Sentences with phrase «electricity generation in»

To both achieve emissions reduction goals and fully displace nuclear power, renewable energy would need to scale up from 17 % of the country's power supply today to a full 57 % of total electricity generation in just nine years» time.

All renewables combined amounted to 5.4 percent of electricity generation in 2012.

In the United States, about 67 % of total electricity generation in 2016 was produced from: fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and petroleum), materials that come from plants (biomass), and municipal and industrial wastes.

While renewables accounted for close to a third of Germany's electricity generation in 2016, they covered just 12.6 percent of its primary energy consumption, which includes heating and transport (see → sector coupling below).

«Solar is forging ahead in global power markets as it becomes the cheapest source of electricity generation in many places, including China and India,» said Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA's executive director.

And this is especially important during the winter, when the demand for natural gas for home heating spikes in some parts of the country, leading to higher prices and less natural gas available for electricity generation (since home heating takes priority over electricity generation in terms of natural gas pipeline delivery contracts).

King coal, which accounted for 49 percent of the nation's electricity generation in 2007, stood at just 39 percent at the end of 2014.

In 2015, almost 88 % of net electricity generation in Wyoming came from coal and nearly 11 % came from renewable energy resources, primarily wind.

These plants (because they are so high in carbon emissions) account for 80 % of the CO2 emissions due to electricity generation in the US.

With wind in the Nordic Carbon - Neutral Scenario growing from 7 % of Nordic electricity generation in 2013 to 30 % in 2050 — and to 70 % in Denmark — the need for flexibility in the energy system becomes more acute.

With prices below 3 cents per kilowatt - hour, wind and solar PV have already proven to be the cheapest source of electricity generation in the history of mankind.

As I noted earlier, with concerns about climate change mounting, the era of coal - fired electricity generation in the United States may be coming to a close.

According to the authors, the U.S.'s spare nighttime electricity capacity could power a large fleet of PHEVs; since they require about 10 hours of nightly charging, Joe Sullivan of the Argonne National Laboratory, one of the authors, nighttime electricity could allow PHEVs to replace up to 34 % of today's light - duty fleet - and only consume 13 % of the fuel used nationally for electricity generation in the process.Michael Kintner - Meyer of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - in a separate study - found that 43 % of the fleet could be replaced by PHEVs with existing nighttime capacity.

Indeed, a study by Perry's own National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that today's renewable energy technologies are «more than adequate to supply 80 % of total U.S. electricity generation in 2050 while meeting electricity demand on an hourly basis in every region of the country,» provided that the grid itself adopts technologies to increase flexibility.

Using their latest data for 2015, CO2 emissions from electricity generation in NY state is 32,731 thousand metric tons.

(Interesting side note, this rate and also the absolute CO2 emission from electricity generation in NY state has declined substantially over the past 30 years — mostly due to a shift from coal to natural gas.)

That includes nuclear energy (near 60 % of electricity generation in Belgium).

Electricity Generation in Sweden Has Much Lower Carbon Emissions Than EU or US Living in the US, I wanted to know how that might be extrapolated to conditions here.

However, the title of the article refers to sun and wind and the electricity generation in those categories is lumped together with hydro, biomass, geothermal, and other gases.

Meanwhile, wind and solar are booming — they are the fastest growing sources of new electricity generation in the world, and have been for several years.

Projected coal - fired electricity generation in 2020 is 4,352 billion kilowatt - hours more than in 2006, from IEA, op.

«Renewable energy sources, accessed with commercially available technologies, could adequately supply 80 % of total U.S. electricity generation in 2050 while balancing supply and demand at the hourly level.»

Canadian electricity generation in 2000 totaled 567.1 billion kilowatt hours (bkwh), of which 60 % was hydropower, 26 % was conventional thermal power (oil, gas, and coal), 12 % was nuclear generation, and 1 % was derived from other renewable sources.

