Sentences with phrase «emissions local grid»

«Bottom line: 2B and 2C allow Boulder to explore the true costs and benefits of a high - renewables, low - emissions local grid.»

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For New York, that equates to a reduction in carbon emissions of an estimated half a million tons per year while bolstering grid reliability and providing critical revenue into local governments.»

After the field campaign, Fast will perform computer simulations to help evaluate all of the field campaign data and quantify the uncertainties associated with using coarse grid global climate models to study megacity emissions and to determine the radiative impact of the Mexico City particulates on the local and regional climate.

We then derive gridded medians and CIs for local committed SLR including all components, based on cumulative emissions and ice sheet case.

VERGE Interconnect also demonstrates how cities, communities and companies can foster resilience to extreme weather, earthquakes and other disasters by creating distributed, local energy systems independent from the grid — and doing so in a way that reduces or even eliminates greenhouse gas emissions.

Fourth, the most cost - effective and significant avenue for emissions reductions is through fuel switching in the electricity grid, but state and local governments do not control the grid.

Harnessing alternative sources of energy not only reduces the output of carbon emissions, but also helps military bases reduce their vulnerability to energy disruptions from the local power grid.

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.

Choosing a project in a more carbon intensive grid rather than your potentially less intense local grid can therefore dramatically increase the actual greenhouse gas emissions avoided by your renewable energy choice.

Depending on the electricity source of the local grid, even the most efficient electric car could be charged by coal or natural gas, or by hydropower (no combustion emissions, but linked to increased methane emissions), or nuclear energy (which might qualify as clean or low - carbon energy, but which also has its own environmental bugaboos and massive costs to consider)