Sentences with phrase «fuel comes from renewable sources»

Yet the UK government continues to insist that fuel suppliers show that at least five per cent of their fuel comes from renewable sources, or risk being forced to pay a substitute amount of money.

Not exact matches

«That means the electricity to power every light, refrigerator and check out - lane comes from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels,» it states.

And he argued the nuclear plants» output is needed as a bridge fuel to help the state reach a goal of half of all New York's power coming from renewable sources by 2030.

The letter amounts to a defense of the Cuomo - backed Clean Energy Standard which is aimed at having half of the state's energy come from renewable sources of fuel by 2030.

Having the Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface ski centers join The Climate Reality Project's «I Am Snow 100 %» program is in line with Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, which requires that half of all electricity used in New York come from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels, by 2030, the governor's office said in a press release.

The approval of the natural gas - fired plant came at a time when the administration was generally attempting to move away from fossil fuel generation and toward renewable energy generation, per its Reforming Energy Vision, which seeks to make the energy grid more reliant on renewable sources and more efficient.

But by putting the targets into law and mandating a set of regulations — including requiring 35 percent of the country's electricity to come from clean sources by 2024; establishing a voluntary carbon market; developing incentives to promote renewable energy; phasing out fossil fuel subsidies; and forcing companies in the largest carbon polluting sectors to report their emissions — they said the results could be groundbreaking.

With Washington's large utilities required to generate 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020 and federal mandates requiring 30 percent of gasoline to come from alternative fuels, demand for bioenergy solutions will continue to climb.

We can then do the simple math of subtracting the energy available from renewable sources (now and into the near future) and what we're left with is how much energy needs to come from fossil fuels.

Since the majority of utility - supplied electricity comes from fossil fuel sources and is by no means «carbon neutral» your strategy needs to include a source of renewable energy.

Biomass is a renewable energy source not only because the energy in it comes from the sun, but also because biomass can re-grow over a relatively short period of time compared with the hundreds of millions of years that it took for fossil fuels to form.

S - 2314 requires that 2.5 % of kWh sold by power suppliers in New Jersey come from «Class I» renewable energy sources, which includes solar energy, wind energy, wave or tidal action, geothermal energy, landfill gas, anaerobic digestion, fuel cells using renewable fuels, as well as hydro of 3 MW or less.

However, the challenge of a full transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources is more daunting when it comes to petroleum.