Sentences with phrase «electricity generation sector»

Leaked Liberal speakers notes from July 2012 say the Liberals would «work with industry to reduce impediments to [energy] investment», as well as «streamlining approval requirements and procedures», «merging wherever possible State and Federal Government requirements», and «delivering more certainty to the electricity generation sector».

Minnesota's massive investment in wind power has reduced CO2 emissions from the electricity generation sector slightly, but that reduction has been below average compared with the nation as a whole.

As seen in the electricity generation sector, these policies are likely to have a direct and significant impact on the fuel choices made by individual countries, including a shift away from coal as CO2 costs rise.

The Australian government has announced that greenhouse gas emissions fell 0.2 per cent in 2012, mostly due to lower greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity generation sector, despite growth in real GDP of 3.4 per cent over the same period.

Anyone still banging on about CO2 emissions in the electricity generation sector, ought to be banging on about nothing other than nuclear power.

However, recent regulations from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act threaten to upend the competitive markets that guarantee just and reasonable wholesale rates in many parts of the U.S. Those organized wholesale markets are based on using the least - cost generation to satisfy demand, whereas the EPA continues to impose tighter and more complex environmental constraints on the electricity generation sector.

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).

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

It sees coal as remaining dominant in the electricity generation sector: global consumption will rise by 1.3 percent a year — from 147 quadrillion British thermal units of energy in 2010 to 180 quadrillion Btu in 2020 to 220 quadrillion Btu in 2040.

[126][127] Electricity generation sector Main article: Electricity sector in Ghana

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The team also assessed scenarios in the transportation and electricity generation sectors, including increased cycling and walking in London and Delhi, India.

There are strong mitigation potentials in the building, industry, transport and electricity generation sectors.

Not exact matches

But there is another interesting aspect to this phenomenon: How that shrinking pie is getting divvied up among the various sectors of electricity generation.

The private - sector group's initial investments will target electricity generation and storage, transportation, industrial use, agriculture and energy efficiency.

My January and April posts on the Ontario electricity sector described how decisions by different Ontario governments gave rise to excess electricity generation with an inflated cost structure, leading to higher electricity prices.

They find that coal accounts for 95 % of GED in this sector (though it also accounts for the largest percentage of total power generation), and coal power has the highest GED per kilowatt - hour (kWh) of electricity generated (though as noted in Table 2, petroleum has a higher GED / VA ratio).

In December last year, government increased the cost of electricity and introduced new taxes in the petroleum sector all in a bid to improve power generation.

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.

The approval, which will allow government to invest in the mini-grid sector, is expected to increase the country's renewable energy generation capacity to achieve price reduction in electricity.

Key among NDC's 2016 manifesto promises in the sector includes increasing the stock of power generation assets, developing more sustainable power sources, encouraging energy conservation, increasing generation capacity in excess of 5,000 MW by 2021 and achieving universal access to electricity by 2025.

Alongside electricity generation, the transportation sector is the largest emitter of pollutants produced by the burning of fossil fuels.

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.

They made comparisons within the five sectors they studied — power plants, furnaces, exports for electricity generation overseas, buses and cars — and across sectors to see which use of natural gas pays the greatest dividend for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Emissions across nearly all sectors grew in 2013, with increased GHG emissions from electricity generation, more vehicle miles traveled on the nation's roadways and greater industrial production, according to the EPA.

Other economically important sectors — electricity generation, for example — are starting to do their bit.

If I understand the above calculation correctly, it would seem that, in the electricity sector, we could mostly concentrate on meeting additional demand with efficiency and carbon neutral generation (and avoid some of the fights associated with replacing existing coal generation plants); but if we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sense.

Scientists say electricity generation is responsible for one - quarter of the world's total CO2 emissions — the main cause of global warming — and U.S. power plants account for fully 25 percent of the emissions generated by the power sector worldwide.

I have often imposed on the moderators» patience by noting the rapid growth of solar and wind energy for electricity generation, which for me gives rise to optimism that we can eliminate GHG emissions from that sector much more quickly than many people believe.

These increasingly important roles for natural gas in the electricity sector call for a detailed analysis of the interdependencies of the natural gas and power generation infrastructures.

Chances are much higher for countries to agree to cooperate on a menu of climate - friendly initiatives, say, within particular sectors like electricity generation or manufacturing aluminum.

But, as the Keeling Curve shows, these processes are not capable of keeping up with fossil fuel emissions from the electricity generation and transportation sectors.

The PCAP focuses primarily on the electricity generation portion of our energy system, and does not have enough concrete goals when it pertains to the transportation sector.

Cases with higher or lower world energy prices, represented by oil prices, have relatively little direct impact on power - sector emissions, as petroleum provides a small fraction of U.S. electricity generation.

Three - quarters of new electricity generation through 2040 will come from clean energy, and the sector's emissions will peak by 2026, a new BNEF forecast says.

Moderating electric sector demand, but a continuing trend towards natural gas: Natural gas accounted for slightly less than 32 % of total electricity generation in 2017, down from nearly 34 % in 2016.

These allow the integration of a range of options, including coupling with the electricity sector through heat pumps and power to heat, using the generation from variable renewable power sources at times of low demand to heat water for the district heating system.

The «Synapse Electricity Snapshot 2016» (available here) highlights several major trends in 2015 electric - sector capacity, generation, and CO2 emissions.

These sectors are household energy use, urban land transport, electricity generation, and food and agriculture.

The first projects using floating wind turbines are also now entering into operation, based on concepts widely deployed in the offshore oil and gas sector; cost - competitive floating technologies would widen the economic resource base for offshore electricity generation considerably.

Then, the final report of the G20 High - Level Panel for Infrastructure Investment reinforces the call for MDBs to catalyze regional investment in the energy sector — particularly in electricity generation, transmission, and distribution.

Two thirds of new US electricity generation capacity were from the wind sector in October.

: The current Federal, State and private sector policies that are now increasing the fraction of electricity generation from Intermittent Renewables must be stopped / reversed in order to avoid / mitigate very severe micro and macroeconomic impacts and National Security ramifications involving skyrocketing electricity prices as well as dramatically reduced power grid reliability and resilience.

Additional infrastructure is needed in the electricity sector for creating a well - integrated national grid, and the market should be designed to give strong signals to locate generation where it is most valuable to the whole system.

CanWEA has long supported that new supply needs in Ontario be competitively sought from affordable, non-emitting generation to maintain low greenhouse gas emissions in the electricity sector in the medium - to long - term while keeping costs in check.

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

«Our positive progress in moving towards our goals has enabled us to demonstrate the business case for investment in energy efficiency and renewable electricity generation to stakeholders across the building sector.

Emissions from electricity generation are attributed to the sectors where electricity is used — residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation.

-- The term «emissions» includes direct emissions from fuel combustion, process emissions, and indirect emissions from the generation of electricity, steam, and hydrogen used to produce the output of a petroleum refinery or the petroleum refinery sector.

For example, some emissions associated with electricity generation can be attributed to the buildings sector corresponding to the building sector's use of electricity.