Sentences with phrase «emissions free electricity»

Mining and processing are carbon intensive processes at the moment, and although this can be reduced, there is no such thing as emissions free electricity.

The program is currently supporting construction of new nuclear units that add emissions free electricity capacit to our grid, and help strengthen our diversity.

Not exact matches

The advent of fracking — in addition to being the fastest - growing source of emissions in the U.S. — is also cannibalizing what is currently our biggest source of carbon - free electricity.

Depending on the source, electricity can be renewable and emissions - free, in addition to which the company claims its process may be the most cost - effective out there, coming in at about $ 10 a barrel in operating costs and $ 10,000 per flowing barrel in capital costs.

«The upstate nuclear plants provide carbon free electricity — 27.6 million megawatt hours of zero - emissions benefits per year.

Ultimately, it will come down to how much value policymakers and consumers put on electricity that is renewable and emissions - free.

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.»

Electricity needs to be made virtually emission - free, through the mass mobilization of solar and nuclear power and the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants.

Better still would be electricity from a new generation of emissions - free solar photovoltaic panels.

A promising core strategy seems to be the following: Electricity needs to be made virtually emission - free, through the mass mobilization of solar and nuclear power and the capture and sequestration of carbon dioxide from coal - burning power plants.

Turbines create emissions - free electricity by using the wind to turn propeller - like blades around a rotor.

In a world with increasing energy demand nuclear fusion can play a role as it has the potential to be a sustainable and powerful electricity source free of CO2 emissions.

As the country's largest source of emissions - free electricity, America's nuclear plants power our lives with clean, reliable electricity.

Enriched uranium from Centrus is used in nuclear reactors around the world to produce emissions - free electricity to support our growing energy demands in an environmentally responsible manner.

The right way is to promote more emission - free nuclear power and encourage the investments necessary to produce electricity from coal without releasing carbon into the air.

The hope is for a cost - effective, emissions - free, large - scale source of electricity.

And the state's entire electricity - generation capacity would have to be doubled, while simultaneously being replaced with emissions - free generation.

The biggest drop was in emissions from coal — which is primarily used to generate electricity — as power plants switched to cheaper natural gas and as the use of carbon - free wind energy more than quadrupled.

Under a power purchasing agreement (PPA), the emission - free electricity generated by CalRENEW - 1 will be purchased by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), a large California utility.

Ontario electricity generation is nearly emissions free.

With the climate crisis escalating, no state is better positioned than Washington to demonstrate that the transition to fossil fuel - free electricity powering zero - emission vehicles is technically possible, economically viable, and a key driver for new jobs and economic growth.

The wind energy sector in Canada is a mature industry and mainstream supplier of the reliable, low - cost, emissions - free electricity that will drive the next century of clean growth.

A low - cost emissions - free source of electricity generation, wind energy will be essential if the province is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent in 2050 as clean electricity will be needed to substitute for fossil fuels in transportation, industries and buildings.

The audience was similarly made up of likely buyers of emissions credits (Stanwell and other electricity generators), sellers (geothermal and other carbon - free sources) and intermediaries (accounting companies, consulting engineers and so on).

Furthermore, leading manufacturers and vendors, such as Tesla, are now offering homeowners, building owners and businesses stationary, intelligent lithium - ion battery energy storage systems in the Sunshine State, giving Floridians the option of enhancing the reliability and resiliency of electricity supply and taking a big step along the path to emissions - free energy self - sufficiency.

A homeowner may be able to have a solar PV system installed and start producing their own emissions - free electricity for free as a result.

As Canada transitions to low - cost, emissions - free electricity, it is fitting that Montréal served as host for this year's event.

Since, the solar power is Green House Gas (GHG) emissions free, the power generated will replace anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases estimated to be approximately 93,022 tonnes of CO2e per year, thereon displacing 95,145 MWh / year amount of electricity from the generation - mix of power plants connected to the INDIAN GRID, which is mainly dominated by fossil fuel based power plant.

