Sentences with phrase «electricity needs»

The houses are wired for electricity, but the families can't afford to pay for the amount of electricity needed for heating and cooling.

Already, the German government has pledged to generate 35 per cent of the country's electricity needs from renewable sources by 2020, rising to 80 per cent by 2050.

I had the misguided calculations in mind that estimate the amount of electricity needed for electric transportation by simply looking at the thermal energy contained in the fuels that we now consume.

If we double current geothermal electricity production growth rates, it can provide 4 % of our total electricity needs by that date.

A geothermal resource assessment shows that 9 western states together have the potential to provide over 20 % of national electricity needs.

The state wants by 2020 many more of these parks, at least 3,000 megawatts worth, or about 13 percent of the state's total electricity needs.

This is why planning for future electricity needs is critical, and this is the responsibility of regional grid operators — one they take quite seriously.

Nine of the top 10 carbon dioxide emitting countries in 2010 have more than enough offshore wind energy potential to meet all their current electricity needs.

At the European level of consumption, the world's operating wind turbines could satisfy the residential electricity needs of 450 million people.

Our new solar energy system is meeting more than half our annual electricity needs — pretty cool, huh?

This means that less electricity needs to be purchased, and therefore there will be savings on energy bills.

Renewable energy plays a key role in achieving our ongoing commitment to carbon neutrality, as we aim to use 100 % renewable energy to meet our global electricity needs by 2020.

For instance, if we had a very integrated, systematic plan for overall electricity needs, and an integrated method to meet these needs.

In 2015, wind power produced the equivalent of 97 percent of the country's household electricity needs.

Its generation fleet continues to evolve, using greener forms of supply to safely and reliably meet the province's changing electricity needs.

The local utility either owns power plants or buys electricity they need from the wholesale market.

The relatively small amount of additional electricity needed could come from renewable sources, mainly wind farms.

Most mobile food vendors use a dirty, noisy generator to power their onboard electricity needs.

The authors estimated that in most of the world's leading carbon dioxide - emitting countries, available wind resources could easily meet national electricity needs.

So its commitment, set in 2008, to produce enough renewable power to meet the entire city's electricity needs by 2025 is a significant step toward a clean energy future.

Using more efficient appliances lowers the amount of electricity needed for the same bundle of energy services.

With this 31 percent jump, the global wind fleet is now large enough to satisfy the residential electricity needs of 250 million people.

The less electricity you need to buy in from the grid, the lower your energy bills will be.

The fund is supposed to help the state reach Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, which says the state needs to meet 50 percent of electricity needs with clean energy by 2030, according to the release.

Tell Dalton McGuinty that there are alternatives to nuclear power in Ontario The McGuinty government has released its response to recommendations of the December 2005 Ontario Power Authority (OPA) report on future electricity needs in the province.

Morris also said energy storage is «an innovative part of the California grid that provides key capabilities for operating a cleaner and more affordable grid, while also ramping up extremely quickly to meet electricity needs when solar power wanes, as we expect during the August 21st eclipse.»

The board's goal to achieve all of the town's electricity needs through renewable sources by 2020 — announced in 2014 but one it has acknowledged will not be met — remains in place, the supervisor said.

Scotland's total electricity consumption for that Sunday was 37,202 MWh, meaning wind power generated the equivalent of 106 % of Scotland's entire electricity needs on the day.

«In 1970, two University of Arizona scientists attracted national attention with an ambitious proposal to turn more than 5,000 square miles of the southwestern United States desert into what they called a «national solar power firm» capable of supplying all U.S. electricity needs in the twenty - first century.»

Recycling used nuclear fuel would generate additional electricity to help meet growing electricity needs and enhance our energy security.

They estimate a network of turbines in northern China operating at 20 % capacity could satisfy China's electricity needs at roughly US 7.6 cents per kilowatt - hour.

California has enough renewable resources, such as geothermal, solar and wind to supply all of the state's projected electricity needs in 2050, except for the fact that many of these resources are intermittent.

Last month we noted new research showing that because the sun doesn't always shine and the wind doesn't always blow, the use of renewables by utilities in generating electricity needs a big assist from natural gas.

Solar power meets a tiny fraction of the world's electricity needs today, but that could change in the next decade, according to the International Energy Agency

One thousand gigawatts is the number the M.I.T. professors estimated would be needed to ensure that nuclear power provided 20 percent of global electricity needs as well as cut emissions of greenhouse gases from power plants.

Millikan produces nearly 6 % of its own electricity needs through on - site renewable energy generation.

Wind turbines produced double the amount of power required to meet Scotland's electricity needs Monday, according to researchers.

They think grasses, reeds and other plants could eventually generate a significant portion of our domestic electricity needs, making juice that will be even greener than power from solar panels or wind turbines.

«Unfortunately, the existing feed - in tariff rules are too simple,» with pricing based only on the energy technology developed rather than accounting for local and regional electricity needs, he said.

Since 2000, the ski area has reduced electricity needs by 9 percent and cut propane use by 70,000 gallons per year.

The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) today inaugurated a 2.2 - megawatt (MW) solar farm that will meet 15 percent of campus electricity needs.

A small 6 MW wind farm in the Seychelles has broken ground and will start start providing 11 percent of the languorous tropical resort islands» modest electricity needs, thanks to Abu Dhabi's Fund for Development (ADFD) and Masdar, the renewable energy company.

As such, a flexible system can take into account vicissitudes not directly related to immediate grid electricity needs.

The APERC argued that since Russia's peak electricity needs occur in winter for heating, and Japan and South Korea's peak energy needs occur in summer for air conditioning, Russian hydropower could flow south in summer and Japan and South Korean nuclear power could flow north in winter.

In the wake of the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Japan is looking to harness more of its offshore wind, a resource plentiful enough to meet national electricity needs nearly three times over.

«This is almost a mirror image of wind production patterns: wind is highest in the spring and fall, when electricity needs are lowest, and lowest in summer when electricity demand peaks,» the report notes.

The power station will provide the equivalent electricity needs of all of the State's schools, hospitals, police stations, and government buildings over a full year.

But it's going to take more than the wind or sun to power Texas» electricity needs years or even decades from today.

SASIA is a non-governmental association that strives to make Saudi Arabia a global leader in solar power generation by bringing together national and regional leaders in an effort to create commercially and environmentally viable solutions to increasing electricity needs.