Sentences with phrase «fuel investments less»

Renewable energy sources like wind and solar continue to drop in price, thus making fossil fuel investments less practical.

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The automaker has the least fuel - efficient fleet in the U.S., and it's poured less investment into technology like autonomous driving than bigger rivals.

The World Energy Outlook 2016, released last week, is just one among an increasing line of studies showing how nations need to slow and, ultimately, phase out investment in new fossil fuel supply infrastructure — from oil fields and pipelines to coal mines — if they are serious about keeping warming to 2C or less.

The buyer of a new long - haul truck in 2027 would recoup the investment in fuel - efficient technology in less than two years through fuel savings.

When asked about hydrogen as a practical fuel, Bereisa told us, «There's a lot more hydrogen production around than people think, so if the country wanted to move to a hydrogen economy, it could get done pretty quickly and with a lot less investment than we're already seeing in the current stimulus package.»

If they're planning to launch it here, a good investment is required to downgrade the Euro VI - compliant 4.0 L twin - turbo V8 TDI to BS - IV, so as to run on the less clean BS - IV diesel fuel sold in local fuel stations.

GM officials said cutting back on less successful fuel - efficient systems will allow the company to focus on new technologies — including the plug - in series system hybrid underlying the Chevy Volt — which will require a significant investment.

«Fueled by expectations of rising long - term interest rates, our inverse Treasury ProShares have garnered more than $ 7 billion since launching less than three years ago,» said Michael L. Sapir, Chairman and CEO of ProShare Advisors LLC, ProShares» investment advisor.

The transition from deeply rooted energy systems based on burning fossil fuels to new norms emitting ever less of this gas — here and in China — is seen by many as requiring a sustained energy quest including much greater direct government investment on the frontiers of relevant technologies (batteries, photovoltaics, superconductivity, photosynthesis).]

Those include distribution - level efforts like tree trimming and automation, outage recovery efforts, and investments to improve customer resilience, they wrote, while the onsite fuel supplies championed by the coal and nuclear sector are seen as less beneficial.

Investment in energy supply, meanwhile, would stay more or less level: fossil fuel investment would decline, but this would be offset by a 150 % increase in renewable energy supply investmenInvestment in energy supply, meanwhile, would stay more or less level: fossil fuel investment would decline, but this would be offset by a 150 % increase in renewable energy supply investmeninvestment would decline, but this would be offset by a 150 % increase in renewable energy supply investmentinvestment by 2050.

«We're hoping that not only shows the risk but moves their new and future investments into something less fossil fuel orientated,» she said.

The proposed increase [to Oregon's Business Energy Tax Credit] would cost the state an estimated $ 6.5 million in the 2009 - 11 budget cycle but could also translate to more business investment and less reliance on fossil fuels, Michael Grainey, the state's energy director, told The Oregonian.

For another, it increases mitigation costs: failing to act now makes it more difficult to change because it allows additional investment in fossil fuel based infrastructure in developed and especially less developed countries.

A recent analysis by Patrick Geddes, chief investment officer and partner of investment firm Aperio Group, found that even a portfolio that excluded all fossil fuel companies would incur significantly less financial risk than would the practice of active stock selection.

The availability of a given fuel is of little global consequence if its energy return on investment is less than unity, though there may be specific reasons to use it in particular situations.

PFIs must cease by 2020 direct, indirect, ancillary infrastructure and policy support for upstream and downstream fossil fuels, GHG - intensive projects, nuclear, large bioenergy and hydropower when more cost - effective and less damaging alternatives exist; All PFI investments must meet strict environmental and social development criteria and be assessed through a pro-poor, inclusive, climate - resilient and gender - responsive lens;

But with mainstream banks questioning the competitiveness of fossil fuels, and with the Governor of the Bank of England describing most fossil fuels as unburnable, divestment (or at least diversification into clean energy investment) is looking less - and-less like gesture politics, and more like a sound plan to protect ourselves from future shocks.

Harvard's decision comes less than a week after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) sounded the alarm for immediate action on climate change and the necessity for keeping much of known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, a reality that will affect investments in fossil fuels.

A study by Delta says that shaving system «peaks» reduces the need for peaking plants which are often less efficient and / or use more polluting fuels, to run; it can also enable delay or prevention of the need for investment in new network capacity.

«In addition to the benefit of replacing more polluting, less sustainable forms of energy, investment in clean energy can provide corporate electricity buyers with a hedge against fuel price fluctuation,» says Apple.