Sentences with phrase «from electricity generation»

CO2 emissions from electricity generation fell by 4.9 percent last year.

Some 26 % of emissions come from electricity generation and 13 % from transportation.

In 2013, CO2 emissions from electricity generation accounted for 38 % of the total energy - related CO2 emitted.

Only about a third of worldwide CO2 emissions arise from electricity generation, with much of the remainder coming from heating, industrial processes and transportation.

Similar to residential and commercial activities, emissions from the industrial sector also come primarily from electricity generation and natural gas combustion, as the chart below illustrates.

But negative pricing could force some to release water by other means, without producing revenue from electricity generation.

Around a quarter of all carbon emissions come from electricity generation, and almost half of that is used by businesses.

That is roughly 70 times the U.S.'s total carbon emissions from electricity generation in 2009.

He said carbon pollution from the electricity generation sector accounts for 36 per cent of Australia's total greenhouse gas emissions.

The Government also aims to completely remove carbon from electricity generation by 2030, under plans outlined in the Electricity Generation Policy Statement (EGPS), which has just been released.

The Australian government has announced that greenhouse gas emissions fell 0.2 per cent in 2012, mostly due to lower greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity generation sector, despite growth in real GDP of 3.4 per cent over the same period.

Here too we see that California's in - state emissions from electricity generation rose from 33 to 44 million metric tonnes of carbon emissions between 2011 and 2015.

Among U.S. states, Ohio has the leading number of premature deaths from particulate matter from electricity generation.

All inherently acknowledge that growing U.S. oil and gas production can continue benefiting American consumers, businesses and manufacturers with affordable, reliable energy that supports economic growth and strengthens U.S. security — while playing the major role in U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from electricity generation fall to their lowest levels in nearly 30 years.

According to EPA, carbon pollution from electricity generation decreased by 16 percent from 2005 to 2012, a reduction that registers as roughly half of the 30 percent target mandated by the regulation.

Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from electricity generation totaled 1,925 million metric tons in 2015, the lowest since 1993 and 21 % below their 2005 level.

National Overview Emissions from electricity generation made up just 11 % of Canada's total in 2014.

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity is a coalition of leading companies from the electricity generation, transportation and coal production sectors, as well as other manufacturers and vendors.

The plentiful supply of domestically produced natural gas has also reduced our nation's greenhouse gas emissions and criteria air pollutant emissions chiefly from electricity generation.

Further, EIA says 63 percent of the decrease in CO2 emissions from electricity generation since 2005 have come from fuel switching to natural gas:

Combined heat and power generates electricity and uses the excess heat from electricity generation to heat digesters or adjacent buildings.

No doubt the initial emissions allocations will be extremely generous, and we won't see emissions from electricity generation stabilise until 2015 - 2020.

PM10 emissions from electricity generation increased in the Valley by 28 % during the last five years and PM2.5 (dangerous fine particle) emissions increased by 27 %.

France has the lowest CO2 emissions from electricity generation of any of the EU countries.

The report evaluates regional electricity grids across the United States based on the global warming emissions produced from electricity generation, and then compares the emissions generated by charging an EV with those produced by gasoline - powered vehicles.

The contribution to national GHG emissions from electricity generation in Canada is about a third of what it is in the US.

Nationally, however, Ontario's efforts to cut the amount of carbon pollution from electricity generation are more than offset by the growth in emissions from the oil sands, which are expected to triple by 2020 from 2005 levels.

And on this metric, California has done poorly: California's in - state emissions from electricity generation rose from 33 to 44 million metric tonnes of carbon emissions between 2011 and 2015.

It would have reduced wholesale natural gas prices to consumers by an estimated 5 %, the state's wholesale electricity costs for energy and capacity by an estimated 8 %, and New England greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation by an average of 7.2 million metric tons per year, Dalton's report added.

Minnesota's massive investment in wind power has reduced CO2 emissions from the electricity generation sector slightly, but that reduction has been below average compared with the nation as a whole.

Treasury modelling has over half of the early reductions coming from electricity generation.

(Interesting side note, this rate and also the absolute CO2 emission from electricity generation in NY state has declined substantially over the past 30 years — mostly due to a shift from coal to natural gas.)

The greenhouse gas initiative, or RGGI, put out a statement Thursday welcoming «Virginia's progress towards establishing a market - based program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation.»

Designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation, the CPF first appeared in George Osborne's budget speech in March 2011.

Designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation, the carbon price floor (CPF) first appeared in George Osborne's budget speech in March 2011.

More than 2 billion tons of that came from electricity generation — not surprising, considering that we burn fossil fuels for 70 percent of our electricity.

«This means that the mere existence of storage technology, which benefits both renewable and fossil fuel power generation, doesn't necessarily lead to lower carbon emissions from electricity generation.»

Emissions across nearly all sectors grew in 2013, with increased GHG emissions from electricity generation, more vehicle miles traveled on the nation's roadways and greater industrial production, according to the EPA.

«Canada's three largest cities — Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver — have some of the lowest carbon emissions from electricity generation in the world,» says Daniel Hoornweg, an associate professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology and a current U of T engineering PhD student.

As for «the responsibility for CO2», according to the EPA coal combustion represents about 39 percent of electricity generated in the USA, but accounts for 75 percent of the CO2 emissions from electricity generation, which accounts for 32 percent of total US emissions.

For example a post regarding the recent open letter from Hansen et al, advocating more research on nuclear technology specifically to address GHG emissions from electricity generation, might be an appropriate place for such discussions.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

Automobiles will by then almost certainly be battery powered, and we have the technology now to eliminate most emission from electricity generation and heating.