Sentences with phrase «future energy infrastructure»

Fusion is likely to be a major component of our future energy infrastructure, but we just can not predict how long it will take.

Not exact matches

That means for a place like Puerto Rico, whose energy infrastructure vulnerabilities were laid bare after Hurricane Maria, there isn't much room in the budget to make power lines, generators, and transformers more resistant to future disasters.

Paul Davies, IET Head of Policy, said: «The report acknowledges the importance of smart metering within the context of future UK energy infrastructure and calls on Government to do more to clarify the extent to which smart metering will facilitate the development of a smart grid.

«I continue to strive toward a clean energy future for the State of New York, including: the addition of more renewable energy generation, greater energy efficiency, reliability for all consumers, improved transmission infrastructure, fuel source diversity, and innovative environmental stewardship, all at a reasonable cost to ratepayers,» said Sen. Joe Griffo.

Our skills survey shows that many of the UK's engineering employers are suffering from engineering skills gaps, shortages and an ageing workforce, and this will only get worse in the future when huge numbers of engineers and technicians are forecast to be needed for new infrastructure and energy projects.

I know I still use gas in my home, so everyone needs time to convert to a changing infrastructure including me, but I'm doing everything I can to tell the children of the future we knew and tried to stop the death profiteering energy monopolies in NY.

The future of energy in New York involves miles and miles of pipelines carrying natural gas from other states, a notion that has been reinforced both by Governor Andrew Cuomo and the governors of New England states that are also pushing for more pipeline infrastructure.

New investments in mini grid systems aimed at bringing power to rural Africa and other remote areas may provide a test bed for the rural energy infrastructure of the future.

Owing to such quantum beams with large current, we can make a big step forward not only for creating new fundamental technologies such as medical applications and non-destructive inspection of social infrastructures to contribute to our future life of longevity, safety, and security, but also for realization of laser fusion energy triggered by fast ignition.

Future global demand for metals is expected to increase further as a result of urbanization and new infrastructure construction in developing countries, widespread use of electronics, and transitions in energy technologies [3].

Dr. Virden's experiences have provided him with a unique and broad systems view of the overall energy infrastructure, the links between energy and environment, and the challenges of creating a clean energy future.

While it will take a lot of funding and a multidimensional effort to address an issue that has become so ingrained in America's infrastructure, it's worth the time and energy because the future of America's children matters, and all students deserve to learn from teachers who reflect their population.

Piedmont roughly tripled Duke Energy's natural gas business to 1.5 million customers and helps establish a platform for future growth in gas infrastructure projects.

Building future - proof energy infrastructure.

Once lauded as the future of clean transportation and energy storage in a variety of other applications, hydrogen - based fuel cell systems have a great many barriers to adoption, one of which is lack of hydrogen infrastructure, and the other is the need to develop hydrogen production sources that aren't fossil fuel - based or that require more energy to produce than can be released in the fuel cell.

Countless other methods of providing energy for other transportation infrastructures, which remain to be thought of by future generations, are Oil.

We don't need to think that being ecologically responsible necessarily means reducing our energy use, or that our energy future means reductions in our quality of life, or that the huge amounts of new infrastructure that we need is going to be expensive on a personal level.

Research is a good start, but it won't do much without parallel processes: innovating policy for designing and financing new energy infrastructure, supporting cultural production that explores a range of futures (when was the last time you saw a future depicted in a movie or TV show that wasn't dystopian?)

Viewed in the context of other possible futures, both SRM and CDR options probably look less attractive than doing the real work of rebuilding our energy infrastructure — but we won't know unless we really look into it.

In a featured keynote address, Kim Rudd, Parliamentary Secretary to Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Jim Carr, spoke about the federal government's strategy for ensuring Canada's natural resources get to market sustainably while creating opportunities in the shift to a low - carbon future, a shift that requires supportive policy, strategic infrastructure investments, and the engagement of Canadians in defining Canada's energy future.

For consistency, we approximate cumulative emissions through 2015 as 560 GtC based on historical values and forecasts under RCP 8.5 (21, 22); for a special case we add 199 GtC to this total to represent the future expectation of emissions already implicit in the current global energy infrastructure (23).

Sea - level commitment rises to 2.2 m (0.4 — 4.0 m) after factoring in future emissions implied by the current energy infrastructure and reaches medians of 2.4 or 7.1 m by the end of the century under RCP 2.6 or 8.5, respectively.

City commitments climb to 604 (92 — 1,011) after accounting for future emissions implied by current energy infrastructure.

We assume zero future emissions when assessing commitments for a given year, with the exception of one analysis incorporating future emissions implied by current energy infrastructure.

In a series of in - depth case studies, this volume examines the many ways in which government innovation policies and activities, often carried out in close partnerships with the private sector, have helped to create and steer the development and improvement of technologies that underlie the energy infrastructure of the future.

