Sentences with phrase «electricity demand now»

That pretty much leaves coal to meet the increase in electricity demand now.

Not exact matches

For now, the quagmire of declining electricity demand remains.

The government aims to increase capacity to 350 MW by 2020, or about 5 percent of projected peak electricity demand, up from less than 1 percent now, according to EMA.

The reasons are familiar by now: cheap natural gas, cheap renewables, stagnant electricity demand, and old coal plants getting outcompeted on the market.

The company has partnered with Tesla to install solar power on 11 of its wineries and now produces enough electricity to offset the demand of about 1,400 homes.

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has announced that the country will enjoy stable power supply in the coming weeks as Ghana's electricity generation capacity now exceeds demand at peak periods.

The wind farms that now punctuate the landscape from California to New York produce a total of almost 100 terawatt - hours of electricity a year, almost 2.5 percent of total demand.

And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.

Reactive now partners with a number of companies, including the French hypermarket chain Carrefour, to balance supply and demand across national electricity grids.

Much, much energy can be generated NOW, with fairly simple technology, from sunlight, especially for peaking purposes and also for large volumes of electricity demand that correspond, in timing, to the daytime.

We would now be benefitting from cheap abundant electricity and not wasting it on the renewable sidetrack which will never be able to cope with modern and future energy demands.

PV in Germany now generates enough electricity to meet the power demand of some 3.4 million German homes.

More significantly, as the 115th member of RE100, the company joins a group which now generates demand for over 153TWh of renewable electricity annually — more than it takes to power Poland.

Canada now has 11,898 MW of installed wind generation capacity, enough to supply six percent of Canada's electricity demand and meet the annual electricity needs of more than three million homes.

India's policymakers, for their part, have to deal with rapid development and population growth that make coal indispensable to meeting the expected 3.5 percent increase in year - on - year demand for electricity between now and 2040.

I expect, therefore, that DTE will now join me in pushing for the repeal of Public Act 286's onerous restrictions on customer choice in electricity providers and demand the deregulation of Michigan's electricity markets.

The Free Market at work: If solar PV panel prices fall (now being projected) to $.50 / watt and it makes sense for Do It Yourselfers like me to erect solar $ 1 / watt PV on, say, 100 million roofs and backyards — which WILL make a serious dent in electricity demand — then hey, let the games begin.

Low cost natural gas is in demand and has been replacing coal and nuclear power in electricity markets in New England, which is now over 50 percent dependent on natural gas.

And they are projecting that you look out 10 years from now and it's basically going to be about the same electricity demand in the state that we have right now, but with a much higher percentage of solar, bit higher percentage of wind.

Grid operators predict that in ten years, we'll have «about the same electricity demand in the state that we have right now, but with a much higher percentage of solar, bit higher percentage of wind.

Wind energy is now as or less expensive than all other sources of new electricity generation and supplies approximately six per cent of Canada's electricity demand with enough power to meet the needs of over three million homes.

That could mean that electricity demand in most U.S. regions will peak in the winter — not during the summer as it does now — if no efforts actively manage loads.

For example, over 130 companies have committed to go 100 % renewable as part of the RE100 initiative, and are now creating annual demand of over 162 TWh of renewable electricity, more than enough to power Poland or Malaysia.

With the introduction of Bullfrog Power's green electricity (2005) and green natural gas (2011), and now green fuel, Bullfrog continues to harness and build the demand of the voluntary market for cleaner energy products.

«The potential demand for electricity is maybe twice as much as we are producing now,» Chowdhury said in an interview in Dhaka yesterday.

The U.S. wind fleet now totals nearly 47,000 megawatts across 38 states, enough to meet the electricity demand of more than 10 million homes.

Unless CSP becomes a lot cheaper I see most electricity generated by wind with possibly some nuclear and NG and hydro providing peak demand (as it does now).

Currently South Australia is exporting around 600 megawatts and at around 3 am EST the price of electricity is expected to go negative as SA demand falls around 400 megawatts below what it is now and presumably the state will be producing more electricity that will consume and can export.

There are efforts underway now to shift more electricity demand to times when renewables are most abundant, build more energy storage and local distributed resources to reduce congestion, make the grid more resilient, and reduce the need to rely on natural gas peaker plants, especially ones in disadvantaged communities.

Our membership now includes 128 leading companies committed to 100 % renewable electricity, creating more than enough demand to power Poland or New York State.

In submissions to the ongoing RET review, Origin, Energy Australia, and other fossil fuel electricity generators advocated the RET, now fixed at 20 % of the 2020 demand projected in 2009, be reduced to 20 % of the updated 2020 demand projection.

Now ask yourself how — even in your wildest dreams, and no matter how cheap solar electricity comes to be — you can honestly expect the social and economic transition implied by such a pathway to be anything — anything — but incredibly demanding.