Sentences with phrase «electric sector»

A study examined this issue using 5 years of data from the German electric sector.

Massachusetts needs an extra 3.4 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2020 that can not and will not come from electric sector renewable and efficiency programs as they are currently written.

The alternative would results in little or no reduction in electric sector carbon dioxide emissions because the carbon dioxide emissions profile of prematurely retired power supply resources is less than or equal to the emissions profile of the replacement power resources.

It is expected to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the US electric sector by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.

Achieving another 1.5 million metric tons of reductions for existing electric sector programs would require that:

Analyzing the economic impacts of electric sector policies and investments, including impacts on employment, GDP, electric rates and bills, and local government revenues

Electric sector carbon dioxide emissions are 2 percent lower in the latest AEO 2017 Reference case relative to the AEO 2016 Reference case, when looking at the entirety of CO2 emitted between 2017 and 2030 (Figure 1).

The slow start to the injection season reflects record - high inventories at the end of this winter, leaving less space to be filled, and a large increase in natural gas use by the U.S. electric sector for power generation.

Ms. Lau serves on the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council which represents the North American electric sector with the U.S. government and has been highlighted as one of the most successful public - private partnerships.

Here's a «what if» exercise showing how much emission reductions could come from ramping up existing electric sector programs from now until 2020.

There is a lot of talk about natgas being primary cause of CO2 reductions in the US electric sector.

By following the mass - based approach to the Clean Power Plan, AEO 2016's Reference case reduces electric sector CO2 emissions by over 30 percent by 2028 (compared to 2005 levels), and it sustains this reduction through 2040 (see Figure 1 below).

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.

That would commit countries «to completely decarbonize the global electric sector by 2050,» the agreement says.

A report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy covering 2008 - 2015 estimates that capital - intensive industries such as the utilities, gas and electric sector paid only 3.1 percent effective corporate tax rate, telecommunications 11.5 percent and Internet services and retailing 15.6 percent effective rates.

«EPA's overreaching and overzealous rulemaking is crippling the nation's coal - fueled electric sector and is a threat to our nation's economy,» said Laura Sheehan, a spokeswoman for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.

These studies have concluded that it would be possible to eliminate about 80 % of emissions from the U.S. electric sector using grid - inter-connected wind and solar power.

In the context of electric sector regulation, that theory has been tested in recent years in at least two FERC Orders, 719 and 745.

Moreover, the study found that policies that promote increased use of wind and solar would likely result in little to no reduction in the level of electric sector CO

Wind turbine Archive Brazil's electric sector says the country's energy future hinges on damming the rivers of Amazonia.

UCS» analysis found that staying on our current electric sector trajectory would put the United States on a pathway of greater natural gas use, rising carbon emissions, and higher natural gas and electricity prices.

The buildings and vehicle focus helps normalizes industrial sector, resource discovery and electric sector deviations.

In this webinar from June 9, 2016, Synapse's Senior Associate Patrick Luckow and Senior Associate Pat Knight discuss scenarios in which United States electric sector CO2 emissions could decline by 30 percent by 2030 driven largely by these new realities, combined with economic retirements of older coal plants.

Our understanding of the evolving electric sector positions us to guide our clients» development of commercial, regulatory, and litigation strategies that address the emerging demands, risks, and complexities of the sector.

In addition to our power sector modeling, Synapse frequently incorporates the use of economic models such as REMI and IMPLAN to estimate impacts of electric sector policies and investments on employment, gross domestic or state product, and other metrics.

It is nothing less than a federal takeover of our nation's entire electric sector.»

But even if Massachusetts got even more out of its existing electric sector emission reduction programs by following these examples, that still leaves a 1.9 million metric ton gap to compliance with the Global Warming Solutions Act in 2020.

Synapse also routinely performs operational and planning modeling analyses of electric power systems using industry - standard models such as Strategist, Market Analytics, PROMOD, and PLEXOS, and applies economic models such as REMI and IMPLAN to estimate impacts of electric sector policies and investments on employment, gross domestic or state product, and other metrics.

In fact, New York's four remaining coal plants are solely responsible for more than 13 percent of carbon emissions in New York's electric sector.

If greening the electric sector was «Climate Policy 1.0,» cleaning up the transportation sector is «Climate Policy 2.0.»

«The reality is the electric sector only gets you so far.

«Decarbonizing the electric sector is job one for the electricity industry,» adds Henry «Hank» Courtright, a senior vice president at the Palo Alto, Calif. — based Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).

«The electric sector is advancing the economic frontier by going deeper into the forest,» said Bara - Neto.

«This is an important look at the evolution of the electric sector and car sector,» says anthropologist Tom Turrentine, director of plug - in research at the University of California, Davis.

And Richard Morgan, a public utility commissioner from Washington, D.C., called the free allowance approach «an elegant solution to the problem of distributing allowances in the electric sector and providing for consumer assistance at the same time.»

The electric sector has known that these rules were coming.

The analysis found no evidence to justify delaying climate action in the name of reducing technological costs, even under the most optimistic trajectories for improvement in fuels efficiencies, demand, and technology costs in the U.S. auto and electric sectors.

Using a custom, state - of - the - art model of these sectors, the researchers showed that the window for initiating additional climate action would close between 2023 and 2025 for the automotive sector and between 2023 and 2026 for the electric sector.

Korsnick said it was an «historic moment of innovation in the electric sector» in a continuum of developments and innovation in nuclear technology.

(Wonk alert: my calculations here use average emission factors for 2010 computed from the AEO appendix tables A8 and A18 along with the breakdown in electric supply provided in the Monthly Energy Review, June 2012 edition table 7.2 a. Emission factors are the ratio (by fuel) of CO2 emissions from the electric sector to net grid supplied generation.

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.

Increased demand from the electric sector, with low - priced natural gas burn totaling about 2,600 Bcf from April through June of 2012, up 27 % from just over 2,000 Bcf burned during the same period in 2011.

Essentially, EPA wants to give credit to existing NGCCs for upping their capacity factors since that helps to displace higher - emitting fossil generators, thereby reducing total emissions from the electric sector.

Note: links bring up all output tables; electric sector - specific material can be found using the browser menu under Publications & Tables.

In 2013 (the last year for which Massachusetts emissions inventory data are available), state - wide emissions clocked in at 78.0 million metric tons — with most of this reduction having come from the electric sector.