Sentences with phrase «global heat consumption»
Still, by 2021, renewables may contribute 10 percent or more of global heat consumption.
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Global energy consumption is around 104,000 terwatt hours, which means 208,000 terwatt hours are lost as heat.
The EU's binding Renewable Energy Directive targets will make it the second largest growth market after China, as well as remaining the global leader in terms of absolute renewable heat consumption.
Renewable energy is making impressive gains in the electricity sector, although these are not being matched in transportation and heating — which together account for 80 % of global energy consumption.
To help stop deforestation — and to reduce the heat - trapping emissions that cause global warming — we need to make smart decisions that shift consumption and land use patterns in less wasteful directions.
«Heat accounts for more than half of global final energy consumption and is still primarily supplied by fossil fuels,» it notes, adding that growth over the next five years will likely be slow.
As highlighted in IEA's World Energy Outlook 2016, the challenge is to increase reliance on renewable energy in the heat and transport sectors, which account for the bulk of global energy consumption.