Sentences with phrase «electricity capacity expansion»

Almost half of renewable electricity capacity expansion will come from competitive auctions with PPAs over the next five years.

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The assessment also revealed the need to create renewable electricity generation targets, in place of any existing capacity expansion targets.

, wind farms covering 6 percent of the entire land surface of the 48 contiguous states, an outrageous and unrealistic increase in ecologically harmful hydroelectric power, and a build out of electricity generation capacity that hurtles along at 14 times the average rate of capacity expansion in the past half - century.

By providing backup and firming capacity, the expansion of gas - fired power plants can accelerate the integration of intermittent power into existing electricity grids.

The analysis is the first to combine detailed models of the U.S. electric system and transportation sector with sophisticated atmospheric air quality models — accounting for the future evolution of both sectors in technological advances, electricity load growth and capacity expansion.

«Without forward - looking government programs supporting solar electricity, we would not have been able to invest in the capacity expansion which gives us the scale to bring costs down,» he said.

Let's make a rough estimate of how much additional CO2 emissions will come from just that one expansion of India's electricity capacity.

The nation is shifting towards electricity generated by natural gas — over the past ten years 81 percent of new electricity capacity has been gas - fired — and state governments are playing regulatory catch - up with the drilling technology's rapid expansion to meet this burgeoning demand.