Sentences with phrase «generated by renewable»

The greatest share of jobs generated by renewable energy industries was in California, which in 2013 invested heavily in photovoltaic generation

Green power — that is, power generated by renewable energy — for residential use is widely available, but remains a bit perplexing to some.

California's investor - owned utilities are moving rapidly into solar and wind energy, driven by a state regulation requiring that 20 % of their electricity be generated by renewable sources by 2010.

More electricity generated by renewable sources in 2017 signals strong commitment to addressing climate change and reducing carbon emissions.

As I was reading this I couldn't help but think about my state's Minnesota Renewable Energy Standard which requires that 25 % of our electricity be generated by renewable sources by 2025.

At the federal level, H.R. 969 was introduced in the 110th Congress to require that 20 % of the nation's electric power be generated by renewable energy sources.

Over half of U.S. states have mandates (renewable portfolio standards) that require a certain percentage of electricity be generated by renewable technologies by specified years.

The Western Australian Government Office of Energy (no longer existing; its functions have been transferred to the Finance Department) included the following on their Net site: «Most of Western Australia's electricity generated by renewable energy comes from wind.

They are dedicated to renewable energy with a quarter of the nation's energy being generated by renewable sources.

Electric power generated by renewable energy sources causes substantially less pollution than energy generated from fossil fuels, the report says.

He has already announced a goal of having half of the state's power generated by renewable sources like wind and solar by 2030, and he has ordered state regulators to draw up rules to make that happen.

Indeed, nowhere are the barricades being stormed more aggressively than in PG&E's home, California, whose mandate for change is more audacious than any other state's: Its law requires that 50 % of utilities» power be generated by renewable sources by 2030.

A number of questions remain about Cuomo's mandate that half of all energy consumed in New York be generated by renewables by 2030.

«That's the direction we're heading, and there's nothing to stop it,» said Peter Dean, the third speaker at the panel last week and a sustainability and architecture expert at the Rhode Island School of Design, referencing a shift to transportation and electricity generated by renewables.

Electricity generated by renewables has increased by a factor of over five since 1965 but 70 % of the increase has come from hydro.

Comparatively, the total amount of power generated by renewables was 115.2 TWh (Figure 3), or about 20.9 % of the nation's 551.4 TWh.

EVs will be responsible for even fewer emissions as their technology improves and more electricity is generated by renewables.1 Already, EVs are a commercially available technology that can save consumers money, even when gas prices are low.

Few New Yorkers understand how little power is generated by renewables.

The bill stipulates that only energy from an energy storage system that was generated by renewables counts as a clean peak resource.

The escalating battle centers over two ways traditional utilities have found to counter the rapidly growing solar market: demanding a share of the power generated by renewables and opposing net metering, which allows solar panel users to sell the extra electricity they generate back to the grid — and without which solar might no longer be affordable.

And despite the steep, expensive rise in power generated by renewables since about 2000, Germany still obtained about 44 % of its power from coal as of 2014, which is a higher share than in the United States (33 % as of 2015).

The Scottish government said «electricity generated by renewables accounted for 27.4 % of Scotland's electricity use.

Not exact matches

To meet that requirement, also by 2025, the department wants to be able to generate 3 gigawatts of renewable power every year.

In fact, we found that the military could generate all of its electricity from distributed renewable sources by 2025 using these types of microgrids - which would provide energy reliability and decrease costs.

These deals are set up in a way so that the investing company reaps the renewable energy tax credits generated by the projects.

The Sacramento Municipal Utility District has inked a 20 - year deal with EDF to buy all the gas generated by Heartland, helping the city meet high renewable energy standards set by the state.

All of Apple's US facilities, including offices, retail stores and data centers, are powered by 100 percent renewable energy sources like solar, wind and micro-hydro power, which Apple generates or purchases from local projects.

Underwater data centers, envisioned to be powered by renewable marine energy sources, is expected to reduce the huge cost associated with cooling data centers that generate a lot of heat, and also to reduce the distance to connected populations.

Through a study funded by ARENA, the distributed database platform blockchain will be used by Latrobe Valley dairy farmers to buy and sell locally generated renewable energy.

Saving oil and natural gas through efficiency gains and investment in renewables would also generate profit by allowing BC to import less oil from Alberta and to export more of the natural gas it already extracts.

To meet the growing demand, the government has unveiled ambitious plans to spend US $ 360 billion on renewable power sources by 2020 and to generate one - fifth of its energy from renewable sources by 2030.

The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

The project, which will generate enough electricity to power approximately 15,000 homes, will begin delivering power to SMUD in support of its SolarShares program and other renewable energy goals by early 2018.

The Fitzsimmons Creek Renewable Energy Project, a run - of - river power generating facility between Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains, came online in 2009 and now returns as much power to the grid as is consumed annually by Whistler Blackcomb's operations.

This is the first time a utility has contracted for a system that stores and releases solar energy after sunset, and will help KIUC meet its goal of using renewable resources to generate half of Kaua`i's electricity by the end of 2019.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

Walmart is committed to generating zero waste, being supplied by 100 per cent renewable energy and offering customers products that are produced responsibly.

Currently, more than 85 % of the power generated by Brookfield Renewable Partners is hydro, with the rest coming from wind and other renewable sources like solar, biomass, andRenewable Partners is hydro, with the rest coming from wind and other renewable sources like solar, biomass, andrenewable sources like solar, biomass, and thermal.

By capturing methane gas from cow manure and using it to generate electrical power, the Straus Dairy Farm prevents a greenhouse gas that is 72 times more detrimental than CO2 within a 20 - year period from getting into the atmosphere, while also creating a renewable energy source.

It was not about some breakthrough in the negotiations, but about a new initiative to deliver at least 300 gigawatts of electricity - generating capacity to Africa by 2030, all from clean or renewable energy.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's energy plan aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent and generate 50 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2030.

In the intervening years, the energy policy would give utilities an incentive to use power generated by nuclear plants, which are considered clean sources, though not renewable.

Instead, the glittering prizes are going to Denmark, on target to generate some 50 % of its electricity from wind by 2020 — and with a renewable industry currently supplying around half the world's wind turbines.

The initiative is part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to generate half of the state's energy from renewable sources by 2030.

The government wants 150,000 homes to be generating their own renewable energy by 2011, but recognises householders will need government help to meet this goal.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's goal of generating half of New York's electricity from renewable sources by 2030 has apparently caused some re-thinking on how to accomplish that goal.

It was Tony Blair who originally committed to the target, which demands the UK generate 20 per cent of all energy from renewable sources by 2020.

The Government is on target to meet its aim of generating 10 per cent of Britain's energy from renewable sources by 2010, but there could be a cost to consumers.

New York is taking steps to accomplish Governor Andrew Cuomo's goal of generating half of the state's electricity from renewable sources by 2030.

During nearly two hours of testimony in Oswego City Hall Tuesday, community leaders and Nine Mile Point Nuclear Plant employees begged staff from New York's Public Service Commission to support the proposed «clean energy standard» under Gov. Andrew Cuomo's goal to generate half of the state's energy from renewable sources, like wind and solar, by 2030.