Sentences with phrase «generating capacity added»

The solar build - out represented 38 % of all the net new generating capacity added (renewable, fossil fuel and nuclear) last year.

Indeed, last month the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said that the latest data on wind turbine performance and costs suggests that wind power is likely to be more cost - effective than natural gas over the next 20 years, and it could account for the majority of new generating capacity added over that that time in Texas.

The previous article in respect to Ontario's decision to close our coal plants examined the MW (megawatt) capacity and the type of generating capacity added to our electricity grid since 2011.

The UN Environment Programme revealed that almost half of all new generating capacity added to grids around the world last year was from renewable energy sources, overwhelmingly wind and solar.

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The IPCC press release states «Of the around 300 Gigawatts (GW) of new electricity generating capacity added globally between 2008 and 2009, 140 GW came from renewable energy.»

Not exact matches

Weak domestic consumption simply is not generating the necessary demand to absorb added manufacturing capacity created by ever - rising investments.

And third, investment adds to our stock of capital and increases the level of «potential output» or productive capacity — the level of output our economy can produce sustainably without generating inflationary or disinflationary pressures.

Transmission upgrades and efficiency measures already are in service, Cuomo said, adding that other generation resources ready to come online by 2021 will help generate more than enough electrical power to replace Indian Point's capacity.

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

The world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

And the efficiency with which a field generates electricity can be improved in the future by moving to higher temperature operation, he adds; the current design employs steam at 440 degrees Celsius and 63 kilograms per square centimeter of pressure at peak capacity.

According to the global wind market statistics by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) there was a 44 % increase in the annual market as 51,473 MW of new wind generating capacity was added globally.

The first, recently highlighted by the American Wind Energy Association, involves where the U.S. is adding new electricity generating capacity.

In the vast majority of cases, companies sell mobile devices with more capacity at higher prices, due mainly to the added cost of storage, as well as their ability to generate substantially higher profits.

That's roughly equal to the entire generating capacity of sub-Saharan Africa being added every year.

-- Half the new generating capacity the world has added since 2008 has been renewable.

The company felt it had no choice but to add new generating capacity; it was becoming increasingly difficult to add that capacity in New York City; and it needed to maintain the ability to add new capacity here in the Hudson River valley.

According to the global wind market statistics by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) there was a 44 % increase in the annual market as 51,473 MW of new wind generating capacity was added globally.

The power sector added a significant amount of new natural gas - fired generating capacity over the last decade, much of which was in the form of efficient combined - cycle units.

During the same period, and despite the recession, 300 new wind farms came online, adding some 23,000 megawatts of wind - generating capacity.

Because natural gas is a considerably more expensive fuel than coal, it takes a substantial CO2 cost to overcome this fuel cost disadvantage — about $ 30 / ton, on current fuel price expectations in the U.S.. On the other hand, consider pending investments to add new generating capacity in the United States over the next few decades.

Recharge The wind industry added a further 54GW of plant to the grid around the world last year, with turbines in more than 90 countries making up an installed generating capacity of 486.8 GW, according to figures from the Global Wind Energy Council's (GWEC) latest Global Wind Report.

Last year, the IEA reports that more solar photovoltaic generating capacity was added to the globe's energy mix than coal, gas or any other energy source.

Since 2012, as the traditional leaders in nuclear energy production have remained stagnant or backed off of their reliance on nuclear in the wake of Fukushima, China has added 11 new reactors and over 11 gigawatts of nuclear generating capacity.

Operating cost for electric cars is $ 0.50 to $ 0.75 per mile versus $ 0.10 for gasoline powered cars once battery replacement costs are included By 2020, Chinese PER CAPITA emissions will be higher than America's Does not believe that the 0.6 degree temperature rise to date is the West's «fault,» but does believe that China is the future problem Whatever U.S. does about emissions reduction and what people do as individuals is totally trivial in face of the fact that China is adding huge amounts of coal fired generating capacity The most meaningful emissions reduction strategy today would be to convert China from coal to natural gas The claim that there are more frequent or more intense hurricanes and tornadoes as a result of AGW is not scientifically supported We can reduce emissions, but it is important that we do the RIGHT things (and NOT the WRONG ones) Not worried about «peak oil;» coal can be converted to liquid fuel

The UNEP report, compiled by Ulf Moslener of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Germany, found that 44 percent of added electricity generating capacity went into renewables in 2013 — a figure that exceeded 50 percent if direct replacement for existing power stations is excluded.

