Sentences with phrase «generated by renewable sources»

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The «Clean Energy Fund» will finance research, innovation and market development to help the state meet Cuomo's goal of generating 50 percent of New York's power from renewable sources, and a 40 percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions, by 2030.

The goal is to have New York generate half of its energy from renewable sources, like wind and solar power, by 2030.

In December 2009, the LIPA Board of Trustees approved power purchase agreements with BP Solar International Inc. and enXco Development Corporation, thereby creating the State's largest source of solar power on Long Island by introducing approximately 50MW of clean renewable energy generated on Long Island onto LIPA's electric grid.

New York's three state - owned ski resorts are pledging to generate 100 percent of their energy from renewable sources by the year 2030.

A prototype metal - free flow battery developed by engineer Michael Aziz and colleagues at Harvard University relies on the electrochemistry of naturally abundant, small organic molecules to store electricity generated from renewable, intermittent energy sources.

The government has also pledged to generate 35 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2024 (up from the current 5 percent) and 60 percent by midcentury.

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

If two - thirds of Fortune 100 companies want to buy electricity generated by off - site renewable energy sources this year, why hasn't more capacity been built?

By using electricity from renewable sources, our system allows us to generate hydrogen with a very low carbon footprint.

The approach is especially promising because stem cells are a renewable source of beta cells, meaning patients can generate many more islet cells from one pancreas than could be gathered by extracting only the mature islet cells.

With Washington's large utilities required to generate 15 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020 and federal mandates requiring 30 percent of gasoline to come from alternative fuels, demand for bioenergy solutions will continue to climb.

The graph above charts the contributions played by improved efficiency and adoption of renewable electricity sources as well as hydrogen fuel cells (with the hydrogen generated with renewable energy).

I remember quite clearly that when American President Jimmy Carter launched his massive multi-pronged programs of research in the use of renewable energy (chopped off by incoming president Ronald Reagan just when it was beginning to show results), there was a project to create a very large offshore electricity generating structure using the vertical energy differential of the ocean's waters off Hawaii as the energy source.

California's 2006 law requires that the state reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and generate 33 percent of its energy from renewable energy sources by the same date.

This protects the environment and supports the State's goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40 % while generating 50 % of its electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030.

At the time only 12 % of the state's electricity was from renewable sources and most of Victoria's electricity was being generated by burning highly polluting brown coal.

Brown signed a law last October mandating state utilities generate 50 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2030.

Yesterday, Andy Tobin of the state's regulator, the Corporation Commission, presented a plan that includes a goal to generate 80 % of Arizona's power from renewable sources by 2050, a commitment to review the existing Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff (REST) policy, to use renewables to mitigate peaks establishing a «Clean Peak» standard and to deploy 3,000 MW of energy storage to «leverage low priced energy during the darenewable sources by 2050, a commitment to review the existing Renewable Energy Standard and Tariff (REST) policy, to use renewables to mitigate peaks establishing a «Clean Peak» standard and to deploy 3,000 MW of energy storage to «leverage low priced energy during the daRenewable Energy Standard and Tariff (REST) policy, to use renewables to mitigate peaks establishing a «Clean Peak» standard and to deploy 3,000 MW of energy storage to «leverage low priced energy during the day».

Last October Gov. Jerry Brown signed a climate change bill that requires the state to generate half of its electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar by 2030.

80 % clean energy goal — the state will generate 80 % of its energy from renewable and clean sources by 2050, with an «ultimate 100 % goal», although no timeline has been given for the latter.

Replenished by heat sources deep in the Earth, geothermal energy is a renewable resource that generates electricity with minimal carbon emissions.

Using electricity generated by coal - fired plants to power the cars defeats the purpose to some extent, but what if the energy comes from the ultimate clean and renewable source — the sun itself?

Under the legislation, which builds upon standards already on the books, California will need to generate half of its electricity from renewable sources such as solar and wind by 2030.

Replacing fossil fuels with renewable sources of energy for generating electricity and heat will reduce carbon emissions in 2020 by more than 3.1 billion tons.

California seems to be leading the rush off the proverbial cliff via the implementation of AB32, California's cap & trade law, that mandates power providers to generate 33 % of their power from renewable (green) sources by a not too distant 2020.

That's why the country has committed to generating 20 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2036.

(Sec. 102) Authorizes states to set the rates for the voluntary sale of electric energy by a facility generating electric energy from renewable energy sources pursuant to a state - approved production incentive program.

Maximizing the use of renewable sources of energy like wind in replacing the power generated by coal produces greenhouse gas reductions that are not only immediate, but sustainable over the long term.