Sentences with phrase «gigawatt hours»

Australia's renewable energy certificate scheme requires electricity retailers to sell a certain number of annual gigawatt hours of renewable energy, increasing on a growing trajectory.

This chart shows the major sectors of the power - generation portfolio of the US in gigawatt hours generated annually: note the dynamic between coal (black line) and natural gas (red line).

The research concludes  that taken together, fossil - fueled facilities are about 17 times more dangerous per gigawatt hour of electricity produced to birds than wind and nuclear power stations.

«Further, to dictate how 2,000 annual gigawatt hours are to be brought online, eight years in advance, and seems premature.»

With US coal plants generating about 2 billion Gigawatt hours annually, the expenditure of an additional $ 40 billion would raise the cost of electricity by about two cents per kilowatt hour.

The Australian government set a mandatory renewable energy target of 9500 gigawatt hours by 2010 and a commitment to reach 20 percent of national electricity supply from renewable sources by 2020.

Additionally «nuclear maneuvers» (reductions), of 897 gigawatt hours added about $ 60 million during surplus baseload periods, caused mainly by (unreliable) intermittent power generation from wind.

But, Mr. Abbott, the thousands of hard working rural Australians impacted by wind turbines, COULD NOT LIVE WITH 33,000 gigawatt hours!!!!!

According to the Energy Commission, which is expected to launch its pocket - sized energy market data today, the country this year requires a total of at least 16,700 gigawatt hours of electricity in order to expand the economy by between 4 to 4.5 percent.

The ICE also noted that 2017 is poised to the biggest year for wind production in the country's history, with 1,014.82 gigawatt hours generated by 16 wind farms.

For electrification to lower emissions, Kennedy says that a region needs to produce its electricity at a rate below his threshold: approximately 600 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per gigawatt hour (GWh).

The largest state in the country is also the most uninhabited, meaning that its total annual electricity production is among the lowest, at 5,137 gigawatt hours.

According to the European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO - E), the tiny Balkan state was from mid-January to this week consuming more energy than it produced, to the cumulative tune of 113 gigawatt hours.

GE said that, based on wind conditions at a «typical» site in the German North Sea, one turbine could produce as much as 67 gigawatt hours (GWh) annually, enough power for as many as 16,000 European households.

The new agreement will also allow Ontario to keep up to 500 gigawatt hours of power behind Quebec's dams in what is called a «pump storage» system, which will allow the province to reduce its surplus generation.

The new agreement will also allow Ontario to keep up to 500 gigawatt hours of power behind Quebec's dams in what is called a «pump storage» system, which will permit the province to reduce its surplus generation.

The introduction of the carbon tax, along with Australia's target of generating 41,000 gigawatt hours of renewable energy a year by 2020, up from 21,000 in 2013, has helped increase renewable energy use and reduce the country's heavy reliance on coal, Dargaville says.

This means that for every gigawatt hour of electricity generated (the power needed to run about 100 homes for a year), less than 600 tons of greenhouses gases (measured as «CO2 equivalent») can be emitted.

NYSERDA's 2014 study, Street Lighting in New York State: Opportunities and Challenges, found that if street lights statewide were changed to LEDs, an estimated $ 97 million and 524 gigawatt hours of electricity would be saved annually, the equivalent of powering 74,000 homes.

According to estimates, these air pollutants cause one death per 10 gigawatt hours of carbon dioxide.

It would cut the large - scale renewables target from its current 41,000 gigawatt hours to a «real 20 per cent», or about 27,000 GWh.

Last fall, the consortium issued a Request for Proposals to deliver at least 5,000 gigawatt hours of clean energy to those states, with proposals due in late January of 2016.

As part of the C40 network, Paris has committed to reducing CO2 emissions in municipal buildings, in part by undertaking deep renovations of 600 public schools to save 65 gigawatt hours of electricity per year.

Wind generation in those three states increased from 12,882 gigawatt hours in 2009 to 28,614 gigawatt hours in 2014 — more than double.

Our total electricity consumption in the year 2016 - 17 was 267 gigawatt hours 44.6 % is from renewable energy sources, including ~ 15 megawatts (MW) capacity of solar photovoltaic (PV) installations at different locations.

Nike's latest PPA with Avangrid Renewables is a wind contract for 86 megawatts of wind power at the Karankawa Wind Farm in Texas — which is scheduled for completion by mid-2019 — producing roughly 3,500 Gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable electricity over the term of the contract.

The preliminary recommendations to reduce GHG emissions in California by 2020 include a target of 4,000 megawatts (MW) of installed CHP capacity, enough to displace approximately 30,000 gigawatt hours (GWh) of demand from other power generation sources.

The plants will produce a total of up to 20 gigawatt hours (GWh) per year, which corresponds to around nine percent of METRO Deutschland's total electricity requirements.

Just go read it, I mean it just says, we'll do 2,000 gigawatt hours from efficiency and then 2,000 gigawatt hours from efficiency or maybe renewables.

With one third of Scottish energy being created from renewable sources, the government in the form of Fergus Ewing, the Energy Minister, is cock - a-hoop, with prospects from the latest quarterly figures of exceeding 11,343 GWh (gigawatt hours), just as this was 50 % over the 2010 total!

He claims that the Clean Energy Council, which is literally the wind industry, could «live with 33000 gigawatt hours».

He claims that Keppel Prince, the steel fabricators in Portland could «live with 33000 gigawatt hours».

Between July and September 2015 — the only period for which researchers could get overlapping water and energy data — they found that the water conservation measures resulted in a savings of 460 gigawatt hours (GWh).

According to the nation's transmission system operator, renewable energy production reached 4,812 gigawatt hours, surpassing Portugal's total electricity needs for March, which totalled 4,647 gigawatt hours.

The world is chasing 179,000,000 Gigawatt hours of fossil fuel energy replacement by 2040.

The power plant will generate an estimated 495 gigawatt hours of electricity per year which will power about 90,000 households.

Wikipedia states that the Snowy Mountains Hydro - Electric Authority «generates on average 4500 gigawatt hours of renewable energy each year».

According to the Digest of UK Energy Statistics, nuclear power provided 69,098 gigawatt hours (18 % of total) of electricity to consumers in 2009, whereas there were only 50 megawatts of installed solar PV capacity on the grid in the same year.

But if we assumed that solar panels were 100 % efficient (had a 100 % load factor), and the sun shone 24 hours a day, the UK's fleet of solar panels would have produced just 438 gigawatt hours — a 160th of what the UK's fewer nuclear energy employees produced.

Second, in June, 2008, BC Hydro released the 2008 Clean Call for Power, which was an RFP for 5,000 gigawatt hours of new electricity — enough electricity to power 500,000 homes, all of which must come from clean and renewable sources.

The local industry met the challenge bidding a total of 17,000 gigawatt hours to the Call.