Sentences with phrase «electricity generated in»

Moving from firewood to electricity generated in coal - fired plants is a genuine improvement, a technical remedy that separates cooking and heating from deforestation and severe indoor air pollution, even though the new source of energy contributes to local smog and global warming.

Coal - fired power plants produce almost 95 % of the electricity generated in Wyoming.

Cross-posted from The Great Beyond A gargantuan plan of supplying European consumers with electricity generated in the Saharan desert could see the light of day earlier than even the most optimistic solar energy aficionados had expected.

John West — Also, do you not realize that with a few pounds of each fuel used one could determine CO2 Emissions / Unit of Electricity Generated in a lab or with a pilot study?

About 13.5 percent of electricity generated in New Mexico comes from wind energy.

Solar represented more than 13 % of the electricity generated in California in 2016 — the highest portion of any U.S. state — with another 7 % coming from wind.

The project received funding through Governor Cuomo's $ 1 billion NY - Sun initiative, which is designed to build a self - sustaining solar industry in New York and help achieve strategic energy goals under REV and the Clean Energy Standard, which requires that 50 percent of electricity generated in New York come from renewable sources by 2030.

A standout year for solar installation in India has seen solar PV increase its share of total electricity generated in the country and its share of the renewable energy generated in the country, which now stands at 13 %, with this expected to dramatically rise again in 2017.

The amount of electricity generated in a power grid must always equal the amount being consumed, so when wind turbines put power into a grid other generators, often fossil - fuelled, generate less; so less fossil fuels are burned.

In fact, fresh data from the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) shows that during the 7 - month period from April to October 2016, 7,002.71 million units of energy were generated by solar, which accounted for 0.9 % of the total electricity generated in India during this period.

To calculate the amount of electricity generated in a year by a typical Australian wind farm one multiplies the installed capacity by the capacity factor then by the number of hours in a day and the number of days in a year.

EPRI's members represent over 90 % of the electricity generated in the United States.

If electricity generated in fossil fuel power plants is really that beneficial to an economy it should be easy to finance those projects, right?

Where wind and solar power account for at least 5 percent of total electricity generated in 2014, more than 80 percent of countries globally have completed a grid integration study to understand how to bring variable renewable energy into the grid.

Among the countries where wind and solar power account for at least 5 percent of total electricity generated in 2014, more than 80 percent have completed a grid integration study to understand how to integrate variable renewable energy.

Brown said 80 per cent of electricity generated in Canada is emission - free, versus about 20 per cent south of the border.

The company's coal fuels approximately 10 % of the electricity generated in the United States and 3 % of electricity generated throughout the world.

According to data released by the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration, of the 208 terawatt - hours (TWh) of electricity generated in California last year, 25 TWh came from solar PV, with slightly more than 1/3 of that coming from distributed generation.

Diablo Canyon provided 22 percent of all the clean energy electricity generated in California in 2014.

In 2009, solar power provided less than 1 percent of total electricity generated in the United States.

The company, which describes itself as «the world's largest private - sector coal company and the only global pure - play coal investment», claims that it fuels approximately 10 % of the electricity generated in the United States and 2 % of electricity generated throughout the world.

[2] The company claims that it fuels approximately 10 % of the electricity generated in the United States and 2 % of electricity generated throughout the world.

The government's response comes days after it was revealed that the more than half of the electricity generated in the UK came from low carbon sources such as wind, solar, and nuclear power for the first time in 2017.

In 2015, solar and wind power accounted for only 0.6 and 4.7 percent of electricity generated in America, respectively, according to the Energy Information Administration.

The burden of any plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would have fallen most heavily on coal - burning power plants, which still account for more than 50 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.

The 300 plants produce one - quarter of all the electricity generated in the EU but are responsible for more than 70 % of the EU's sulphur dioxide emissions and more than 40 % of nitrogen oxide emissions from the power sector.

The electric train service, run by the Lao - Viet Friendship Rail, has been adapted to utilise the abundant hydro electricity generated in the Laotian mountains.

Ten percent of all of the electricity generated in the U.S. in March came from wind and solar power, marking the first such milestone in U.S. history, according to a new U.S. Energy Information Administration report.

Because there is zero energy loss regardless of length, superconducting power cables would allow solar electricity generated in, say, the Australian deserts to power streetlights in the parts of the globe that are in darkness, and vice versa.

In his 2001 testimony to the congressional committee on energy, Peterson estimated that 10 % of the electricity generated in the United States is lost annually due to the resistance in copper and aluminum power - transmission cables.

Around seven percent of the electricity generated in Germany now comes from biomass.

Ten percent of all of the electricity generated in the U.S. in March came from wind and solar power, marking the first such milestone in U.S. history, according to a new U.S. Energy Information Administration

Assemblyman Jim Hayes said: «It is a positive development when electricity generated in Western New York stays here to create jobs in our community.

Renewable energy sources, including wind, geothermal, solar and hydroelectricity, accounted for one - fifth of total electricity generated in the first quarter of 2017, according to the Energy Information Administration — and it's expected to continue growing.

Not exact matches

The coal destined for Fraser Surrey Docks, however, will be thermal coal, to be burned in power plants to generate electricity.

The energy company generates and distributes electricity to customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, Texas, South Dakota and Wisconsin.

The giant mining operations of Asia stack thousands of computers in dimly lit factory buildings powered by cheap electricity from coal - fed generating plants.

In fact, we found that the military could generate all of its electricity from distributed renewable sources by 2025 using these types of microgrids - which would provide energy reliability and decrease costs.

Rosatom is Russia's largest electricity generating business, and produced 196.37 billion kilowatt hours of electricity in 2016.

When completed in 2023, it will generate 3.2 gigawatts of power — 7 % of the country's electricity needs for 35 years.

Electricity generated by solar panels and windmills has played a bigger role in the energy mix in recent years as the federal government and states seek to reduce heat - trapping gases through ambitious climate goals.

In 2000, they generated a minuscule amount of electricity.

Another plus: the introduction of so - called net metering, unknown in the»70s, which allows power - generating home owners and businesses to feed unneeded electricity back into the grid and thus run their meters backward.

As Axios reported, he pitched covering the wall in solar panels and using the generated electricity to pay for its construction.

But the math only works in places with so - called «net metering» laws, which require utilities to buy the electricity rooftop panels generate at prices far above what they pay for centralized power.

«Our solar plants are going to lose over half of their ability to generate electricity during the two to two and a half hours that the eclipse will be impacting our area,» says Steven Greenlee, spokesperson for the California Independent System Operator, or CAISO, one of the largest independent grid operators in the world.

Elder son Victor, 53, will take over a conglomerate that touches the lives of practically everyone in Hong Kong — the family's Power Assets Holdings Ltd. generates their electricity and ParknShop supermarkets sell their groceries.

That same year, the state ranked second in the nation in percentage of net electricity generated by wind, falling behind only Iowa.

Small - scale solar panels generate electricity more cheaply than buying from the grid in certain parts of the United States.

Meanwhile, Calpine, which generates electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources, said in a statement the NAES purchase price was $ 800 million plus an estimated $ 100 million of net working capital.