Sentences with phrase «global electricity declined»

Zero - carbon power as a percentage of global electricity declined from 36 to 31 percent between 1993 and 2014.

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Global costs of generating electricity from alternative energy technologies continue to decline.

The International Energy Agency estimated last year that both the decline in China's coal use and falling electricity demand reduced its carbon dioxide emissions by 1.5 percent in 2014, leading to a 0.2 percent reduction in global emissions.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

Nuclear energy peaked as a percentage of global electricity in 1996 at 17.6 %, and has since declined to 11.5 %.

Its share of global electricity has declined seven points since its peak in 1996.

Last year, EP and I were the first to note that the share of global electricity coming from clean energy had — against the hype — actually declined, in part due to the closure and cancellation of nuclear plants.

Solar and wind barely made up half of nuclear's seven percent decline as a share of global electricity.

Coal's share of global electricity generation is projected to decline from about 40 percent in 2016 to less than 30 percent in 2040.

Nuclear energy is a mature low - GHG emission source of baseload power, but its share of global electricity generation has been declining (since 1993).

A 4.5 percent decline of global electricity from clean energy is the equivalent to about 900 solar farms the size of one of the world's biggest (Topaz, in California)-- or 60 power plants the size of Diablo Canyon.

Because of the public paranoia about nuclear power, nuclear's share of global electricity generation has declined from 18 % to 13 % over the past two to three decades.

In the 25 years after Chernobyl, nuclear construction declined while global demand for electricity more than doubled.