Sentences with phrase «energy on a big project»

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A big Shell energy project can require investing $ 10 billion on the front end — with the understanding that profits, assuming they materialize as planned, probably won't come for a decade or more.

A lawyer, he was senior counsel and vice-president at ABB Group, a Swiss engineering giant, and then had a string of titles, including strategic development director, at AMEC, a big London - based project - management company focused on the energy sector.

Greece's new left - wing government is opposed to a Canadian gold mine that is one of the biggest foreign investment projects in the country, the energy minister announced on Friday.

The company did not reveal what it spent on the project, but its spending on clean energy ventures is big and growing.

The biggest concern: that the Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project, meant to forecast local impacts of climate change and to be used on DOE's future exascale supercomputers, would dilute resources from the Community Earth System Model (CESM).

Your recent article on the UK's potential river Severn barrage asserts that «only big projects can deliver big quantities of renewable energy» (18 April, p 32).

President Obama, perhaps sensing the merits of a stepwise energy plan given congressional divisions on a big energy and climate bill, used his Saturday address to announce nearly $ 2 billion in conditional loan guarantees to solar power projects (I've added a couple of links for context):

Chu focused on the two main initiatives related to propelling big advances in technology — the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (known as Arpa - E) and «innovation hubs.»

«While Americans have rallied in support of clean renewable energy at home, the U.S. Export - Import Bank has made it a priority to handout money to fossil fuel companies to work on projects abroad,» said Kate DeAngelis of Friends of the Earth U.S. «If Trump gets his way, U.S. Export - Import Bank will become a slush fund for Big Oil's plans to accelerate climate change.

That's true, but after engaging SunFunder on this project, and working with off grid clean energy entrepreneurs demanding $ 500 million for their sector, we have a few lessons we think have big implications.

The opportunity, Touati said, would come from meeting the corporate buyers» renewable energy demand by matching them with independent power producers who wanted sell the output of their wind and solar projects, and with utilities looking to hold on to the corporate clients that are their biggest power customers.

Poland, the biggest country, is most off course, proposing only token spending on sustainable energy projects.»

The task now focuses primarily on the two most important topics in the field of solar radiation for solar energy applications: For financing the bigger and bigger projects sound solar resource assessments are more and more important.

While private investors and entrepreneurs are jumping into alternative energy projects, they can not be counted on to solve such problems, economists say, because even the most aggressive venture capitalists want a big payback within five years.

Here's the New Scientist article: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527426.900-get-ready-for-chinas-domination-of-science.html Re: the $ 30 billion, may not seem big by itself but it is unclear from that official's statement if this is $ 30 billion on top of the dozens of billions they would have spent on energy efficiency projects and other clean energy infrastructure projects or not.

f. State - owned eneterprises are vehicles of clean energy investments: CECIC, or the China Energy Conservation Investment Corp (going big on solar partnering with Suntech at home and seeks to build projects in Europe), 180 or so subsidiaries and more than 11000 emplenergy investments: CECIC, or the China Energy Conservation Investment Corp (going big on solar partnering with Suntech at home and seeks to build projects in Europe), 180 or so subsidiaries and more than 11000 emplEnergy Conservation Investment Corp (going big on solar partnering with Suntech at home and seeks to build projects in Europe), 180 or so subsidiaries and more than 11000 employees.

The significance is that when EIA's «reference case» — its baseline projection based on current technologies, statutes and policies — projects the U.S. as a net energy exporter, that's a big deal for American energy self - sufficiency and security.

After some hesitation, India's energy storage market looks to be propelling itself into the big leagues with tenders and private projects on the way, Harsh Thacker of the India Energy Storage Alliance wenergy storage market looks to be propelling itself into the big leagues with tenders and private projects on the way, Harsh Thacker of the India Energy Storage Alliance wEnergy Storage Alliance writes.

One of their projects, now under construction, is a giant waste - to - energy (the modern cleaner sounding name for a garbage incinerator) facility in Copenhagen that has a park and ski run on the roof, (lots more on TreeHugger here) and was designed to have a big smoke ring puff up every time the building released a tonne of carbon dioxide.

Via The Clean Energy Project, Physorg More on Alternative Energy Google Invests an Additional $ 75 Million in Residential Solar Power Think Big!

Because higher taxes on fuels will create a strong «market pull» to clean energy, carbon taxes will put a big dent in fossil fuel use and CO2 emissions without having to earmark revenues for hybrid cars, mass transit, biofuels, etc. — or to lawmakers» pet projects.

Political discussion on how regulations benefit the big energy companies and discourage projects like Feldheim's continue.

Spanish energy giant Iberdrola's acquisition of Scottish Power has seen the company form a spin - off, Iberdrola Renewables — big four firm Shepherd & Wedderburn acts for the spin - off on projects both in Scotland and further afield.

Let's take the energy going into UPL challenges against the inevitable expansion of legal services options and instead, work on big impact projects that include technology.

And so imagine on a mine project, on a pipeline project, on a real estate development, on an energy project, on an electrical transmission line, on a rail project, on a bridge project, on a big highway project, all of those types of projects could have an adverse affect on an aboriginal interest.»

She writes about energy efficiency and sustainable living with the goal of empowering homeowners with expert guidance and educational tools they need to take on big home projects with confidence.