Sentences with phrase «emissions rates for»

While the agency counted in - construction nuclear plants toward states» baseline emission rates under the finalized plan, it stopped short of including existing nuclear generation to lower baseline emissions rates for each state.

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

The authors discuss the top, bottom, and middle regions of the global income / emissions distribution and are able to tell us that, counting «indirect (or consumption - based) emissions,» the emissions rates for the richest 1 % of Americans (about 300 tCO2e / year) are likely representative of the top 1 % around the planet.

EPA's emissions rate for the production sector is 0.88 percent.

Study co-author Colm Sweeney pointed out the discrepancy between the emissions rate his research team measured and what U.S. EPA has said it estimates as an emissions rate for the natural gas production sector.

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

They estimated emission rates for the winter months, during most of which no methane was released because the soil was frozen.

NASA's multiyear Carbon in Arctic Reservoirs Vulnerability Experiment (CARVE) is the first experiment to establish emission rates for a large region of the Arctic.

As the draft rule stands, EPA asks states to achieve a specific average reduction in their emissions rate for the years 2020 through 2029.

Human - induced warming is already close to 1 degree, so to limit warming to 2 degrees, CO2 emissions need to fall, on average, by 10 % of today's emission rate for every tenth of a degree of warming from now on.

Emissions ratings for this car haven't been posted yet, although the Department of Energy (DOE) says it puts out 9.3 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year, right in the middle of the DOE's worst to best scale.

An emissions rating for this car wasn't available at the time of our review.

«Today's global emissions rate for carbon dioxide is 30 billion tons per year.

This means, for example, that the marginal emission rate for providing power with natural gas to compensate for fluctuations in wind power is positive in California but negative in, say, Ohio.

By your calculation, if we are able to reduce today's emission rate of by 50 % in the next 40 years (by 2050) to result in 450 ppm, then maintain that emission rate for the next 50 years (by 2100) to 500 ppm, the resulting difference in temperature would potentially be 2.2 deg C?

Then, the agency would set a target emission rate for each state for 2020, based on the state's baseline share of coal and gas generation.

Using the 195 pounds / MMBtu emissions rate for biomass assumed in EPA's Regulatory Impact Analysis, as in the CPPBIO195 case, EIA projects that biomass generation in 2020 and 2030 would be 33 % and 71 % below the respective AEO2015 baseline levels of 24 billion kWh (BkWh) and 41 BkWh for those years.

Requires the EPA Administrator, by 2025 and every five years thereafter, to review the standards for new covered EGUs and reduce the maximum carbon dioxide emission rate for new covered EGUs to a rate that reflects the degree of emission limitations achievable through the application of the best system of emission reduction that has been adequately demonstrated.

-- Not later than 2025 and at 5 - year intervals thereafter, the Administrator shall review the standards for new covered EGUs under this section and shall, by rule, reduce the maximum carbon dioxide emission rate for new covered EGUs to a rate which reflects the degree of emission limitation achievable through the application of the best system of emission reduction which (taking into account the cost of achieving such reduction and any nonair quality health and environmental impact and energy requirements) the Administrator determines has been adequately demonstrated.

Overall, the average annual SF6 emission rate for the Partnership has decreased approximately 87 percent from the 1999 baseline emission rate of 14.2 percent to 1.9 percent in 2013.

Another evidence that Hansen et al 1988 were referring to CO2 emission instead of concentration is that in that article it specified the emission rate for the 1970s to be 1.5 %.

Not exact matches

Comparing the capital and operating costs of various forms of energy — even factoring in US$ 50 a tonne for carbon emissions (a higher rate than is currently levied by any North American state or province)-- natural gas comes out as a clear winner.

A new voluntary star rating scheme to estimate the greenhouse emissions of buildings has been proposed for WA by the Office of Energy.

If lower oil prices are as bad for Canada's economy as rate - cutting Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz insists, the central bank might consider assessing the risks to the economy in a world where constraining carbon emissions becomes less of an abstract notion and more of a daily reality.

Furthermore, they say these developed countries must give them, at bargain rates or for free, new technology for emissions control and a transfer of intellectual property rights to any new clean technology so they can copy the processes and not have to pay to import them from the West.

