Sentences with phrase «electricity production generates»

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.

Had conventional Gas Fired technology had been used, the full ~ 31GW generating capacity would have provided non-intermittent and wholly dispatchable electricity production generated as and when needed.

Not exact matches

As you noted earlier, MidAmerican recently committed another $ 3.6 billion to wind production which should lift the amount of electricity it generates from wind to 85 percent by 2020.

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.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

We designed and installed special biomass furnaces at our mills that use a natural by - product of coffee production to generate electricity.

For specific industry applications with high organic loads, enough biogas can be generated to fully cover a production plant's energy needs and still have a biogas surplus to feed it into power generators and sell electricity to the national grid, often generating carbon credits, where these apply, as well as profit.

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.

Stick - on solar cells about to flop off the production line could revolutionise the business of generating electricity from sunlight

There is also the issue of built - in capacity redundancy both of production and transportation of the electricity generated by wind and solar, let alone the thorny question of storage.

Thanks to a two cents per kilowatt - hour production incentive from the U.S. government, they are being built at a rate that will increase the amount of wind - generated electricity by nearly three gigawatts a year.

Researchers are proposing a new «hydricity» concept aimed at creating a sustainable economy by not only generating electricity with solar energy but also producing and storing hydrogen from superheated water for round - the - clock power production.

Researchers at Harvard, for example, are perfecting an organic flow battery that can store a full day's production of electricity from solar or wind farms, a development that could play a key role in integrating variable electrical generating sources into the grid.

The latest figures show that on some days of the year the electricity being generated from sun, wind, biomass, water and geothermal production already accounts for more than half of the load required in the country.

But it doesn't add much to the cost of the resulting electricity because it allows the turbines to be generating for longer periods and those costs can be spread out over more hours of electricity production.

The first crops of tomatoes and cucumbers grown inside electricity - generating solar greenhouses were as healthy as those raised in conventional greenhouses, signaling that «smart» greenhouses hold great promise for dual - use farming and renewable electricity production.

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A solar - panel system generates enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of plants filters air and water in a freshman biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.

The 4B11 2.0 - liter inline - 4 has been fitted with the Mitsubishi Innovative Valve timing Electronic Control system (MIVEC) to maximize power production, improve fuel efficiency and reduce exhaust emissions by continuously varying the timing of the intake valves according to engine speed when it operates in Parallel Hybrid mode (the engine functions solely to generate electricity in Series Hybrid mode and is mainly used to provide motive force in Parallel Hybrid mode).

There's steel, aluminum, cement, plastic, paper — all of which are big processes we're dependent on, some of which directly generate CO2, like cement production, and a lot of which are big industrial users of electricity or energy.

The production of electricity in the United States generates a significant share of the nation's air pollution, threatening the health and lives of millions of people, including those who are most vulnerable to harm.

Imposing a carbon tax on electricity production based on the social cost of carbon could generate between $ 21 billion and $ 82 billion in revenues in 2020 and would have important effects on electricity markets.

Unlike other CSP developers who leverage the heat of the sun as the «fuel» for a power block that then generates electricity to the grid; GlassPoint's enclosed troughs are simply employed in the direct production of steam, focusing on what the company sees as an ignored market for heat.

If low carbon electricity production were used to generate the remaining electricity needed, and fossil fuel plants were closed, then a reduction of 60 % of all emissions from buildings would be possible by 2030, CAT says.

Most solar panel manufacturers offer a 25 - year power production warranty guaranteeing that their solar panels will continue to generate electricity at a certain capacity for the warranty's duration.

A major driver in these efficiency gains has been our increased investment in cogeneration — a technology enabling us to capture heat generated from electricity production that is otherwise wasted, and use it in other industrial processes.

With over 75 gigawatts of WINDPOWER generating electricity for consumers around the U.S. and a stable business environment resulting from the 5 year extension of the Production...

Compare environmental impacts (production, transportation, etc.) of a high - density fossil fuel source with Solar PV technology that enables clean electricity to be generated in remote rural areas.