Forum participants also heard about new wind energy procurement in Saskatchewan as it moves to 50 per cent electricity generation capacity from renewable energy by 2030, and how the industry is well - positioned to deliver new affordable, emissions - free electricity to Ontario and Quebec when it is needed.

Giant wind turbines a dozen or so miles off the Atlantic coast have great potential to cost - effectively produce massive amounts of emissions - free electricity.

The first phase of the EU ETS — from 2005 to 2007 — drew criticism for not achieving substantial cuts in emissions, excessive allowance price volatility and for resulting in windfall profits for some utility firms that received carbon allowances for free but were able to pass through their full cost to consumers in the form of higher electricity prices.

Since the solar - generated electricity is considered to be carbon - free, the net impact is a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions associated with MIT's greenhouse gas inventory.

Germany is looking at the most cost - effective way to supply electricity on a grid that by 2050 is to be almost completely emissions - free.

With an expected completion date in late 2015, Los Vientos V will produce enough emissions - free electricity to power about 33,000 homes.

Brown said 80 per cent of electricity generated in Canada is emission - free, versus about 20 per cent south of the border.

New York State's emissions - free nuclear power supplies approximately another 30 % of the state's electricity generation.

Further, even some utilities have found that when all the benefits provided by solar energy to the grid are tallied up — like avoided fuel costs, emissions - free energy and lower transmission and distribution costs — they are actually higher than the retail costs of electricity.

So help me understand: if Germany produces more CO2 emissions year on year, but EXPORTS the some of the electricity thus generated to other countries, then it gets a «free pass» on the increasing CO2 footprint?

if Germany produces more CO2 emissions year on year, but EXPORTS the some of the electricity thus generated to other countries, then it gets a «free pass» on the increasing CO2 footprint?

*** The most astonishing thing about Alan Finkel's report on Australia's electricity market calamity, is that the only stand - alone, CO2 emissions free generation source — nuclear power — barely rates a mention and gets dismissed as if it were some far fetched technology used by aliens.

A basic requirement for phasing down fossil fuel emissions is abundant carbon - free electricity, which is the most rapidly growing form of energy and also has the potential to provide energy for transportation and heating of buildings.

(10/27/14) California must nearly eliminate emissions from electricity to meet ambitious climate goals for 2050, but each of the primary available technologies for generating emission - free technology has problems and any choice will require concerted planning and early strategic investments, according to a new technical paper by the California Council on Science and Technology.

It means that during the second quarter 91 per cent of electricity generated by OPG was free of greenhouse gases and other smog - causing emissions, thanks to our hydroelectric and nuclear fleet.

He wants to give out many emission permits free to energy - intensive industries and to the local distribution companies (LDCs) that funnel electricity to users, rather than auctioning the permits off, and he wants permit giveaways to the industrial sector to continue throughout the whole length of the cap - and - trade program, rather than be phased out.

Natural gas generates electricity more efficiently than coal, with half the greenhouse gas emissions, fewer acid rain precursors and virtually free of many other troubling pollutants like mercury and particulates.

If 25 % of the non-CO2 GHGs were destroyed passing through these towers, they would destroy hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 - equivalent GHG emissions each year, and at the same time produce CO2 - free renewable electricity.

«A wind turbine generates as much emissions - free electricity as about 2000 typical roof - top solar PV installations.»

By contrast, under a «mass - based system,» states would have to meet an overall target for greenhouse - gas emissions and ensure that power plants either make those reductions at their facilities or finance efforts to achieve them in other ways, such as by reducing consumer demand or investing in carbon - free electricity generation.

Sometimes it's worth remembering, however, that solar panels produce clean, emissions - free electricity.

Though solar energy remains expensive, reducing a ton of emissions by generating electricity from essentially carbon - free sources such as nuclear or wind energy is cheaper than reducing a ton of emissions through low - carbon transportation fuels such as ethanol.