Sentences with phrase «decarbonized electricity»

MIT's Jesse Jenkins talks about what a deeply decarbonized electricity system might look like, and how to build it at lowest cost.

Deeply decarbonized electricity systems, with emissions of 50 metric tons of CO2 per gigawatt - hour of electricity produced, would cut carbon by 90 % or more.

This was primarily due to the low cost of decarbonizing coal - based electricity in the U.S. versus Canada's largely decarbonized electricity system and high costs of reducing emissions in the oil sands.

Such co-production systems, when considered as power generators, can provide decarbonized electricity at lower costs than is feasible with new stand - alone fossil fuel power plants under a wide range of conditions, according to the study by Liu et al. published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.

The Electric Power Research Institute's report on decarbonizing electricity generation said an «aggressive» push on new technologies could lower 2005 - level carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 41 percent in 2030.

Yet the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris says that without CCS it could cost 40 % more to decarbonize electricity enough to meet international climate targets by 2050.

The UK has made incredible progress in decarbonizing electricity production, but a huge number of UK households still use natural gas for heating and cooking.

There is evidence that the Midwest is steadily decarbonizing its electricity generation through a combination of new state - level policies (for example, energy efficiency and renewable energy standards) and will continue to do so in response to low natural gas prices, falling prices for renewable electricity (for example, wind and solar), greater market demand for lower - carbon energy from consumers, and new EPA regulations governing new power plants.

Getting greenhouse gas emissions to 60 percent below the 1990 level will require four types of measures: aggressive energy efficiency, aggressive electrification, decarbonizing electricity (such as by using renewable energy sources) and decarbonizing the remaining fuel supply (such as by using biofuels).

Investments in T&D provide a good illustration of how conditional projects may in fact be well aligned with 2 - degree pathways; in this case, the «conditional» categorization serves more as a reminder of the urgent need to decarbonize the electricity grid as it expands and becomes more efficient.

* The process of decarbonizing electricity supply is well under way and, I think, just about unstoppable.

Most political debates about decarbonizing our energy sector focus on decarbonizing our electricity system and electrifying transport,» said Hans Korteweg, managing director of COGEN.

As a second example, policies driving electrification can produce greater environmental benefits if implemented alongside ones to decarbonize electricity supply.

We're working in the U.S. to decarbonize the electricity system; supporting power sector reform in China; helping island economies transition to renewables; improving electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa; and providing renewable energy at mining operations.

Not exact matches

«Decarbonizing the electric sector is job one for the electricity industry,» adds Henry «Hank» Courtright, a senior vice president at the Palo Alto, Calif. — based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).

Decarbonizing the world's electricity supply,... would deliver a little less than half the reduction in carbon dioxide emissions necessary by 2035 to limit the eventual increase in global temperatures to two degrees Celsius,... The carbon intensity of electricity has increased by 6 % since 1990, largely due to growing use of coal for power generation in emerging economies, it said.

In the case of Germany, where nuclear power is being phased out and fossil fuels are taboo because of plans to decarbonize, the only option may be to accept periods without electricity putting a civilized nation back centuries.

Other studies of nearly decarbonizing the power sector by mid-century show that more efficient, advanced biopower technologies using low - carbon feedstocks, such as agricultural residues and energy crops, could provide a modest contribution of up to 15 percent of U.S. electricity generation (NREL 2012, UCS 2013).

Using electricity to substitute for other fuels in end ‐ use sectors plays an important role in deep emission cuts, since the cost of decarbonizing power generation is expected to be lower than that in other parts of the energy supply sector.

Established in 2015, the Canadian Council on Renewable Electricity is a non-partisan organization that allows Canada's leading national renewable electricity industry associations to collaborate, educate and pursue common opportunities as a solutions provider to the critical challenge of decarbonizing the North American energy system while bolstering econoElectricity is a non-partisan organization that allows Canada's leading national renewable electricity industry associations to collaborate, educate and pursue common opportunities as a solutions provider to the critical challenge of decarbonizing the North American energy system while bolstering econoelectricity industry associations to collaborate, educate and pursue common opportunities as a solutions provider to the critical challenge of decarbonizing the North American energy system while bolstering economic growth.

ESM 294 - 1S - Energy Law and Regulation [2 units] Spence This course will provide students with a working understanding of electricity markets, the complex and overlapping legal regimes that govern the electricity sector, and how those regimes influence efforts to «green» or «decarbonize» the electricity sector.

Kleinman Center Visiting Scholar Jesse Jenkins discusses the economics of building a «deeply decarbonized» electricity system.

Grid electricity is the easiest part of the energy supply to decarbonize, so we should be using more electricity — for transport, heating and other purposes — not less; PG&E's generation should grow mightily to accommodate all the Tesla's and Volts Californian's could be driving on electricity from Diablo Canyon.

«Electricity is the lynchpin in our efforts to decarbonize the economy,» Jenkins said in his presentation at the Kleinman Center on February 1.

They modeled a range of electricity systems for the year 2050, including moderately decarbonized grids with emissions intensity that would be 60 % to 80 % below that of the U.S. grid today.

Critically, however, clean electricity also «helps to decarbonize transportation, heating, and industry,» says Jenkins.

Among these changes are «an outright decoupling» of electricity growth and economic growth, a shift toward «decarbonizing» the power sector and the awakening of serious investor appetite for clean energy.