Sentences with phrase «electricity coming»

Denmark set a new world record in 2015 for harnessing wind energy, with a whopping 42 percent of the country's electricity coming from wind power during that year.

Using timers to recharge batteries with electricity coming from wind farms during the low demand hours between 1 and 6 a.m. costs the equivalent of 50 cents - a-gallon gasoline.

That scooter: where is the electricity coming from in the first place and what kind of emissions are involved in its manufacture?

Huge new wind farms accounting for thousands more megawatts of capacity are in development as we speak, and estimates put 20 percent of the nation's electricity coming from wind power by 2030 [source: The Oregonian].

The most fundamental issue is that energy is largely a fungible commodity — the electricity coming out of your wall socket doesn't have any immediately tangible differences whether it comes from a coal plant or a wind farm.

Step - down transformers lower the voltage of electricity coming from the transmission grid, and distribution lines take the power to your home or business.

This will also reduce the amount of electricity coming from the grid.

The new tax would increase the cost of gasoline, natural gas, home heating oil and electricity coming from coal, hydropower and nuclear power.

In - state generating facilities accounted for about 68 percent of total generation, with the remaining electricity coming from out - of - state imports.

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), a California Utility said in an announcement they hit a significant milestone for 2015 with 29.5 % of retail electricity coming from renewable clean energy.

Later, after the launch of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo's Reforming the Energy Vision, and to fulfill the 2015 New York State Energy Plan, the State set its sights on 50 percent of New York's electricity coming from renewable energy by 2030, established officially by the Clean Energy Standard.

The percentage of total electricity coming from solar and wind only increased 5.2 percent between 1985 and 2015.

The states with the highest percentage of electricity coming from coal, according to the Department of Energy, are West Virginia, Wyoming, Ohio, North Dakota, and Illinois.

The proportion of electricity coming from renewables excluding large hydro rose from 10.3 per cent to 11.3 per cent.

To sum up, we estimate that the states could accommodate 10 % of the electricity coming from wind (or solar, if the costs were to come down) at any one time.

Clean Energy Communities advances the Governor's Reforming the Energy (REV) strategy by demonstrating the importance of communities in helping New York reach its Clean Energy Standard of 50 percent of the state's electricity coming from renewable energy resources by 2030.

Already a green leader with 96 percent of its electricity coming from renewable sources, Costa Rica has increased its forested area by 10 percent in the last decade.

Last year, EP and I were the first to note that the share of global electricity coming from clean energy had — against the hype — actually declined, in part due to the closure and cancellation of nuclear plants.

One of the reasons Ohio's nuclear plants are going bankrupt is because they — as reliable, 24/7 producers of power — are literally forced to pay the high cost of the grid absorbing electricity coming from wind turbines that have been heavily - subsidized for a quarter - century.

Australia could be the «energy capital of Asia» but instead it is going backwards, Bill Shorten will say in a speech on Thursday, vigorously defending Labor's target of 50 % of Australia's electricity coming from renewables by 2030.

We already have electricity coming out of everybody's wall socket.

Vanessa McGrady, a spokeswoman for Southern California Edison, said the utility currently has 16 percent of its electricity coming from renewable sources.

When the project is done, it will be the world's largest solar community (with about 15 percent of its electricity coming from the panels).

Not if your electricity coming in is zero CO2.

His special ability is green electricity coming out of his hands.

I tried PULSE and it made me feel like I had static electricity coming off my skin.

«It would be similar to a solar panel but instead of wires with electricity coming out of it, it would have a pipe carrying fuel,» he said.

With over half of our nation's electricity coming from coal, this industry must remain a key component of our nation's energy strategy.

«The evidence shows that committing to the majority of the UK's electricity coming from renewable sources by 2030 is popular with the vast majority of Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat voters.

Imported fossil fuels provide the bulk of power fuel, with 47 percent of the island's electricity coming from petroleum, 34 percent from natural gas, 17 percent from coal, and just 2 percent from renewable energy in 2016, according to the Energy Information Administration.

(The House of Representatives passed a climate bill last summer, mandating 15 % of electricity come from renewable resources, among other measures.)

He said that California's latest energy plan, which would require that half of electricity come from clean energy by 2030, took just a year to get passed compared with seven to ten years at the federal level.

With electricity comes electrocution.

The real jolt of electricity came with our first Big Baseball Brawl of the season.

As the next general election begins to loom over the horizon, the debate over where our electricity comes from is starting to hot up - and nothing seems guaranteed.

The state, under Cuomo, has committed to requiring that 50 percent of New York's electricity come from renewable sources by 2030.

Most of New Jersey's electricity comes from in - state producers or states not in RGGI, so there is little issue about consumers continuing to pay for the program through out - of - state utility surcharges if New Jersey departs, the official said.

About half of all our electricity comes from more than 500 coal - fired plants.

It's the kind of place where a truck rumbles in once a week to deliver staples to the local store, and where electricity comes from diesel and solar generators.

Where the electricity comes from to power the next generation of ground vehicles is also vitally important.

About 20 percent of U.S. electricity comes from nuclear power plants, making it the third - largest source of electricity in the country after coal (45 percent) and natural gas (23 percent).

Iowa is third among states in renewable energy generation, and 27 percent of its electricity came from wind power in 2013, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

In a place like Paris or the Pacific Northwest, where much of the region's electricity comes from nuclear or hydropower, respectively, the Model S or Roadster can tout itself as a near — zero - emission vehicle.

In large swathes of the U.S., where more electricity comes from coal and natural gas than nuclear or renewables, that is a harder claim.

Overall, about 7 percent of U.S. electricity comes from wind and solar annually, up from less than 1 percent a decade ago.

About 95 percent of Indiana's electricity comes from coal power, the cheapest energy source.

When I was about 7, electricity came to our road.

Low emissions, much less zero emissions, are only true in certain places where most of the electricity comes from a mix of low - carbon sources such as the sun, wind or nuclear reactors.

And, unlike Galileo, which used a nuclear power source, Juno's electricity comes from the sun — a first for a spacecraft operating in the outer solar system.

If that electricity comes from burning oil and coal, it might mean that green alternatives aren't that green after all.