Sentences with phrase «emission electricity for»

A: Enbridge Gas installed a fuel cell system beside its head office that generates 2.2 megawatts of low - emission electricity for the local power grid.

Not exact matches

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.

«This growth leads to more clean electricity capacity, which will help India meet its targets for the Paris Agreement, reduce carbon emissions and provide clean electricity to its growing population.»

This is to account for CO2 emissions during the electricity generation process, even if there are no tail - pipe emissions.

Electricity accounts for 11 % of Canada's total greenhouse gas emissions.

The poll also found strong support for other policies that would help accelerate Canada's transition to clean energy, including federal support to help provinces use more renewable electricity, switching buildings and vehicles to clean power, and measures to cut the carbon emissions from gasoline and diesel fuel.

Nuclear power remains a reliable, low - emission source of baseload power for the world's electricity needs.

They do not emit tailpipe pollutants, giving a large reduction of local air pollution, and, can give a significant reduction in total greenhouse gas and other emissions (dependent on the method used for electricity generation).

At that St. John's meeting, premiers signed on to the Canadian Energy Strategy, which was parsed predominantly for its stance on pipelines and action on reducing hydrocarbon emissions, but also included language on better co-ordination of clean - energy electricity transmission across Canada.

But this transition should not be burdensome; by establishing production metrics for monitoring waste, as well as electricity consumption, gas consumption, waste water intensity and overall carbon emissions, your sites can identify ongoing efficiencies and potential cost savings for your company to support your bottom line.

Unnecessary and extravagant Christmas lighting doesn't just cause a lot of carbon emissions (around 400 kg), but it can also add an extra hundred pounds or so to your electricity bill for the season.

While many schemes supported through these levies make a valuable contribution to meeting Government targets to save energy, reduce emissions, and tackle fuel poverty and climate change the latest Government estimate indicated that they currently account for 4 % of a typical gas bill and up to 10 % of a typical electricity bill.

«New York leads the nation's efforts in strengthening climate security, and through the RGGI program and this latest bipartisan proposal to reduce emissions even further, the investment of proceeds will continue to support and create thousands of jobs and reduce electricity bills for residents,» Governor Cuomo said.

Hydrogen Energy, a joint venture between BP and Rio Tinto, has proposed a new hydrogen - powered electricity generating facility for the Kern County area that would capture and sequester (store) most of its carbon related emissions.

«The issues that must be addressed include: grid reliability, electricity costs, toxic emissions and related air pollution, attracting major investors for new energy sources and helping the impacted communities,» said Jerry Kremer, the chairman of New York Affordable Reliable Electricitelectricity costs, toxic emissions and related air pollution, attracting major investors for new energy sources and helping the impacted communities,» said Jerry Kremer, the chairman of New York Affordable Reliable ElectricityElectricity Alliance.

The decision has one down - side that the electricity market reform will have to resolve: by dropping the CCS levy on consumers and committing to taxpayer funding, it reduces the incentive of the existing power companies to engage with CCS, and reinforces the need for a strong emissions performance standard to ensure they have clarity about the low carbon direction of the electricity market.

The order gives the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the authority to repeal and replace the Clean Power Plan, the set of rules that established goals for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil - fueled electricity plants through a national trading system.

The plan calls for cutting greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent by 2030 from 1990 levels; lowering energy consumption in buildings 23 percent from 2012 levels, and generating half of the state's electricity from solar, wind, hydropower and biomass by 2030.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

These marginal improvements could have major effects: The U.N. Environment Programme estimated that 19 percent of the world's electricity goes toward lighting, accounting for up to 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

He then measured the total direct emissions associated with the making of a product; for example, the amount of coal burned to generate a kilowatt of electricity and how much carbon dioxide was released in the process.

EPA is expecting some states to cut emissions by switching to natural gas for electricity generation, according to senior agency officials on a media briefing.

But for supporters like Hassan, the program's carbon auctions have funded energy efficiency programs that have cut electricity usage and decreased emissions beyond where they would be otherwise.

That Senate bill sets a goal to reduce emissions by 83 percent from 2005 levels by 2050 and requires electricity suppliers to use renewables and electricity - saving measures for 20 percent of their demand by 2020.

At the same time, nuclear reactors are still the only option for generating electricity on a large scale with no carbon emissions.

Consumers account for the largest emissions worldwide, he says: Heating and electricity generation account for about 40 per cent of global CO2 emissions, while transportation accounts for 25 per cent.

«We think that to get real zero - emission vehicles, and that's on a well - to - wheel basis, having renewable electricity producing the hydrogen is really the most environmentally friendly and sustainable way to produce hydrogen,» said Steve Szymanski, director of government business for the electrolysis system manufacturer Proton OnSite.