Biomass are plants (like hemp, corn, sugarcane) grown to generate electricity or produce biofuel, plus plant or animal matter used for production of fibers, chemicals, or heat.

It generates the equivalent of three natural gas plants and serves two critical functions: provide low - cost electricity and store water for emergency power production.

Production tax credits (PTC) are policy drivers to promote the development of electricity generated from renewable sources.

«This new approach can facilitate ammonia production using renewable energy, such as electricity generated from solar or wind,» said physics Assistant Professor Xiaofeng Feng.

The report estimated that regulations cutting emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides would lead to the «premature» retirements of coal - fired power plants that can generate 47.8 gigawatts of electricity, about 15 percent of coal's U.S. production capacity.

The United States provides a range of incentives for ethanol production including exclusion from excise taxes, mandating clean air performance requirements that created markets for ethanol, and tax incentives and accelerated depreciation schedules for electricity generating equipment that burn biomass (USDOE, 2005).

All references in this Easement to electricity or the production of electricity shall mean and include any forms of energy generated from renewable natural wind resources that might be developed, provided nothing contained herein gives Grantee the right to develop renewable natural resources other than wind without the written agreement of Owner regarding the manner in which such other resources may be developed and considerations due Owner therefore.

Instructs the Secretary to assign 60 % of appropriated funds for any given year to facilities that use solar, wind, geothermal, or closed - loop (dedicated energy crops) biomass technologies to generate electricity if there are insufficient appropriations to make full payments for electric production from all qualified renewable energy facilities.

This is a very important incentive because it gives you credit for your solar electricity generated during the day that is beyond the needs of your house and allows you to use that credit to meet your power needs when your solar energy production is insufficient to meet your needs (such as at night).

One question that occurs to me when considering the characteristics of wind and solar generated electricity, is why waste the billions of dollars needed to build, operate and transmit from wind and solar farms when gas turbines that produce 80 % of the renewable production?

However, these electricity output numbers are tiny when considered in light of total Texas electricity production and / or annual production from other generating stations in Texas.

At the same time, new energy storage devices like Tesla's Powerwall and Powerpack batteries — which can be used to store electricity when solar panels aren't generating energy — are starting to change the way we think about the timing of electricity production altogether.

In each of these regions, solar energy production is emerging as a competitive means to generate electricity due to the gradual decline in solar electricity generation costs and the rising costs of traditional fossil fuel.

RECs incentivize the production of renewable energy by providing a source of revenue to electricity generated from renewable sources.

Using the latest data about how electricity is generated around the country, as well as crunching the numbers on the energy and materials required to build the batteries that power electric cars, UCS analysts examined all global warming emissions created during an electric car's lifetime — from its production and years of driving to its eventual retirement.

Renewable Energy Production Carbon Offsets — Renewable energy facilities, such as wind or solar, generate Carbon Offsets through displacing fossil fuel - based electricity production sources within the pProduction Carbon Offsets — Renewable energy facilities, such as wind or solar, generate Carbon Offsets through displacing fossil fuel - based electricity production sources within the pproduction sources within the power grid.

Not sure how local storage and 0.7 GW of waste heat production get connected nor how to generate electricity economically from warm water.

As a result, the business - as - usual burning of coal for the production of electricity without CO2 capture and sequestration is going to come to a halt, and thanks to the first law of thermodynamics (conservation of energy) CCS is going to add a very considerable cost to generating electricity by burning coal.

Surely if the company X over produced and used their cells to generate electricity they would be able to lower the cost of production and become more competitive or at the very least have a marketing ploy and say «we like the product so much we use them».

Such a change would enable democratic decision - making over the source of our electricity, dramatically expand locally - generated renewable energy and — in tandem with efforts to expand the production of local food — help create a thriving and sustainable local community.»

Recently, however, some wind - generating plants have proven to be economically feasible in areas with good wind resources, compared with other conventional technologies, when coupled with the Renewable Electricity Production Tax Credit (described below).