Sentences with phrase «electricity generation industries»

What is required is a long term supply of natural gas that will not run out and can supply all the needs of the electricity generation industries, chemical industries and home consumers.

7) «Fossil - Dependent Electric Utility Executives & Large Shareholders» — One of the prime consumers of coal and natural gas is the electricity generation industry, which consumes almost all of the coal produced in the world, and a high percentage of the natural gas.

Not exact matches

Calpine's deal comes at a time when the U.S. wholesale power generation industry is struggling with margin pressure as cheap natural gas from shale fields in recent years has been driving down electricity prices.

Coal supplies a third of all energy used worldwide and makes up 40 % of electricity generation, as well as playing a crucial role in industries such as iron and steel.

But a recent UK meeting provided some interesting insight into an industry that is rapidly becoming competitive with traditional forms of electricity generation.

Among the targets of Dragonfly were energy grid operators, major electricity generation firms, petroleum pipeline operators, and energy industry industrial equipment providers.

The main energy sources used in the industry are gas and electricity, but there is also significant use of diesel generation, and a growing interest and use of biogas and solar generation as alternatives in the face of conventional energy costs continuing to rise.

The economy is primarily driven by primary industry, natural resources and secondary industry including coal mining, processing and fossil - fuel power generation [8] for the National Electricity Market.

«NRG has not been as responsive to the public health concerns and environmental issues associated with electricity generation as other players in the industry have been,» Iwanowicz said.

Her focus throughout that period has been largely on the technical, infrastructure and economic issues underpinning the electricity industry, covering topics related to generation, transmission and distribution, smart grid / smart homes and the prospects for electric vehicles.

According to the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) operational report for Jan. 4, the power sector hit a peak generation of 4,959 megawatts but dropped to 2,662.20 megawatts on Jan. 22.

Gas power will continue to be absolutely vital for our electricity system - and we will work with industry to develop a new gas generation strategy that draws in investment and secures electricity supply.

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

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

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.

The electricity industry already is — and has been for years — in a rapid transition away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Clean Power Plan.

Power companies are well on their way to meet the Plan's targets, thanks to the fact that the electricity industry has already started rapidly moving away from coal and towards cleaner generation — a transition driven mainly by fundamental market forces such as lower gas prices, lower costs for wind and solar power and energy efficiency, and by state and federal policies and company planning decisions that long predated the Plan.

A low - cost emissions - free source of electricity generation, wind energy will be essential if the province is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent in 2050 as clean electricity will be needed to substitute for fossil fuels in transportation, industries and buildings.

(2007) • Contribution of Renewables to Energy Security (2007) • Modelling Investment Risks and Uncertainties with Real Options Approach (2007) • Financing Energy Efficient Homes Existing Policy Responses to Financial Barriers (2007) • CO2 Allowance and Electricity Price Interaction - Impact on Industry's Electricity Purchasing Strategies in Europe (2007) • CO2 Capture Ready Plants (2007) • Fuel - Efficient Road Vehicle Non-Engine Components (2007) • Impact of Climate Change Policy Uncertainty on Power Generation Investments (2006) • Raising the Profile of Energy Efficiency in China — Case Study of Standby Power Efficiency (2006) • Barriers to the Diffusion of Solar Thermal Technologies (2006) • Barriers to Technology Diffusion: The Case of Compact Fluorescent Lamps (2006) • Certainty versus Ambition — Economic Efficiency in Mitigating Climate Change (2006) • Sectoral Crediting Mechanisms for Greenhouse Gas Mitigation: Institutional and Operational Issues (2006) • Sectoral Approaches to GHG Mitigation: Scenarios for Integration (2006) • Energy Efficiency in the Refurbishment of High - Rise Residential Buildings (2006) • Can Energy - Efficient Electrical Appliances Be Considered «Environmental Goods»?

Energy efficient technologies can be found in all parts of the energy conversion chain: from exploration and production of primary energy resources, to power generation and oil refineries to electricity grids, to the final use in industry, buildings and transportation.

Available at: http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/ftproot/forecasting/0484%282007%29.pdf; See also United States, Energy Information Industry, «U.S. Nuclear Generation of Electricity,» 2009 Capacity and Generation, Accessed December 9, 2010.

• Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2006) • Energy Sector Methane Recovery and Use Initiative (2007) • IEA Energy Technology Essentials: Biofuel Production, Biomass Power for Power Generation and CHP, CO2 Capture and Storage, Fuel Cells, Hydrogen Production and Distribution, Nuclear Power (2007 & 2006) • International CHP / DHC Collaborative (2007) • International Energy Technology Co-operation — Frequently Asked Questions (Chinese, Russian)(2006/7) • Renewables in Global Energy Supply (2007) • Energy Technology Perspectives Fact Sheets: Buildings and Appliances; Electricity Generation; Industry; Road Transport Technologies and Fuels; and Scenario Analysis (2006)

Research by Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) as part of a Finnish Solar Revolution project shows that India, with its abundance of renewable resources, principally solar, can avoid the path of western countries where increasing living standards have been coupled with heavy emissions from electricity generation and industry.

