Sentences with phrase «electricity needs through»

Governor Patterson went on to say that harnessing the power of wind is critical to achieving his stated goal for New York to meet 45 percent of its electricity needs through improved energy efficiency and renewable sources by 2015.
Clinton's outline would put the US on track to supply 33 % of the country's electricity needs through renewables by 2027.
Millikan produces nearly 6 % of its own electricity needs through on - site renewable energy generation.
Moreover, customers in southern France could power close to 100 % (up to 95 %) of their electricity needs through the package in the summer months between May and September, with northern customers able to generate around two thirds of their power demand.
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.
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.

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Another, broader, problem is that only a part of the electricity needed to power EVs will come from clean sources, and an even bigger one is that 280 million electric cars account for only a fraction of the total rise in electricity demand that the IEA expects through 2040.
gas world, and so I would argue that a policy focusing on CCS as opposed to a broader policy on de-carbonizing electricity through a carbon price would lead to more expensive electricity than need be the case in a carbon - constrained world.
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.
Electricity needs to be made virtually emission - free, through the mass mobilization of solar and nuclear power and the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants.
When energy is needed, the water is released to flow through turbines, generating electricity.
Specifically, what is needed is a battery that can store enough energy to pull an entire power station through a rough patch, can be charged and discharged over and over, and can release large amounts of electricity at a moment's notice.
At the same time, the 1.3 billion people without access to electricity and the 3 billion or so who still rely on burning wood or dung to fuel cooking or heating would need modern energy supplies, although this might prove to have minimal impacts on climate change through saving forests and other side effects.
A promising core strategy seems to be the following: Electricity needs to be made virtually emission - free, through the mass mobilization of solar and nuclear power and the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants.
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.
We provide value to our utility customers through the reliability and diversity of our supply sources — helping them meet the growing need for clean, affordable, carbon - free electricity.
A recently published study estimates that up to 70 percent of the United States» electricity needs could be met through a newly devised system that harvests power from evaporation.
Cells can meet their energy needs in the form of electricity through nano - wire connections.
This means potentially all impulsive behaviors could be treated by delivering electricity through a responsive neurostimulation device, though Halpern cautions that clinical studies to test the device on more than one human participant are needed.
You need adequate amounts of potassium each day to maintain a normal fluid balance so electricity can flow through your body.
JG: Ideally, the retailers who will rock the commerce landscape will be completely focused on sustainability through their construction methods, electricity usage and packaging needs etc...
An eager energy to be transformed into electricity to serve usefully in every home and therefore an energy that feeds back to all those around me and need it, through my love, my knowledge and my actions...
Electricity needs can be met through use of solar panels and any extra generated can be diverted to storage batteries for backup use.
, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,
Although solar - generated electricity certainly has its place, and meets a specific need, it's just one way in which we can use the free energy that streams down on us from the sun, and unfortunately, it also seems way more desirable to our modern gadget - centric society than the simple method of using solar energy directly, through devices such as solar cookers, solar ovens, and solar water heaters.
When electricity is needed, the molten salt is pumped through a heat exchanger to turn water into steam that spins a turbine to generate electricity.
As I've explained, there are in effect many buyers and many sellers in CO2E pricing, even if there is a government - enforced standard of delivering equal share equitably to all sellers per capita as there are different carbon intensities of essentially the same energy: electricity need not be produced from fossil fuels, and where it is, the fossil fuels may be less carbon intensive natural gas, or enriched through geothermal or solar hydrotreating to become less carbon intensive, or the CO2 emissions can be directly sequestered or used in coproduction to reduce net influx of CO2.
Wind energy will be an important player in cleaning electricity grids in Alberta and Saskatchewan and across Canada clean electricity grids will be needed for reducing fossil fuel use in other sectors through electrification and in the United States through clean energy exports.
The reality is that gas powered plants are still needed nearby to back up intermittent green power and to provide voltage (similar to water pressure) to push electrons through the electricity grid.
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.
«Firstly, businesses need to appreciate that they represent half of the world's electricity consumption — collectively they can make a real difference through their own purchasing power.
Instead of charging the internal battery and using the battery to charge the connected devices, by allowing pass - through charging the amount of electricity needed is reduced.
«(ii) electricity generated through the incineration of municipal solid waste owned by an electric utility or sold under contract or rate order to an electric utility to meet the needs of the retail customers of the utility;
Through demand response, consumers reduce their electricity use in response to system needs and prices, providing a highly flexible resource.
The program's Green Power Leadership Awards for 2010 recognize a number of businesses and organizations — including the Indianapolis Zoo, which now covers 100 percent of its electricity needs (14 million kilowatt - hours annually) through R.E.C. purchases.
This buoys future is likely to be in powering undersea research equipment and robots (instead of battery power), while the general aim of research elsewhere is to create «farms» of wave power buoys to supply onshore needs through the electricity grid.
Ultimately a plug on a hydrogen FCV could allow the vehicle to sell back hydrogen produced electricity for peak power needs or provide valuable voltage regulation services through the battery to further benefit the California electric grid.
The EGA outcomes show that hydropower has been substituting electricity generation through NRES [non-renewable energy sources], but that other RES have needed the flexibility of natural gas plants, to back them up.»
Canada's great needs for electricity are met through abundant energy resources: falling water, coal, natural gas and uranium.
Theoretically, he says, we could produce all the electricity we need, with 90 % less carbon emissions, with a combination of scrubbed natural gas burning generators and wind energy from high - wind regime areas transported through high voltage direct current lines.
When needed, the heat can be pumped through a steam generator that sends electricity to the grid.»
Unless you can afford more high tech approaches such as polymeric membrane filtration, ceramic, or molecular sieve filter media, which all have very limited flow - through capacities and which are expensive and consume electricity, filtration alone will not likely meet all the needs you've identified.
However, he noted that for the plan to be effective, other changes across the board have to be made, citing the example of free electricity given to farmers who add to the problem by overdrawing the supply of groundwater through electrical pump sets.On top of privatization measures, Singh encouraged local governments to take an active role in determining local needs and strategies for water conservation, drawing on the large South Indian metropolis of Chennai as a prime example: «We have the impressive example of Chennai city that had a city - based, neighbourhood - based strategy.
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.
Ocean power, through both waves and tides, accounts for about 1 % of global electricity needs in 2050.
As this process occurs after the air passes through the wind turbines the Solar Tower would generate most of the electricity needed for the integrated plant.
This clay fridge doesn't need electricity to cool; rather it uses the age - old concept of surahi (water's ability to cool through evaporation).
Through this argument, one can see that India is walking a tightrope between the twin challenges of ending energy poverty for its 400 million citizens living without electricity access while balancing the needs of the hundreds of millions more who will be impacted by a changing climate.
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