Sentences with phrase «global electricity today»

«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.

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* Politics and Hydro One

* Bombardier sells Downsview

* Global markets mixed so far

* New York futures up

* Canadian dollar about 78 cents

* Toronto home prices slip

* What to watch for today

Roughly since [1906], Ontario has been embroiled in politics with the electricity sector — ...

Tetra Pak has joined RE100, committing to increase its use of renewable electricity from 20 % today to 100 % across all global operations by 2030.

Mining: Just don't... Or else: i) Move to China (cheap electricity), or Iceland (which has the added bonus of a cold climate), ii) hire a team of scary young Eastern European hackers, iii) buy a couple of acres of ASICs (or GPUs for Ether / other cryptocurrencies), iv) pool with your rivals to smooth out coin earnings (today, just six Chinese pools dominate global Bitcoin mining).

Using air conditioners and electric fans to stay cool already accounts for about a fifth of the total electricity used in buildings around the world — or 10 % of all global electricity consumption today.

General Motors announced today that it would power its Ohio and Indiana plants entirely with wind energy, meaning that renewable energy will 20 % of the automaker's global electricity load.

Global energy demand from air conditioners is expected to triple by 2050, requiring new electricity capacity the equivalent to the combined electricity capacity of the United States, the EU and Japan today.

(It's worth noting that renewables only account for 26 % of global electricity consumption by EVs today; the IEA expects this to increase to 30 % by 2022.)

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In the IRENA case, electricity rises from 21 percent of total global energy consumption today to 40 percent by 2050.

A key to reducing carbon emissions will be the near complete decarbonization of the global electricity system, which is today's largest source of greenhouse gasses, and remains largely dependent on fossil fuels.

Today, coal provides 41 % of global electricity, 75 % of the world's steel and 85 % of the world's concrete.

Today, more than 1/3 of our nation depends on this fuel source for electricity, meaning when oil and gas companies let it escape into the atmosphere, it not only accelerates global warming, it also results in massive amounts of wasted resources and diminishes our energy independence.

In contrast to today's global electricity sector, where coal supplies 40 percent of electricity, Plan B sees wind emerging as the centerpiece in the 2020 energy economy, supplying 40 percent of all electricity.

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.

A mix bag today, highlighting the importance of electricity grids in expanding renewable energy, the global expansion of fracking, a wolf in sheep's clothing CCS project, and some massively good news for Indian wind power.