Another $ 3.5 - billion plant planned for Sweetwater, Tex., would burn pulverized coal to generate 600 MW of electricity while capturing its 5.75 million metric tons of emissions postcombustion with amine or ammonia scrubbers or, possibly, with advanced membranes that separate CO2 from other flue gases.

According to government carbon dioxide emission rates for the region's electricity and fuel, these processes account for another 52 tons of CO2.

Sutley, for her part, came to the post after a four - year stint as a deputy mayor in Los Angeles, where she also oversaw climate change and energy policy, including restraining emissions from diesel trucks at area ports as well as promoting solar energy by setting a goal of generating 10 percent of the city's electricity from the sun by 2020.

Stricter emissions requirements on coal - fired power plants, together with low natural gas prices, have contributed to a recent decline in the use of coal for electricity generation in the United States, she said.

NEI spokesman John Keeley said reactors are closing because «we've got an unquestioned free market for electricity» and a system that's «a combination of quotas for some other emission - free sources, and a price for electricity regardless of whether the supply is clean or dependable.»

Identifying more energy - conscious manufacturers, for example, could reduce emissions for retailers more dramatically than simply decreasing electricity use in stores.

Australia relies heavily on coal for its own electricity as well, emitting more CO2 per person than any other developed country, and its agricultural emissions are among the highest per capita in the world, mainly because of the large numbers of sheep and cattle.

This kind of efficiency could reduce GHG emissions in the U.S. alone «in the neighborhood of 300 million metric tons on an annual basis,» McCarl says, «principally from burning biofuels for electricity and [from] forest management.»

According to government projections, the price cut will increase demand for electricity and push up emissions of CO2 by about half a million tonnes a year.

And although it may prepare them for any federal program — both presidential candidates support a national cap - and - trade program for greenhouse gas emissions — it may also end up driving electricity production outside the region higher.

«One other aspect of the electricity pathway is that most emissions are concentrated in one location, which provides perhaps an opportunity for more control of the emissions,» Campbell notes.

Substantively, she said, the covered sectors pull their weight in terms of contributions to climate change: Cement is responsible for fully half of the country's CO2 emissions, and 85 percent of China's electricity generation is coal - fired.

In a fossil fuel - fired generator, this means less carbon dioxide emissions for the same unit of electricity produced.

Indeed, he has evidence: the speediest drop in greenhouse gas pollution on record occurred in France in the 1970s and «80s, when that country transitioned from burning fossil fuels to nuclear fission for electricity, lowering its greenhouse emissions by roughly 2 percent per year.

To construct the estimates, the researchers used data on locomotive diesel consumption, pipeline pumping station electricity consumption, locomotive and power plant emission factors and the AP2 integrated assessment model, which maps county level emissions to costs for counties affected by the emissions.

With more money for development of novel designs and public financial support for construction — perhaps as part of a clean energy portfolio standard that lumps in all low - carbon energy sources, not just renewables or a carbon tax — nuclear could be one of the pillars of a three - pronged approach to cutting greenhouse gas emissions: using less energy to do more (or energy efficiency), low - carbon power, and electric cars (as long as they are charged with electricity from clean sources, not coal burning).

The company would then accrue credits for the difference between the «baseline» emissions that would have been released had the Chinese burned coal to generate electricity and the essentially zero emissions discharged by the wind farm.

It produces less carbon dioxide emissions than coal for electricity or gasoline and diesel for fuel, but even a small amount of natural gas release — which is essentially methane — packs a greenhouse gas punch about 30 times more powerful than the same amount of carbon dioxide.

They made comparisons within the five sectors they studied — power plants, furnaces, exports for electricity generation overseas, buses and cars — and across sectors to see which use of natural gas pays the greatest dividend for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The major industrial emitters could be required (or induced through taxation for tradable permits) to capture their CO2 emissions or to convert part of their processes to run on power cells and clean electricity.

California, for example, has relatively low emissions associated with household electricity, but large emissions from transportation.

Earlier today, The Hill newspaper reported that the plan «would roll back funding for nuclear physics and advanced scientific computing research to 2008 levels, eliminate the Office of Electricity, eliminate the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and scrap the Office of Fossil Energy, which focuses on technologies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.»

«When it comes to life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, wind and solar energy provide a much better greenhouse gas balance than fossil - based low carbon technologies, because they do not require additional energy for the production and transport of fuels, and the technologies themselves can be produced to a large extend with decarbonized electricity,» states Edgar Hertwich, an industrial ecologist from Yale University who co-authored the study.