Sentences with phrase «future electricity needs»

Wind energy is ideally positioned to help Canada meet its future electricity needs while tackling the global climate change challenge.

This is why planning for future electricity needs is critical, and this is the responsibility of regional grid operators — one they take quite seriously.

Take solar out of the equation and the FIT rates are quite reasonable, at least when compared to nuclear power, which is Hudak's own half - baked solution to Ontario's future electricity needs.

The purpose of this study is to critically examine the government's electricity development plans and to determine if there is a more sustainable and economically efficient solution to meet the country's future electricity needs.

Wind energy is well positioned to meet Canada's future electricity needs in a clean, reliable and cost - competitive way while also helping Canada to address the global climate change challenge.

Tell Dalton McGuinty that there are alternatives to nuclear power in Ontario The McGuinty government has released its response to recommendations of the December 2005 Ontario Power Authority (OPA) report on future electricity needs in the province.

«They are likely overestimating their ability to meet future electricity needs.»

Tidal lagoons alone could provide up to 10 % of our future electricity needs, as well as further benefits of flood protection and regeneration of coastal areas.

Not exact matches

We need to increase the current height from 4.8 metres to 6.5 metres, because we may want to use electricity to power the engine (in future).»

But thermoelectric devices, which convert heat to electricity and vice versa, can harness that wasted heat, and possibly provide the green tech energy efficiency that's needed for a sustainable future.

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.

Sensors on the powerline monitor and gather data about local system activity and are fed back to our control centre for analysis and planning of Nova Scotia's future energy needs... As we add more renewable energy to the grid, batteries can provide the utility with more flexibility to reliably address peak electricity demand with stored energy.

A future hydrogen economy could use the gas as an energy carrier As this method doesn't produce oxygen which needs to be kept separate from hydrogen, safety from explosion of the two gases is much less of a problem with electricity in the national grids carried by ageing cables, it would be useful to replace them by passing the hydrogen along gas pipes used currently for natural methane gas.

We will see increasing electrification, with wind energy providing a large part of the need that electrification creates, delivering one - third to fifty percent of the total future electricity demand.

By using a wind turbine to produce most of, or all of the electricity they need, consumers can protect themselves from future increases in the cost of utility - provided electricity.

The Pope also believes that sacrifice is needed to control the climate, and has teamed up with Barack Obama to «make electricity prices skyrocket» — thus sacrificing the future of billions of poor people.

Though all of these forms of renewable energy come with a cost, all are superior to dirty fossil fuels and all have a place in the future of meeting the world's electricity needs.

The International Road transport Union (IRU), representing the commercial road users of the world, e.g. trucking companies, published a report called «the Commercial Vehicle of the Future» which listed road electrification as the most significant lever to reach the 2050 emission reduction goals and stated that 40 - 45 % of long haul road freight needed to run on renewable electricity by that year.

The amount of electricity needed in the future will largely depend on how fast non-OECD economies grow and what type of activities make up that economic growth.

Panel: Capturing the full value of capital intensive non-emitting resources in an unbundled electricity market A discussion on how to capture the energy and non-energy attributes of strategic resources and the opportunities to operate these assets more efficiently to meet future needs.

To ensure a reliable electricity system now and in the future, we need to plan for current and worsening flood exposure over the lifetime of equipment, and deploy resilient clean energy solutions to keep critical facilities powered up even when severe weather strikes.

So its commitment, set in 2008, to produce enough renewable power to meet the entire city's electricity needs by 2025 is a significant step toward a clean energy future.

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

The IESO has ensured that Ontario's electricity needs can be met now and into the future by contracting for energy from diverse resources such as wind, solar, hydro, bioenergy, nuclear and natural gas.

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.

This buoys future is likely to be in powering undersea research equipment and robots (instead of battery power), while the general aim of research elsewhere is to create «farms» of wave power buoys to supply onshore needs through the electricity grid.

Brandy Gianetta, Ontario regional director for the Canadian Wind Energy Association, said the report fails to fully recognize that wind energy is making a significant contribution to Ontario's electricity supply needs today and this contribution will only grow in future years.

Today's electricity system can not meet our needs in a future of growing demand for power, worsening strains on water resources, and an urgent need to mitigate climate change.

SB 1059 provides a bridge between the transmission planning process and the permitting process by designating transmission corridor zones (transmission corridors) on state and private lands available for future high - voltage electricity transmission projects, consistent with the state's electricity needs identified in the biennial Integrated Energy Policy Report (Energy Report) and Strategic Transmission Investment Plan (Strategic Plan).

When we talk about a global transition to a low - carbon future, we need to look at cleaning the electricity system that we currently have as well as expanding our use of the system.

According to a panel of development experts, sub-Saharan Africa will need to power its factories, hospitals, schools, and other foundational infrastructure with cheap and reliable sources of electricity, and, at least in the near future, that will likely come from hydro and fossil fuels.

Electricity is a huge part of our energy future and we will need a complete overhaul of the current system, so I think any energy plan for the future must pay much attention to the issue of scale.

I wasn't talking about the past or the present but the future where we will have expensive, inefficient and unreliable power supplies which won't meet the needs of an economy increasingly dependent on electricity and will lead to power cuts a very few years down the road.

Ms Carol Feuerriegel, Enterprise Information Manager explains that, «long timeframes (5 to 25 years) for forecasting, planning and constructing transmission electricity infrastructure, combined with rapidly emerging alternative power sources, means Transpower needs to leverage reliable historical data and sophisticated predictive capabilities to make strategic investment decisions for the future».