Sentences with phrase «fueling electricity generation»

Now, renewable energy's role in fueling electricity generation also is contributing to lower CO2 emissions.

«The carbon floor price mechanism presents an excellent opportunity to raise finance to support a new generation of low carbon fossil fuel electricity generation, using carbon capture and storage (CCS).

Asia - Pacific nations are leading a historic global build - out in coal - fueled electricity generation.

Total non-fossil fuel electricity generation with (solid red line) and without the drought (dashed red line).

• nuclear power will be substantially cheaper than fossil fuel electricity generation • cheap electricity substitutes for some gas for heating and oil for land transport (as in electric vehicles and low - cost electricity producing energy carriers).

The reason both countries, who have large readily available coal reserves are so heavily reliant on fossil fueled electricity generation is because, without carbon pricing, it's slightly cheaper than nuclear power.

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

From 2005 to 2016, fossil - fuel electricity generation declined by about 9 %, while non-fossil (non-carbon) electricity generation rose by 25 %.

However, apparent cost is the constraint that prevents nuclear and renewable energies from fully supplanting fossil fuel electricity generation.

I believe that data can be used to address the externalities of fossil fueled electricity generation.

For example, a build rate of 61 new reactors per year could entirely replace current fossil fuel electricity generation by 2050.

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.

Executive Summary A transition from conventional fossil fueled electricity generation to clean energy offers several benefits — particularly the growth of new clean energy industries and associated jobs, diversification of energy supply, and reductions in the public health and environmental damages (especially...

I am convinced that the greatest single threat facing the world in the early twenty - first century is climate change and one thing we can do to greatly slow climate change is to replace fossil fuel electricity generation with renewable energy as quickly as possible.

The world must replace its fossil fuelled electricity generation with renewables such as wind.

Fossil - fuelled electricity generation is profitable today thanks to past subsidies from government.

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 %.

The fuel has already replaced oil as a petrochemical feedstock, home heating fuel and in electricity generation.

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.

Alberta and Saskatchewan stand out in Canada with power grids still heavily reliant upon fossil fuels, but both recently released targets for significantly more electricity generation from renewable sources.

Franklin Templeton obtains electricity from fuel cells installed at our San Mateo headquarters (1 MW generation capacity).

The assumption is that the cost of transitioning to renewable energy from fossil fuels will either be negligible or unnecessary (since electricity generation would have largely transitioned to renewables).

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Power Plant Operations Report The generation fuel mix of electricity in the Northeast Census division of the United States has shifted dramatically over the past Continue Reading

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

As an energy investor, I'd rather be in a growing renewable energy business that's taking market share in electricity generation than a fossil fuel business that's losing market share every year.

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 need of fuel for power has risen in recent times as the country's electricity generation mix has tilted more to thermal power, which this year is expected to account for about 70 percent of the total power generation capacity of the country.

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.

He was speaking ahead of Wednesday's Second Reading of the Energy Bill, where he wants targets to phase out fossil fuels and to decarbonise electricity generation.

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.

«We found that having a patent in storage technology made companies more likely to apply for another patent, either in renewable electricity generation technology or in efficiency - improving technology in fossil fuels.»

«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.»

Alongside electricity generation, the transportation sector is the largest emitter of pollutants produced by the burning of fossil fuels.

Examples of indirect use which require energy harvesting are electricity generation through wind turbines or photovoltaic cells, or production of fuels such as ethanol from biomass.

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.

However parity with fossil fuel generated electricity is not the end point of PV generation - it is the economic start.

Meanwhile, the fuel cell variant would feature a smaller battery for energy - storage purposes, as GM's next - generation, high - energy density fuel cell stack will be able to provide sufficient quantities of electricity to the motor on its own.

However, as the UK has shifted focus from coal - and oil - fired electricity generation to being more reliant on natural gas as the fuel of choice (irrespective of wind, solar, nuclear and other alternatives), this makes the electricity grid somewhat vulnerable to accidental and incidental problems with the flow of data and to malicious manipulation for the sake of sabotage, criminal or online military / terrorist action.

The most promising of these options include renewable sources of a variety of types, advanced fossil - fuel technologies that can capture and sequester carbon, and hydrogen - powered fuel cells for vehicle propulsion and dispersed electricity generation.

«The use of waste heat for power production would allow additional electricity generation without any added consumption of fossil fuels,» said Bruce E. Logan, Evan Pugh Professor and Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering.

But in the Midwest and South, where coal fuels the bulk of electricity generation, a hybrid produces less CO2 than an electric car.

«(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.

carbon price floor tax: a tax on fossil fuels used in electricity generation.

Carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere have increased due to the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation, transportation, industrial processes, and space and water heating.

In the United States, wood and wood - derived fuels accounted for nearly 40 million megawatt - hours of electricity generation in 2013, just under 1 percent of the U.S. annual total, according to federal energy data.

As a result one long - standing criticism of renewable energy may no longer apply, namely that mandating increased use of renewable energy for electricity generation will be more costly in the long run than sticking with fossil fuel energy.

Plug - in hybrids benefit from the more efficient use of fossil fuels in electricity generation even now and so have lower emissions than internal combustion engine cars, and if they get their juice from renewables, emissions would be very low indeed.

It represents a new generation of concept car with electric hybrid propulsion where electricity is generated from hydrogen and oxygen (air) in a Toyota designed fuel cell.