«All home buyers will be able to benefit from energy efficiency advice, with those receiving low green ratings of «F» and «G» especially targeted for support and grants to make improvements to cut their costs and carbon emissions.»

«To encourage fuel efficient fleets, we will extend the 100 per cent first year capital allowance for low emission business cars, reduce the CO2 threshold for the main capital allowance rates; and increase the percentage list price of company cars subject to tax.

For cars registered on or after March 1 2001, the rate of VED is based in fuel type and CO2 emissions.

City councilmen Ydanis Rodriguez and Robert Jackson voiced support for the resolution, contending that new plan would be worth a try if it could alleviate the burden of alternate side regulations for drivers and possibly improve asthma rates by reducing the emissions of idling cars.

The study's findings raise many questions about which activities in the basin were leading to the high emissions rates, said Steven Hamburg, chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund.

He then analyzed greenhouse gas emissions using a fixed - rate panel regression that allowed him to indirectly control for unseen variables.

To be more specific, the models project that over the next 20 years, for a range of plausible emissions, the global temperature will increase at an average rate of about 0.2 degree C per decade, close to the observed rate over the past 30 years.

The simulations suggest that, for greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates, changes in climate will very likely be larger than the changes already observed during the 20th century.

The sooner global emissions start to fall, the lower the risk not only of major climatic disruption, but also of the economic disruption that could otherwise arise from the need for subsequent reductions at historically unprecedented rates, should near - term action remain inadequate.»

Specifically, 19 percent of controllers, with measured emission rates in excess of 6 standard cubic feet per hour (scf / h), accounted for 95 percent of emissions.

«You can get there by cutting now at rates of 1 percent per year for the rest of the century or let carbon emissions rates grow for awhile and cut harder later to the tune of 4 percent per year,» Solomon explains.

For example, they write, a 30 percent reduction in deforestation rates as seen in the Brazilian Amazon between 2005 and 2010 only cut carbon emissions over the same time period by 10 percent.

«They use default emissions factors for various types of coals, they have to use various efficiency rates and things like that, and slight tweaks in those has huge impacts when you're talking about hundreds of millions of credits.»

«Extensive deforestation in Indonesia is a cause for global concern as it contributes substantially to land - based global carbon emissions and potentially high rates of biodiversity loss,» explained Asst Prof Carrasco.

For the E.U. and Japan, national emissions grew at a much slower rate, due in part to slower economic expansion, fortuitous changes in their energy systems and societal choices to use energy more efficiently.

This august body of scientists, who've pored over the data to understand just how much wiggle room we might have in timetables for halting devastation, suggests a turnaround in emissions rates must be achieved much sooner.

A new Yale - led study evaluated how the size of ponds and lakes affects gas exchange rates, which may have implications for carbon emissions and global climate change.

Key to the new estimate are so - called emissions factors, which are derived from the carbon content, heating value, oxidation rate, and other variables that allow carbon emissions to be calculated for the amount of a given fuel consumed.

Added Supekar, «The year - on - year emission reduction rate in such dramatic technology turnovers will exceed 5 percent after about 2020, which makes the 70 - percent target infeasible for all practical purposes.»

For electrification to lower emissions, Kennedy says that a region needs to produce its electricity at a rate below his threshold: approximately 600 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per gigawatt hour (GWh).

The rate of methane emission fell in all the animals, except for those receiving the placebo.

-- The Administrator may promulgate regulations to add to the list of class I and class II, group I, substances that may be destroyed for destruction offset credits, taking into account a candidate substance's carbon dioxide equivalent value, ozone depletion potential, prevalence in banks in the United States, and emission rates, as well as the need for additional cost containment under the class II, group II cap and the integrity of the class II, group II cap.

«The increased rate of light emission of these materials holds great promise for various technological applications that rely on LEDs and lasers,» Efros said.

The assessments shall reflect the relative carbon dioxide emission rates of different fossil fuel - based electricity, and initially shall be not less than the following amounts for coal, natural gas, and oil:

Communication in free space using visible light, which makes it possible to transmit information in tight beams for long distances without fiber optic or copper cables, would also benefit from the increased light emission rates.