Sentences with phrase «generation capacity came»

Half of all new power generation capacity came from renewables that year.

The report said a net 35 GW of coal - fired generation capacity came online in 2017, as 67 GW of new capacity was commissioned but 32 GW was retired.

China has expressed a strong interest in cleaner coal - based technologies like coal liquefaction and gasification, but the government appears to put official hope in renewable energy, setting a target of 12 % of its power generation capacity coming from renewables by 2020 — up from a mere 3 % in 2003.

Not exact matches

This outsized power - generation capacity provides the Fords an opportunity to grow into new technologies that come up during their service life.

This paradox has raised a pressing question for a new generation of researchers: Is the teaching paradigm the right one to use when it comes to helping young people develop noncognitive capacities?

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has announced that the country will enjoy stable power supply in the coming weeks as Ghana's electricity generation capacity now exceeds demand at peak periods.

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.

According to the Japan Renewable Energy Foundation, only China exceeded Japan over the last 12 months in adding new solar capacity, with much of the new generation coming from rooftop solar systems.

This isn't just a way to create new learning capacities for the new generations that are coming after us, but also a way to transform the concepts of education and entrepreneurship for the better.

«He was an upstate Jew five generations removed from here, but he knew where he was, he got the joke; the laboratorio del gelati, the Tibetan hat boutiques, 88 Forsyth House with its historically restored cold - water flats not all that much different from the unrestored tenements that surrounded it, and in his capacity as manager of Cafe Berkman, the flagship of the come - on - down, on the rare days when the Beast would take one of its catnaps, he enjoyed being part of the punch line.»

Keeping the iPad 2 from drifting into the realms of obscurity, Apple has brought its now older generation tablet to the fore of possibility with the latest iOS 5.1 operating system software now coming pre-installed on the reduced iPad 2 range which includes only 16 GB storage capacities for the Wi - Fi and Wi - Fi + 3G connectivity packing options.

The new laptop - tablet hybrid comes with third - generation Intel Core i7 / i5 / i3 processors and NVIDIA discrete graphics, along with 4 GB DDR3 dual channel RAM, USB 3.0, SSD and HDD high - capacity storage options.

Now, some readers will think this is far - fetched, but I think that in the not - too - distant future the day will come when 100 percent of new electricity generation capacity added to the USA's electric grid is wind and solar.

Consequently with the dramatic decrease in efficiency of fuel burn in the standby fossil fuel generators there is sweet FA practical reduction in CO2 emissions with the introduction of wind and solar power generation systems particularly when the energy costs of the producing and building the so called renewable energy systems are added to the grossly inefficient running of the ready to go to full generation capacity in minutes, fossil fuel powered standby generators which in many cases must be kept running at low or zero power generation to be able to come on line in minutes when the so called renewable energy systems fail to produce power,

By comparison, a net of about 73 GW of fossil fuel generation came online in 2017 — 121 GW of new coal and gas - fired power capacity, less 48 GW of gas and coal that were retired.

New solar photovoltaic capacity drives nearly all of the growth in solar generation, with increases coming from both the electric power sector and end - use sectors such as distributed or customer - sited generation (i.e., rooftop installations).

For example, a significant portion of India's new installed power generation capacity will come from renewable energy sources in order to meet its national target of 15 percent renewable energy by 2020.

This graph from ACIL Allen shows that should the RET be repealed or diluted, there will be a lot more coal generation, and much of the mothballed capacity will come back into service.

According to the International Energy Agency, the world added more renewables - based power generation capacity in 2015 than all other technologies combined for the first time ever, and this movement is only expected to accelerate over the coming decades.

New low - carbon generation — renewables and nuclear — from capacity coming online in 2015 is expected to exceed the entire growth of global power demand that year.

Most of these requirements take the form of a «renewable portfolio standard» (RPS) adopted by 26 states and the District of Columbia or «alternative energy portfolio standard» (AEPS) adopted by three states, which requires a certain percentage of a utility's power plant capacity or generation to come from renewable or alternative energy sources by a given date.

However, it does rate highly when it comes to the amount of solar power generation capacity installed statewide (third in the nation), as well as the energy cost savings residents and businesses can and are realizing from solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.

«It is the combination of underlying gas price increases and the overall mix of generation capacity in South Australia and the intermittency that comes with that,» BHP's head of Australian mining, Mike Henry, told The Australian.

More than 8,000 MW of generation capacity in the Los Angeles Basin may be facing retirement during the coming decade.

It has been almost 30 years since any new power generation capacity was built in Serbia, but that stretch is coming to an end as China Machinery and

And while Iowa is a distant second, with 3,700 megawatts of total wind capacity, at least 17 percent of its electricity generation comes from wind.

With five turbines totaling 30 megawatts (MW) of generation capacity, the Block Island Wind Farm is expected to come online in 2016.

In Honolulu, Stem is helping Hawaiian Electric improve its capacity to host solar power generation, particularly at the beginning and end of the day, often called the «ramp,» when solar power generation is coming on at sunrise and when it is diminishing at sunset.

We've already seen in the Chinese wind industry how the dogmatic pursuit of installed capacity targets came at the expense of actual generation as many wind farms were left unconnected to the grid (see a previous post on the wind industry).

This made solar the largest source of new generation that came online in the United States, at 39 % of new capacity.

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

The increase in demand comes as New Delhi continues to expand its coal - fired power generation capacity.

According to the latest «Energy Infrastructure Update» report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office (FERC), 92.1 % of new electricity generation capacity in the US in January through March of 2014 came from renewable energy sources.

They an installed capacity of nearly 100 % of their average demand which means that on windy days 100 % of their electricity comes from wind turbines but it also means that all their other power generation facilites must shut down on windy days or they must export the excess power.

When subtracting the 11.8 GW of utility - scale fossil retirements tracked by the EIA, the net new volume of US generation was 16.7 GW of generating capacity, with 94.7 % of that coming from renewables.

ERCOT, the main electric grid in Texas, received 9.9 percent of its electrical generation from wind energy during 2013 and is on track to top 10 percent in the coming years considering the 7,000 MW of new capacity now under construction in Texas.

Although acting in the moment satisfies many of our primary needs, important achievements — such as constructing the pyramids or landing on the moon — involve the capacity to represent things that could be the case, allowing the generation of a series of steps that can make imagined scenarios come about.