Sentences with phrase «electric sector using»

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The production decrease is largely attributable to lower forecasts of coal use in the electric power sector (down 4 % in 2018).

«The model is capturing the fact that you have a lot of low - cost opportunities to reduce coal, from heavy - industry direct use as well as the electric power sector, from facilities using less energy - efficient technology or processes.»

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.

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Developed initially for the all - electric BMW i3 and BMW i8 plug - in hybrid sports car — which duly led the way in electric mobility in the premium sector — the modular structure of BMW eDrive technology sets it up perfectly for use in various vehicle concepts and segments.

-- Climate impacts: global temperatures, ice cap melting, ocean currents, ENSO, volcanic impacts, tipping points, severe weather events — Environment impacts: ecosystem changes, disease vectors, coastal flooding, marine ecosystem, agricultural system — Government actions: US political views, world - wide political views, carbon tax / cap - and - trade restrictions, state and city efforts — Reducing GHGs: + electric power systems: fossil fuel use, conservation, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, tidal, other + transportation sector: conservation, mass transit, high speed rail, air travel, auto / truck (mileage issues, PHEVs, EVs, biofuels, hydrogen) + architectural structure design: home / office energy use, home / office conservation, passive solar, other

As Apple CEO Tim Cook declared in a statement, Jackson would make Apple the «top environmental leader in the tech sector,» using its influence to «push electric utilities and governments to provide the clean energy that both Apple and America need right now.»

The electric power sector uses natural gas to generate electricity.

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).

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).

Electric vehicles (EVs) have the potential to reduce US transportation - sector energy use and associated emissions, as well as to support the transition to a more sustainable transportation system.

«With a clean electricity system comes opportunities to reduce fossil fuel usage in these sectors: for example, electric vehicles displace petroleum use and electric heat pumps avoid the use of natural gas and oil for space and water heating in buildings.»

The CEM Electric Vehicle Initiative (EVI) recognizes the importance of reducing carbon emissions in the transportation sector, which account for almost a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions and is one of the fastest - growing energy end use sectors.

16 energy efficiency & renewable energy industries the energy - efficient building, construction, & retrofits industries; the renewable electric power industry; the energy efficient and advanced drive train vehicle industry; the biofuels industry; the deconstruction and materials use industries; the energy efficiency assessment industry serving the — residential, commercial, or industrial sectors; and — manufacturers that produce sustainable products using environmentally sustainable processes and materials.

Burlington Electric is offering this incentive as part of its effort to meet the Tier III requirements of Vermont's RES, which supports utility programs that help customers reduce fossil fuel use in the heating and transportation sectors..

The use of liquids declines in the other end - use sectors and for electric power generation.

This important fact seems to have escaped T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil tycoon from Texas who is now promoting a plan to replace natural gas in the electric power sector with wind - generated electricity and use the freed up natural gas to power a fleet of NGVs.

From the perspective of the Alliance to Save Energy, what they are doing is very important, because we believe that the cheapest, quickest, and the cleanest way to improve and reduce energy use in the transportation sector is by improving fuel economy and that's something that plug - in hybrid electric vehicles can do in spades.

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.

New jobs will be created by adopting sustainable practices in the energy sector, including changes in the energy mix, promoting the use of electric vehicles and improving the energy efficiency of buildings.

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.

We analyze the costs, benefits, rate and bill impacts, employment and economic impacts, emissions, and other factors associated with electric - sector resource scenarios using publicly available data and well - supported assumptions.

If Oregon, and the Northwest, truly wants a domestic - as in local - and renewable fuel source, we should be looking to build a cellulosic ethanol industry using waste from the large Northwest forestry and agriculture sectors to produce our liquid fuels (and a bit of electricity) as well as additional electricity from the Northwest's diverse and abundant renewable energy sources to power the electric component of a plug - in hybrid flex fuel fleet.

Growth in aviation emissions alone offset more than one third of the emissions decline from falling coal use in the electric power sector.

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.

Our analysis of replacing electric resistance heat with heat pumps finds an opportunity to reduce residential sector electricity use nationwide by more than 2 %.

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.

By displacing the use of fossil fuels, these purchases of wind energy directly reduce air pollution emitted by the electric power sector.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.