Sentences with phrase «electricity production»

As shown in the side graph of Figure 3, wind and solar only accounted for 18 % of electricity production in 2016.

Current and historical charts on electricity production from conventional and renewable energies, electricity market prices and electricity trading with neighbouring countries.

It's quite a daunting challenge, given that the average hurricane's wind energy equals about half of the world's electricity production in a year.

In 2016, renewables used for electricity production received $ 6.6 billion, or 33 times more, in federal tax preferences than nuclear.

The history of infrastructure suggests that «take - off» in renewable electricity production has already begun and will move very quickly now, especially when and where governments support that goal.

The biggest impact on electricity production comes from making wind turbines bigger.

They do provide hot water in the summer too, but that's a small fraction of the heat released from fueled electricity production.

38 % of this country's electricity production comes from state owned plants.

This is despite the fact that the country currently has enormous power shortages and plans to increase electricity production dramatically.

The company specializes in initiating, developing, constructing and operating clean electricity production projects from renewable energy sources.

If water is not available, or if it is too warm, power stations have to reduce electricity production, or cease production completely.

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

This new dirty electricity production capacity will no doubt stick around for a few decades, adding that much more CO2 (and other air pollutants) to the atmosphere.

Some modules can be dedicated to electricity production while other modules provide steam and heat to support industrial processes.

We're talking about a digital transformation to a smart grid, which often requires changing the ways we think about electricity production and use.

Considering that electricity production generates more than 1.9 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, a simple flick of the switch is a good start.

Figure 2 shows the relationship between PV electricity production and electricity consumption during the day.

So as a matter of greatest urgency it seems we should avoid the kind of violence to our brothers and sisters that electricity production so often entails.

In addition to their own, clean and free electricity production, the individual owners of the storage are looking forward to additional revenue they can obtain by participating in those scenarios.

Also, this country has recently issued an exemption to all state owned electricity production companies on all environmental permits and legally binding environmental investments until 2021.

This increased reliance on natural gas for the state's electricity production also has environmental costs.

However, our results for carbon emissions from electricity production move broadly in line with official year - to - year values for the entire power sector.

These provide a much less rosy picture, with rail freight volumes down 11 % on a year ago and electricity production flat.

We await the government's forthcoming white paper on proposals to support secure, low carbon and flexible electricity production to meet our significant energy challenges.

Through this method, they identified that stacking multiple cells did influence electricity production.

These investment figures are the net result from combining higher capital costs per unit of capacity with a one - fifth reduction in electricity production due to end - use electricity savings.

When the cost of required backup production and subsidies is calculated, industrial wind energy ends up costing consumers a great deal more than conventional electricity production.

The cost of electricity production for wind power has dropped 61 per cent in the past six years, while solar costs fell a whopping 82 per cent.

Going forward, we will promote fuel - switching from coal to gas for electricity production and encourage the development of a global market for gas.

Given the problems of fossil fuel electricity production, this is likely to be the «gold standard» in sustainable design going forward.

Moving away from clean electricity production to clean transportation that runs on electricity, let's talk electric cars.

While they may be more motivated by money, there is an undeniable affect on electricity production and therefore carbon emissions from the switch.

And even the most optimistic projections have wind power accounting for less than 3 percent of total electricity production by 2020 — more than the current U.S. share of 0.4 percent but far less than world leader, Denmark, which gets roughly 20 percent of its power from the wind.

In the U.K., coal - firing shrunk to a minuscule 3.6 percent of total electricity production in the third quarter of 2016

IEA, composed mostly of European nations and the United States, found in twin studies released yesterday that solar photovoltaic (PV) and concentrated solar power (CSP) together could account for about 22 percent of global electricity production by 2050 under the right conditions.

In the decade to 2014, coal's share of U.S. electricity production fell from just under half to about 39 percent.

«The goal of concentrating solar power and SERIIUS is to develop efficient, cost - effective solar - driven electricity production with energy storage,» Ho said.

Within the geothermal energy segment, there are two different usage areas for Climeon's Heat Power system, either as a supplementing system for current technology, or as the primary system for electricity production at a geothermal power plant with low temperatures.

«Our goal is to bring every customer, wherever they are, wind turbines that maximize electricity production while also reducing its cost.»

You get 1 SREC for each MWh (Megawatt hour) of solar electricity production.

The bill language also proposes changes to the Internal Revenue Service code that would terminate fossil fuel subsidies, extend renewable electricity production tax credits for wind - generated electricity and permanently extend a business energy investment tax credit for solar or wind energy technologies.

Andasol has such a high capacity factor because it uses thermal storage to spread its 180 GW · h of annual electricity production over more hours per year.

I've had a side project simmering trying to substantiate my observations and suspicions in eSolar Sierra SunTower offline — Again with actual electricity production data.

The gas can then be used in a conventional power plant cycle to produce electricity or used with a storage system to be saved for on - demand electricity production when the sun is not shining.

To avoid double counting, this should then be deducted from the target amount of green electricity production in the country of export (the Netherlands, for example).

The bottom lines for Canada are that 35 per cent wind penetration is achievable (we're at five per cent of electricity demand today), system reliability issues can be addressed, new wind facilities will ensure significant electricity production cost savings while reducing emissions, and the cost of supportive inter-provincial transmission investments can be recovered quickly.