Sentences with phrase «global electricity produced»

Not exact matches

«Coal - fired power plants produce almost 40 per cent of global electricity today, making carbon pollution from coal a leading contributor to climate change,» said the declaration issued by the alliance on Thursday.

FACT: Seventy percent of our electricity is produced by burning coal and other fossil fuels, sources linked to global warming.

Burning fossil fuels to produce electricity or heat is responsible for roughly half of global warming pollution.

But Stanford scientists have found that the global wind industry produces enough electricity to easily afford the energetic cost of building grid - scale storage.

According to Paul Waide, a senior policy analyst with the IEA and one of the report's authors, «19 % of global electricity generation is taken for lighting — that's more than is produced by hydro or nuclear stations, and about the same that's produced from natural gas.»

SkyPower prides itself on its established relationships with world - leading banks and financial institutions, as well as with its global and local suppliers, and the indigenous peoples and communities who work hand in hand with SkyPower with the shared objective of producing hundreds of millions of kWh of clean electricity each and every year.

Most of the global CO2 emissions issue could be solved with low cost nuclear power (low cost nuclear will replace, over the course of this century, fossil fuels for electricity generation which will then displace gas for heating and produce «energy carriers» to replace fossil fuels for transport fuels).

In regions with the «cleanest» electricity grids, EVs produce lower global warming emissions than even the most fuel - efficient hybrids.

Electric vehicles (EVs) burn no gasoline and have no tailpipe emissions, but producing the electricity used to charge them does generate global warming emissions.

The report evaluates regional electricity grids across the United States based on the global warming emissions produced from electricity generation, and then compares the emissions generated by charging an EV with those produced by gasoline - powered vehicles.

Energy produced offshore is a major component of global oil and natural gas supply and could provide an increasingly important source of renewable electricity.

As the last major economy to submit a target for a global climate pact, India is pledging to reduce the intensity of its carbon emissions and boost the share of electricity produced from sources other than fossil fuels to...

To achieve this goal, they must match 100 % of the electricity used across their global operations with electricity produced from renewable sources — biomass (including biogas), geothermal, solar, water and wind — either sourced from the market or self - produced.

Hydrogen is not so much a fuel as a form of storage, holding energy generated by electricity and then releasing it without producing carbon dioxide, the gas thought to be responsible for half of global warming.

Global Wind Day, on June 15, celebrates how wind can help modernize the way countries produce electricity and spurs conversations about how the rapid growth and...

Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.

But over its full life cycle — from chicken feed to poop to energy — it produces electricity with much less global warming pollution, so it's better for the climate.

They must match 100 % of the electricity used across their global operations with electricity produced from renewable sources.

More than fifty years later, the Kingston Fossil Plant produces enough electricity to power 670,000 homes and emits nearly 11 million tons of carbon dioxide — the greenhouse gas most responsible for global warming — each year.

When asked by The Daily Called News Foundation why the EPA continues futile global warming policies and only encourages some forms of electricity production that don't produce CO2 the panel said that this was due to the agency's quirks.

The CO2 from fossil fuels used to produce most of the electricity in Virginia contributes to global warming, while the soaring cost of energy undermines the global economy and contributes to hunger around the world.

Canada is a global leader in the responsible and sustainable development of wind energy, producing enough clean wind power to meet 20 per cent of Canada's domestic electricity demand by 2025.

The Southern California desert also is a global hotspot for large - scale solar energy development, including multiple facilities already operating and producing hundreds of megawatts of electricity by concentrating the sun's heat with arrays of mirrored panels.

Renewable energy (which includes solar, wind, water, hydro, tidal and wave, geothermal, ocean thermal, ocean currents, biomass, biofuel) can produce electricity more than enough to power our current and future lifestyle, without polluting the planet and causing global warming.

That's why some nuclear advocates I'm familiar with (particular the LFTR advocates) believe that global warming can only be stopped if a nuclear reactor can be developed that produces electricity more cheaply than coal...

In a study to be published in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Fearnside estimates that in 1990 the greenhouse effect of emissions from the Curuá - Una dam in Pará, Brazil, was more than three - and - a-half times what would have been produced by generating the same amount of electricity from oil.

Most of the New Yorkers surveyed said they are willing to buy compact fluorescent light bulbs (71 percent), spend $ 5 more a month for electricity produced from renewable energy sources (68 percent), make their views on global warming clear to politicians (67 percent), use less air - conditioning (66 percent) and turn down their thermostat in the winter (60 percent).

«GM's commitment to renewable energy is helping transform the way electricity produced, distributed and consumed around the world, and we're doing it in a way that makes our company and communities stronger,» said Rob Threlkeld, Global Manager of Renewable Energy.

Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2008 Report (Brussels: 2009), pp. 3, 56; Erik Shuster, Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants (Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory, January 2009); «Nuclear Dips in 2008,» World Nuclear News, 29 May 2009; 1 megawatt of installed wind capacity produces enough electricity to supply 300 homes from American Wind Energy Association, «U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone,» press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); number of homes calculated using average U.S. household size from U.S. Census Bureau, «2005 — 2007 American Community Survey 3 - Year Estimates — Data Profile Highlights,» at factfinder.census.gov / servlet / ACSSAFFFacts, viewed 9 April 2009, and population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & Country QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.

· Clean Air: Other sources of electricity produce harmful particulate emissions which contribute to global climate change and acid rain.

A more certain method of reducing global arming caused by both fossil - fuel soot and carbon dioxide is to convert vehicles from fossil fuels to electric, plug - in hybrid or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, where the electricity or hydrogen is produced by a renewable energy sources [sic], such as wind, solar geothermal, hydroelectric, wave, or tidal power.»

California is a global leader in renewable energy and has set a goal of producing 50 percent of its electricity from renewable sources by 2030.

It recently announced a wind farm near Chicago that is projected to produce enough electricity that it could theoretically power 165 % of its US operations, or 18 % of its global operations.