Sentences with phrase «electricity needs by»

The report notes that wind could meet one - quarter of the world's electricity needs by 2050 if current growth rates continue, and sets that as its goal.

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.

DESERTEC Foundation, «12 Companies Plan Establishment of a Desertec Industrial Initiative,» press release (Munich: 13 July 2009); potential generating capacity estimated by author, based on Initiative's stated goal of meeting a substantial portion of the producer countries» electricity needs and 15 percent of Europe's electricity needs by 2050, using IEA, op.

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.

At the same time, the government plans a program of building nuclear plants that would roughly triple capacity by 2024 and supply one - quarter of the country's electricity needs by 2050.

The ambitious vision — to be supplying a third of Britain's electricity needs by 2030, through delivering 30GW of installed capacity — will bring # 48bn of investment in clean - energy infrastructure for the UK, 27,000 skilled jobs and a reduction in total electricity system costs of # 2.4 bn.

A comprehensive study by the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has demonstrated that currently available renewable technologies could affordably and reliably provide 80 percent of U.S. electricity needs by 2050.

This study finds that energy efficiency potential is largely untapped in Louisiana, and that a set of policies and programs can cost - effectively meet 5 % cumulative of statewide electricity needs by 2020, increasing to 16 % cumulative by 2030; and 3 % cumulative of natural gas needs by 2020,...

The predictions also assume that the rising contribution of gas - fired and nuclear plants will reduce coal's contribution to 20 per cent of Britain's electricity needs by the end of the decade.

Prior to the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Japan was gearing up to boost its nuclear power reserves to account for half of its electricity needs by 2030.

Not exact matches

By 2030, California aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 40 % below 1990 levels, a plan that includes deriving at least 50 % of its electricity needs from renewable energy.

«By purchasing local solar power to meet some of our local electricity needs, we're not only meeting our goals but also supporting the growth of local clean energy industries,» Bernard said.

At its current growth rate SolarCity will need enough panels to produce two gigawatts of electricity by 2017.

California's «NEM 2.0» policy has created a clear migration path to continue to allow solar customers to receive fair compensation for the solar power they produce even as the adoption of solar increases, and implicitly encourages the adoption of battery storage by assigning a higher value to electricity provided when the grid needs it most.

The lively bitcoin market had been set up by bitcoin miners, who had set up data centers taking advantage of China's cheap electricity and hardware to handle the intensive computing processes needed to «mine» new bitcoin.

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.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

Mr Bambridge says this the plant indirectly reduces the brewery's carbon footprint by reducing the brewery's demands on fossil fuels and the electricity needs for wastewater treatment by using energy - friendly anaerobic pre-treatment technology in which GWE is a world leader.

The state of our kitchen being completely without electricity, which is made even more frustrating by the fact we're not even in the middle of a renovation, despite it very much needing one!

You operate a manual breast pump by hand, and they don't need batteries or electricity to work.

The initiative comes as a part of Cuomo's plan to meet half the state's electricity needs from renewable sources by 2030.

To meet the 2050 emission target, electricity generation in the UK needs to be 80 % from low carbon power generation by 2030.

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.

The decision has one down - side that the electricity market reform will have to resolve: by dropping the CCS levy on consumers and committing to taxpayer funding, it reduces the incentive of the existing power companies to engage with CCS, and reinforces the need for a strong emissions performance standard to ensure they have clarity about the low carbon direction of the electricity market.

Personal affairs such as health and the accident of his son get jet - speed attention but the health, education needs, unemployment and electricity needs of Nigerians, and carnage of farming communities by Fulani herdsmen get the country's unification consideration and setting up of a committee and no arrest.

Much has been made of the need for a decarbonisation target, a measure that, if included in the Energy Bill, would drive investment to slash the carbon intensity of UK electricity production by 2030, bringing with it huge jobs and growth benefits to many corners of the UK.

