Sentences with phrase «estimated global electricity»

The total addressable market for electricity generation technologies using perennial crops as feedstock is based on estimated global electricity generation in terawatt - hours from 2020 - 2050.

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Marc Bevand, an investor and entrepreneur, was skeptical of de Vries» tally of Bitcoin's energy use and argued that the real global energy footprint of mining was likely closer to 15 terawatt - hours, which is still a huge amount of electricity, but half of the estimate on Digiconomist.

These marginal improvements could have major effects: The U.N. Environment Programme estimated that 19 percent of the world's electricity goes toward lighting, accounting for up to 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

The International Energy Agency estimated last year that both the decline in China's coal use and falling electricity demand reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 percent in 2014, leading to a 0.2 percent reduction in global emissions.

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

Conservative estimates predict about 55 - 75 GWe of global electricity will come from SMRs by 2035, equivalent to over 1000 NuScale Power Modules, it added.

Renewable electricity generation (excluding hydro) is estimated to account for 3.3 percent of global electricity generation.

The estimated increase in the global use of electricity between 2000 and 2030 under the IPCCâ $ ™ s B1 scenario is more than twice as great as under the IEA Reference Scenario, and the increase under the IPCCâ $ ™ s A1FI scenario is nearly three times as great.

To put this into context, estimates of life - cycle global warming emissions for natural gas generated electricity are between 0.6 and 2 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour and estimates for coal - generated electricity are 1.4 and 3.6 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour [14].

Vanguard As Nigeria grapples with inadequate power supply, focus appears to be shifting towards wind power which capacity is estimated to reach 2,110 Giga Watts, GW, globally and generate up to 20 per cent of the world's electricity by 2030, while attracting around 200 billion euros in annual investment, the Global Wind Energy Council, WEC, biennial Wind Energy Outlook, report...

The Masterbuilder Wind power could fuel 20 per cent of global electricity by 2030, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has estimated in its biennial Global Wind Energy Ouglobal electricity by 2030, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has estimated in its biennial Global Wind Energy OuGlobal Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has estimated in its biennial Global Wind Energy OuGlobal Wind Energy Outlook.

By the end of 2014, renewables were estimated to make up almost 28 % of the world's power generating capacity, enough to supply almost 23 % of global electricity.

The cost of curtailed wind (estimated at $ 120 per / MWh) is part of the electricity line on our bills via the Global Adjustment, or GA..

Current estimates indicate that 1.2 billion people (~ 18 % of global population) live without access to electricity and more than 2.7 billion depend on wood or some other form of biomass, including animal dung, for heating and cooking (IEA, 2016).

In a study to be published in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Fearnside estimates that in 1990 the greenhouse effect of emissions from the Curuá - Una dam in Pará, Brazil, was more than three - and - a-half times what would have been produced by generating the same amount of electricity from oil.

Not only is nuclear power one of the most prevalent sources of zero - carbon electricity, representing an estimated 1/3 of global clean energy generation, it is also seeing tremendous growth with 64 nuclear facilities under construction around the world.

Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2008 Report (Brussels: 2009), pp. 3, 56; Erik Shuster, Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants (Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory, January 2009); «Nuclear Dips in 2008,» World Nuclear News, 29 May 2009; 1 megawatt of installed wind capacity produces enough electricity to supply 300 homes from American Wind Energy Association, «U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone,» press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); number of homes calculated using average U.S. household size from U.S. Census Bureau, «2005 — 2007 American Community Survey 3 - Year Estimates — Data Profile Highlights,» at factfinder.census.gov / servlet / ACSSAFFFacts, viewed 9 April 2009, and population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & Country QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.

In order to estimate the revenues of the industries that were involved in fossil fuel production, transportation, refining, and electricity generation, I used the Fortune Global 500 list of the largest publicly - traded companies in 2008 (published in 2009).

A recent analysis from the Center for Global Development, for instance, estimates that if $ 10 billion were invested in renewable energy technology in sub-Saharan Africa, then 30 million would gain access to electricity.

According to a similar article recently posted on Yale University's environment360 website, Stan Cox estimates that global air conditioning consumes about 1 trillion kilowatthours of electricity each year, and that automotive air conditioners in the United States alone account for 7 - 10 billion gallons (26 to 38 billion liters) of gasoline used.

The total global GHG emissions accrued to lighting electricity consumption was estimated in 2005 by the IEA at 1,889 MtCO2 of which grid based lighting systems contribute to 1,528 MtCO2.

As you can see, Greenpeace is not used as a scientific reference as Laframboise implies, but instead as an example of the many different estimates of «current global installed peak capacity [of solar electricity]».

According to Digiconomist's Bitcoin Energy Consumption 2017 Index, Bitcoin's annual estimated electricity consumption is equivalent to 29.05 TWh or 13 % of the total global energy electricity consumption.