Sentences with phrase «electricity capacity additions»

In 2015, 50 % of all new electricity capacity additions were from renewable sources, with wind representing 35 % of that growth.

Not exact matches

In addition, electricity capacity margins — the amount of unused power capacity — have declined, increasing the vulnerability of America's electric grid in the event of a disruption.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

Both a capacity - weighted average based on projected capacity additions across the 22 U.S. regions of the NEMS electricity market module (EMM) and a simple average of the regional values are provided, together with the range of regional values.

EIA expects electricity generated from natural gas to grow by 6.5 % between 2015 and 2040, with an addition of 70 GW of natural gas capacity.

In addition, Section 211, of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109 - 58) provides that the Secretary of the Interior should, within 10 years of enactment of the Act,»... seek to have approved non-hydropower renewable energy projects located on the public lands with a generation capacity of at least 10,000 megawatts of electricity».

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

-- In addition to the policy under paragraph (1), it is the policy of the United States that regional electric grid planning to meet these objectives should result from an open, inclusive and transparent process, taking into account all significant demand - side and supply - side options, including energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy and zero - carbon electricity generation technologies, smart - grid technologies and practices, demand response, electricity storage, voltage regulation technologies, high capacity conductors with at least 25 percent greater efficiency than traditional ACSR (aluminum stranded conductors steel reinforced) conductors, superconductor technologies, underground transmission technologies, and new conventional electric transmission capacity and corridors.

A similar trend is evident in the United States, where wind energy was the largest source of new electricity generation in 2014 and represented 28 per cent of all new electricity generation capacity additions in the United States between 2010 - 2014 — second only to natural gas.

«(ii) additions of capacity made on or after January 1, 2001, or the effective commencement date of an existing applicable State renewable electricity standard program at an existing nonhydroelectric dam, if --

And renewables capacity additions have nothing to do with meeting actual electricity demand, Jim D.

In addition to using ERCOT data instead of EIA, the «headline» «number was nameplate capacity, not total electricity production.

Federal production tax credits and grants for electricity from certain renewable sources as well as State - level renewable portfolio standards have encouraged both capacity additions and increased generation from wind and other renewable sources.

Solar PV is set to lead capacity additions, pushed by deployment in China and India, meanwhile in the European Union, wind becomes the leading source of electricity soon after 2030.