Planned coal - fired capacity additions from a number of countries in and around the Middle East will add 41 gigawatts (GW) of new electric generating capacity over the next decade, based on announced projects and projects currently in the permitting process.

New York State, which has 700 megawatts of wind - generating capacity, plans to add another 8,000 megawatts, with most of the power being generated by winds coming off Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

The added generating capacity roughly equals that of the world's 16 largest existing power producing facilities combined.

China alone is each year adding generating capacity equal to that of the whole of Britain.

Developers added 1,080 megawatts of generating capacity in the first half of the year, expanding the world total by 20 percent in just six months.

More new wind electricity generating capacity was added in 2012 than any other generation technology, including natural gas — a record 13,100 megawatts.

In the first half of last year, for example, 165 new power generators were added in 33 states, but among the 10 states with the bulk of new generating capacity, «most of the new capacity uses natural gas or renewable energy,» the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported.

In particular, 2016 was a boom year for solar power, with solar capacity additions reaching a high of 75 gigawatts, the first time there was «significantly more» of this energy source added than any other generating technology.

It also overlooked the enormous potential of wind power, which is likely to add more to U.S. generating capacity over the next 20 years than coal.

More specifically, between January to March, 18 megawatts of new natural gas generating capacity were added, whereas 1,291 MW of new renewables.

That would add to ISO - NE's problem of excess generating capacity, not alleviate it.

For example, these organizations are not sufficiently candid about: * The high costs of wind energy; * The added costs of wind energy due to its need for backup generating capacity from traditional energy sources because of the intermittence, variability and unpredictability of wind energy; * The absence of transmission capacity in remote areas where windmills might otherwise be acceptable; * The extent to which wind developers» costs are being shifted to taxpayers and electric customers and hidden in their tax and electric bills; * Scenic impairment and other adverse environmental, health and safety impacts.

Chinese companies added 83 gigawatts (GW) of new power generating capacity in 2012.

In 2015, electric generating companies expect to add more than 20 gigawatts (GW) of utility - scale generating capacity to the power grid.

About 147 gigawatts (GW) of capacity was added in 2015, roughly equivalent to Africa's generating capacity from all sources.

To replace just 20 % of the United States» 995,000 MW of total installed generating capacity, we would need to blanket an area the size of Kansas with wind turbines, and then add nearly a thousand 600 - MW gas - fired backup generators... and thousands of miles of new high voltage transmission lines.

AIA lists the ambitions set for the building: «1) to create the best possible learning environment by providing exceptional daylighting, views, indoor air quality, and thermal comfort; 2) to make the sustainable design strategies a visible part of the students» education by developing the site as a teaching tool with natural drainage and native and food - producing plants; 3) to inspire and excite the community about the possibilities of sustainable design and in turn generate support and private funding; 4) to reach net - zero electricity use through exceptional efficiency and adding photovoltaic (PV) capacity to meet the remaining electrical demand; and 5) to reach these goals with only a modest cost premium.»

About 2,500 megawatts of wind power have been added to the United States» generation mix in the last 12 months, which equates to roughly 9,200 megawatts of total generating wind capacity here».

Neglecting to point out that because intermittent renewables struggle to generate power over a third of the time we will likely have to over-build renewable capacity and add massive amounts of energy storage biases the renewable argument.

The fact is that over the last five years, wind power has added more new electric generating capacity in the USA than coal and nuclear combined — in spite of the fact that both coal and nuclear have enjoyed large, and permanent public subsidies, while subsidies for wind have been small, short - term and therefore unreliable.

The model assumes new central generation will require 100 percent new transmission and distribution and new decentralized generation will require new T&D equal to 10 percent of added generating capacity.

World electrical demand doubles, requiring construction of nearly 5,000 gigawatts of new generating capacity, equivalent to adding six times current United States electric generating capacity.

Germany added a whopping 10 percent more wind capacity and 2.5 percent more solar capacity between 2015 and 2016 and yet generated just one percent more electricity from wind — and one percent less electricity from solar.