Sentences with phrase «drive demand for energy»

Beacon Lighting expects soaring energy prices to drive demand for energy efficient lights, helping it return to profit growth this year.

T. Boone Pickens» Investment Strategy And Big Wins In the early 1980s, Pickens correctly predicted that the United States was in the early stages of a booming economic cycle that would drive demand for energy resources.

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Other political money flows through trade associations in the U.S. such as the American Chamber of Commerce, which has already spent more than $ 21 million in campaign advertising this year, including $ 1.5 million on ads accusing Democratic Senator Mark Udall of driving up energy costs, largely in response to his refusal to support Republican demands for immediate approval of the Keystone pipeline.

Meanwhile, buoyed by many of the same forces driving most commodities (not to mention insatiable demand for energy), Canadian oil companies, including Imperial Oil, Husky Energy and Canadian Oil Sands, also reported strong — albeit less historic — earenergy), Canadian oil companies, including Imperial Oil, Husky Energy and Canadian Oil Sands, also reported strong — albeit less historic — earEnergy and Canadian Oil Sands, also reported strong — albeit less historic — earnings.

With more cars on the road, energy consumption and C02 emissions will drive demand for even more efficiencies and change how cars are made.

Coal prices in general were driven even lower in 2016 due to low natural gas prices and warmer - than - usual winter temperatures that cut down demand for coal as an electricity generator, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

«There is a definitive shift toward finding ways to make things more efficient and longer - lasting,» says Panteva, who notes that government programs such as Energy Star are also helping drive consumer demand for eco-friendly products.

The irony is that the energies of globalization and growth in demand for key commodities are driving more businesses to contemplate ventures in politically closed countries, particularly China.

Furthermore, the energy crisis has driven up demand for skylights, which pay for themselves in energy savings.

Growth in clean energy is driving significant demand for the metals and mineral products used to manufacture technologies like solar panels, wind turbines, LED lighting and electric cars, creating an opportunity for job creation and economic growth in mining communities across Canada.

Growth in clean energy is driving significant demand for the metals and mineral products used to manufacture technologies like solar panels, wind turbines, LED lighting and electric cars, creating...

The increase in global demand owed to a large increase in demand for steel and energy, driven by rapid urbanisation and industrialisation in China and some other emerging economies.

While Basic Energy Service reemerged from bankruptcy at the end of last year with a more sustainable cost structure and improved balance sheet, it needs higher oil prices to thrive, because those prices will drive customer demand for its services.

The same reduced number of components and common layout as other L - Series systems, the LRS design will provide just the right response to your individual demand for air while minimizing your energy consumption with the variable - speed drive.

But last year, the United States produced more petroleum than any other country, driving down demand for Mexican energy.

Such outside investors were a key factor in driving up demand for energy investments during the record bull run of 2007 and early 2008.

The Powers That Be by Scott L. Montgomery (University of Chicago Press) Worldwide demand for energy continues to soar, driven by the emerging industrial economies of China and India.

Europe's renewable energy targets drive demand for wood pellets Other voices in the forestry sector, including Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, said that wood - based energy is renewable because the wood burned is replaced by other trees that take in carbon dioxide, making the process carbon - neutral.

Big data analysis additionally is driving the demand for even faster, more effective, and also energy - saving computer clusters.

In addition, surging global demand for industrial fuels from rapidly developing nations, such as China and India, have further driven up energy prices.

This thwarts the purpose of RPS policies, which help create the baseline demand for renewables that will spur the clean energy investment necessary to continue developing the technology and infrastructure that will drive costs down.

An incredibly demanding marathon, at about 2600 calories (energy in 3/4 lbs of bodyfat), is no match for 2 trips to a fast food drive - thru a week.

This much is clear: Even though a rising demand for safe, low - impact products has driven competition up and prices down, school administrators responsible for purchasing still need to look beyond the up - front sticker price of green products to consider a product's durability and lifetime expectancy, how much energy it consumes over the long haul, and how much it costs to operate and maintain.

A mild hybrid concept, on the other hand, makes even greater demands, thus requiring a high - voltage battery with a much higher level of performance to also supply the electric motor with the energy capacity required for its drive function.

The C - Max Energi will also feature a MyFord Touch interface configured specifically for electric driving to keep tabs on power usage, range and even the energy demands of accessories such as a / c.

Although it will not be available on the US models at the time of launch, the Brake Energy Regeneration feature ensures that the output coming from the engine is converted primarily into drive power, with electricity being generated for the on - board network only when the engine's drive power is not in demand; for example, when the car is rolling freely in overrun (engine braking) or during application of the brakes.

Addressing potential investors in Manhattan on Thursday, Gregory Boyce, the chairman and chief executive officer of the world's biggest coal company, Peabody Energy, simply gushed as he described how the company is ideally positioned to take advantage of «a long - term supercycle for coal,» driven by rapidly growing demand in Asia.

Current batteries for these cars can easily store the energy for driving the national average commute — about 33 miles round trip a day, so the study presumes that drivers would charge up overnight when demand for electricity is much lower.

«The U.S. and Europe can not produce enough plant feedstocks to meet targets» for biofuel production — even with cellulosic corn — as defined by government mandates, which are largely being driven by a growing demand for energy independence and national security concerns, said Thurmond.

There is a growing demand for better performing buildings, driven by a desire to reduce energy demand from the grid, improve comfort and improve health.

