Sentences with phrase «fueled electricity generation by»
For example, a build rate of 61 new reactors per year could entirely replace current fossil fuel electricity generation by 2050.
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Interesting to see that China has said it might try to peak its emissions by around 2030 and reach 20 non fossil fuel electricity generation by 2025.
Not exact matches
As the Washington Post reported, natural gas is overtaking coal as the fossil fuel of choice for electricity generation — the report forecasts that by 2019, coal will provide 28 % of US electricity, whereas natural gas will make up 34 %.
Using lifecycle analysis, a study conducted by Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada found that while all forms of electricity generation have environmental impacts, solar PV technologies have fewer negative environmental impacts than traditional fossil - fuel - based electricity production.
Short - Term Energy Outlook (STEO) expects that electricity generation fueled by natural gas this summer (June, July, and August) will be lower than last summer, but it will continue to exceed Continue Reading
The economy is primarily driven by primary industry, natural resources and secondary industry including coal mining, processing and fossil - fuel power generation [8] for the National Electricity Market.
The technical advantage is that local generation eliminates the enormous losses of wasted heat and long transmission that consume more than half the energy used in electricity generation by fossil fuels or nuclear.
However, it is electricity consumption by microwave appliances that has the biggest impact on the environment, taking into account its whole life cycle, from production of fuels to generation of electricity.
Yet, the government has launched a pilot project to address the problem by capturing and storing the carbon dioxide (CO2) produced by using coal as a fuel for electricity generation at a power plant dubbed GreenGen.
Today, electricity generation is buffeted by numerous factors: access to fossil fuels, peak oil, nuclear security and proliferation, pollution, and climate change.
Alongside electricity generation, the transportation sector is the largest emitter of pollutants produced by the burning of fossil fuels.
Treated excrement from turkeys, chickens and other poultry, when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could replace approximately 10 percent of coal used in electricity generation, reducing greenhouse gases and providing an alternative energy source, according to a new study by Ben - Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers.
«(I) The Administrator shall determine the amount of fossil fuel - based electricity delivered at retail by each electricity local distribution company, and shall use appropriate emission factors to calculate carbon dioxide emissions associated with the generation of such electricity.
However, the NYT, to their credit, did cover the current efforts by the BLM to sabotage the expansion of solar thermal electricity generation in the U.S.: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/us/27solar.html — that would be the same BLM that has been working overtime to transfer public lands to fossil fuel interests for the past 8 years or so.
«I am struck by the lack of fundamental breakthroughs required for an abundant, clean energy future, whether in electricity generation from wind, coal (IGCC), ocean thermal, ocean wave, ocean tide, solar, nuclear, or liquids from coal - to - liquids, gas - to - liquids, biofuels, bio-engineered fuels, and so on.»
Mr. Pickens aims to address the energy conundrum and wean the United States from foreign oil by speeding development of, among other things, wind power for electricity generation and natural gas as transport fuel.
It's a grand vision for essentially being carbon - free by 2050, Producing electricity from clean generation sources including nuclear, solar, wind, hydro, and with any remaining fossil fuel plants hooked up to carbon capture and storage systems.
By 2040, the corresponding reduction is 30 %, as continued growth in electricity demand leads to additional generation from fossil fuel - fired sources.
By displacing electricity from fossil - fuel based generation it also helps to prevent the emission of various air pollutants.
United States, Energy Information Administration, «Reference Case Projections for Electricity Capacity and Generation by Fuel,» International Energy Outlook 2010, Appendix H, p. 257, Accessed December 14, 2010.
United States, Energy Information Administration, «Reference Case Projections for Electricity Capacity and Generation by Fuel Tables (2007 - 2035).»
A low - cost emissions - free source of electricity generation, wind energy will be essential if the province is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent in 2050 as clean electricity will be needed to substitute for fossil fuels in transportation, industries and buildings.
The IEA estimates subsidies to fossil fuels that are consumed directly by end - users or consumed as inputs to electricity generation.
Since, the solar power is Green House Gas (GHG) emissions free, the power generated will replace anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases estimated to be approximately 93,022 tonnes of CO2e per year, thereon displacing 95,145 MWh / year amount of electricity from the generation - mix of power plants connected to the INDIAN GRID, which is mainly dominated by fossil fuel based power plant.
The EPA uses a formula of «CO2 emissions from fossil fuel - fired power plants in pounds (lbs) divided by state electricity generation from fossil - fuel fired power plants and certain low - or zero - emitting power sources in megawatt hours (MWh)» to calculate each state target.
Together, replacing fossil fuels in electricity generation with renewable sources of energy, switching to plug - in hybrid cars, going to all - electric railways, banning deforestation, and sequestering carbon by planting trees and improving soil management will drop carbon dioxide emissions in 2020 more than 80 percent below today's levels.
