Sentences with phrase «electricity generation change»

Turbines shaped not just the future of shipping; their impact on electricity generation changed our lives.

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«New generation equipment, such as Bitmain's model S9, has the ability to quickly add hashrate which, absent changing other factors, would increase difficulty to the point where older generation miners are no longer profitable at most electricity price points.»

What kind of scale of transformation are we talking about in order to — as far as the electricity generation transmission goes — effect this change?

Most electricity generation produces CO2, but to stop the gas drastically changing climate and ocean acidity, we have to keep it out of the atmosphere

Today, electricity generation is buffeted by numerous factors: access to fossil fuels, peak oil, nuclear security and proliferation, pollution, and climate change.

Substantively, she said, the covered sectors pull their weight in terms of contributions to climate change: Cement is responsible for fully half of the country's CO2 emissions, and 85 percent of China's electricity generation is coal - fired.

Build before Memory Runs Out Although individual consumer actions can help, major changes in carbon output will likely require better electricity - generation technologies, retiring much of the coal - fired capacity and replacing it with the most cost - effective combination of modern reactors, renewables and even clean coal.

December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy use by 2040

«The leadership shown by Alberta's government to replace two - thirds of existing coal - fired electricity generation capacity with renewable energy will greatly help the province in achieving its ambitious climate change objectives,» adds Hornung.

Earlier this year, the Department of Energy and Climate Change released a report outlining the benefits to schools of going solar, including reduced electricity bills, revenue generation, reducing CO2 emissions, as well as improved education and engagement.

Footnote * It's worth noting that Peter Raven was one of dozens of signatories to a 2014 «open letter to environmentalists on nuclear energy» endorsing this statement: «the full gamut of electricity - generation sources — including nuclear power — must be deployed to replace the burning of fossil fuels, if we are to have any chance of mitigating severe climate change.»

The decline of that industry and related employment has been caused by technological changes in mining, and competition from low - priced natural gas for electricity generation, not by environmental regulations.

Brook and Bradshaw argue that the full gamut of electricity - generation sources — including nuclear power — must be deployed to replace the burning of fossil fuels, if we are to have any chance of mitigating severe climate change.

There is a carbon cost of building homes, electric cars and electricity generation that makes low carbon living «a modern standard of living» — unless very, very soon we change lifestyles.

When the rooftop solar generation is entirely used to offset on - site electricity consumption, then the home has virtually no impact on the grid, reducing the home's climate change emissions.

Bell, William Paul (2012): The impact of climate change on generation and transmission in the Australian national electricity market.

This involves adjusting retail electricity prices dynamically as the amount of power in the grid changes so that consumers can modify their times of electricity use to better match consumption with generation.

«Wind energy is well positioned to help Ontario achieve its Climate Change Action Plan goals, to increase the affordability of electricity generation in Ontario, and to protect supply reliability at a time when there are growing risks to future electricity supply on the horizon.

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The change in streamflow of the region's mighty rivers, which could get more dramatic with climate change, can pose big problems for hydropower generation, electricity pricing and fisheries.

Coal accounts for 55 % of Polish primary energy supply and 92 % of electricity generation, raising significant climate change and environmental challenges.

Step 1: Estimate annual changes in electric generation and emissions of air pollutants at power plants as a result of RGGI implementation from 2009 to 2014 using electricity dispatch modeling and EPA emissions data for EGUs.

Thus, we interpret RGGI - induced changes in generation to be a result of the combination of (1) RGGI states» investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy and (2) the effect of CO2 allowance prices on electricity dispatch.

Abt Associates calculated changes in electricity generation due to RGGI first on an absolute basis and then expressed them as a percentage relative to generation that would have occurred in the No RGGI scenario.

By encouraging the development of renewable energy in Ontario, the FIT Program will help Ontario phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2014 - the largest climate change initiative in North America.

Below is a comparison of options with different proportions of electricity generation technologies (move the sliders to change the proportions of each technology).

U.S. output (and use for electricity generation) has been increasing rapidly, bringing down CO2 emissions, whereas Chinese exploitation and output have been constrained by available infrastructure (that is, lack of pipelines, but that will change).

