Sentences with phrase «generation capacity additions»

A similar trend is evident in the United States, where wind energy was the largest source of new electricity generation in 2014 and represented 28 per cent of all new electricity generation capacity additions in the United States between 2010 - 2014 — second only to natural gas.

Nearly 237 GW of natural gas - fired generation capacity was added between 2000 and 2010, representing 81 % of total generation capacity additions over that period.

Not exact matches

The College's capacity to meet the need for a new generation of highly skilled scientists will be greatly bolstered by the addition of the Science & Engineering Innovation & Research Building, a $ 125 million structure which will span 229,000 square feet and will be located directly south of the Life Sciences Building.

In the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) Summer Loads & Resource Assessment, CAISO noted that the generation supply was expected to be adequate in order to meet peak electrical demand requirements in spite of drought - related concerns, in part because of recent renewable and natural gas capacity additions.

Since 2000, coal - fired power generation capacity has grown by nearly 900 gigawatts (GW), but net additions from today to 2040 are only 400 GW and many of these are plants already under construction.

The lion's share of new capacity additions in IEA countries during the past decade has been in natural gas - fired generation and in subsidised wind energy.

A report from groups including the United Nations environmental arm and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) shows renewable energy installations were responsible for 61 % of the world's net power capacity additions in 2017, more than double the new - builds from fossil fuel - powered generation.

The Clean Power Plan has a significant effect on projected retirements and additions of electric generation capacity (Figures 7 and 8; Tables 3 and 4).

The Clean Power Plan also has implications for electric generation capacity, both in terms of additions and retirements.

Under favorable natural gas supply conditions, the Clean Power Plan also increases additions of generation capacity fueled by natural gas (CPPHOGR).

Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of capacity additions (what electric generating capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations); generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm power prices, energy prices, capacity prices, allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions; fuel consumption for different fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI power grids.

In addition, PacifiCorp has installed more than 10 times the generation capacity of these dams in renewable wind and solar facilities over the past decade.

Wind, natural gas, and solar made up almost all new electric generation capacity in 2015, accounting for 41 %, 30 %, and 26 % of total additions, respectively, according to preliminary data.

In addition, Section 211, of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109 - 58) provides that the Secretary of the Interior should, within 10 years of enactment of the Act,»... seek to have approved non-hydropower renewable energy projects located on the public lands with a generation capacity of at least 10,000 megawatts of electricity».

These values reflect utility - scale solar capacity additions, and do not include any distributed generation (i.e., rooftop solar).

Substantial additions of new wind generating capacity, coupled with strong wind conditions amid unseasonably warm early - autumn temperatures, drove the recent generation records.

Here's the history of additions to electric generation capacity by renewables excluding big hydro, along with successive WEO projections:

UtilityDIVE Projected additions to U.S. offshore wind capacity are expected to drive the emergence of the domestic support system the sector needs to drive prices closer to other generation options.

Investment in renewable generation capacity will therefore largely be in addition to, rather than replacement for, the massive investment in fossil fuel and nuclear plant required...» — UK House of Lords, «The Economics of Renewable Energy,» Nov. 25, 2008

In addition to generation resources, 2,000 MW of demand response, 1,800 MW of advanced load management, and 4,200 MW of energy storage capacity were added to the grid to optimize load.

That may be true at this moment; but even as some of these ads were being released, the addition of new renewable energy generation capacity was starting to equal and outpace new installations of fossil fuel plants in the U.S. and other countries.32

-- In addition to the policy under paragraph (1), it is the policy of the United States that regional electric grid planning to meet these objectives should result from an open, inclusive and transparent process, taking into account all significant demand - side and supply - side options, including energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy and zero - carbon electricity generation technologies, smart - grid technologies and practices, demand response, electricity storage, voltage regulation technologies, high capacity conductors with at least 25 percent greater efficiency than traditional ACSR (aluminum stranded conductors steel reinforced) conductors, superconductor technologies, underground transmission technologies, and new conventional electric transmission capacity and corridors.

Via our society's use of fossil fuels we are, if our combustion of these fuels remains unchecked and in addition we further destroy the carbon fixing capacity of natural systems, destroying almost all wealth, the likelihood of their being future civilizations, and even the possibility for existence for future generations.

While only 3.8 GW of thermal generation capacity was added in 2017, the addition of renewables capacity clocked in at 12.8 GW, split approximately one - third wind and two - thirds solar.

In addition, we continue to push to acquire better solar generation capacity for stationary camps on the ice — the amount of solar available in 24 hour sun is considerable, and the technology keeps getting cheaper and more efficient.

-- The term «renewable energy» means energy generated from solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, municipal solid waste, or new hydroelectric generation capacity achieved from increased efficiency or additions of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric project.

Let's look at the gas plant addition of 602 MW: In 2011 the 9,549 MW of gas generation produced 22 TWh, operating at a capacity factor of 26.3 %.

In addition, the activities include a total generation capacity of four gigawatt that come from coal, gas, and renewable sources in Spain and Portugal.

Natural gas generation fell further than coal despite a net addition of 5.9 GW of new gas generation capacity, due to higher gas prices earlier in the year.

In addition, RWE will gain all renewable generation capacities from Eon.

Federal production tax credits and grants for electricity from certain renewable sources as well as State - level renewable portfolio standards have encouraged both capacity additions and increased generation from wind and other renewable sources.

The current rate of addition of capacity for solar and wind combined amounts to additional generation 25.7 TW / h per year.

In addition to a new design with larger displays, the new fourth - generation Apple Watch models will feature a longer battery life enabled through more battery capacity and improved health monitoring capabilities.