Sentences with phrase «fossil fuel generation»

Investment in renewables capacity was roughly double that in fossil fuel generation; the corresponding new capacity from renewables was equivalent to 55 per cent of all new power, the highest to date.

And most energy markets, regulatory frameworks and business models are still designed for fossil fuel generation, and remain ill - adapted to the special characteristics of renewables and energy demand reduction.

The report is required to include the percentage net peak load energy from fossil fuel generation and the commission's efforts to reduce it.

But ten years later, the price would be four per cent lower than it will be under continued fossil fuel generation.

Although the new energy is just 2.4 % of nationwide electricity generation, it represents a 3.6 % drop in total fossil fuel generation.

The decision means that the cap on bidding prices will need to be raised to cater for more expensive fossil fuel generation.

«They provide clean air, they prevent fossil fuel generation and you ought to pay them for that if you want to keep them around,» he said.

And it is ironic given that the government provides a $ 600 million subsidy to the cost of delivering the state's largely fossil fuel generation to regional users.

High discount rates make nuclear and renewable energy relatively less viable and fossil fuels generation relatively more viable.

EU member states can now support fossil fuel generation, through so - called capacity markets, the Commission said on Wednesday updating its state aid rules.

Third, governments worldwide forged an historic climate agreement in Paris that will drive the global phase - out of fossil fuel generation over decades — and increase the demand for the technologies that can replace it.

STT has focused on the fact that industrial scale wind power does not — and will never — reduce CO2 emissions simply because it is intermittent; being delivered at crazy, random intervals, such that 100 % of its capacity must be backed up 100 % of the time by fossil fuel generation sources (see our post here).

This would come as no surprise to the industry, which as been foreshadowing such a scenario since the start of the year, and it makes it pretty much official: There is no need for any new fossil fuel generation over the next decade, and wind farms will dominate Australia's new build in the years to come.

SACE staff were heavily involved in the formation of the 2015 IRP and encourage TVA staff to update cost and performance assumptions that better reflect the declining costs and improved performance of current, as well as future, renewable energy generation resources as well as the increasing cost and volatility of fossil fuel generation resources.

Because of the specific fossil fuel generation mix we use in Michigan, we have emissions factors slightly higher than the national average.

However, because of the specific fossil fuel generation mix (heavy on coal dependency) we use in Michigan, emissions are slightly higher than the national average per megawatt hour of electricity around 1,472 pounds per MWh.

♦ «The installed capacity of wind power preserves fossil fuel generation to back up its electricity generation.

AEMO says the combination of lower demand and increasing renewable generation means there will be no need for new baseload fossil fuel generation in the next decade.

The rest of the auction, which cleared at the record low figure of # 6.95 / kW, was dominated by existing fossil fuel generation, predominantly coal - fired and CCGT plants.

Her plan is based entirely on other means of achieving the target - even though wind is by far the lowest cost form of renewable energy, and solar is likely to become cheaper by 2020 with continued support to the point where it competes directly against fossil fuel generation.

Instead, Dominion's latest integrated resource plan reveals plans for more fossil fuel generation and increasing greenhouse gas emissions over the next fifteen years.

«My idea of a carbon tax would be to help fund clean fossil fuel research and development, not to fund the government, not to punish fossil fuel generation, not to manipulate fuel choice,» Cramer said.

Its possible to completely convert fossil fuels generation to wind and solar, or hydro etc, and upgrade lines networks for about 1.5 % of a countries gdp per year, spread over approximately 20 years.

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.

An APS press release from June 1, 2016 says it is requesting $ 3.6 billion in upgrades and maintenance for the grid; and then lists $ 500M for Ocotillo gas plant refurbishing, plus $ 400M for the 1,636 MW Four Corners coal plant, but rate case testimony by APS general manager of fossil fuel generation John Lucas states that APS will spend $ 435 million on pollution control (Selective Catalytic Reduction or SCR) for Four Corners.

The remaining generation mix was designed to keep nuclear and imported hydropower at the Baseline Scenario levels, with fossil fuel generation dispatched to meet the remaining load.

As renewable energy displaces high - carbon fossil fuel generation, cleaner electricity can replace petroleum and natural gas in transportation and heating by fueling electric vehicles and heat pumps.

As grid ruinable electricity sources, like wind and solar, can not be regulated for demand but they have priority in supplying the grid, they added a new level of control to the grid, a control that throttles the simplicity and efficiency gains of fossil fuel generation whilst adding considerable complexity to grid control.

This will leave room for exceptions that meet particularly acute energy access challenges for which countries request financing for fossil fuel generation projects, particularly if these countries are very low emitters with low projected growth in energy demand.

The misaligned projects that we identified usually had a strong development rationale outlined in the project documents, but the high lock - in risk associated with fossil fuel generation raises concerns about the ability to limit temperature rise to well below 2 °C.

On - site fossil fuel generation currently accounts for around 10 % of AB InBev's total electricity consumption and the company will explore options for transitioning this to renewable power in the future.

As a result, two - thirds of all new capacity added through 2040 comes from renewables, as opposed to traditional fossil fuel generation.

Some in the south - west had their MLF increased due to lower fossil fuel generation.

Pope and Shah point out that for the developing world, the price difference is even greater, because new distributed renewable resources can reduce the need for building the transmission infrastructure that would be required with centralized fossil fuel generation.

Bringing together different powerful solar manufacturing technologies and giving them flesh and bone in Superhero form, the story of solar's battle against established fossil fuel generation, like coal, oil, and gas, is depicted in vivid color.

Fossil fuel generation falls from 85 per cent to 64 per cent, but most of this is at the expense of gas, because of the removal of the carbon price and high gas prices.

-- Currently requires back - up through conventional fossil fuel generation, such as NG combustion turbines, making the net GHG emission reduction quite small.

The German energy agency, DENA, has acknowledged the importance of including efficient and responsive fossil fuel generation in future plans.

Individually many people value cheap fossil fuel generation.