Sentences with phrase «electricity sector as»

If Premier Prentice is committed to achieving cost - effective, long - term GHG emission reductions in the electricity sector as part of addressing climate change, wind energy will need to play a primary and growing role in Alberta's electricity system.

Carbon capture could reduce emissions from the electricity sector as well, but since it will raise the cost of producing power, the technology will not be widely deployed until other nations adopt similar carbon prices.

In the United States, transportation has surpassed the electricity sector as the top source of greenhouse gas emissions, at around 30 percent.

Not exact matches

They find that coal accounts for 95 % of GED in this sector (though it also accounts for the largest percentage of total power generation), and coal power has the highest GED per kilowatt - hour (kWh) of electricity generated (though as noted in Table 2, petroleum has a higher GED / VA ratio).

One recommendation by the alliance takes aim at Ontario government energy policy that could also double as climate policy, as the province has curtailed greenhouse gas emissions coming from the electricity sector by closing coal - fired power plants, invested in costly solar and wind energy projects, and instituted a cap - and - trade system that requires businesses to buy permits to cover their carbon emissions.

According to him, the power sector held the prospect of growth for the country as electricity drove every aspect of the economy.

The Mid-Year Review brought together all the agencies in the power sector such as the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCo), the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), the Volta River Authority (VRA), the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDCo), the Bui Power Authority, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Power.

«We urge the court to pursue this matter to a satisfactory conclusion by taking the case forward as required by the provisions of the Rome Statute, and ensuring a thorough investigation and prosecution of suspected perpetrators of grand corruption in the electricity sector in Nigeria,» he added.

Wellinghoff's goal is to enable a near total transformation of the electricity sector, allowing for renewable resources, such as the sun, wind and flow of rivers, to meet a greater proportion of U.S. electricity demand.

The findings suggest that as the U.S. energy market continues to shift from coal to natural gas, the overall «toxicity burden» of the electricity sector will decrease, said study corresponding author Shelie Miller, an environmental engineer and an associate professor at the U-M School for Environment and Sustainability's Center for Sustainable Systems.

It sees coal as remaining dominant in the electricity generation sector: global consumption will rise by 1.3 percent a year — from 147 quadrillion British thermal units of energy in 2010 to 180 quadrillion Btu in 2020 to 220 quadrillion Btu in 2040.

Consumption skyrockets even as efficiency improves To clean up its power sector, Singapore has switched from burning oil for electricity to burning natural gas, the cleanest form of fossil fuels.

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

«There are so many issues around nuclear power, we don't see it as being the answer to global warming and the electricity sector.»

As farmers become more aware of the opportunities — not just in crop production but also in ecosystem markets — they have the ability to use land in concert with a regulated industry [the electricity sector under the Clean Power Plan to satisfy that regulatory requirement through green infrastructure.

The only way to do that, as studies have shown, is to have an extremely clean electricity system and to significantly increase the use of that electricity to offset the use of fossil fuels in other sectors.

Ms. Lau serves on the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council which represents the North American electric sector with the U.S. government and has been highlighted as one of the most successful public - private partnerships.

As part of the social structure, other associations have been formed: the Parents Association, the Electricity Committee, the fishing Cooperative, and a Community Committee in which different representatives of all community sectors participate.

But, as the Keeling Curve shows, these processes are not capable of keeping up with fossil fuel emissions from the electricity generation and transportation sectors.

Cases with higher or lower world energy prices, represented by oil prices, have relatively little direct impact on power - sector emissions, as petroleum provides a small fraction of U.S. electricity generation.

For our entire state's economy to reach reductions of 80 % below 1990 levels by 2050, as recommended by the University of Washington's Climate Impacts Group, our electricity sector must achieve even deeper reductions, even as we electrify other sectors that currently rely on fossil fuels.

In developing Asia, the share of biomass in the residential sector declines from around 50 % today to 33 % in 2030 as demand for gas and electricity for cooking increases in the New Policies Scenario.

SaskPower expects demand for electricity to continue to grow as the province grows and has set a goal of reducing electricity sector greenhouse emissions 40 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.

The company, which describes itself as «the world's largest private - sector coal company and the only global pure - play coal investment», claims that it fuels approximately 10 % of the electricity generated in the United States and 2 % of electricity generated throughout the world.

