Sentences with phrase «demand over the next several decades»

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To start, nearly all of the CSLF meeting participants were bullish on the outlook for fossil fuel consumption, expressing the view that fossil use would increase over the next several decades due to a combination of demand factors (e.g. population and economic growth) and supply factors (e.g. lack of cost - competitive renewable energy).

The intermittency of wind and solar energy has some state regulators and energy companies a bit concerned, but they (along with that Nervous Nelly sitting across from you) should take comfort in the findings of a recent study that looked at the extent to which we can meet electricity demands in the lower 48 states over the next several decades with renewable energy.

Once the risk to demand from such a temperature increase is identified, can we assess the probability, or less stringently, the plausibility, of such an increase occurring over the next several decades?

Limiting global atmospheric CO2 concentrations to or below 450 ppm would require that we stop building new fossil fuel infrastructure in the next several years and significantly reduce energy demand over the next few decades.