Sentences with phrase «energy infrastructure still»

But in the meantime, with a clean energy infrastructure still quite a few years away, it's a far superior alternative to coal.

Not exact matches

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.

I know I still use gas in my home, so everyone needs time to convert to a changing infrastructure including me, but I'm doing everything I can to tell the children of the future we knew and tried to stop the death profiteering energy monopolies in NY.

«And communities asked to accept intrusive new renewable energy infrastructure such as wind farms will ask how serious the government is about reducing greenhouse gas emissions when it is still prepared to allow carbon intensive opencast mining.»

In an interview, Hawkins said that activists still face many challenges, from fighting the inevitable industry lawsuits to overturn the ban, to challenging the fracking infrastructure of pipelines across the state and gas storage in the salt caverns near Seneca Lake, to campaigning for a «state plan for a rapid transition to 100 percent green energy to fight climate change, lower electric costs and create millions of new jobs,» he said....

Conventional production consumes a lot of energy, the infrastructure is still dwarfed by that for petroleum, and engines would need to be modified to run on pure ammonia (like Belgium's buses, most experimental vehicles need some conventional fuel mixed in with the ammonia).

Every year, countries spend about a trillion dollars on energy infrastructure, and right now coal is still the fuel of choice.

We are still not at the stage where we really have incorporated [information technology, like computers and the Internet] extensively into the energy infrastructure in the way we're going to need.

Yes, for the individual owner it maybe does, but that at the cost of the rest of the world, because electric energy still comes mostly from coal / oil / nuclear power generators for one, with correspondent pollution and infrastructure load.

For years, it has often seemed that those most passionately pressing for a rapid transition from still - abundant fossil fuels to non-polluting energy sources have been as focused on attacking each others» arguments as they have on fighting powerful interests defending the status quo (as well as perhaps the biggest foe — inertia, both in society and infrastructure).

Every year the national grid say they can keep the lights on, but every winter some still say our energy infrastructure will struggle to cope with a cold snap, alongside energy firms knocking on the government's door for more handouts.

While we know that distributed energy resources are often more resilient than traditional generation infrastructure, they still make up only a small portion of the nation's energy infrastructure.

«Ratepayers and taxpayers will be forced to squander billions of dollars on unnecessary and unreliable energy infrastructure that will still require conventional generation to keep the grid going, and that won't put a dent in climate change,» O'Neil said.

Because despite adding considerable electricity generation capacity in the last decade, India's energy supply is still not meeting its huge growing demand, and a lack of supply and infrastructure issues means the price of grid electricity is rapidly rising.

Buying shares of major renewable energy and infrastructure companies now, before the spending begins and while they're still cheap, will provide windfall profits as the projects are executed over the next few years.

It is still finite, though, and eventually, we would need to develop another energy infrastructure — while facing opposition from an interested class that is even more entrenched than our fossil fuel interests.

Origin Energy has awarded an Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) contract to engineering and infrastructure company RCR Tomlinson Ltd for a 200 MW farm, however the project still needs to secure grant funding from ARENA and pass a final investment decision.

Energy system inertia, due to existing infrastructure such as power plants and vehicles on the road today, makes additional CO2 and still further warming inevitable.

It is very rare to come across a professional who in their career to date has had such a depth of unique, high calibre and leading international energy infrastructure experience as our next interviewee, and she says she «still has a lot more she would like to be part of, contribute too and achieve, within the international business and energy sector.»