These policy actions include new legislation requiring long - term contracting for renewables and other resources in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, revised incentives for distributed generation resources, changes to RPS polices in other states in New England, proposed Massachusetts - specific CO2 caps, and newly - revised forecasts for electricity sales that take the full impact of new energy efficiency measures into account.

He also put together the lifecycle electricity generation emissions data in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, AR5.

Third, the likely change from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles in the transportation sector also effectively links transportation, and its fuel use, to the electricity generation sector and its fuel use (renewable or fossil fuel based).

These four fuels represent the vast majority of changes in electricity generation for 2016.

Changes to market rules and to environmental regulations are also required for accommodating distributed generation into liberalised electricity markets.

It depends on the pace of technological change, both for cooling equipment and for electricity generation.

Distributed generation and automated transactions will change how we produce and consume electricity

There are immense direct and indirect public benefits in transitioning to an efficient renewable energy system in terms of reduced incidence of diseases such as asthma, freeing up of most of the supplies of water that are now used for thermal electricity generation (and hence reduced conflict over water), reduced air, water, and soil pollution that accompanies fossil fuel production, processing and use, and greatly improved prospects of avoiding the worst consequences of climate change.

«The Next Generation of Renewable Electricity Policy: How Rapid Change is Breaking Down Conventional Policy Categories.»

Muller is a strong advocate for change from coal to gas for electricity generation.

On September 14, 2017, academics, policy makers, representatives of Independent System Operators / Regional Transmission Organizations and other stakeholders engaged in a discussion of the future of electricity markets over the next two decades, with an emphasis on the potential for high penetrations of zero and low marginal cost generation, and various options for organizing wholesale electricity transactions in the face of rapid technological change.

Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Biofuels (2nd, 3rd generation), Geothermal Energy, Fusion Energy (not fission), Ocean and Wave Energy, Nuclear Fission Energy, Phasing Out Fossil Fuels, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change, Waste Management and Energy, GRIDS - Electricity Power Transmission

Landfill methane emission rates are estimated using the first - order decay method recommended by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in order to estimate both total emissions reductions for landfill gas - to - electricity generation and an increase in landfill gas flaring.

It is simply that there is not any REAL reason to worry a over non-existent, non-actual, non-possible «GREENHOUSE effect» induced «climate change», as is the «short answer»... and with the additional «appendix» that those «alternate» sources (so often mentioned) of «electricity generation» also only work «in opinion» and do NOT present REAL alternatives to Gas and Coal (as of NOW).

Using conventional energy accounting, a switch from coal & gas generation to solar / wind would reduce our primary energy consumption by 2/3, and yet the electricity generated wouldn't change at all.

National GHG emissions from industrial sources (electricity generation, transportation, buildings, etc) and Land Use, Land - Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) 2000

«BC has an abundance of world - class wind sites that can be developed flexibly on a scale that matches changing economic conditions and electricity demand, addresses environmental concerns, and reduces the potential financial risks of new electricity generation to BC ratepayers and taxpayers.»

Electricity generation CO2 savings from changes in the fuel mix since 2005: This figure shows the emissions savings from two factors that have allowed emissions to decrease from 2005 to 2016, while generation has risen slightly.

The electricity sector is undergoing change at an unprecedented pace with the growth in distributed generation enhancing trends in decentralisation and decarbonisation, opening new opportunities and challenges for countries to balance the energy trilemma.

Oil used for transportation and coal used for electricity generation are the largest contributors to the rise in carbon dioxide that is the primary driver of observed changes in climate over recent decades.

It is expected that consumers will be able to choose electricity from renewable sources instead of fossil fuel - powered thermal (along with its problems in terms of climate change) or nuclear power generation (whose great risks again became evident with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, caused by the tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011).

The interest in natural gas combustion as a potential solution to climate change has been gaining because US ghg emissions have fallen somewhat as natural gas from hydraulic fracturing technologies has been rapidly replacing coal in electricity sector generation.

«We're supporting projects that will integrate existing and new renewable energy generation, storage, distribution and management technologies within the electricity grid,» said Lisa Neville, acting minister for energy, environment and climate change.