Sentences with phrase «electric generation sector»
EPA's Clean Power Plan clearly limits electric utility options despite its touted target of 30 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions from the electric generation sector by 2030 from 2005 levels.
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«These plants are a necessary bridge to a much cleaner electric generation sector in our state,» he said in a statement.
Maintaining a reliable natural gas delivery and storage infrastructure is therefore important to support the receipt and delivery of adequate supply to California's millions of natural gas consumers and keep prices low for the residential, commercial, industrial, and electric generation sectors.
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General Electric (GE), a world leader in industrial power generation technology and the world's largest supplier of gas turbines, considers gas - fired power generation a key growth sector of its business and a practical step toward reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.
Public transportation, electric vehicle manufacturing and power generation announcements led the clean energy sector for job growth.
Their analysis focused on four well - researched, cost - effective emission reduction measures: energy efficiency, wind and solar generation in the electric sector, and conversion from gas - powered to electric light - duty vehicles in the transportation sector.
Moderating electric sector demand, but a continuing trend towards natural gas: Natural gas accounted for slightly less than 32 % of total electricity generation in 2017, down from nearly 34 % in 2016.
Starting this month, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is including monthly estimates of small - scale distributed solar PV capacity and generation by state and sector in EIA's Electric Power Monthly.
The «Synapse Electricity Snapshot 2016» (available here) highlights several major trends in 2015 electric - sector capacity, generation, and CO2 emissions.
New solar photovoltaic capacity drives nearly all of the growth in solar generation, with increases coming from both the electric power sector and end - use sectors such as distributed or customer - sited generation (i.e., rooftop installations).
Make Burlington a «net zero energy city» across electric, thermal, and ground transportation sectors by managing demand, realizing efficiency gains, and expanding local renewable generation, while increasing system resilience.
This week Barclays downgraded the high - grade bond market for the entire electric utility sector because «we believe that a confluence of declining cost trends in distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation and residential - scale power storage is likely to disrupt the status quo.»
EIA says the carbon drop is mostly because of changes in the electric power sector, where natural gas has become the leading fuel for generation.
Third, the likely change from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles in the transportation sector also effectively links transportation, and its fuel use, to the electricity generation sector and its fuel use (renewable or fossil fuel based).
Within the electric sector, fee avoidance options include energy efficiency, installing solar energy or some form of carbon - free distributed generation on your home or business, subscribing a community solar project, or signing up for a competitive supplier option that procures high levels of renewable energy credits (RECs) or procures clean energy directly through a long - term contract.
The electric generation industry includes the «electric power sector» (utility generators and independent power producers) and industrial and commercial power generators, including combined - heat - and - power producers, but excludes units at single - family dwellings.
From 2005 to 2016 natural gas consumed by the electric power sector for generation grew 76.6 percent.
Looking at just emissions from the electric power sector, emissions in Minnesota dropped by slightly more than the U.S.. However, since 2009, the state has made little to no progress on emissions even as electricity generation by wind increased by 92 percent.
The use of liquids declines in the other end - use sectors and for electric power generation.
His expertise is in the economic modeling and analysis of energy systems, with experience in both broad - scale energy policy analysis and in detailed financial analysis of private - sector electric power generation assets.
«The story of how California's electric system got to its current state is a long and gory one,» Bushnell wrote, but «the dominant policy driver in the electricity sector has unquestionably been a focus on developing renewable sources of electricity generation.»
Directs the Secretary to conduct programs in partnership with the private sector that address: (1) hydrogen production from diverse energy sources; (2) use of hydrogen for commercial, industrial, and residential electric power generation; (3) safe delivery of hydrogen or hydrogen - carrier fuels, (4) advanced vehicle technologies; (5) storage of hydrogen or hydrogen - carrier fuels; (6) development of safe, durable, affordable, and efficient fuel cells; and (7) the ability of domestic automobile manufacturers to manufacture commercially available competitive hybrid vehicle technologies in the United States.
Even without the Clean Power Plan, electric - sector greenhouse gas emissions are reduced by 420 million tons by 2040 (a reduction of 18 percent compared to 2005 levels) because of increased natural gas and renewable generation.
by Nick Cunningham of Oilprice.com The US electric power sector burned through a record amount of natural gas in recent weeks, a sign of the shifting power generation mix and also a signal that natural gas supplies could get tighter than many analysts had previously expected.
In addition, for the electric power generation sector, we include the damages from carbon dioxide emissions.
A significant share of generation from biomass and solar photovoltaic resources occurs in the end - use industrial, residential, and commercial sectors and is not included in the utility - scale electric power data presented here.
In terms of employment in the electric - power generation sector, wind represents just 2 % of all jobs; fossil and nuclear dominate at 91 %.
[82] In practice, this means entities in nine industrial sectors: petroleum, organic chemicals, inorganic chemicals, industrial minerals, metal mining, metal casting, iron and steel, pulp paper, and electric power generation facilities.