Sentences with phrase «global electricity supply»

What's more, the indirect energy uses and emissions of each technology will shift over time, due to changing fuel sources, advances in manufacturing and the evolution of global electricity supplies.

In most models that show the world reducing emissions enough to hit the 2 °C climate target, «solar energy emerges only as a minor mitigation option» — around 5 to 17 percent of global electricity supply in one representative study used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Note that this chart shows figures for a 2C world in 2050, when global electricity supplies have been largely decarbonised.

If we had tried to accelerate decarbonization by deploying 1980s solar technology, it would have cost a staggering $ 53.5 trillion to scale up solar to provide just 11 percent of total global electricity supply, according to WRI's numbers.

According to long term scenarios, hydropower's share in global electricity supply may decrease to 10 to 14 percent.

According to the Australian - based think tank Long Future Foundation, if bitcoin price goes up and reaches $ 1 million, bitcoin mining would consume 60 % of global electricity supply.