalypse armed only with a generous supply of dick jokes.

Increasing the energy supply to an existing site or changing premises altogether if the current site has outgrown its use, can come with problems - and a huge amount of paperwork.

As for the current model, the new Camry Hybrid drives through a continuously variable transmission to the front wheels, with two motor / generator units to supply motive power or recover energy.

If your circumstances change and you can not afford the payments that you had agreed with your supplier, you can use the Re-negotiate with your energy supplier if your current repayment arrangement is unaffordable sample letter to ask them to accept a lower payment arrangement.

We've also added some improvements to Cheap Energy Club, including a filter that lets you search for tariffs by your current supplier or by big name suppliers only.

Use the «My Current Supplier» filter in our Cheap Energy Club to see all your supplier's deals and find the EXACT cheapest one Supplier» filter in our Cheap Energy Club to see all your supplier's deals and find the EXACT cheapest one supplier's deals and find the EXACT cheapest one for you.

Use this letter to help you negotiate with your domestic electricity or gas supplier to agree payments you can afford to cover your current energy bills and repayments on the energy debt you owe.

According to the US Energy Administration, spare oil production capacity is only about 1 % of current demand, leaving very little room to compensate for supply interruptions or spikes in demand.

And, as with the corn - ethanol debacle unfolding before our eyes, the alternatives to fossil fuel will simply never fill the gap between current and assumed future demand and supply of energy.

Realization that we must reduce the current CO2 amount has a bright side: effects that had begun to seem inevitable, including impacts of ocean acidification, loss of fresh water supplies, and shifting of climatic zones, may be averted by the necessity of finding an energy course beyond fossil fuels sooner than would otherwise have occurred.

The current fossil fuel energy pricing reality along with new exploration and production technology is providing an economic basis for an immediate, practical transition and conversion to greener energy supplies of wind, solar, geothermal and hydropower.

The current debate will soon be rendered moot as global energy supplies enter a new phase of terminal decline and take the industrialized worlds grossly disproportionate levels of affluence down with them.

«Had we listened to the current media buzz touting transportation as the largest factor in energy consumption, we might have greatly misplaced our efforts by making strides to geographically shorten our supply chain — which would have massively impacted our business financially, logistically and perhaps even effected product quality — and we would only have reduced our energy savings by 1 percent.

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. has 480 billion short tons of demonstrated reserves — that's several hundred years» worth of supply at current consumption rates.

New England has abundant onshore wind energy resources, with the technical potential to supply about 60 percent of the region's current electricity use.

If better means a cheap option that supplies the U.S. with the current level of energy consumption, then «No.»

After all, wind and solar in their current manifestations will never supply the energy we need and are very expensive on a $ / kW - actually - produced, under real conditions, basis.

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.

ExxonMobil expects wind power, solar power, and biofuels to supply about 2 percent of world energy by 2030, despite the fact that current calculations by the Renewable Energy Policy Network estimate that renewable energy already supplies roughly 4 percent of world energy by 2030, despite the fact that current calculations by the Renewable Energy Policy Network estimate that renewable energy already supplies roughly 4 percent of world Energy Policy Network estimate that renewable energy already supplies roughly 4 percent of world energy already supplies roughly 4 percent of world power.

Practical use of tidal energy is highly anticipated, because tidal currents are widely distributed worldwide, are largely unaffected by weather and climate, and are capable of producing a stable supply of electricity.

In particular, HEM focuses on the interactions among (1) the supply, conversion, and demand of energy in its various forms; (2) American energy and the overall American economy; (3) the American energy market and the world petroleum market; and (4) current production and consumption decisions as well as expectations about the future.

Further, we find that current projected future energy supply rates are far below the supply needed to fuel a global demographic transition to zero growth, suggesting that the predicted leveling - off of the global population by mid-century is unlikely to occur, in the absence of a transition to an alternative energy source.

The Russian electricity monopoly Unified Energy Systems (UES) has been told by Gazprom it is not getting any more gas i.e. no increases in current supply - production is flat and it is supplies to Europe that fills the Gazprom coffers.

The most important thing to understand about the federal government's new National Energy Guarantee is that it is designed not to produce a sustainable and reliable electricity supply system for the future, but to meet purely political objectives for the current term of parliament.

If some budding entrepreneur came to you with an energy proposal that would cost you as a supplier one third your current price, so that you could charge the customer half his current price, then according to you you would turn him down because you didn't want your customer to get cheap energy.

The American model of development remains one of the primary models for many developed and developing industrial cultures from early 20th Century onward that, of course, require a large supply of fossil energy with current infrastructure.

Recent favorable developments in wave energy due to the increased focus on climate change include, technological developments in Scotland, Australia, Denmark and the USA, and a high potential for energy supply - wave energy could provide 10 % of the current world electricity supply (if appropriately harnessed)- and the potential synergies with the offshore oil and gas industry could be significant.

Current water management practices are very likely to be inadequate to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on water supply reliability, flood risk, health, energy, and aquatic ecosystems (very high confidence)[3.4, 3.5].

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