Sentences with phrase «decarbonized grids»
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.
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Hydropower — both conventional and pumped storage hydropower — is crucial to sustaining our transition to a decarbonized grid.
«Our goal is to decarbonize the grid, and we don't want to have to rely on gas.»
A moderately decarbonized grid will look very much like proponents of renewables might expect.
Decarbonizing the grid means all fossil generation will have to capture its emissions.
Britain has already made great progress in decarbonizing the grid.
Not exact matches
«It is a bit ironic the one advanced economy that has decarbonized its power grid would choose to put that in reverse,» said Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force.
Speaking yesterday at the Nuclear Energy Institute's annual conference in Washington, D.C., Cohen observed that France decarbonized its power grid by 75 percent using nuclear power, but the transition spanned two decades, a time frame that is too long to address a rapidly encroaching problem like climate change.
(Since, as I see it, there is no realistic hope of decarbonizing the power grid inside 20 years [by]... decreasing demand * to the extent necessary * within that same time frame.
5) As the grid decarbonizes, the manufacture of solar and wind gear becomes increasingly «green», too.
They will get cleaner yet as more renewable energy comes online and the world's electric grids slowly decarbonize.
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.
Students will come away from this class with an understanding of how public utility regulation interacts with environmental law to facilitate the efforts of states (like California) to decarbonize the electric grid, and to inhibit those efforts in other ways.
If we are to decarbonize the economy, immense new loads — transportation, home heating, industrial process heat — must be shifted to low - carbon grid power.
«It is a bit ironic the one advanced economy that has decarbonized its power grid would choose to put that in reverse,» said Armond Cohen, executive director of the Clean Air Task Force.
The grid operator released a study last winter noting that the region's growing dependence of natural gas could hurt its attempts to decarbonize.