Figure 37 Electricity Generation by Fuel, 1973 to 2010 Source: Energy Balances of OECD Countries, IEA / OECD Paris, 1998, and country submission.
While the ideal in regard to energy and the environment would be greatly reduced energy generation and consumption, replacement of fossil - fuelled electricity by renewables like wind is next best.
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.
«(aa) the number 20 multiplied by the number of tons of carbon dioxide equivalent greenhouse gas emissions (including direct emissions from fuel combustion, process emissions, and indirect emissions from the generation of electricity used to produce the output of the sector) of the sector based on data described in subparagraph (D); by
Wind and solar generation are qualitatively different from electricity generated by fossil fuels, nuclear energy, or hydropower.
I believe the large gains will be achieved by a worldwide rollout of nuclear power to replace fossil fuels for electricity generation.
The AB 32 year 2020 greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets (year 2020 levels reduced to year 1990 measured levels) could be achieved by primarily addressing electricity generation and industrial sector greenhouse gas emission reduction efforts through increased use of renewable energy, energy efficiency and fuel substitution efforts.
I believed the share of the target that needed to be achieved from fossil fuel use could be achieved by nuclear power largely replacing coal for electricity generation and natural gas largely replacing petrol and diesel for land transport (including buses, long haul transport and cars).
The jump, according to the report, is partially driven by the following trends: ``... the write - down of fossil fuel assets; the inevitable wave of nuclear plants due to be retired; the exposing of hypothetical forecasts of 100 years of shale gas; and the decline of large, centralized electricity generation.»
For example, the SEP calls for reducing liquid fuel consumption by 2030 and increasing renewable energy's share of electricity generation to 8 % by 2010.
The Lugar - Graham plan achieves savings in electricity and oil use by requiring higher mileage for vehicles, greater efficiency in power generation, increased use of alternative fuels and new standards for energy use in buildings.
Due to an increase in demand for natural gas for space and water heating, and limitations imposed by natural gas pipeline constraints, electricity generation from gas was unable to scale up, and the burden was transferred to oil as dual fuel generators switched over.
From 2005 to 2016, fossil - fuel electricity generation declined by about 9 %, while non-fossil (non-carbon) electricity generation rose by 25 %.
It is expected that consumers will be able to choose electricity from renewable sources instead of fossil fuel - powered thermal (along with its problems in terms of climate change) or nuclear power generation (whose great risks again became evident with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, caused by the tsunami after the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011).
Unfortunately, nuclear generation is largely being replaced by fossil fuel - fired electricity, sending U.S. emissions in the wrong direction.
Global warming is the recent rapid warming of the earth, caused by the human activities of deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) in industry, transport and the generation of electricity.
-- The assessment shall contain an evaluation and analysis of electricity generation facilities that are constructed in accordance with different plant designs (including different cooling technologies such as water, air, and hybrid systems, and technologies designed to minimize carbon dioxide releases) based on the fuel used by the facility, including --
By 1990, changes in the regulatory structure and legislation affecting the electricity industry started providing more opportunities for substitution between petroleum and natural gas as a fuel for peaking generation.
This report analyzes the competition between coal, natural gas and petroleum used for electricity generation by estimating what is referred to by economists as the elasticity of substitution among the fuels.
PHEVs can reduce direct emissions at the vehicle tailpipe and indirect emissions at the fuel source when they recharge by electricity produced by a portfolio of efficient combustion, non-emitting or renewable generation.
As seen in the electricity generation sector, these policies are likely to have a direct and significant impact on the fuel choices made by individual countries, including a shift away from coal as CO2 costs rise.
You might like to ponder what has changed since I wrote a letter on 16 Feb 1979 quoting the Chairman of the U.K. Central Electricity Generating Board, Mr R England, who wrote ``... the only proven way in which the predicted shortage of fossil fuels can be counterbalanced in the field of electricity generation is by increasing out investment in nuclear power... In view of the drawbacks involved, the CEGB is not carrying out any work of its own on harnessing solar energy... it is too early to say whether geothermal energy is feasible, or what the likely cost would bElectricity Generating Board, Mr R England, who wrote ``... the only proven way in which the predicted shortage of fossil fuels can be counterbalanced in the field of electricity generation is by increasing out investment in nuclear power... In view of the drawbacks involved, the CEGB is not carrying out any work of its own on harnessing solar energy... it is too early to say whether geothermal energy is feasible, or what the likely cost would belectricity generation is by increasing out investment in nuclear power... In view of the drawbacks involved, the CEGB is not carrying out any work of its own on harnessing solar energy... it is too early to say whether geothermal energy is feasible, or what the likely cost would be...»
RPSs require that a certain amount of electricity generation be produced by renewable fuels.
As we have pointed out just once or twice — the need for 100 % of wind power capacity to be backed up 100 % of the time by fossil fuel generation sources means that wind power can not and will never reduce CO2 emissions in the electricity sector (see our posts here and here and here and here and here and here and here).