: The current Federal, State and private sector policies that are now increasing the fraction of electricity generation from Intermittent Renewables must be stopped / reversed in order to avoid / mitigate very severe micro and macroeconomic impacts and National Security ramifications involving skyrocketing electricity prices as well as dramatically reduced power grid reliability and resilience.

But Canada is further ahead on implementing the actions required to address climate change that will provide a long - term sustainable future for wind energy development by looking beyond wind energy's role in the electricity grid to its role (with other renewable energies) as a substitute for fossil fuels in other sectors of the economy where most of our greenhouse gas emissions are produced.

Over the last dozen years and more, the tried - and - true regulatory system that protected Ontario's electricity consumers and the financial viability of the power sector as a whole have been systematically sidelined by politicians at Queen's Park.

The analysis finds that, although a massive shift to CNG vehicles would also lower oil consumption and emissions dramatically, it wouldn't be nearly as effective as simply electrifying a gigantic portion of our transportation sector and then using our abundant natural gas to provide the electricity.

Further plant retirements can be expected in the Netherlands, Germany, and Spain, as utilities increasingly focus on de-carbonising the electricity sector.

-- Each person selling electricity to the owner or operator of an entity in any sector designated as an eligible industrial sector under section 763 (b) shall provide the owner or operator of the entity and the Administrator, on an annual basis, the electricity emissions intensity factor for the entity.

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

Other states such as New York, which has a major restructuring of its electricity sector underway, suspended its cap on solar photovoltaic systems covered by the state's net metering program in October.

The global campaign recently reached its 100 member milestone, with companies from a wide range of sectors and operations around the world creating around 146 terawatt - hours in demand for renewable electricity annually — about as much as it takes to power Poland or New York State.

Going by the broad strokes of the NEP, credit is due to the NITI Aayog for recommending some revolutionary reforms, such as the opening up of the entire power sector value chain to private investment in order to create an efficient electricity market.

Looking at just emissions from the electric power sector, emissions in Minnesota dropped by slightly more than the U.S.. However, since 2009, the state has made little to no progress on emissions even as electricity generation by wind increased by 92 percent.

But such is the extent of regulatory capture in the electricity sector, that the government has handed out billions of dollars to coal fired generators to ensure they stay open, offered billions more to ensure that some actually close, as well as offering loan guarantees to all and sundry in case they get into a spot of bother (which is probably all they needed in the first place).

As a new regulatory design for the EU electricity market is taking shape, there are grave concerns in the sector that the new rules will not advance the internal energy market very much.

Some of the success was because the countries had credible national policies to back the renewable energy sector, such as America's stimulus initiatives and tax credits on clean electricity, she explains.

Energy use in the sector results from end ‐ user demand for higher ‐ quality energy carriers such as electricity, but also the relatively low average global efficiency of energy conversion and delivery processes.

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.

Other studies of nearly decarbonizing the power sector by mid-century show that more efficient, advanced biopower technologies using low - carbon feedstocks, such as agricultural residues and energy crops, could provide a modest contribution of up to 15 percent of U.S. electricity generation (NREL 2012, UCS 2013).

Here's the thing: If a state shifts a bunch of transportation and building heat over to electricity, overall consumption of electricity could rise and average electricity - sector efficiency could fall, at least temporarily, even as economy - wide carbon emissions decline.

The resultant market certainty would facilitate the rapid roll - out of climate - safe alternatives in sectors such as the electricity sector where safe alternatives are already available, and underpin efforts to develop affordable climate - safe alternatives in sectors where an immediate ban is not yet practical.

Emissions from fuels consumed to generate electricity within the commercial and industrial sectors are counted as CO2 from primary energy.

Using the residential sector as an example — the 1.3 % increase in electricity consumed between 2015 and 2016 was offset by a decline in carbon intensity of the electricity supply -LRB--4.5 %)-- yields a total of 3.2 % (not shown in the table).

Growth in the power sector is due to increased demand for electricity, but natural gas's share does not increase as coal and renewable energy also compete for the power sector market.

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.

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This led to the creation of California's Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard (RPS) in 2002, which transformed the electricity sector through the growth of new energy sources, such as solar and wind energy.

A difficult situation for the province, which has invested millions of dollars in a sector that looked promising as it faces an economic situation where electricity demand is lower.