The growing sense of global urgency over our twin crisis — climate change and energy security — is now driving businesses to become green, consumers to demand green and policy makers to drive policies to accelerate the market adoption of green products.The most notorious subsidy is the 51 - cent gas credit for ethanol.»

(2) Reducing wintertime demand for energy from residences and small office buildings by blocking cold winds from reaching such structures, which lowers interior temperatures and drives heating demand.

Many utilities across the United States are actively trying to drive consumers towards time of use rates as they want to avoid the need for capital investment on their networks by lowering energy consumption in periods of extremely high demand.

Biodiesel demand could destroy world's forests (10/4/2007) Growing demand for biodiesel could drive large - scale forest conversion for energy crops, warns a study published in Conservation Biology.

But according to Breakthrough Institute the highest rebound in energy use from efficiency occurs «not at the consumer level but in the productive sectors of the economy (industry and commerce) improving the efficiency of a steel plant may result in lower cost of steel, greater demand for steel, and also create greater economic growth - all of which will drive significant rebound in energy use following efficiency improvements.»

This fixed infrastructure coupled with a pretty much insatiable human demand drive for energy services may result in a once - in - a-species crisis if our planetary resource and ecosystems can no longer keep pace.

If we don't have economic policy to drive the building of the clean energy economy, then we will create the demand for clean energy and energy efficiency block by block and community by community.

Growing demand for renewable energy sources along with rising environmental security concerns is anticipated to drive the industry growth over the forecast period.

A number of Indian and foreign providers, including fast - growing companies like Visionary Lighting and Energy and Greenlight Planet, are spreading small home solar systems across South Asia, driven by government incentives, plummeting costs for the technology, and high demand.

Discover how consumer driven demand for renewable energy is driving new business models.

Fossil Fuel is a generic term that isn't quite correct Natural Gasoline is a distilled derivative of oil but almost all ofit is manufactured from cracked and recombined oil derivativeswhile natural gasoline is further refined intoPropane, butane, Proproline (a plastics feed stock), and Natural gasand also separates out sulfur (for fertilizer and explosives) Gasoline can be made from coal («Coaline») or from organic matter («Bio-fuel») but uses a few of oil based feed stocks instead tomake «Sythiline» (artificial gasoline) This gasoline is actually cleaner burning then natural gas with allit's «flare offs» (butane, propane, propoline, sulfur) used in theearly 19th century because it is manufactured only with essentialHydrocarbons Diesel fuel is also becoming more and more Manufactured instead ofdistilled as demand for it rises but improvements in Hydro cleaningis allowing for diesel with no volatile chemicals like sulfur andmercury (taken out for petro - chemical feedstock to make fertilizerand thermometers) In both cases what you have is pure hydro - carbons, a carbon atomwith hydrogen atoms attached to it In the case of gasoline there is CH1, cH7, CH11 When in a combustion engine the gasoline is sprayed into the pistonafter being mixed with air and the drive of the engine compressesthe the chamber filled with the gasoline mist until it's full downstoke then the spark plug causes the Exothermic reaction... which isthe conversion of the potential energy in the gasoline mist to heatand force, with the force side of that equation shooting the pistonupward and the top of the stroke kicking what's left of thecaramelized gasoline mist out into the Emission control box If the Emulsion control box wasn't there to filter out the burntgasoline particles, any potential additives and volatile chemicalsthen the caramelized gunk hitting air would create CARBON MONOXIDEin the cooler then the heat of the engine difference CARBON MONOXIDE can also become a problem if the Emissions controlBox filter, air filters or muffler filters is worn or damaged.

Growing capital costs are partly a result of unprecedented demand for gear such as wind turbines driven by climate and energy security policies.

At the outset, Broecker develops the theme that drives most of the support for geoengineering research in contemporary society, despair over feckless climate policymaking, or as Broecker characterizes it «nibbles by developed countries... swamped by increased energy demand in traditionally poor countries.»

In its annual World Energy Outlook 2016 report, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasts that coal will remain the largest single source of electricity generation through to 2040, most of the new demand for coal will be driven by India and Southeast Asia.

Late last year, to their national embarrassment, the Germans had to be bailed out of a small energy crisis by Poland when the wind failed to blow for several days and a thick fog surrounded many parts of Germany, driving the output from renewables to just 4 percent of total demand.

«Rapid economic development will undoubtedly continue to drive up energy demand in China and India, and will contribute to a real improvement in the quality of life for more than 2 billion people.

Most of the world's energy growth will occur in countries outside of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)[1], where strong, long - term economic growth drives increasing demand for energy.

By making better energy choices and demanding more from utility vendors, cloud companies have the opportunity to be a catalyst in driving utilities and governments toward the development of cleaner electricity generation that will ensure a truly green cloud for their long - term sustainability — and a greener grid for us all.

Increases in natural - gas extraction are being driven by rising energy demands, mandates for cleaner burning fuels, and the economics of energy use (1 — 5).

Wall Street Journal — Low oil prices and economic growth have helped drive up consumer demand for energy across the world in 2015, the International Energy Agency said Thursday, a phenomenon seen from U.S. gasoline stations to Chinese auto dealerenergy across the world in 2015, the International Energy Agency said Thursday, a phenomenon seen from U.S. gasoline stations to Chinese auto dealerEnergy Agency said Thursday, a phenomenon seen from U.S. gasoline stations to Chinese auto dealerships.