Sentences with phrase «electricity needs nearly»

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.

Not exact matches

Nearly 15 % of the electricity consumed in the United States each year is used to keep people cool, meaning America uses as much fossil fuel for air conditioning as Africa uses for all its energy needs.

«At first the device only needed 1.56 volts of electricity to split water, but within 30 hours we had to increase the voltage nearly 40 percent.

About 60 gallons (225 liters) of water a minute was escaping from the eastern cooling tower of the 620 - megawatt power plant that provides nearly three quarters of the state's electricity needs.

The companies know nearly precisely when and how much electricity consumers need over the course of the day — but they know only approximately how much photovoltaic systems and wind farms will feed into the grid.

London has announced grand plans to build the world's largest solar bridge, which will generate 900,000 kilowatts of electricity every year and provide nearly 50 percent of the energy needed to power the central London railway

London has announced grand plans to build the world's largest solar bridge, which will generate 900,000 kilowatts of electricity every year and provide nearly 50 percent of the energy needed to power the central London railway terminus Blackfriars station.

But they can never be as cheap as coal - fired electric generation because the energy density of the sun's rays are not nearly at the level of fossil - fuels like coal, so you necessarily need more physical equipment to collect the energy, and turn it into electricity.

80 % means no car, minimum $ 10,000 expense to install geothermal heating, nearly 100 % renewable electricity sources and then after that you need to be very choosy about where you buy food from and what it is.

In South Dakota, a wind - rich, sparsely populated state, development has begun on a vast 5,050 - megawatt wind farm (1 megawatt of wind capacity supplies 300 U.S. homes) that when completed will produce nearly five times as much electricity as the 810,000 people living in the state need.

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

Wind and solar would together need to become the largest source of electricity by 2030, while nearly 95 % of electricity would be low - carbon (including nuclear and CCS) by 2050.

We recently examined how Australia can meet 100 % of its electricity needs from renewable sources by 2020, and the Ecofys plan to meet nearly 100 % of global energy needs with renewable sources by 2050.

Canada ended 2014 with nearly 9,700 MW of installed wind energy capacity, producing enough electricity to meet the needs of over 3 million average Canadian homes every year.

This is sorely needed in a country where nearly 300 million people do not have access to electricity.

To the north, Canada's 6,500 megawatts of wind power are sufficient to meet the electricity needs of nearly 2 million households.

But Iceland has long harnessed that power to supply its own energy needs, with nearly a third of its electricity generated from geothermal power plants.

Even with these measures, by 2050 California would need about twice as much electricity as we use today and still nearly 70 percent of the fuel consumed today.

Sierra Club seeks to permanently phase out coal from our nation's energy portfolio by 2030, even though coal powers nearly 40 % of America's electricity, and its diminished use would result in a dangerous overreliance on natural gas, which is a «just - in - time» source, piped in when needed, and intermittent energy sources like renewables,» said Laura Sheehan, spokeswoman for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Eelectricity, and its diminished use would result in a dangerous overreliance on natural gas, which is a «just - in - time» source, piped in when needed, and intermittent energy sources like renewables,» said Laura Sheehan, spokeswoman for the American Coalition for Clean Coal ElectricityElectricity.

German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity — equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity — through the midday hours of Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank has said... Norbert Allnoch, director of the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry in Muenster, said the 22 gigawatts of solar power fed into the national grid on Saturday met nearly 50 % of the nation's midday electricity needs.

To actually put wind power on the road, of course, we would have to tap the wind resources in nearly all the states, plus those that are off - shore, which the department says can meet 70 percent of national electricity needs.