Sentences with phrase «electricity generation such»

This credit was created 20 years ago to help wind try to compete with affordable and reliable source of electricity generation such as coal, natural gas, and hydropower.

However, as some coal is being displaced anyway via the LCPD, new shale gas would more than likely be displacing other types of electricity generation such as renewables».

Does this precedent apply to less carbon - intensive electricity generation such as natural gas cogeneration facilities?

Not exact matches

Coal has seen significant declines in recent years, accounting for just 9 % of electricity generation in 2016, down from around 23 % the year before, as coal plants closed or switched to burning biomass such as wood pellets.

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.

«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.»

Hydrogen has several important nontransportation uses, he explains, such as a cooling medium in electricity generation.

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

Alternative forms of electricity generation — or some kind of efficient energy storage, such as better batteries — would be necessary for those times when the sun is not shining.

Examples of indirect use which require energy harvesting are electricity generation through wind turbines or photovoltaic cells, or production of fuels such as ethanol from biomass.

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.»

«(I) The Administrator shall determine the amount of fossil fuel - based electricity delivered at retail by each electricity local distribution company, and shall use appropriate emission factors to calculate carbon dioxide emissions associated with the generation of such electricity.

«A diverse mix of power generation resources, including those with on - site reserves, is essential to the reliable delivery of electricity — particularly in times of supply stress such as recent natural disasters.

· Wide - scale deployment of a mix of low - carbon electricity generation technologies, as foreseen in mitigations scenarios such as the IEA's Blue Map Scenarios, helps to stabilize or reduce pollution such as eutrophication, acidification, particulates, photochemical smog, and toxicity.

She also is founder of the technology consulting firm, The Jemison Group, Inc. that integrates the critical impact of socio - cultural issues when designing and implementing technologies, such as their projects on using satellite technology for health care delivery in West Africa and solar dish Stirling engines for electricity generation in developing countries.

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.

Fusion folks claim that their system has such advantages that it is worth doing even if the cost of electricity generation is higher than alternatives.

Solar - generated electricity is particularly attractive in desert regions such as the U.S. Southwest because peak generation meshes nicely with peak air conditioning use.

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.

Although U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions associated with electricity generation have fallen from the 2005 level, they are projected to increase in the coming decades, based on analysis in EIA's Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015) that reflects current laws and regulations, and therefore does not include proposed rules such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan.

This new development has led to debate around what the appropriate level of compensation should be for distributed solar generation fed to the grid and what distributed generation customers ought to pay to utilities for non-electricity services, such as grid maintenance, as well as for electricity when their distributed generation system is not producing power (e.g., when the sun isn't shining).

A series of executive orders signed by President Trump aim to roll back Obama - era climate policies, such as the Clean Power Plan that hoped to reduce emissions from electricity generation.

In December, however, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) suggested in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment that power generation from natural gas — fired units and renewable sources such as solar and wind will provide enough electricity to offset closures of coal and nuclear plants over the next decade, at least.

Other fuels, such as renewables, natural gas, and nuclear power, are expected to make up increasing shares of China's electricity generation.

This is true also for fossil fuels and other electricity generation mechanisms such as nuclear power.

Demand - side response can significantly reduce such outcomes by shifting and shaping electricity demand to match the availability of renewables - based electricity generation.

Such a hybrid infrastructure would lower the use of carbon fuels for the generation of electricity, because renewable energy can replace them if there is sufficient sun or wind available.

In countries such as Kenya, whose economies are growing faster than either conventional, centralized electricity generation or power grids, the potential of microgrids to electrify powerless communities is huge.

This is a regulation from EPA that forces states to reduce fossil fuel use in their electricity generation in favor of «renewables» such as wind and solar (but not hydro, which most environmental groups dislike, of course), whether they want to or not.

Additionally, such facilities could potentially be connected to wind and solar electricity production and be used for energy grid load balancing applications (using excess renewable energy that the grid can not handle), making renewable energy generation carbon negative.

