Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel capacity»

Among the concerns bubbling to the surface in the last week or so are: (1) Renewables might not be doing such a great job of replacing fossil fuel capacity after all, (2) Energy storage might be fomenting yet another carbon emissions problem instead of solving one, and (3) Renewables might be making electricity rates go up, not down.

If the estimated $ 46 billion of large hydro investment is included in the renewable energy total, then renewables investment is clearly ahead of both gross and net investment in fossil fuel capacity.

Of perhaps even more significance was that in both years more money was invested in new renewable power capacity than in new fossil fuel capacity, indicating a tipping point has been reached.

In 2014 Enel announced plans to cut off 13GW of its fossil fuel capacity in Italy by 2020 and the company also cancelled two planned coal plants in Italy and Chile.

So the UK uses more fossil fuel and are increasing or planning to increase our fossil fuel capacity.

Extraordinarily, the modellers also anticipate new fossil fuel capacity to be built from 2025 on — even under the current RET target — with coal coming online in following years.

In more than 30 countries, electricity produced through solar and wind energy is the same price or cheaper than any new fossil fuel capacity, the report, released last Wednesday, noted.

But even then they still need approximately half of the existing fossil fuel capacity (approx 30 GW) in tip - top state stand by to provide backup four to five times every four years in order to prevent one of those crippling, killing, bankrupting, all out black outs (Or should I say green outs).

In 2013, for the first time, the world added more low - carbon electricity capacity than fossil fuel capacity.

Not exact matches

The world added more solar power capacity than any other type of energy in 2017, outpacing all fossil fuels, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Solar power still amounts to less than 1 % of the nation's electrical - generating capacity — coal produces about 40 % — and its proportion will stay in the low single digits until it becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.

Natural gas turbines replaced solar power capacity during the August 21st solar eclipse, highlighting the carbon - light fossil fuel's emerging role as a gateway «green» energy in the coming decades, according to a report by Fortune released before the sun took its proverbial nap.

And if that's the case it makes little economic or ecological sense to spend billions of dollars building new fossil fuel infrastructure and increasing capacity, particularly when that infrastructure has a working life span and expected financial return that well exceeds thirty years.

«We'll need renewables, new nuclear, fossil fuels with CCS, and the cables to hook them all up to the grid as a large slice of our current generating capacity shuts down.»

Industrial society raised the carrying capacity again by exploiting fossil fuels, not least to produce artificial fertiliser.

We achieved that by tapping the energy in fossil fuels, in the process turning a carrying capacity problem into a climate change problem.

That capacity could come from renewable resources like wind and solar — or from fossil fuels.

Those steps include deriving 40 % of electric power capacity from fossil fuel — free sources by 2030, reducing its emissions intensity by 33 % to 35 % by 2030, and expanding forests to create a carbon sink capable of absorbing 2.5 billion to 3 billion tons of carbon from the atmosphere.

You show installed fossil fuel and renewable generating capacity on one graph as if they are interchangeable.

If production ultimately began, that would add another fossil fuel to the world's energy mix when humanity is already baking the planet beyond its capacity to cope.

It has sometimes been argued that the earth's biosphere (in large part, the terrestrial biosphere) may have the capacity to sequestor much of the increased carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere associated with human fossil fuel burning.

Feed - in tariffs would also have the effect of lowering the consumer's costs for renewable energy, which would only grow cheaper over time, as more and more manufacturing capacity was built — because under equivalent economies of scale, renewables are definitely cheaper than fossil fuels.

Feed - in tariffs on fossil energy imports to the United States would surely end up reducing demand for fossil fuels as more and more renewable capacity became available — which is exactly what you would want to see happen if you are serious about slowing the rate of global warming.

We have been consuming natural capital far faster than it regenerates, whether it's fossil fuels, fish, forests, wetlands, or the capacity of the oceans and other sinks to take up greenhouse gases.

I think that your expectation about demands for compensation for «premature» retirements of fossil - fueled generation capacity is probably correct.

