Sentences with phrase «deployment of carbon capture»

Near - term deployment of carbon capture and sequestration from biorefineries in the United States

With the world still reliant on fossil fuels, the deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology is critical, but there are no commercial plants in operation, the report said.

Subtitle B: Carbon Capture and Sequestration -(Sec. 111) Requires the EPA Administrator, in consultation with the Secretary, the Secretary of the Interior, and other relevant agencies, to report to Congress on a unified and comprehensive strategy to address the key legal, regulatory and other barriers to the commercial - scale deployment of carbon capture and sequestration.

Subtitle B: Disposition of Allowances -(Sec. 321) Amends the CAA to set forth provisions governing the disposition of emission allowances, including specifying allocations: (1) for supplemental emissions reductions from reduced deforestation; (2) for the benefit of electricity, natural gas, and / or home heating oil and propane consumers; (3) for auction, with proceeds for the benefit of low income consumers and worker investment; (4) to energy - intensive, trade - exposed industries; (5) for the deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology; (6) to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy; (7) to be distributed to Energy Innovation Hubs and advanced energy research; (8) to invest in the development and deployment of clean vehicles; (9) to domestic petroleum refineries and small business refiners; (10) for domestic and international adaptation; (11) for domestic wildlife and natural resource adaptation; and (12) for international clean technology deployment.

(Sec. 115) Amends the CAA to require the EPA Administrator to promulgate regulations providing for the distribution of emission allowances (established by this Act) that are allocated to support the commercial deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technologies in electric power generation and industrial operations.

The imperative to limit emissions in order to reach this target drives changes in the energy system, including shifts to electricity, to lower emissions energy technologies and to the deployment of carbon capture and geologic storage technology.

Second, the scenario assumes no deployment of carbon capture and sequestration technology and a phase out of nuclear power by 204... with no new nuclear plants built after 2008.

While ensuring the widespread deployment of carbon capture / storage technology does represent a significant challenge, it is more feasible than other policy options being offered by those who simply don't see any role for coal in our energy future.

So what lessons can we draw from the experience of the wind and solar industries as they've become more mainstream to facilitate a faster and broader deployment of carbon capture technology?

However, absent rapid deployment of carbon capture and storage, it is difficult to see how there is room for this level of emissions growth in pan-Canadian climate plan designed to meet the commitments in the Paris Agreement.

Not exact matches

The President's initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug - in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high - efficiency deployment of power across «smart grids,» and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.

To allow solar to continue to soar, the 2016 U.S. Budget includes proposals «to reform and renew tax credits that incentivize the deployment of wind, solar, and carbon capture sequestration technologies.»

It shows that for this «plan B» to be on the table, we will need vigorous development, deployment and acceptance of technologies like sustainable biomass in conjunction with carbon capture and storage,» says IIASA Deputy Director Nebojsa Nakicenovic, a co-author on the paper and a co-chair of the GCP scientific steering committee.

Substantial reductions in greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector are achievable over the next two to three decades through a portfolio approach involving the widespread deployment of energy efficiency technologies; renewable energy; coal, natural gas, and biomass with carbon capture and storage; and nuclear technologies.

The comment, made during a Jan. 17 interview with the editorial board of The San Francisco Chronicle, essentially explains how the kind of cap and trade mechanism sought by both Mr. Obama and Senator John McCain (the latter at least in his platform, if not on the stump) would make coal combustion ever more costly (unless the world finally gets serious about investing in large - scale testing and deployment of systems for capturing and burying carbon dioxide).

If China decides to make coal do double duty, propelling cars and providing electricity, the chances of curbing greenhouse gases (without broad deployment of systems for capturing carbon dioxide) will be nil.

Drawing on global best practice policies, we undertake to remove barriers, establish incentives, and implement standards to aggressively accelerate deployment and transfer of key existing and new low - carbon technologies, such as energy efficiency; solar energy; smart grids; carbon capture, use, and storage; advanced vehicles; and bio-energy.