Their paper does offer solutions: «strategies for evaluating, predicting, and planning for the impacts of energy development on the landscape,» and for making better informed energy infrastructure choices in the future.

These Pan-Asian Energy Infrastructure ideas are about the future.

And that's the purpose of this report: to raise awareness of the interlocking synergies the future could bring to Asia through a collectively - interconnected energy infrastructure.

Every little step is needed, and ultimately decisions regarding how the United States will achieve these essential emission reductions must take into consideration not only the expected future profits from existing polluting infrastructure, but also consumer benefits from new energy efficiency and renewables, health impacts from carbon dioxide's co-pollutants, and humanitarian (and geopolitical) considerations from climate damage in the United States and around the world.

Draft plans for the future of Slovenia's energy were released by the government's ministry of infrastructure.

Developing countries, faced with a choice between energy development for poor populations and mitigating climate risk for future generations, have consistently chosen the former; they are building new, fossil - based energy infrastructure as fast as they can.

«The next government should be making pre-emptive investments in our energy infrastructure, including storage, based on an anticipated future need as opposed to waiting until either the need arises or there's a delay in the low carbon transition, and then suddenly trying to mobilise an energy deployment project.

Further, because energy infrastructure lasts for decades, it is important not to lock in future emissions.

Nonetheless, regional cooperation could play an enhanced role in promoting mitigation in the future, particularly if it explicitly incorporates mitigation objectives in trade, infrastructure, and energy policies and promotes direct mitigation action at the regional level.

We must shift from discussions and debates to a real vision for our future — a vision of a net - zero carbon world, where net - zero solutions comprise our energy systems, cities, infrastructure and product design.

We need to make our existing infrastructure safer and cleaner and build the new infrastructure necessary to power our clean energy future.

This Chinese infrastructure build out can create the nucleus for a region - wide energy system based upon the flexible, future - proof multi-source energy economics of «Transport or Transmit.»

Putting together Queensland's future energy resource needs along with its already - propose infrastructure projects with the goals of environmental protection and greater economic efficiency yields an map like the one below.

After all, the clean energy economy is responsible for creating thousands of jobs and revitalizing North Carolina's most rural communities, while providing longstanding infrastructure to secure a resilient, affordable electric portfolio for our future.

Needed are energy policies that recognize this wealth and support safe and responsible development in the future, including construction of needed infrastructure.

Ensure future energy and transport infrastructure is consistent with a rapid transition to a low - carbon economy by generating at least 15 per cent of energy from renewables by 2020; introducing an immediate ban on new unabated or substantially unabated coal plants and an end to airport expansion.

This is especially true in the context of smart cities where there is a focus on building and improving long life infrastructure such as housing, roads, flyovers, water and energy transmission infrastructure etc. which need to be able to withstand future stressors.

In 2006, GE Infrastructure, one of GE's six divisions, set out the company's view on the future of the UK's nuclear energy industry, in a submission to the Department for Trade and Industry's consultation «Our Energy Challenge — Securing clean affordable energy for the long - term», which followed the 2003 Energy White energy industry, in a submission to the Department for Trade and Industry's consultation «Our Energy Challenge — Securing clean affordable energy for the long - term», which followed the 2003 Energy White Energy Challenge — Securing clean affordable energy for the long - term», which followed the 2003 Energy White energy for the long - term», which followed the 2003 Energy White Energy White Paper.

Future CO2 emissions and climate change from existing energy infrastructure.

If you do, the money will be used to INVEST in infrastructure for future renewable energy, so making the expense just as effective.

Since new sources of CO2 are bound to be built in the future in order to satisfy growing demands for energy and transportation, the committed warming from existing infrastructure makes clear that satisfying these demands and achieving the 2Â °C target of the Copenhagen Accord will be an enormous challenge.

The second part takes a closer look at the policy tools, using the three - pillar framework of market creation, financing and infrastructure that I have previously articulated in a conference at RETECH 2010 last month (but also take note in that lecture that I point out that the fourth and fifth pillars of information transparency and international collaboration will be important for China's future development of its clean energy economy).

California must bolster its current energy foundation with an aggressive and wide - ranging agenda that will continue to reduce energy demand, promote development of renewable energy resources, ensure development of cleaner fossil resources, give consumers more energy choices, and build the necessary infrastructure to protect the state from future supply disruptions and high prices.

The new model is tailored to run on future supercomputers and designed to forecast not just how climate will change, but also how those changes might stress energy infrastructure.

One of CSPW's major criticisms of the QER under President Obama was its treatment of natural gas as a «bridge fuel» to a renewable energy future; since the infrastructure used to extract, process, and transport natural gas to market is essentially the same as that for oil and petroleum products, continued reliance on natural gas only delays the transition to clean, renewable energy and has only marginal CO2 - reduction benefits in the near term.