Pakistan is aiming to
double its renewable energy capacity this year by adding 800 megawatts to the grid, according to officials.
Business Green: China confirms it is moving forward with carbon market plan as India's prime minister vows to
double renewable energy capacity within four years.
Not exact matches
Even despite the United States» potential
renewable energies policy u-turn, the country
doubled its solar
capacity in 2016, growing nationwide solar jobs to 260,000.
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Renewable energy does not «remain the same»... renewable energy capacity has doubled since 2007, reaching 8.8 % of total generation
Renewable energy does not «remain the same»...
renewable energy capacity has doubled since 2007, reaching 8.8 % of total generation
renewable energy capacity has
doubled since 2007, reaching 8.8 % of total generation
capacity.
It's only been a few years since deployment in the developing world really started to take off, but global
renewable energy capacity has
doubled since 2007, reaching 8.8 % of total generation
capacity.
We're making our government's largest ever investment in
renewable energy — an investment aimed at
doubling the generating
capacity from wind and other
renewable resources in three years.
My recovery plan provides the incentives to
double our nation's
capacity to generate
renewable energy over the next few years — extending the production tax credit, providing loan guarantees and offering grants to spur investment.
Countries around the world are richly endowed with
renewable energy, in some cases enough to easily
double their current electrical generating
capacities.
In August 2016, a new
renewable energy mandate was passed and signed into law, requiring 1,600 MW of
capacity from wind, more than
double the
capacity of Pilgrim (685 MW).
A report from groups including the United Nations environmental arm and Bloomberg New
Energy Finance (BNEF) shows renewable energy installations were responsible for 61 % of the world's net power capacity additions in 2017, more than double the new - builds from fossil fuel - powered gener
Energy Finance (BNEF) shows
renewable energy installations were responsible for 61 % of the world's net power capacity additions in 2017, more than double the new - builds from fossil fuel - powered gener
energy installations were responsible for 61 % of the world's net power
capacity additions in 2017, more than
double the new - builds from fossil fuel - powered generation.
Renewable energy capacity is
doubling roughly every two years and is expected to create thousands of new jobs.
And globally, while one - third of planned power
capacity is still in coal,
renewable energy investment was
double that of coal and gas last year.
This means a duplication of
capacity and more than
doubling of the costs (because the
renewable energy generators are much higher cost than the fossil fuel generators which are essential back up and could do the job on their own).
Total installed
capacity of
renewable energy installations more than
doubled in 2011 and as of 2012 [update] stands at 397 MW.
«Texas Decision Could
Double Wind Power
Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 Apri
Capacity in the U.S.,»
Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt
capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 Apri
capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National
Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind
Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European
Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from
Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21),
Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal
Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).
But while India's power demand will
double over the next decade, its draft National Electricity Plan (NEP) calls for rising demand to be met with 275 gigawatts (GW) total
renewable energy capacity by 2027, without requiring new coal plants beyond those already under construction.
IEEFA forecasts India will add 14 GW new
renewable energy capacity in 2017 - 2018, more than
doubling the 5.8 GW expected net coal additions.
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As other countries move away from coal and increase their
renewable energy capacity, Japan is
doubling down on fossil fuels, and continues to heavily finance coal and gas projects both domestically and all over the world.
And how much more
renewable energy will have to be brought online to
double the US's
capacity in the next three years?
Thanks to booming
renewable energy in the country, International Energy Agency estimates India's renewable energy capacity will more than double by 2022, overtaking renewable expansion in the European Union for the first
energy in the country, International
Energy Agency estimates India's renewable energy capacity will more than double by 2022, overtaking renewable expansion in the European Union for the first
Energy Agency estimates India's
renewable energy capacity will more than double by 2022, overtaking renewable expansion in the European Union for the first
energy capacity will more than
double by 2022, overtaking
renewable expansion in the European Union for the first time.