Forum participants also heard about new wind energy procurement in Saskatchewan as it moves to 50 per cent electricity generation capacity from renewable energy by 2030, and how the industry is well - positioned to deliver new affordable, emissions - free electricity to Ontario and Quebec when it is needed.

Electricity markets are undergoing massive transformation, as the push for low - carbon power generation shifts the industry towards high investment in renewables and other new technologies even as demand stagnates or declines in many countries.

In each scenario, Acadia Center analyzed the energy system by sector: buildings, transportation, industries, and electricity generation.

The Harmony goal, put forward on behalf of the nuclear industry by World Nuclear Association, is a vision of a future energy system where nuclear energy supplies 25 % of global electricity demand by 2050 as part of a low - carbon generation mix, which would require 1000 GW of new nuclear build.

The industry has shed jobs as coal power has declined as a share of U.S. electricity generation: from more than 50 percent in 2000 to 37 percent in 2010.

Electric generation industry: Stationary and mobile generating units that are connected to the electric power grid and can generate electricity.

The fact is that even while production has significantly increased, total criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions have fallen simultaneously, in large part due to industry's commitment to environmental protection and the expanded use of abundant, affordable natural gas in electricity generation.

Given the rising costs of fossil fuels, this would be a PR nightmare for the generation industry, but UBS raises the possibility, echoing our story last year about how electricity business models and markets are effectively broken.

Coal's share of electricity generation increased from 33 % in April to 42 % in November, the most recent month for which public data is available (Figure 5), and industry consultancy GenScape estimates that coal's share stabilized at these levels through January.

The combination of industry standards, best practices and effective state and federal regulation is protecting communities and the environment — while making available increasing volumes of cleaner - burning natural gas that is allowing the U.S. to lead the world in reducing carbon emissions from electricity generation.

This industry has created 5,000 well - paying jobs, attracted ten billion dollars in investment and allowed Montréal and the province to develop expertise in what is becoming one of the most widely installed new sources of electricity generation in Canada, the United States and around the world.

Industry growth supports the State's Clean Energy Standard, which mandates that 50 percent of electricity generation come from renewable energy sources by 2030.

The economic restructuring towards less energy - intensive industries and the government's efforts to decarbonise electricity generation pushed coal use down.

You support the solar industry through a variety of tax and regulatory policies — voted in by politicians you elected — that favor it over other lower - cost forms of electricity generation.

A survey of executives in high - emitting industries such as mining and electricity generation suggests they are not engaging with the government's flagship policy to cut greenhouse emissions.

Solar job estimates fail to account for jobs lost as a result of «the crowding out of cheaper forms of conventional energy generation,» «indirect impacts on upstream industries,» and from «the drain on economic activity precipitated by higher electricity prices.»

Clearly solar panels are receiving 168 plus 324 W / m ^ 2 of radiation for the generation of electricity or hot water, that is, a factor of three times greater than the industry claim.

Global warming is the recent rapid warming of the earth, caused by the human activities of deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) in industry, transport and the generation of electricity.

By 1990, changes in the regulatory structure and legislation affecting the electricity industry started providing more opportunities for substitution between petroleum and natural gas as a fuel for peaking generation.

CCS technologies prevent CO2 emissions produced from industrial processes or from the use of combustion fuels in electricity generation and industry from entering the atmosphere.

Much of the story for the first part of the 21st century has been the replacement of coal with natural gas, with electricity generation from gas more than doubling from 2000 through 2016 as hydraulic fracturing (fracking) transformed the gas industry.

The take up rate would stop the natural increase in electricity generation required for increasing numbers of dwellings and in several years their would be a decline in electricity output from the coal fired power stations to equal or match that required by industry and commerce.

The uncompetative activity of some in the electricity generation and transmission industry increased the spot prices in South Australia.

No industry consumes as much land as the generation of «natural electricity».

The CEO of PG&E, Tony Earley, claimed the utility would replace Diablo Canyon's electrical generation with renewables, but Revis James, an experienced electricity markets analyst at the industry association to which PG&E belongs, the Nuclear Energy Institute, contradicted PG&E's claim, calling the proposed deal «risky, complex and expensive»:

Ottawa, Ontario — June 13, 2014 The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) congratulates Ontario Premier Wynne on her re-election and stands ready to work to ensure that the wind energy industry plays an important part in ensuring Ontario is a North American leader in the generation of clean, affordable electricity, good - paying jobs and new economic opportunities for rural communities.

Coal supplies a third of all energy used worldwide and makes up 40 % of electricity generation, as well as playing a crucial role in industries such as iron and steel.