Sentences with phrase «electricity industry reports»

A series of electricity industry reports has highlighted the inequity in existing power pricing where customers without solar panels are unfairly subsidising those with them.

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Wind power generated a record 6.3 - percent share of total US electricity last year, with four states — Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and South Dakota — generating more than 30 percent of their electricity from wind power, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said in its newly released US Wind Industry Annual Market Report 2017.

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.

As President Obama's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future continues to ponder what role nuclear power might play in the U.S. electricity supply, a group of scientists, engineers and other experts assembled by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) released a report on the nuclear fuel cycle paid for by the nuclear industry.

According to a JRC report, the impressive growth of the industry will allow at least 12 % electricity share by 2020, a significant contribution to the goal of the European energy and climate package of 20 % share of energy from renewable sources.

In fact, the Texas wind energy industry was recently reported to have provided 6.2 % of the state's share of electricity in 2009, which grew to 10.6 % in 2014.

WASHINGTON — Adding electricity from the wind and the sun could increase the frequency of blackouts and reduce the reliability of the nation's electrical grid, an industry report says.

The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) press release of July 6, 2016 was headlined «Canada can integrate large amounts of wind energy reliably, cost - effectively, says report» followed by the industry trade association's assertion that «Canada can get more than one - third of its electricity from wind energy without compromising grid reliability — and at the same time realize economic and environmental benefits».

In the processing industry, Statistics Canada does not separate the amount of energy consumed into these energy forms and reports only the dollar value of the costs of electricity and fuels.

In this report, costs of electricity and fuels were used to estimate the quantity of energy used in the food and beverage industry, by assuming the cost of one unit of energy is equal for all manufacturing industries.

Consequently, the energy reported by some processing industries as electricity may have come from fossil fuels.

A combination of high retail electricity prices and industry efforts to brings offshore wind's levelized cost of energy (LCOE) down will make the Northeast and some Eastern Seaboard regions the most likely early leaders in cost - effectiveness, NREL reported.

Second, Tribe's statement that electricity prices and energy bills will increase under the plan echoes the industry - funded reports discussed as flawed in this briefing.

The report's findings are in stark contrast to the views of the global coal industry, whose biggest publicly traded company Peabody Energy Corp, maintains coal is «essential to meet the scale of Africa's desperate need for electricity.»

British buildings equipped with solar panels, mini wind turbines and other renewable energy sources could generate as much electricity a year as five nuclear power stations, a government - backed industry report has shown.

A spokeswoman at the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, the coal industry's main lobbying arm, did not have an immediate comment about the report.

THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN Meanwhile, over the weekend, Senator Obama told a group of Democratic governors in Chicago, reports AP http://ap.google.com/­article/­ALeqM5jNlJOuGuTs5qgEuIws8f56V48hyAD91DVH680, that «he would invest $ 150 billion over the next 10 years to create green jobs, particularly in the automotive industry and to improve the electricity grid so people can drive plug - in hybrid vehicles.»

The report was prepared by Greenpeace, an environmental group, the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association, an industry group, and SolarPACES, an organization of national experts that works under the umbrella of the International Energy Agency.

note 9; «Spanish Wind Power Industry Attacks New Rules,» Reuters, 2 February 2007; «EWEA Aims for 22 % of Europe's Electricity by 2030,» Wind Directions (November / December 2006), p. 34; a 1 - megawatt wind turbine operating 36 percent of the time generates 3.15 million kilowatt - hours and the average U.S. home consumes 10,000 kilowatt - hours per year; average energy consumption per U.S. home from DOE, EIA, Regional Energy Profile — U.S. Household Electricity Report (Washington, DC: July 2005); capacity factor from NREL, op.

In summary, the US oil industry's lobbying arm suddenly decides to hand over most of their report to the electricity sector.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

For example, it won't suprise anyone that an investigation of the internet's energy use by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity sees much higher electricity consumption than a report written by the information and communication technology indusElectricity sees much higher electricity consumption than a report written by the information and communication technology induselectricity consumption than a report written by the information and communication technology industry itself.

As Science contributing correspondent Warren Cornwall reported last year, the forest products industry has long been pushing for the carbon neutral definition in a bid to make wood an attractive fuel for generating electricity in nations trying to move away from fossil fuels.

The Danish Wind Industry Association reports that wind farms generated 30 percent of Denmark's electricity in 2012, up from 28 percent in 2011.

DOE (9/12/12) reports: «The amount of electricity the United States generates from solar power has started to grow rapidly and is projected to reach 18,000 megawatt hours per day in 2013... A growing solar industry presents a tremendous economic opportunity for the United States, and that is why the Energy Department's SunShot Initiative supports America's best solar energy entrepreneurs and innovators.»

It's something clean tech observers and many in the utility industry have long expected, articulated in the form of a report from researchers at engineering and consulting company Black & Vetch: California utilities won't be able to meet their 2010 renewable energy standard (RPS), which decrees that they must obtain 20 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources like solar, wind or geothermal.

«A new study called Solar Vision 2025, issued by the Canadian Solar Industry Association and prepared by consultants Ernst & Young, reports the cost of solar power projects will be cut by more than 50 % before 2025, making the solar electricity competitive with electricity generated by oil, gas, hydro or nuclear plants,» said Dr. Shawn Qu, CEO and President of Canadian Solar.

Several industry trade groups paid for the report, including the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers.

Several industry trade groups paid for the report, including the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM).

(Phys.org)-- Germany's Deutsche Bank has released a report that concludes that generating electricity using solar collectors has reached grid parity — cost competitiveness with other industry standard sources — in some countries.

These remarks about helping the grid to be more efficient come in stark contrast to the plethora of power industry bodies and media reports blaming renewables for the electricity price hikes in South Australia of late as well as others claiming that efforts to hit renewables targets are compromising the stability of the grid.

The Electricity Supply Industry Planning Council Annual report for 2009 stated that «Further development of wind in South Australia will require significant investment in networks that, at times, already struggle to cope with the transfer of high levels of wind energy, particularly in the mid-north and south - east of the State.»

According to the report, Walmart's U.S. operations use nearly six times the amount of electricity as the entire U.S. auto industry.

As PV Magazine reports, the German Solar Industry Association has said that the nation's solar power producers have produced 60 % more electricity in 2011 than they did in 2010 — in the past year producing 18 billion kWh.

Burning wood and wood waste to generate electricity will result in net carbon emissions over the next several decades even under the best - case scenarios promoted by the industry, according to a recently released report.

As a comparison, South Australia, the top wind power state in Australia, was producing around 210GWh per month (= 2500GWh / yr) as of May 2008 (from the Electricity Supply Industry Planning Council of SA, Annual Planning Report, 2008, p64.)

The European Parliament's committee for industry, research and energy (ITRE) has approved a new report that proposes amendments around electricity storage in the proposed «Winter Package» legislation, due to be finalised in December.