Sentences with phrase «electricity sector»

The target we tend to look at is an 80 to 100 percent reduction in electricity sector emissions by 2050.

This analysis of electricity sector emissions is incomplete, as it does not consider methane leakage.

The integration of sensor technology to better understand what's happening on the grid will also be beneficial for the broader electricity sector as more solar comes online.

Current expectations for an increased supply of domestic natural gas have sparked debate about how the changing electricity sector will affect electricity consumers and the environment.

The paper, «From fossil fuels to renewables: The role of electricity storage,» also offers evidence that better storage technology boosts the efficiency of the entire electricity sector.

The vulnerability of the European electricity sector to changes in water resources is set to worsen by 2030 as a consequence of climate change.

This is a battle for the heart and soul of the green electricity sector — no less.

Natural gas recently passed coal in total carbon emissions, mainly because natural gas has been dominating electricity sector growth.

The improvement of uranium mining occurred through the development of a well - regulated nuclear electricity sector, and has gotten better and better every decade.

Reduce import dependency on fossil fuel weighed electricity sector and diversify generation mix through use of local resources.

- A renewable energy - based electricity sector is technically feasible using proven technologies.

A second depicts required improvements in emissions rates for the entire electricity sector.

Global energy investment fell for a second year in 2016 as oil and gas spending continues to drop IEA's annual investment benchmark shows spending on electricity sector for the first time exceeded combined spending on fossil fuels 11 July 2017

There is due in large part due to Governor Andrew Cuomo's recent mandate for 50 percent renewable energy in the state electricity sector by 2030, said Vogelsang.

The pivot earned Crane renown in the U.S. electricity sector as the rare power executive to champion lower - carbon and local «distributed» alternatives alongside stalwart fossil fuels.

Market forces explain much of the US electricity sector NOx emissions reductions and nearly all coal plant retirements.

My first, second and third posts on the Ontario electricity sector described how policy and administrative decisions by different Liberal Governments gave rise to excess electricity generation with an inflated cost structure, leading to higher electricity prices.

One of those policies resulted in Ontario's electricity sector focusing on acquisition of renewable energy from industrial - scale wind turbines, solar panels and biomass.

Reliability in the context of variable wind and solar: How will the reliability of a 100 % renewable electricity sector in Maryland be assured?

Another doubling of coal tax in India shows momentum in global electricity sector transformation

IEEFA sees the global electricity sector transformation gathering speed.

Since the country's aging fleet of coal - fired power plants accounts for about three - quarters of carbon dioxide emissions from the country's electricity sector while producing only 39 percent of the energy, they'll be the ones most affected by the proposed rule.

These are primarily energy efficiency, a largely decarbonised electricity sector, a shift away from fossil fuels and substantial growth in crop yields.

All told, more than 14,000 people worked in B.C.'s clean electricity sector last year, the Pembina Institute estimates.

She has built an enviable reputation in the West Australian electricity sector for economic and technical regulation, industry development and electricity entity valuation.

Wind energy is an affordable way to help meet that challenge, and at the same time help SaskPower meet its goal of reducing electricity sector greenhouse emissions 40 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.»

Rather than replacing this energy source with fossil fuels, thus boosting carbon emissions and encouraging runaway climate change, the world can use this opportunity to pursue a much safer electricity sector powered largely by wind, solar, and geothermal energy.

This paper draws on previous research on environmental adder policies and the social cost of carbon to offer lessons for the design of electricity sector carbon adder policies.

The study, published in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change, looks at the future of electricity supply in China and the issues it faces in reducing its carbon emissions — nationally China's electricity sector accounts for more than half its total greenhouse gas emissions.

The pair split the gas and electricity sectors so we got a monopoly, Western Power — the former SECWA's electricity transmission / distribution, generating and sales arms — and, initially, two separate publicly - owned monopolies, Alinta Gas, owners of the gas distribution across Perth, and the Dampier - to - Bunbury natural gas pipeline (DBNGP).

So it's no surprise, German electricity sector emissions are actually rising slightly — and the country's leaders are now considering scrapping an ambitious climate goal for 2020.

Electricity sector pension plans are relatively generous to employees and costly to employers; these costs are ultimately reflected in prices charged to ratepayers.

Buried deep in federal regulations to restrict emissions in the coal - fired electricity sector, officials explain that the costs of those new rules is about $ 16 billion in today's terms.

It gets a third of its energy from this source, following the discovery of gas fields in the North sea and the 1990s dash for gas in the UK electricity sector.

Coal's prices will soon be so uncompetitive that coal - fired power will drop 51 percent by 2040, according to the latest electricity sector forecast.

(Filthy as in probably the most polluting electricity sector in the world.

A number of studies have demonstrated that end - use EE improvements in the Indian electricity sector has large potential for reducing power shortages, which would enhance the country's energy security and could play a crucial role in India's climate change mitigation plan.

WCO vice-president Parker Gallant and president Jane Wilson speak on Ontario's mismanaged electricity sector, energy poverty, wind turbine noise regulation, and what's ahead for 2017

Jenkins harnesses optimization methods and empirical data to improve planning, operations, regulation, and policy in the rapidly evolving electricity sector.

Ministers» queries focused on grid interconnections and the recommendations in Development Prospects, which focuses on electricity sector governance and highlights the need to establish an ASEAN - wide permanent regulatory body and commence joint planning for renewables development.

The question that the NETL study correctly raises is whether the conventional electricity sector in the US will be of sufficient scale in the future to guarantee security of supply as it did this winter.

Germany's electricity sector faced a renewed, violent shakeup in March as two of its biggest utilities, E.ON and RWE, announced a complex asset exchange that experts said points to the death of the integrated model.

The interest in natural gas combustion as a potential solution to climate change has been gaining because US ghg emissions have fallen somewhat as natural gas from hydraulic fracturing technologies has been rapidly replacing coal in electricity sector generation.

The Trump administration is also attempting to put its thumb on the scale to override current electricity sector market realities.

Session 3 - Integrating new technologies to achieve electricity sector decarbonisation: the role of renewables, demand response, transmission, and storage

The final version of the rule — now being challenged by the Trump administration — would reduce national electricity sector emissions by an estimated 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.