Sentences with phrase «equivalent electricity produced»

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That day, total electricity consumption in Scotland — including homes, industry and businesses — was 41,866 megawatt hours, WWF Scotland said, meaning that wind power produced the equivalent of 206 percent of the nation's needs.

By 2020, it wants renewables to produce the equivalent of 100 percent of Scotland's gross annual electricity consumption.

The 1.9 - megawatt array is anticipated to produce nearly 3 million kilowatt hours of electricity annually, avoiding the greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to burning 2.4 million pounds of coal or more than 5,000 barrels of oil each year.

Taking into account that wind turbines produce electricity only about a third of the time, that's roughly the equivalent of building one standard one - gigawatt nuclear power plant a year.

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).

Countries such as these generate much of their electricity using coal, which he says produces about 1,000 tons of CO2 equivalent per GWh — nearly double the suggested threshold.

A 2 MW wind turbine in a windy onshore location can produce an amount of electricity equivalent to 2500 - 3000 full load hours per year.

And to be clear, the wind farm will produce an amount of electricity equivalent to what they use across the US, it won't be directly connected to all those offices.

Consider that the share of electricity the world gets from clean sources of energy over the last 10 years declined by the equivalent of 21 Bruce nuclear power plants, which powers Toronto, which produces about the same amount of electricity as 900 Topaz solar farms.

This is equivalent to producing enough electricity to power almost 33,000 homes and a CO2 offset of removing almost 60,000 cars off the road.

Moreover, even when emissions from the generation of electricity (upstream emissions) were considered, electric vehicles produced 21 times less carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per year than their gasoline - powered alternatives.

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

«(aa) the number 20 multiplied by the number of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas emissions (including direct emissions from fuel combustion, process emissions, and indirect emissions from the generation of electricity used to produce the output of the sector) of the sector based on data described in subparagraph (D); by

The use of solar power to produce electricity at the plant, rather than fossil fuels, will result in a reduction of greenhouse gases equivalent to removing approximately one million cars from the nation's highways.

The use of solar thermal power to produce electricity at Nevada Solar One rather than fossil fuels is equivalent to eliminating the CO2 emissions from approximately 20,000 cars on America's roads.

In Seattle, where the majority of electricity comes from hydroelectric dams, the same EV produces the emissions equivalent of a gas - powered car getting over 500 mpg.

For every unit of renewable electricity generated, an equivalent amount of RECs is produced.

Yes, the electricity produced in the US only equals 352 million TOE, but we consume fuel containing about three times that much equivalent energy to produce it.

That's equivalent to 4.36 cents per kilowatt - hour of electricity produced — about one - third of the average electricity rate for a typical US home [6].

In 2015, wind power produced the equivalent of 97 percent of the country's household electricity needs.

[From Wind Energy Weekly:] U.S. wind energy installations now exceed 10,000 MW in generating capacity, and produce enough electricity on a typical day to power the equivalent of over 2.5 million homes, AWEA announced August 14.

The total square footage will be equivalent to 63 football fields, producing a whopping 60 megawatts of power — enough to provide annual electricity to a town of 15,000.

This is equivalent to producing enough electricity to power almost 33,000 homes and a CO2 offset of removing almost 60,000 cars off the road over the initial 20 years of the project.

If 25 % of the non-CO2 GHGs were destroyed passing through these towers, they would destroy hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 - equivalent GHG emissions each year, and at the same time produce CO2 - free renewable electricity.

The automotive giant will purchase one third of the power produced by the wind farm — the equivalent electricity needed to power 16 of its US facilities.

The world currently has enough coal - fired power plants to produce about one terawatt of electricity — the equivalent to each of the seven billion people on Earth using two 75 - watt light bulbs at the same time.

While before 2015 it was uncommon for natural gas generation to approach equivalent levels of coal generation, in March 2016 nearly 1.5 times as much electricity was produced from natural gas - fired generators as coal - fired generators.

So providing mostly coal - based electricity to 304 million new Indian customers will produce something in the range of 6 billion tons CO2 equivalent annually of CO2 emissions.

On an average site, a 2 MW wind turbine will produce electricity equivalent to the consumption of 1,375 average EU households.

It can produce 50 kilowatts of electricity and the equivalent of 222 kilowatts of thermal energy.

However, according to the IEA (PDF here), in 2008, the world produced fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas, peat) equivalent to 10,065 million tonnes of oil (Mtoe), but only 90.2 Mtoe of energy from renewables (geothermal, solar, electricity and heat, wind).

Site C is the third hydroelectric dam on the Peace and, when completed, would provide 1100 MW of electrical capacity, producing 5100 GW hours of electricity annually which is apparently enough to power the equivalent of 450,000 homes per year in B.C..

A new North Carolina plant will reportedly be the first facility designed to run on 100 % turkey waste which will use 55,000 tons of turkey litter a year to produce the equivalent of 95 million kilowatt hours of electricity and feed that renewable electricity back to the grid.

Mining for virtual currencies like bitcoin may not be as messy as its real - world equivalent, but the supply of electricity needed to cool the massive computing power that produces the currency means it has also developed a reputation for harming the environment.

IKEA Stoughton's program will produce approximately 695,000 kWh of clean electricity annually — the equivalent of reducing 479 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), eliminating the emissions of 94 cars or powering 60 homes yearly.

Made up of 24,934 panels and mounted on single - axis trackers, the setup is designed to produce approximately 9,264,000 kilowatt hours of solar electricity each year, which is enough to power the equivalent of more than 800 typical American homes, and to offset 6,388 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually.