Sentences with phrase «global electricity needs»

Ocean power, through both waves and tides, accounts for about 1 % of global electricity needs in 2050.

Dell has announced that 26 % of its global electricity needs is met by renewable energy, and nine of its facilities run on 100 % renewable energy.

Renewable energy plays a key role in achieving our ongoing commitment to carbon neutrality, as we aim to use 100 % renewable energy to meet our global electricity needs by 2020.

Not exact matches

And, while some tout nuclear energy as the solution to the global energy crisis, it actually accounts for only 2.5 percent of the world's electricity needs.

While the era of consumer - driven growth may be ebbing, the sheer size of the mushrooming global middle class, even if it becomes an energy - thrifty culture, guarantees the need for far more electricity.

And that's great for keeping our gadgets charged, but considering that our daily personal power needs are much higher than just that of our gizmos, and that if the electricity goes out, we have no way to keep essential appliances running, so while we'll be able to have a fully charged phone, we'll also have our own little global warming event in our freezer.

Press Release: Reports show much greater finance needed to achieve global goals to close the electricity and clean cooking access gap by 2030

Air conditioning use emerges as one of the key drivers of global electricity - demand growth New IEA analysis shows urgent need to improve cooling efficiency as global energy demand for ACs to triple by 2050 15 May 2018

Wind energy is well positioned to meet Canada's future electricity needs in a clean, reliable and cost - competitive way while also helping Canada to address the global climate change challenge.

Global energy investment down 8 % in 2015 with flows signalling move towards cleaner energy A new IEA report — World Energy Investment 2016 — shows the electricity sector leading a broad reorientation of energy investment but warns more is needed to meet climate targets and address energy security concerns 14 September 2016

Oil — > Transport, Electricity — > 1) C02 and 10x stronger or so CH4 in air — > Global Warming — > Draughts, Hurricanes, Floods — > Lost crops, forests, homes — > CO2 fixing potential lost, Starvation, Diseases, More ressources / energy needed 2) C02 and 10x stronger or so CH4 in air — > Global Warming — > Ice caps and glaciers metling — > Earth natural climate stabilizers lost + massive CH4 release from pergelisoils & ancient ice melt 3) CO2 in water — > Oceans acidification — > Destruction of centennial / millenial coral reefs — > Loss of oceans» filters / pulmons / incubators / biodiversity reservoir — > Food shortage

Proceedings: Friday 4 May Opening remarks Welcome by Mr, Sefa Sadık AYTEKIN, Deputy Undersecretary, Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Turkey Keynote address by H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Workplan of WEO - 2012 Iraq Energy Outlook by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA Session 1: Energy in Iraq — fuelling Iraq's reconstruction and development Chair: Mr. Simon STOLP, World Bank Introductory interventions: H.E. Martin KOBLER, Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Iraq Dr. Usama KARIM, Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister for Energy, Iraq Dr. Kamal AL - BASRI, Chairman of the Iraq Institute for Economic Reform Open discussion Session 2: Iraq's electricity sector — short term needs and long - term interests Chair: Mr. Hamish MCNINCH, International Expert Introductory interventions: Dr. Majeed ABDUL - HUSSAIN, Parsons Brinckerhoff Dr. Abdul Qader AHMED, Mass Global Open discussion Special address: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Session 3: Iraq's oil and gas supply — managing the development of a huge resource Chair: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Dr. Ali AL - MASHAT, Advisor, Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Ms. Ruba HUSARI, Managing Director, Iraq Insight Open discussion Session 4: Iraq and international markets — impacts on regional and global balances Chair: H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Introductory interventions: Dr. Mussab AL - DUJAYLI, former Director General, State Oil Marketing Organisation Mr. Jonathan ELKIND, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy of the United States Ms. Coby VAN DER LINDE, Director of the Energy Programme, Clingendael Institute, the Netherlands Open discussion Session 5: Summary and conclusions Co-Chairs: H.E. Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to France and H.E. Nick Bridge, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the OECD Tour de table with recommendations for key topics and areas of study for consideration in the WEO - 2012 Concluding remarks by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief EconomisGlobal Open discussion Special address: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Session 3: Iraq's oil and gas supply — managing the development of a huge resource Chair: Mr. Tariq SHAFIQ, Managing Director, Petrolog & Associates Dr. Ali AL - MASHAT, Advisor, Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Ms. Ruba HUSARI, Managing Director, Iraq Insight Open discussion Session 4: Iraq and international markets — impacts on regional and global balances Chair: H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Introductory interventions: Dr. Mussab AL - DUJAYLI, former Director General, State Oil Marketing Organisation Mr. Jonathan ELKIND, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy of the United States Ms. Coby VAN DER LINDE, Director of the Energy Programme, Clingendael Institute, the Netherlands Open discussion Session 5: Summary and conclusions Co-Chairs: H.E. Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to France and H.E. Nick Bridge, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the OECD Tour de table with recommendations for key topics and areas of study for consideration in the WEO - 2012 Concluding remarks by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economisglobal balances Chair: H.E. Thamir GHADHBAN, Chairman of the Prime Minister's Advisory Commission, Iraq Introductory interventions: Dr. Mussab AL - DUJAYLI, former Director General, State Oil Marketing Organisation Mr. Jonathan ELKIND, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of Energy of the United States Ms. Coby VAN DER LINDE, Director of the Energy Programme, Clingendael Institute, the Netherlands Open discussion Session 5: Summary and conclusions Co-Chairs: H.E. Fareed Yasseen, Ambassador of Iraq to France and H.E. Nick Bridge, Ambassador of the United Kingdom to the OECD Tour de table with recommendations for key topics and areas of study for consideration in the WEO - 2012 Concluding remarks by Dr. Fatih BIROL, Chief Economist, IEA