The Breakthrough team warns that while deployment of today's technologies is vital, if money for deployment is included in the $ 150 - billion pie, that dangerously reduces the amount of money for laboratories pursuing vital advances on photovoltaics or energy storage and for big tests of technologies that must be demonstrated at large scale — like capturing carbon dioxide from power plants.

To provide the greatest short - term impacts on the deployment of direct air capture, the federal government should recognize that carbon management (ie.

Every single country would have to radically increase its deployment of clean energy sources — things like solar or wind or nuclear or carbon capture for coal or electric cars or hydrogen cars — by an order of magnitude.

(1) deployment of technologies to capture and sequester carbon dioxide emissions from electric generating units or large industrial sources (except that assistance under this subtitle for such deployment shall be limited to the cost of retrofitting existing facilities with such technologies or the incremental cost of purchasing and installing such technologies at new facilities);

Upon reaching the limit described in the preceding sentence, any emission allowances that are allocated for carbon capture and sequestration deployment under section 782 (f) and are not yet obligated under this section shall be treated as allowances not designated for distribution for purposes of section 782 (r).

Further, it is pointed out that the enhancement of carbon sinks is already included in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change agreements, and, moreover, that IPCC projections rely on unspecified negative emissions (often inappropriately assumed to be implausibly large deployments of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)-RRB- to prevent high probabilities of temperature rises exceeding 2oC.

This means that a carbon budget for the next couple of decades may have inbuilt assumptions around longer term efforts to mitigate emissions, including deployment of technologies such as Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).

For we have already burned enough fossil fuel to keep warming on the trajectory to hit 1.5 to 2.5 C this century and 3 - 5 C or somewhat more long term — a bad result, and one that would likely require extensive human deployment of atmospheric carbon capture technologies.

This argues in favor of some direct support for early deployment of technologies such as advanced biofuels and carbon capture and sequestration.

Achieving negative emissions will involve what the analysis calls «the deployment of uncertain and at present controversial technologies, including biomass energy with carbon capture and storage.»

Moreover, it reaches this goal without making (as many climate modelers do) desperate assumptions about horrifically large - scale deployment of bioenergy - based carbon capture and storage systems (the acronym is BECCS) that generate fantastic amounts of «negative emissions.»

«[F] or a 50 % probability of limiting warming to 2 °C, assuming other sectors play their part, no new investment in fossil electricity infrastructure (without carbon capture) is feasible from 2017 at the latest, unless energy policy leads to early stranding of polluting assets or large scale carbon capture deployment,» Oxford researchers wrote in March.

The more a decarbonisation pathway relies on biofuels production, the deployment of concentrating solar power, carbon capture or nuclear power, the more water it consumes.

Because many of the innovations and breakthroughs that occur in energy are through real - world deployment, not lab R&D, like offshore wind turbines, concentrated solar power, and carbon capture and storage, what's required is not just a DARPA for energy but also investments in the enabling infrastructure and outright deployment in the real world.

The robust economic gains of shale gas should be paid forward to the development and deployment of renewable energy technologies, as well as advanced nuclear and carbon capture and sequestration technologies.

As such, to realize reduced global temperatures (compared to a baseline fossil fuel future), even in the second half of this century, would instead require a «rapid and massive deployment of some mix of conservation, wind, solar, and nuclear, and possibly carbon capture and storage.»

WCA believes that the pathway to zero emissions from coal starts with the deployment of high efficiency low emission coal technologies (HELE) and progresses to carbon capture use and storage (CCUS).

Addressing the first question in Nature Climate Change, Sanchez et al. (2015) find that western North America could attain a carbon - negative power system by 2050 through strong deployment of renewable energy sources, including BioEnergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), and fossil fuel reductions.

A report released in April by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that avoiding the internationally agreed upon goal of 2 °C of global warming will likely require the global deployment of «carbon dioxide removal» strategies like air capture.

Achieving substantial reductions in temperatures relative to the coal - based system will take the better part of a century, and will depend on rapid and massive deployment of some mix of conservation, wind, solar, and nuclear, and possibly carbon capture and storage.