Then comes a passage that speaks potently of how access to fossil fuels has been an incredible boon, and the source of the prosperity that has allowed us to build the capacity to observe and comprehend planet - scale changes, but also helped accelerate and intensify our impacts on the planet's biological and climate systems:

and just maybe, without abundant fossil fuels the human carrying capacity of the earth has been egregiously exceeded.

Concerns about rising fossil fuel prices, energy security, and greenhouse gas emissions support the development of new nuclear generating capacity.

-- China in 2012 increased electricity output more from non-hydro renewables than from all fossil - fueled and nuclear sources, and in 2013, added more PV capacity than the US had added since it invented PVs in 1954.

Consequently with the dramatic decrease in efficiency of fuel burn in the standby fossil fuel generators there is sweet FA practical reduction in CO2 emissions with the introduction of wind and solar power generation systems particularly when the energy costs of the producing and building the so called renewable energy systems are added to the grossly inefficient running of the ready to go to full generation capacity in minutes, fossil fuel powered standby generators which in many cases must be kept running at low or zero power generation to be able to come on line in minutes when the so called renewable energy systems fail to produce power,

«It turns out, to get on a trajectory to hit 450 ppm, we're going to need to turn off most of our fossil fuel energy, end deforestation, and build about 11.5 new terawatts of clean energy capacity by 2033 (30 years out from the 2003 baseline).»

So we are back to your «plan B» of «buying more time» by adding new fossil fuel fired power plants when new capacity is required (regardless of what James E. Hansen thinks of this option).

The utility operates 70 fossil fuel units that make up 21,766 megawatts of the utility's 25,254 - megawatt generating capacity.

[7] Indeed, what they are advocating for is construction of vast new fossil fueled power plant capacity as a way to provide cheap CO2 to facilitiate extraction of more oil.

A report from groups including the United Nations environmental arm and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) shows renewable energy installations were responsible for 61 % of the world's net power capacity additions in 2017, more than double the new - builds from fossil fuel - powered generation.

By comparison, a net of about 73 GW of fossil fuel generation came online in 2017 — 121 GW of new coal and gas - fired power capacity, less 48 GW of gas and coal that were retired.

This acceleration was due to a strong El Niño event — which triggered droughts and reduced the capacity of forests, vegetation and the oceans to absorb CO2 — as well as human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels.

Explore our energy resources data: identify national and regional fossil fuel reserves, renewables installed capacity, rank top producing countries and value resources» potential in countries around the world.

«Wind turbines must be backed up by the equivalent capacity of conventional fossil — fired power stations, thus largely negating any fuel savings or reductions in CO2 emissions.»

Question 4: what would be the atmospheric CO2 consequences of an Apollo - like project to replace 25 % of America's fossil fuel powered electric generating capacity by PV power in 10 years?

Energy storage avoids curtailment and it's the only supply - side strategy that can make a balancing capacity of fossil fuel plants redundant, at least in theory.

This irony — the fact that the burning of fossil fuels is so radically changing our climate that it is getting in the way of our capacity to burn fossil fuels — did not stop the passengers of Flight 3935 from reembarking and continuing their journeys.

Although the balancing of renewable power sources with fossil fuels is widely regarded as a temporary fix that's not suited for larger shares of renewable energy, most other technological strategies (described below) can only partially reduce the need for balancing capacity.

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

With a share of 100 % renewable energy sources and 12 times the current grid capacity, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants can be reduced to 15 % of the total annual electricity consumption, which represents the maximum possible benefit of transmission for Europe.

It basically provides a balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants.

The other major complaint of the fossil fuel industry is that its current capacity will be sidelined.

The capacity of corn ethanol to offset U.S. fossil fuel use is extremely limited.

Internationally, the energy consumption of China, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico will lead to a major global demand increase, which is likely to be met in large part from fossil fuels,» warning that the capacity to deal with these very substantial potential emissions «must urgently be developed.»

For a power grid based on 100 % solar and wind power, with no energy storage and assuming interconnection at the national European level only, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants needs to be just as large as peak electricity demand.