Sentences with phrase «electricity generation sources»

«A significant change in electricity generation sources is clearly needed to achieve that goal,» Dr. Makhijani explained.

Across the country, these providers are mostly electricity generation sources like natural gas or coal plants, solar farms, and hydroelectricity facilities.

Virtually all of the electricity generation sources in New England are from North America.

Not exact matches

While wind and solar power have grown in recent years, renewable sources accounted for just 10 % of total U.S. energy consumption and about 13 % of electricity generation in 2015.

Second, many states actively favor renewables in electricity generation, and even in places that don't, the word has gotten out that coal combustion is far deadlier to humans than any other electric generation source — including natural gas.

Renewable sources of energy have become increasingly important, with the International Energy Agency expecting renewable electricity generation to rise by over one - third by the year 2022.

In 2014, renewable sources of energy already accounted for about 10 % of total U.S. energy consumption and 13 % of electricity generation.

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.

Alberta and Saskatchewan stand out in Canada with power grids still heavily reliant upon fossil fuels, but both recently released targets for significantly more electricity generation from renewable sources.

Meanwhile, Jason Chee - Aloy, senior electricity market analyst and electricity policy consultant at energy market consultancy, Power Advisory, noted that by 2018 Ontario will need new generation sources.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Power Plant Operations Report The generation fuel mix of electricity in the Northeast Census division of the United States has shifted dramatically over the past Continue Reading

Edmonton Journal: «Alberta needs to kick its coal habit, says report: Electricity generation from other sources would cut greenhouse gases»

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.

Hydropower a decade ago was the leading source of power, contributing more than half of the country's electricity generation capacity — which perhaps explains why the cost of buying power is now high following the reversal in the country's power generation capacity.

The forum, which was on the theme: «Diversifying Our Generation Sources, Strengthening the Base Load Sources to Support Industrial Growth,» seeks to get a holistic picture of the power situation from the three main actors, the Volta River Authority, GRIDCo and the Electricity Company of Ghana.

She added that currently Ghana has about 3 percent electricity generation mix from renewable sources.

Mona Quartey said, this is line with the Renewable Energy Act 2011 (Act 832) which envisages the attainment of 10 percent of electricity generation mix from renewable energy sources by 2020.

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.

This share may seem relatively small — for perspective, electricity generation and home heating account for more than 40 percent — but aviation is one of the world's fastest - growing greenhouse gas sources.

The government also vowed to provide 20 percent of electricity generation through «indigenous renewable» sources by that date, as well.

«Hydropower is an essential source of electricity in California providing, on average, 15 percent of our annual generation,» California Energy Commission Chairman Robert Weisenmiller said in a news release on the study.

Wind power has become one of the fastest growing sources of electricity generation in the United States and the world

Wind power, meanwhile, has become one of the fastest growing sources of electricity generation in the United States and the world.

Such structures are currently of interest because they may be suitable for electricity generation from waste heat or as novel light sources and catalysts.

But keeping those lights on amid ever increasing demand and the rise of wind, solar and other alternative sources of electricity generation that are inherently intermittent is just one of the goals of a smart grid.

This additional potential is equivalent to nearly 20 percent of total U.S. annual electricity generation from all sources in 2014.

Treated excrement from turkeys, chickens and other poultry, when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could replace approximately 10 percent of coal used in electricity generation, reducing greenhouse gases and providing an alternative energy source, according to a new study by Ben - Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers.

The most promising of these options include renewable sources of a variety of types, advanced fossil - fuel technologies that can capture and sequester carbon, and hydrogen - powered fuel cells for vehicle propulsion and dispersed electricity generation.

Electricity generation from hydropower, historically the largest source of renewable electricity generation, fluctuates from year to year because of precipitatioElectricity generation from hydropower, historically the largest source of renewable electricity generation, fluctuates from year to year because of precipitatioelectricity generation, fluctuates from year to year because of precipitation patterns.

Researchers analyzed data for the most competitive sources of new electricity generation.

The NuScale Power Module's cost per kWh is competitive with other sources of base load electricity generation, and less than the cost per kWh of large nuclear units.

What used to be labeled a competitive disadvantage may quickly be turning into a competitive advantage for those who move first to deploy low - carbon sources of electricity generation.

There is currently a shortfall of 50 % in the 12 % target for the generation of heat from renewable sources and a shortfall of 18 % in the 30 % target for the generation of electricity from renewables.

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.»

I do know that solar and wind are the fastest - growing sources of new electricity generation in the world, growing at record - setting double - digit rates every year.

This is a valuable long - view chart from the Energy Information Administration showing how natural gas plants and wind turbines have been the dominant sources of new electricity generation capacity in the United States in recent years.

In 2016, Denmark and Germany successfully managed peaks of 140 % and 86.3 %, respectively, of electricity generation from renewable sources, and in several countries (Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus, for example), achieving annual shares of 20 - 30 % electricity from variable renewables without additional storage is becoming feasible.

It examines questions about the safety and costs of nuclear power relative to coal and other choices for electricity generation, along with the risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons and emissions of greenhouse gases relative to other energy sources.

The goal of transforming the US energy make - up to environmentally acceptable sources based on electricity consumption is laudable but the proposed implementation routes for the electricity generation (wind, solar, and geothermal sources) are grossly unrealisic.

Actually, it's the other nations that have already agreed, and it is the U.S. that is refusing to go along by passing a benchmark renewable energy generation goal — a law that mandates that 20 % of electricity will be from renewable sources within, say, five years.

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.

It'd be great to think that renewable energy sources and distributed electricity generation could solve such problems, and they're great where they work.

It's a grand vision for essentially being carbon - free by 2050, Producing electricity from clean generation sources including nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, and with any remaining fossil fuel plants hooked up to carbon capture and storage systems.

All of which is to say, from a technical perspective, for electricity generation renewable energy sources (totally excluding nuclear power) could produce several, several times the amount of electricity currently generated in the United States.

Guest post: Roger Andrews Renewable energy, particularly wind and solar, continues to set records for electicity generation and installed capacity in many parts of the world, and as shown in Figure 1 wind and solar growth in recent years has indeed been quite spectacular (the data used to construct this and following Figures are from the 2014 BP Statistical Review of World Energy): Figure 1: Electricity Generated from Solar and Wind, 1965 - 2013 But Figure 1 doesn't tell the whole story because solar and wind are only two of the four main sources of renewable energy.

However, you don't want to argue for a rational solution — i.e. cheap nuclear power (which also happens to be 10 to 100 times safer than our currently accepted main source of electricity generation, fossil fuel) and also happens to be a near zero emission technology (in fact much lower than renewables given they need fossil fuel backup, and given solar needs about 10 times as much material per TWh on an LCA basis).

The energy source for geothermal electricity generation is the tremendous heat flowing from the Earth's core and mantle and from radioactive isotopes decaying in the Earth's crust.

The RET is for 23.5 % of Australia's electricity generation in 2020 to come from renewable sources.

Coal will remain the largest source of electricity generation, however growth in renewable generation will be twice as large as that of gas and coal combined over the next five years.

By 2040, the corresponding reduction is 30 %, as continued growth in electricity demand leads to additional generation from fossil fuel - fired sources.