Sentences with phrase «electric sector co2»

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.

Not exact matches

«Large - scale electric mobility could be crucial to halving CO2 emissions of the transport sector by 2050,» lead author Felix Creutzig says.

Once all data are in, energy - related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2013 are expected to be roughly 2 % above the 2012 level, largely because of a small increase in coal consumption in the electric power sector.

«Large - scale electric mobility could be crucial in reducing CO2 emissions in the transport sector by one half by 2050,» says lead author Felix Creutzig, a researcher at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC).

The electric power sector accounted for about 27 % of the CO2 emissions from natural gas, while 26 % came from the residential sector.

About 90 % of the energy - related CO2 emissions from coal came from the electric power sector.

The «Synapse Electricity Snapshot 2016» (available here) highlights several major trends in 2015 electric - sector capacity, generation, and CO2 emissions.

Seventy per cent of new cars would be electric — up from 1 in 100 today — the CO2 intensity of the industrial sector would fall by 80 %, and all of today's buildings which still exist in 2050 would be retrofitted.

EPA's Clean Power Plan establishes carbon dioxide (CO2) performance standards for each state's electric power sector.

Indirect commercial - sector CO2 emissions from the use of electricity purchased from the electric power sector decreased by 3.7 % (25 MMmt) in 2016, which was nearly 84 % of the sector's total decrease.

Comparison of electric - sector CO2 emission projections through 2040 in the AEO 2016 Reference case (AEO2016 Ref) to the AEO 2015 Reference case (AEO2015) and the AEO 2016 case without the Clean Power plan (AEO2016 NoCPP)

Neither will the 85 % electric - sector CO2 reduction afforded just by nuclear + gas suffice: 85 % is what we should be shooting for overall, meaning electric - sector emissions must become essentially zero.

Between 2005 and 2016, almost 80 % of the reduction in energy - related CO2 emissions in the US came from the electric power sector.

From 2006 through 2014, 61.4 percent of CO2 emissions reductions in the U.S. electric power sector came from fuel shifting toward natural gas, according to EIA.

But for the U.S. primary energy fossil fuel input into the electric power sector in 2010, it seems to be about 0.39933 W / (kg CO2 / yr)(1.4632 W / (kg C / yr)-RRB-.

2,000 million metric tons of CO2, is produced by electric power sector.

When the administration of Bush II decided that it wasn't going to regulate CO2 emissions in the electric utility sector, it also postponed an important debate over the form those regulations will ultimately take, a debate with key implications for climate equity.

* Under a market - based program, the electric sector provides approximately 55 % of the GHG reductions needed to achieve the state CO2 constraint.

The blue - green line plots CO2 emissions from the electric power sector from 1988 to this April, when those emissions hit their lowest point for any month in 27 years.