Sentences with phrase «future electricity generation»

For countries still considering future electricity generation needs, rapidly deployed renewables increasingly offer the best option in terms of cost.

Not exact matches

Energy Future's power generation and retail electricity business were separated from Oncor and emerged from bankruptcy last year.

Energy Future Holdings Corp. manages a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries consisting of TXU Energy, a competitive electricity retailer, Luminant, a competitive power generation business, including mining, wholesale marketing and trading, and construction, and Oncor, a regulated electric distribution and transmission business.

The latter has set itself against the development of any new nuclear capacity, but trying to work out how far that will dictate the future of electricity generation draws us into a complex area of the current devolution settlement.

Turbines shaped not just the future of shipping; their impact on electricity generation changed our lives.

«We looked at companies that had been granted patents in electricity generation technologies and determined the probability that they would apply for future patents,» Lazkano said.

In the 1950s, nuclear power began to be used for commercial electricity generation as well as to drive submarines, navy ships and icebreakers, and people spoke glowingly of future nuclear - powered trains and aircraft.

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

As with his energy - waste figure, Lomborg has a reference for this improbably precise number, in the form of a 1996 «Resources for the Future» report that reviews and summarizes a number of studies of the social (including environmental) costs of electricity generation.6 Consulting the reference is instructive.

Electricity generation and distribution infrastructure in the Western United States must be «climate - proofed» to diminish the risk of future power shortages, according to research by two Arizona State University engineers.

The report, «Beyond Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Assessment of Regional Supply and Demand Conditions Affecting the Future of Renewable Energy in the West,» compares the cost of renewable electricity generation (without federal subsidy) from the West's most productive renewable energy resource areas — including any needed transmission and integration costs — with the cost of energy from a new natural gas - fired generator built near the customers it serves.

This briefing launched a UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) report on the cost of offshore wind relative to other means of electricity generation, examining recent rises and likely future costs.

«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.»

Now, some readers will think this is far - fetched, but I think that in the not - too - distant future the day will come when 100 percent of new electricity generation capacity added to the USA's electric grid is wind and solar.

Non-hydro renewables have not managed to do so to date in any large electricity grid, (hydro can not help; its capacity growth is limited so it will decrease its share of global electricity generation over future decades).

Why is it that Geothermal Electricity generation and Geothermal heating and cooling of structures is never mentioned in the future energy mix.

«Wind energy is well positioned to help Ontario achieve its Climate Change Action Plan goals, to increase the affordability of electricity generation in Ontario, and to protect supply reliability at a time when there are growing risks to future electricity supply on the horizon.

(Originally published on SolarLove.org) The future in which power company customers transitioning to solar electricity generation can choose to either maintain grid connection or cost - effectively generate off - grid has arrived.

«From the enquiries TransGrid has received, Northern NSW has the potential to supply an additional 1200 Mega Watts of wind generation into the National Electricity Market in the future,» he said.

However, Australia's electricity system will require low - carbon generation sources to meet future global emissions reduction targets.

Far from confusing the issue, that statement puts a spotlight on the future links between transportation energy use and electricity generation.

The Harmony goal, put forward on behalf of the nuclear industry by World Nuclear Association, is a vision of a future energy system where nuclear energy supplies 25 % of global electricity demand by 2050 as part of a low - carbon generation mix, which would require 1000 GW of new nuclear build.

Distributed Generation in Liberalised Electricity Markets also looks ahead to a future where government policies and further technological developments could lead to a substantial share of electricity being produced by distributed gGeneration in Liberalised Electricity Markets also looks ahead to a future where government policies and further technological developments could lead to a substantial share of electricity being produced by distributed Electricity Markets also looks ahead to a future where government policies and further technological developments could lead to a substantial share of electricity being produced by distributed electricity being produced by distributed generationgeneration.

Future generations will damn us for our cavalier attitude toward the length of day and our ignorant and wanton manipulation of it by converting Earth's rotational energy into electricity to power our automobiles.

In comments we recently submitted, NRDC, other environmental groups, consumer advocates, customers, and electricity generation and supply companies detailed numerous errors in the ISO's assumptions, including its assumptions about future growth in gas and electricity demand, energy efficiency, and renewable energy, which skew the study results toward a grid that appears more susceptible to fuel security risks.