But while the Town of East Hampton's policy goal of serving 100 percent of its electricity needs from renewable sources by 2020 is commendable, «the details have not allowed us to move forward with the kind of operational capacities we need.»

ACEP's contention that Ghana does not need the second KARPOWER barge, is is not only wrong in logic, we see it as a well calculated error committed by the energy think - tank to inject a message of hopelessness and apprehension among the Ghanaian populace, as far as electricity distribution is concerned.

LIPA's 50 MW clean renewable energy project first stemmed from then - Lieutenant Governor Paterson's Renewable Energy Task Force report in 2008 and furthers the Governor's 45 - by - 15 initiative which established a goal for the State to meet 45 percent of its electricity needs through improved energy efficiency and renewable sources by the year 2015.

Asked if they would support the town's goal of meeting all of its electricity needs through renewable sources by 2020, Paul Giardina, a Republican running for town board and a longtime official of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, said that while he supports the goal, solar power is the only option that could be online by that deadline.

But Pollin says the state needs to be aggressive since it already missed one green target by failing to generate 29 percent of its electricity from renewable energy by 2015.

The clipper is powered by electricity, or you can charge up the battery and run it for over an hour without needing to plug in.

The biggest hurdle to getting more electricity from renewable energy sources is the intermittency of the sun and wind — a problem that better batteries with less expensive materials could solve by storing large amounts of energy until needed.

Electricity generated by the rotors travels down the tether, eliminating the need for the massive cement towers holding traditional wind turbines.

And perhaps most impressive of all, before the telegraph could even be considered a means of interpersonal communication, somebody — Samuel Morse — needed to think up a system by which the infinite variety of concrete, abstract, and usually self - serving statements that a human being might wish to share with a species - mate could be reduced to pulses of electricity.

In addition, biorefineries could use lipidcane bagasse to produce steam and electricity to become self - sustainable for their energy needs and provide surplus electricity, providing environmental benefits by displacing electricity produced with fossil fuels.

But there are times when solar and wind farms generate more electricity than is needed by consumers.

Wind power is growing by leaps and bounds in China and might one day supply a significant portion of the country's electricity needs — but not until it surmounts a host of challenges

There is always going to be some local need for fossil - based fuels, you know, in industrial processing or some things you just can't do with electricity, but by and large, right, if you wanted to try to replace those sorts of applications with biofuels and things like that, then you could be off oil altogether.

By looking at the plant's total annual utility use and the fraction of yearly operations needed to print a single issue of DISCOVER, David Hakenewerth, a manager at Quebecor's Jonesboro facility, determined that producing one month's edition of the magazine consumes 63,364 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 1,704 therms of natural gas.

The agency is working with developer Apex Clean Energy to meet 100 percent of Fort Hood's electricity needs with onsite solar PV panels that are complemented by additional energy wired in from a wind farm in Floyd County, more than 300 miles northwest of the facility.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that this switch would reduce electricity demand for lighting by 62 percent and avoid the need for at least 133 new power plants.

China is rapidly expanding its solar power supply, hoping to meet 10 percent of the nation's electricity needs with solar energy by 2030.

By moving the TPV cells when their power isn't needed, the system could be rapidly switched on and off to supplement electricity from wind or direct solar PV sources, Henry said.

We have generated small amounts of electricity just by getting the fabric damp — without the need for any additional circuits or components.

Residents of Auvers - sur - Oise can expect their water bills to jump by at least 10 per cent, mostly because of the extra cost of the electricity needed to pump the water through the membranes at a pressure of 10 bars.

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.

Others include: toxic by - products from polysilicon manufacture dumped indiscriminately in China; air pollution spewed from coal - fired power plants that provide the electricity needed to produce photovoltaics; and recovering cadmium, a known human carcinogen that is a primary ingredient in some thin - film solar cells, from mining slimes.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that by 2100, the need for electricity to power cooling will have surged to more than 30 times what it was in 2000.