Sentences with phrase «energy infrastructure in place»

Such a pathway is exceedingly difficult to achieve, given the current widespread absence of policies to drive rapid movement to carbon - free energies and the lifetime of energy infrastructure in place.

Such a pathway is exceedingly difficult to achieve, given the current widespread absence of policies to drive rapid movement to carbon - free energies and the lifetime of energy infrastructure in place.

Not exact matches

While drilling in ANWR makes sense because Alaska has existing pipeline infrastructure in place, drilling off the East Coast does not, said John McNabb, former chairman and CEO of Willbros, one of the largest energy infrastructure contractors in the world.

That means for a place like Puerto Rico, whose energy infrastructure vulnerabilities were laid bare after Hurricane Maria, there isn't much room in the budget to make power lines, generators, and transformers more resistant to future disasters.

With a contract now in place between Tesla and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), the battery «will help solve power outages, reduce intermittencies, and manage summertime peak load to support the reliability of South Australia's electrical infrastructure, providing enough power for more than 30,000 homes — approximately equal to the amount of homes that lost power during the blackout period last year,» Tesla said in a statement.

When energy and telecom infrastructures are in place, there are still the costs of actual usage of ICTs to address; in order to meet these expenses taxation and subsidization strategies are needed that allow individuals and institutions to access digital networks.

Once that infrastructure is in place, there is little doubt that the subject of world Christianity as the unique legacy of the modern missionary movement will make its long - overdue impact and channel back some of its revitalized energy into the necessary transformation of our preCopernican historical universe.

The two parties are broadly in the same place on green energy, more housebuilding, the minimum wage, boosting capital spending on infrastructure and industrial strategy.

Liu's approach to artificial photosynthesis may one day be especially useful in places without extensive energy infrastructure.

Peter Swan sees space - based solar power as the ultimate savior of a world starved for energy, and the space elevator as the only way to economically place the required infrastructure in space.

Without further action by 2017, the energy - related infrastructure then in place would generate all the CO2 emissions allowed in the 450 Scenario up to 2035.

Asia's urban population is set to soar from 1.9 billion in 2011 to 3.3 billion by 2050, a shift that is expected to place considerable strain on the continent's physical infrastructure — roads, energy, food and water resources, waste management capabilities — as well as the ability of leaders to manage this urbanisation effectively.

It takes place annually at the Messe München exhibition center in Munich, Germany and focuses on the areas of photovoltaics, solar thermal technologies, solar power plants, as well as grid infrastructure and solutions for the integration of renewable energy.

The CEAP also recognizes that «inefficient fossil fuel subsidies (IFFS) that encourage wasteful consumption distort energy markets, impede investment in clean energy sources, place a strain on public budgets, and incentivise unsustainable infrastructure investments».»

Like all large systems, energy infrastructure is acutely subject to path dependence; once it's in place, it's difficult to change course.

Instead, world leaders have pandered and caved to the powerful fossil fuel lobby: rubber stamping massive carbon - intensive infrastructure, unlocking billions of tonnes of new carbon in hard - to - reach places like the deep offshore ocean, the arctic, or hard - to - extract resources like tar sands, and proceeded to design energy policy around scenarios incompatible with a safe global climate.

These local and state governments need to shift their power systems to renewables and energy efficiency, put in place low carbon infrastructure in buildings and transport, and engage their citizens.

Unless a low - carbon energy infrastructure is put in place today in the developing world, oil, coal, and gas will continue to account for around 80 percent of energy consumed in 2030.

He has made the statement about the «short and brutal» life in places that have no access to an energy infrastructure, based on his own personal experience living in Africa, so it's pretty clear what he meant to say.

Energy production is the main driver of the state's economy, providing more than 80 % of state government revenue and thousands of jobs.168 Continuing pressure for oil, gas, and mineral development on land and offshore in ice - covered waters increases the demand for infrastructure, placing additional stresses on ecosystems.

Wind power done right has a place in energy infrastructure.

«With another decade of «business - as - usual» it becomes impractical to achieve the «alternative scenario» because of the energy infrastructure that would be in place,» says Hansen.

It may be some time before the necessary transmission or energy storage infrastructure is in place for the Sahara to power the world, but this center may move the region one step down the road to making that a reality.

«envisions affordable, factory - built energy efficient mobile home units that meet International Residential Code for housing with structurally - sound foundations, demountable for easy relocation, and can function in a place with a limited infrastructure or no utility grid in - place....

Climate impact concerns include environmental quality (e.g., more ozone, water - logging or salinisation), linkage systems (e.g., threats to water and power supplies), societal infrastructures (e.g., changed energy / water / health requirements, disruptive severe weather events, reductions in resources for other social needs and maintaining sustainable livelihoods, environmental migration (Box 7.2), placing blame for adverse effects, changes in local ecologies that undermine a sense of place), physical infrastructures (e.g., flooding, storm damage, changes in the rate of deterioration of materials, changed requirements for water or energy supply), and economic infrastructures and comparative advantages (e.g., costs and / or risks increased, markets or competitors affected).

Equatorial Guinea invested massively in energy infrastructure prior to the crash, so it is well placed to weather the storm.

We have three clear strategic priorities: to be a leader in technology, energy and infrastructure, and finance; to be a «best place to work»; and to innovate in everything that we do.

The company had applied to the IRS for a private letter ruling to place energy infrastructure in a REIT structure.