On September 14, 2017, academics, policy makers, representatives of Independent System Operators / Regional Transmission Organizations and other stakeholders engaged in a discussion of the future of electricity markets over the next two decades, with an emphasis on the potential for high penetrations of zero and low marginal cost generation, and various options for organizing wholesale electricity transactions in the face of rapid technological change.

Peter Lang has written at length on this subject and on the push toward the use of renewables instead of coal for the future generation of electricity in Western economies, which has often been the subject of debate on Judith's blog.

Therefore, a few assumptions were made to determine future adoption: biogas represents around 20 percent of total electricity generation from bioenergy worldwide, and biogas from landfills covered within this solution represents 30 percent of total biogas.

MW: Well, I don't know about intimidate, but I think we have to recognise that what's on the checklist of a mayor in a city where a third of the population don't yet have access to electricity, or at least a form of electricity, and maybe 10 - 20 % are living in slum housing, trying to save the world for the benefit of future generations isn't top of mind.

The Electricity Generation from solar energy is the key to a sustainable and resourceful future for the generations to come.

Each year, PJM holds an auction to make sure enough electricity generation will be available three years in the future to meet projected peak needs plus a margin of safety for the electric grid in Ohio and all or part of a dozen other states, plus the District of Columbia.

As a result, even in a future with no Clean Power Plan, natural gas and renewables produce much more electricity generation in this year's AEO than in last year's projections.

Thus, when people today buy electricity from coal - fired power plants, or fill their cars with conventional gasoline, they are unwittingly setting in motion damages that will strike future generations.

However, given that the United States holds the world's largest estimated recoverable reserves of coal, coal - burning power plants will continue to be a major source of our nation's electricity generation for the foreseeable future.

On - site fossil fuel generation currently accounts for around 10 % of AB InBev's total electricity consumption and the company will explore options for transitioning this to renewable power in the future.

Scottish Power argues that under current market rules if a DSR CMU (Capacity Market Unit - «a unit of electricity generation capacity or electricity demand reduction that can then be put forward in a future Capacity Market auction» according to the government definition), consisting of energy storage, is located behind the meter (BTM) it will not be subject to duration de-rating.

Future CO2 emissions and electricity generation from proposed coal - fired power plants in India Christine Shearer, Robert Fofrich, and Steven J. Davis Earth's Future April 2017

In support of the 2009 Integrated Energy Policy Report (2009 IEPR), the California Energy Commission (Energy Commission) staff will conduct a workshop to receive comments on draft results from a study on the present and future costs of electricity generation from central station renewable energy facilities and other generation sources.

A new study in the journal Energy Economics by our own Martin Ross examines how changes in market trends and technology costs are likely to affect electricity generation in the United States in the context of possible future carbon taxes.

But the issues of relevance here are: (a) whether you can have enough of it to avoid building more coal (current situation in Germany says «no»); (b) whether you can have enough of it to displace current coal; (c) whether you can have, store, and distribute, enough of it to meet future energy growth (especially in the developing world) and the conversion to an all - electric society; (d) whether you can run a modern society without baseload generation [answer: perhaps, perhaps not, but if yes, it requires a complete reconfiguration of the way we manage electricity].

That increase comes largely because natural gas eventually replaces more coal in electricity generation thanks to future carbon emissions reduction policy.

Invest in a Clean Energy Future Invest $ 150 Billion over 10 Years in Clean Energy: Obama will invest $ 150 billion over 10 years to advance the next generation of biofuels and fuel infrastructure, accelerate the commercialization of plug - in hybrids, promote development of commercial - scale renewable energy, invest in low - emissions coal plants, and begin the transition to a new digital electricity grid.

Changes to net metering policies fall into three general categories: 1) changes to how long excess generation credits can be carried forward and applied to future energy charges, 2) the application of fixed energy charges which can not be offset with solar energy credits, and 3) changes to the value of electricity sold to the grid from a solar installation compared to the value of electricity bought from the grid.

Ontario will share the costs of existing electricity investments more fairly with future generations by refinancing a portion of the Global Adjustment.