Sentences with phrase «electricity generating source»

The sponsors of I - 1631 included a similar but less stringent provision, requiring electric utility plans to include «a long - term strategy to eliminate any fee obligation» imposed by the measure, as a way to push utilities to use at least some of the retained revenue to directly reduce carbon from their electricity generating sources.

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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.

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.

The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

With our agreement with Mexico that we announced today, let's generate half the electricity on this continent from clean energy sources within a decade.

The platform enables households to select electricity from specific sources, and share self - generated electricity with others.

While only 13 percent of electricity in the U.S. is generated from renewable energy sources, it's one of the most critical ways to fight climate change.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's energy plan aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent and generate 50 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2030.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's goal of generating half of New York's electricity from renewable sources by 2030 has apparently caused some re-thinking on how to accomplish that goal.

New York is taking steps to accomplish Governor Andrew Cuomo's goal of generating half of the state's electricity from renewable sources by 2030.

A prototype metal - free flow battery developed by engineer Michael Aziz and colleagues at Harvard University relies on the electrochemistry of naturally abundant, small organic molecules to store electricity generated from renewable, intermittent energy sources.

Just how do we go about making our power grids smart and flexible enough to handle people generating their own electricity from renewable sources?

Comprehending and reducing turbulence will facilitate the development of fusion as a safe, clean and abundant source of energy for generating electricity from power plants around the world.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

Researchers at Harvard, for example, are perfecting an organic flow battery that can store a full day's production of electricity from solar or wind farms, a development that could play a key role in integrating variable electrical generating sources into the grid.

Partly because of that drive to keep drawing greenhouse gas - producing fuels from the ground, the U.S. lags far behind Germany in the share of electricity generated from renewable sources.

Magnets are the key to generating electricity, of course, and electricity is the key to the use of cleaner sources of energy — whether wind turbines or electric vehicles.

Back in 2000, the country generated barely 6 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources, mostly hydropower.

Today, renewable energy sources generate 12 percent of electricity in the U.S..

The wind - energy tax credit, which has led to a sharp increase in wind - generated electricity, benefits mostly companies that earn income from other sources.

ITER seeks to demonstrate that nuclear fusion — the power source of the sun and stars — can be tamed on Earth to generate electricity.

If all those pig feces were collected in lined ponds to let anaerobic bacteria thrive, they could become a renewable source of 1600 tons of biogas, which can be used to generate heat and electricity on site while simultaneously reducing Israel's greenhouse - gas emissions.

The most abundant energy source in the world is sunlight, but engineers have had trouble using it to generate clean electricity because the silicon in solar cells is so costly.

Propeller wind turbines are the most common way of using one of the most abundant energy sources on Earth to generate electricity.

The biggest reason is that China has fewer environmental and efficiency standards for its factories and plants and generates more electricity from coal and other non-renewable sources, the authors said.

Industrial - scale wind power is so capitally expensive per megawatt - hour generated that it would not be commercially viable, in the UK at least, without the Renewables Obligation, which obliges electricity suppliers in the UK to source a proportion of their electricity from renewable sources.

If two - thirds of Fortune 100 companies want to buy electricity generated by off - site renewable energy sources this year, why hasn't more capacity been built?

Thirty states and the District of Columbia now mandate minimum levels of electricity be generated from renewable sources such as wind and solar.

While France, which generates over 75 per cent of its electricity from nuclear sources, avoided blackouts, Italy did not.

Though the federal government is doubling down on coal, electric power companies are embracing less - polluting natural gas, wind and solar power as the cost of generating electricity from those sources falls.

At the same time, Vermont Yankee provides as much as one third of that state's electricity at a cost of 5 cents per kilowatt - hour, well below any other generating source, and it provides 220 jobs to the region.

By using electricity from renewable sources, our system allows us to generate hydrogen with a very low carbon footprint.

«However, if electricity is generated from coal to charge an electric vehicle it produces 139g CO2 - e / km well - to - wheel emissions, compared with only 9g CO2 - e / km well - to - wheel emissions with electricity from renewable energy sources.»

«We must... move toward running new vehicles on electricity and to generating that electricity from clean, renewable sources like solar and wind power.»

In the future, our cars may all run on battery power, and perhaps we'll charge them up with electricity generated from renewable sources of energy.

They enable major power generators to profitably generate electricity in a manner that reduces the overall cost of compliance with mandatory greenhouse gas («GHG») emissions limits and renewable energy targets while also allowing countries to diversify their sources of electricity supply.

He found that «each unit of electricity generated by non-fossil-fuel sources displaced less than one - tenth of a unit of fossil - fuel - generated electricity.»

It will focus on catalyst development for four applications: proton exchange membrane fuel cells to convert stored energy in non-fossil fuels into electricity; electrolysers for splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen — a potential clean fuel cell source; syngas, a mixture of CO and H2, which is generated from coal, gas and biomass, and widely used as a key intermediate in the chemical industry; and lithium - air batteries.

This novel power source uses bacterial spores to generate electricity and can sit on top of lakes and reservoirs.

But coal is no sooty remnant of the Industrial Revolution — it generates half of the electricity in the United States and will likely continue to do so as long as it's cheap and plentiful [source: Energy Information Administration].

The government says that completely banning fossil fuels from local industry will be a «titanic and beautiful task,» even though the country already generates more than 99 percent of its electricity using renewable energy sources.

Even though the country already generates over 99 percent of its electricity from renewable sources and ran entirely on alternative energy for 250 days in 2016, completely banning fossil fuels across all industries will likely prove difficult.

In some areas, you might be able to generate your own electricity, and some electric companies offer credits for using renewable energy sources.

These were used to assess a variety of renewable energy sources — including solar photovoltaic panels that generate electricity and solar hot water systems used to heat water.

· Electricity generated from renewable sources causes 70 - 90 per cent less pollution harmful to ecosystems and human health than coal power.

In the UK, electricity is generated largely by coal and gas — around 40 per cent and 30 per cent respectively — followed by around 15 per cent nuclear and other sources in increasingly small percentages.

For longer trips, the Clarity Plug - in Hybrid can utilize its 1.5 - liter Atkinson cycle 4 - cylinder engine to generate electricity and, under certain conditions, to act as a direct power source, resulting in an anticipated overall driving range rating in excess of 330 miles (531 km).

For longer trips, the Clarity Plug - in Hybrid can utilize its 1.5 - liter Atkinson cycle 4 - cylinder engine to generate electricity and, under certain conditions, to act as a direct power source, resulting in an overall EPA driving range rating of 340 miles (547 km).

As a completely electric vehicle, with no gasoline engine as a range extender (as is found in cars like the Chevrolet Volt), there are no direct emissions, although its overall carbon imprint will depend on how the electricity's generated at its source.