Sentences with phrase «enough renewable energy capacity»

Other studies have estimated that there was by 2015 enough renewable energy capacity to meet nearly 24 percent of global electricity demand.

Not exact matches

But a recent study in PNAS suggested that wind (and other renewables) will fall short of slashing carbon emissions, because there just isn't enough of it in the U.S. Based on data from a company owned by one of the study's authors, this map's white areas show where wind turbines would be most effective — but because wind isn't available all the time, they'd only produce roughly 50 percent of the energy wind turbines could at maximum capacity.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

Countries around the world are richly endowed with renewable energy, in some cases enough to easily double their current electrical generating capacities.

Wellinghoff directly countered the industry's oft - heard complaint about meeting «base load» needs, saying that renewables «like wind, solar and biomass would be able to provide enough energy to meet base load capacity and future demand,» since the US can reduce energy usage by 50 percent.

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates that wind turbines installed in the shallow waters of the Mid-Atlantic region could add up to nearly 300,000 megawatts of capacity — enough to power 90 million U.S. homes.

A group of Illinois nonprofits seeks to bundle together enough clean demand response, renewable resources and energy storage to bid it into the PJM Interconnection's capacity auction.

Combined, the two wind farms will add 320 MW of renewable energy capacity for T - Mobile US; enough to meet 60 % of its electricity needs.

Cape Wind, «Project at a Glance,» at www.capewind.org/article24.htm, viewed 14 April 2009; Rhode Island from «Deepwater to Start Building R.I. Wind Farm in 2010,» Reuters, 8 January 2009; «LIPA & Con Edison Eye Offshore Wind Power,» Renewable Energy World, 25 March 2009; «Garden State Offshore Energy Wins Bid for Offshore Wind Farm,» Renewable Energy World, 6 October 2008; «Bluewater Wind Signs Contract for Sale of Offshore Wind Power,» Renewable Energy World, 24 June 2008; 1 MW of installed wind capacity produces enough electricity to supply 300 homes from sources cited in note 2.

In short, the requirements in place for companies to get approval are not adequate, there is not enough proper oversight by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (or even, capacity to do fulfill that role), and there is no check on compliance with Renewable Energy Approvals post-operation.

But he wholly fails to explain what the implications of the variability problem is (the need for overbuild of generation capacity and expensive / unfeasible large - scale energy storage), nor whether, if an effort is made to deal practically with these problems in real national electricity grids, the «increasingly cheaper» renewables will ever become cheap enough (when all relevant real - world factors are considered) and reliable enough (without natural gas «backup»), to actually substitute for and displace fossil fuels (or nuclear) at the scale required.

Once the wind farms come online, the additional capacity will help Google reach its goal of purchasing enough renewable energy to match its energy consumption for global operations.

Over the past few years, wind, solar, and natural gas have made up nearly all new electric generating capacity in the U.S. And earlier this year, wind energy surpassed conventional hydropower to become the country's largest renewable resource, with enough installed to power 25 million homes.

Meanwhile, the renewable energy lobby, big on promises but short on delivering them, has barely produced enough capacity to replace two coal - fired power stations.

To get a regular enough power supply from non-hydro renewables will require excess generation capacity and energy storage, both expensive.