The report's findings are in stark contrast to the views of the global coal industry, whose biggest publicly traded company Peabody Energy Corp, maintains coal is «essential to meet the scale of Africa's desperate need for electricity.»

We recently examined how Australia can meet 100 % of its electricity needs from renewable sources by 2020, and the Ecofys plan to meet nearly 100 % of global energy needs with renewable sources by 2050.

Based on a newly released report from Oliver Wyman, a leading global management consulting firm, «There is a growing need to increase electricity prices.

In contrast, renewables can not supply a substantial proportion of global electricity — let alone global energy needs — so they are not a sustainable or economically viable solution.

Joshua don't you know that politicians want there be global warming so they can raise taxes, control energy production, and drive up electricity rates etc.S o they make up a problem (AGW) and then try to convince people that they might need to sacrifice.

With this 31 percent jump, the global wind fleet is now large enough to satisfy the residential electricity needs of 250 million people.

SASIA is a non-governmental association that strives to make Saudi Arabia a global leader in solar power generation by bringing together national and regional leaders in an effort to create commercially and environmentally viable solutions to increasing electricity needs.

In the 66 % 2 °C Scenario, aggressive efficiency measures would be needed to lower the energy intensity of the global economy by 2.5 % per year on average between 2014 and 2050 (three - and - a-half times greater than the rate of improvement seen over the past 15 years); wind and solar combined would become the largest source of electricity by 2030.

In electric lighting alone, which uses 19 % of global electricity production, IEA analysis concludes that energy needs could be reduced by 38 % if the least - cost technologies were adopted — at no loss of service to consumers.

GM has pledged to meet its electricity needs across its global operations, at 350 sites in 59 countries, using only renewable power including wind and solar energy.

The Foundation provides the servers and electricity, dedicated design work and research, as well as the legal and technical support needed to operate Wikimedia's eight global Wiki projects.

We need to remember that around 99 % of global electricity is supplied by electricity grids, not off - grid generators.

By reducing the need for the burning of fossil - fuels to generate electricity wind farms will reduce climate change / global warming.

When we talk about a global transition to a low - carbon future, we need to look at cleaning the electricity system that we currently have as well as expanding our use of the system.

Third, my view is that if the goal is to reduce global GHG emisisons we need technologies that can reduce the emissions intensity of electricity by 90 % (as France has done and been demonstrating safely and reliably and at ow cost for the past 30 years..

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There should be a global energy grid that can transport the generated electricity to wherever it is needed.

David McKay's talk was more about the area needed to provide the energy used by today's societies, though it didn't address (as far as I could tell) the resources needed for that infrastructure or whether electricity could be used to power our whole global civilisation.

Wind energy is ideally positioned to help Canada meet its future electricity needs while tackling the global climate change challenge.

CO2 emissions per unit of electricity generated are currently at the level the world needs to reach by 2045 in the Energy Technology Perspectives global 2 - degree scenario.

Curiously, the research points out that, assuming Bitcoin's electricity needs continue growing at this rate, the global mining consumption could be greater than the UK's entire electricity supply by October next year.

According to the Digiconomist Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, the total volume of electricity needed for bitcoin mining is now equivalent to 0.14 percent of total global energy consumption.

The electricity needed to power the global network of computing is has gone up exponentially and increased by almost two - fifths since the beginning of October alone.