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) in the draft 2011 South Australian Supply and Demand Outlook report showed that emissions from electricity generation in SA declined by about 20 % over the same period as generation by wind farms increased from near zero to 20 % of total generation.

Bringing electricity to everyone by 2030 would require electricity generation in 2030 to be only 3 % higher than generation in our Reference Scenario.

Installed Geothermal Power Capacity and Geothermal Electricity Generation in Top 20 Countries, 2007

A new study in the journal Energy Economics by our own Martin Ross examines how changes in market trends and technology costs are likely to affect electricity generation in the United States in the context of possible future carbon taxes.

Lighting, Electricity, Steel: Energy Efficiency Rebound in Emerging Economies presents three historical case studies of when energy efficiency rebound occurred: lighting from 1700 to present, electricity generation in 20th century America, and iron and steel production from 1900 onward.

Without knowing the ins and out of electricity generation in the mid-west of the US, it's a bit hard to get a handle on the significance of this.

The merged company will have a dominant position in electricity generation in both east and west Denmark, own most of the electricity and natural gas distributors and control a large share of Denmark's gas storage.

«The research appears conclusive: Wind and solar could replace carbon - intensive baseload as the dominant sources of electricity generation in the U.S. without affecting reliability,» notes Bloom.

Sth Korea's cabon intensity in electricity generation in 2009 was 489 gms C02 / kWh — lower than Germany's and will drop faster than Germany's as their ambitious nuclear program comes to fruition.

The IEA Survey raises concerns about the new Energy Strategy's insistence on reducing the share of natural gas in electricity generation in order to reduce Russia's heavy dependence on natural gas.

By the end of 2016, these technologies — collectively referred to as variable renewable energy (VRE)-- had reached double - digit shares of annual electricity generation in fifteen countries.

In West Virginia, 57 percent of statewide electricity generation comes from uneconomic units; the same is true for 33, 29, 24 and 22 percent of the electricity generation in Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina, respectively.

Potential of solar electricity generation in the European Union member states and candidate countries.

Generation and Consumption Net electricity generation in Turkey has more than doubled over the past decade, but is not sufficient to keep up with expected demand.

Will an increase in natural gas demand for electricity generation in states that currently use coal have a significant impact on prices that California pays for natural gas?

The great irony is that the US has been reducing CO2 emissions more than other countries with earlier government - mandated CO2 reductions through the ordinary working of market forces, which increasingly favor natural gas for electricity generation in the US because of its low price.

The first shows how emissions from electricity generation in Australia were decreasing, and decreasing especially steeply while the carbon tax was in place, and have increased since.

As a result, even in a future with no Clean Power Plan, natural gas and renewables produce much more electricity generation in this year's AEO than in last year's projections.

Through 2014, about 1 trillion Euros have been spent on wind and solar technologies for electricity generation in Europe.

Which is more than the 6 000 TWh total thermal electricity generation in China today.

Source: CSP Focus: Abengoa has developed three solar thermal power plants for electricity generation in the north of the country.

The agency predicts that this share will increase to 28 percent by the year 2021, making renewables the fastest - growing source of electricity generation in the world.

And in both Germany and the United Kingdom, countries with a combined population of 145 million, wind contributed nearly 8 percent of electricity generation in 2013.

Hydropower, which historically has been the largest source of renewable electricity generation, has also lost share, falling from 34 % of non ‐ fossil electricity generation in 1997 to 19 % in 2016.

Wind and solar (combined) accounted for about 20 % of non ‐ fossil electricity generation in 2016 and slightly exceeded hydropower after rising from less than 1 % in 2000 to 2 % in 2006.

And France's CO2 emissions intensity from electricity generation is the lowest — about 20 % of emissions intensity of electricity generation in Germany and Denmark, the leaders in implementing renewable energy.

Cambridge, Mass., January 16, 2018 — Wood is increasingly being used to replace coal as a source of electricity generation in many regions such as the European Union, where policymakers have declared it «carbon neutral.»