Sentences with phrase «generation over renewable»

By doing so, it helps maintain the state's status quo of having below average grid interconnection rules and incentivizing centralized, fossil fuel - based power generation over renewable sources.

Not exact matches

In part due to renewable generation coming online, Ontario now predicts rates will increase 7.9 % a year over the next five years, and continue rising at a reduced pace thereafter for at least another 15 years.

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Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

Over the last three years we've invested over # 8million in renewable energy generation to minimise our impact on the environment and reduce the carbon footprint of our products, a quality we know is increasingly important to consumers.&raOver the last three years we've invested over # 8million in renewable energy generation to minimise our impact on the environment and reduce the carbon footprint of our products, a quality we know is increasingly important to consumers.&raover # 8million in renewable energy generation to minimise our impact on the environment and reduce the carbon footprint of our products, a quality we know is increasingly important to consumers.»

Some of the tools to achieve this are in Scottish hands, including control over aspects of the financial regime for renewable generation, but other matters remain under London's control, not least energy taxes and market regulation, the National Grid and engagement with any EU and international initiatives.

«This report shows the government's plans are stacked in favour of nuclear power over renewable energy and are so vague they risk locking the UK into a new generation of polluting fossil fuels,» senior economy campaigner Simon Bullock commented.

«The focus now should be creating a stable investment climate for renewables, making longer - term commitments to support less mature technologies, and putting in place incentives to deliver significantly increased investment in renewable power and heat generation required over the next decade.»

IEA's «World Energy Investment» report shows that China was the largest destination of renewable - based power capacity investment in the world last year, reaching more than $ 90 billion, or over 60 percent of its total investment in generation.

Electricity generation from renewables has grown steadily over recent years, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects this rise to continue.

To get as many renewables as possible operating on the grid, these renewables are much different again in characteristic than the current generation mix in that we have primarily base - load plants that are operating over long periods of time that don't vary much, like a coal plant, for example.

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.

The renewable energy generation is 14KWh / m ² — enough to light over 15,000 100w light bulbs for a whole night.

With coal, the plants are cheap to build, the coal is cheap to mine, and a «natural monopoly» system of electricity generation and distribution helps lock out any renewable competition, leading to further economic advantages over renewables.

-- The government reaffirmed its commitment to domestic climate goals — It promised # 730m of annual support for renewable electricity generation over the course of this parliament — It appears the government is still committed to phasing out all remaining coal plants by 2025 at the latest

Currently, Spain has 16,000 MW of installed wind capacity, or 10 % of its total annualized electric demand, and plans to expand renewable generation to 40,000 MW over the next twelve years.

Power generation is all but decarbonised, relying by 2040 on generation from renewables (over 60 %), nuclear power (15 %) as well as a contribution from carbon capture and storage (6 %)-- a technology that plays an equally significant role in cutting emissions from the industry sector.

Non-hydro renewables have not managed to do so to date in any large electricity grid, (hydro can not help; its capacity growth is limited so it will decrease its share of global electricity generation over future decades).

Energiewende was officially under way, giving the power - intensive nation just over a decade to increase renewable generation from 17 %, as it stood then, to 35 %.

Coal will remain the largest source of electricity generation, however growth in renewable generation will be twice as large as that of gas and coal combined over the next five years.

A December report from the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) said U.S. power generation from renewable sources, along with natural gas, would produce enough electricity to offset retirements of U.S. coal and nuclear units over the next 10 years.

In December, however, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) suggested in its 2017 Long - Term Reliability Assessment that power generation from natural gas — fired units and renewable sources such as solar and wind will provide enough electricity to offset closures of coal and nuclear plants over the next decade, at least.

In its baseline New Policies Scenario, the IEA predicts that by 2040, total global generation capacity will increase by more than 60 %, and renewables will make up over 45 % of that total.

McGuinty ceded that his proposals to implement renewables were poorly planned and managed; renewable projects were taken over by deep pocketed oil companies that would foist them on people in notably contentious locations giving wind a bad name, high FITs that did not adjust to market forces over the long term, no comprehensive agreement with neighbours for better power sharing agreements, no power storage strategy, no coordinated conservation or efficiency plan that included distributed generation, CHP, microCHP, automated demand response management, and worst of all there was no options analysis of subsidies to various producers.

Though China leads, many other countries also are building small - scale structures, as the economics of generation increasingly favor renewable sources over fossil fuels.

Alex Couture, Director Generation for EDF Renewables further added, «In addition to the $ 11 million of local economic impact generated by the project during construction, the two MRCs concerned by the project and the city of Murdochville will share a total contribution of over $ 4 million during the operational phase.»

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.

«We expect over the next couple of years [it] will really reduce the cost to a point that it is the lowest cost form of renewable generation in this country.»