Requires FERC to: (1) issue to each generator of renewable electricity a REC for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated after December 31, 2011; (2) issue three RECs for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated by an existing distributed renewable generation facility; and (3) review the effect of issuing three RECs and to reduce such number for any given energy source or technology to ensure that such number is no higher than is necessary to make such facilities using such source or technology cost competitive with other sources of renewable electricity generation.

For this to be carried out in a LWR - the prevalent reactor design for electricity generation - the reactor would have to be shut down completely for such an operation; this is easily detectable.

The microFIT Program supports the development of small or «micro» renewable electricity generation projects (10 kilowatts (kW) or less in size) such as solar panel installations.

Other states that traditionally have had high levels of coal - fired electricity generation, such as Indiana, West Virginia, and Virginia, each retired at least one GW of coal capacity in 2015.

-- Except as provided in subparagraph (C), not later than January 1, 2014, and not less frequently than every 4 years thereafter, the Commission shall review the effect of this paragraph and shall, as necessary, reduce the number of Federal renewable electricity credits per megawatt hour issued under this paragraph for any given energy source or technology, but not below 1, to ensure that such number is no higher than the Commission determines is necessary to make distributed renewable generation facilities using such source or technology cost competitive with other sources of renewable electricity generation.

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.

You avoid debating the issues (such as nuclear replacement for coal in electricity generation across the world would avoid over a million of fatalities per year by 2050).

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.

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.»

Other studies of nearly decarbonizing the power sector by mid-century show that more efficient, advanced biopower technologies using low - carbon feedstocks, such as agricultural residues and energy crops, could provide a modest contribution of up to 15 percent of U.S. electricity generation (NREL 2012, UCS 2013).

Given that China is investing heavily in «next - generation» electricity transmission systems such as Ultra-High Voltage Direct Current (UHVDC) power lines, this speaks directly to China's industrial strengths.

With that issued defeated, depending on the effectiveness and cost of the fix — or even possible side benefits, such as if windbelt frames were the solution, letting sunlight through edgewise while generating power from wind crosswise and deflecting dust too — CSPV has the potential to drop the cost of electricity generation perhaps a thousandfold, indeed as a quantum leap in cost.

Other renewables, such as biomass, have remained flat at about a 6 % share of non ‐ fossil electricity generation since 2001.

By targeting petroleum - derived gasoline and diesel and promoting low - carbon alternative energy forms such as electricity, hydrogen, natural gas and next generation biofuels, LCFS programs are intended to reduce overall greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on a «well - to - wheels» basis.»

Senator Hillary Clinton has also recently said that «we should strive to have new electricity generation come from other sources, such as clean coal and renewables.»

(Sec. 412) Authorizes appropriations for the Secretary to provide the cost of a direct loan to the owner of a clean coal technology plant located near Healy, Alaska, constructed under Department cooperative agreement number DE-FC-FY22-91PC90544, in order to place such plant into reliable operation for the generation of electricity.

-- The assessment shall contain an evaluation and analysis of electricity generation facilities that are constructed in accordance with different plant designs (including different cooling technologies such as water, air, and hybrid systems, and technologies designed to minimize carbon dioxide releases) based on the fuel used by the facility, including --

«Electricity from Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuels with Carbon Capture and Sequestration», the fourth report in the CEF publication series, examines electricity generation through fossil fuel combustion with CO2 capture and sequestration («fossil / CCS»)- a process that removes as much carbon as possible from major emissions sources such as power plants, and stores it in deep geological Electricity from Renewable Energy and Fossil Fuels with Carbon Capture and Sequestration», the fourth report in the CEF publication series, examines electricity generation through fossil fuel combustion with CO2 capture and sequestration («fossil / CCS»)- a process that removes as much carbon as possible from major emissions sources such as power plants, and stores it in deep geological electricity generation through fossil fuel combustion with CO2 capture and sequestration («fossil / CCS»)- a process that removes as much carbon as possible from major emissions sources such as power plants, and stores it in deep geological formations.

However, it can also be used as a transportation fuel to displace petrochemicals and, with proper refinement, to displace any current use for natural gas, such as at existing electricity generation facilities.