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.

Renewables are expected to cover more than 60 % of the increase in world electricity generation over the medium term, rapidly closing the gap with coal.

«We have a range of large scale renewable energy projects planned to come on stream at a range of sites over the next couple of years including biomass, PV, solar thermal & wind generation.

But of course, there are good reasons to favor zero - fuel - cost renewables over fossil fuels and increasingly uneconomical nuclear generation.

Renewable Energy Focus New market rules which will allow large power users to directly meet their renewable power obligations through private supply contracts could lead to up to US$ 6 bn being invested in Argentina's energy sector over the next three years, and lead to the installation of around 4 GW in new generation capacity, the Energy MinisRenewable Energy Focus New market rules which will allow large power users to directly meet their renewable power obligations through private supply contracts could lead to up to US$ 6 bn being invested in Argentina's energy sector over the next three years, and lead to the installation of around 4 GW in new generation capacity, the Energy Minisrenewable power obligations through private supply contracts could lead to up to US$ 6 bn being invested in Argentina's energy sector over the next three years, and lead to the installation of around 4 GW in new generation capacity, the Energy Ministry says.

Between 2003 and 2013, the number of states for which nonhydro renewable generation exceeded hydropower generation, shaded green on the maps, nearly doubled — increasing from 17 to 33 over this period.

Although China is among the largest producers of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells in the world, over 90 % of such PV cells are exported, leading Shi Dinghuan (石定寰), the Chairman of the Chinese Renewable Energy Industries Association (CREIA) to lament that China ships out its clean energy only to leave pollution (i.e. coal fired power generation) behind.

There are immense direct and indirect public benefits in transitioning to an efficient renewable energy system in terms of reduced incidence of diseases such as asthma, freeing up of most of the supplies of water that are now used for thermal electricity generation (and hence reduced conflict over water), reduced air, water, and soil pollution that accompanies fossil fuel production, processing and use, and greatly improved prospects of avoiding the worst consequences of climate change.

The illusion of clean power is an expensive power generation network with large amounts of over capacity, complex control systems to switch between renewable and backup generation, and wildly expensive network of transmission capacity.

According to the IEA, global fossil fuel consumption subsidies are over twice as large as subsidies for renewable energy in 2015, which amounted to $ 150 billion globally — $ 120 billion for non-hydro renewables for power generation and about $ 30 billion for renewables in other sectors, primarily biofuels.

As in how reports on the growth in renewable generation like to report growth over previous year and not growth in overall percentage of generation capacity.

For wind generators to provide 20 % renewable energy in Australia there would have to be over 7000 of them assuming they were 5MW units with the usual generation capability of 30 %.

AEMO notes that small - scale generation investment has increased rapidly over the last three years, the Large - scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) is driving continued investment in wind generation capacity, and average spot market prices have been falling in every region since 2007 — 08.

Of the 5.4 trillion kilowatthours of new renewable generation added over the projection period, 52 % is attributed to hydroelectric power and 28 % to wind.

The debate over APS's RFP is one example of how clean energy advocates are pressuring utilities to alter their procurement practices and open them up to more public scrutiny as renewable resources and storage become increasingly competitive with conventional generation.

Renewable energy generation in SA is already at 58 %, and a handful of new wind, solar, and storage projects will be coming online over the next few years.

IEEFA finds India's wind and solar energy costs have fallen 50 % to as low as $ 38 per megawatt hour (MWh) over the past two years, with renewable energy bids in new auctions costing 20 % less than the cost of wholesale electricity from existing Indian coal generation, and 30 - 50 % less than the required cost to justify new imported coal or liquefied natural gas capacity.

Renewable energy is now slated to make up the vast majority of AEP's planned generation additions over the next decade.

87) The Government's Renewable Energy Strategy contains a massive increase in electricity generation by wind power costing around # 4 billion a year over the next twenty years.

Renewable power generation in 2015 blew past recent predictions by the Energy Information Administration, with utility - scale clean energy growing 2 percent over 2014, instead of falling by 1.8 percent as the government had forecast.

As both the House and the Senate grapple with proposed carbon - cutting measures — carbon taxes and «cap - and - trade» schemes for big CO2 emitters such as coal - fired power plants; increased Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for cars, SUVs, and trucks; and mandatory set - asides for clean renewable energy in the mix of energy generation options — emissions from aircraft seem, at least for the time being, to have gone over the heads of most policymakers engaged in the rush to cut carbon emissions.

Over the years, grid - connected battery storage has been used in various ways, including for energy arbitrage, generation capacity deferral, ancillary services, ramping, transmission and distribution capacity deferral, and end - user applications — which entail managing energy costs, power quality and service reliability, and renewable curtailment.