Sentences with phrase «global power»

It sees wind accounting for 17 percent of global power capacity in 2030 from 5 percent now and solar expanding to 16 percent from 2 percent.

Renewable energy accounted for 2.4 % of global energy consumption in 2012, and a record 4.7 % of global power generation.

With increasing political uncertainty all over the western world, changing global power structures, continued sluggish growth, and record low interest rates, precious metals are today more relevant than ever.

This drew widespread attention from global powers, who look to exploit that for personal gain.

We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as well as new international modes of politics to fight them.

That's maybe an old concept but many country consider that having neighbour countries integrating the sphere of influence of other global powers has a bad sign.

New low - carbon generation — renewables and nuclear — from capacity coming online in 2015 is expected to exceed the entire growth of global power demand that year.

As the sisters debate and pray on how to respond, they realize they are in the center of a broader global power struggle.

Coal currently accounts for 39 % of global power supplies, and coal demand is growing faster than expected.

Taking a critical standpoint, participants make visible links between the countries, highlighting a flow of people and objects that often reveals global power imbalances and uncomfortable histories.

Similar lost opportunities abound: Consider the lack of a standardized global power plug or a consistent law about driving on the left or right side of the road.

Renewable energy now accounts for 24 % of global power generation and 16 % of primary energy supply.

Soviet Military leadership sought to develop new breeds of dog which would function as working animals for the new global power.

If that happens, solar PV could provide 30 to 50 percent of global power.

«Solar is forging ahead in global power markets as it becomes the cheapest source of electricity generation in many places, including China and India,» said Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA's executive director.

The two companies hope to advance an aSMR design for global power generation with initial deployment in Canada, including the pursuit of a preliminary regulatory review by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, based on earlier technology licensing success in the United States.

«We are witnessing a transformation of global power markets led by renewables and, as is the case with other fields, the center of gravity for renewable growth is moving to emerging markets,» said Dr Fatih Birol, the IEA's executive director.

Councillors voted unanimously at the monthly meeting for a workshop to be held with Global Power Generation, Windfarm Developments, Acciona and Tilt Renewable representatives to discuss the proposed route of transmission lines within the shire.

As global powers become more interested in Africa, interventions in the continent will likely become more common.

Our single person representation continued when Anjali participated as a facilitator of Global Power Shift in even more revolutionary Istanbul, Turkey.

A new study from researchers at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford has warned that a fifth of current global power plant capacity is at risk of becoming stranded assets under a scenario in which the planet reaches its climate goals of halting warming at 1.5 to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

See, not only is Southern Co one of the nation's largest coal - burning utilities, but it creates more carbon pollution than any other utility in the country and ranks # 7 in global power company carbon emissions.

Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2017 finds that wind, solar, biomass and waste - to - energy, geothermal, small hydro and marine sources added 138.5 gigawatts to global power capacity in 2016, up 8 per cent from the 127.5 gigawatts added the year before.

To achieve its goal of becoming a leading global power by 2050, China must resolve its looming water shortage, writes Charlie Parton

Just to put costs in context: China's huge $ 1.8 trillion in foreign reserves would cover the costs of global power projection for about two years.

Creating more moments of joy in approximately 160 countries, Mondelēz International is a world leader in biscuits, chocolate, gum, candy and powdered beverages, featuring global Power Brands such as Oreo and belVita biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk and Milka chocolate; and Trident gum.

Success would place the six donor foundations in the ranks of significant global power centers.

Chief Nuclear Officer of SMR LLC, Vice President of Reactor Technologies Mr. Tom Marcille is Vice President of Reactor Technologies at Holtec International with the ultimate responsibility to develop and license SMR - 160, a unique and innovative passive light water reactor system for the emerging global power markets.

But to write that «Solar power is a prime choice in developing an affordable and feasible global power source that can substitute fossil fuels in all the world's climate zones» is nothing but an atrocious lie.

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While global power players certainly have the advantage of impressive financial resources to bolster their parenting techniques (hello, hired help), many of the recognizable names in business rely on solid parenting techniques that don't require money.

Today, that deal no longer looks sustainable, so a new, unspoken one now lies on the table: In exchange for a (further) loss of freedoms and (now) economic hardship, the Russian people will swell with national pride at a Russia — once mocked and belittled by the West — now retaking its rightful place at the center of global power politics.

As the past few decades have witnessed how global power has systematically distributed the world's resources in unequal ways, concerns such as human rights have become increasingly tied to issues involving air, water and land.

The overall tone was clear: Turkey is a rising regional if not global power.

The great irony of the history, in my view, is that accepting Churchill's critique of the appeasement policy of the 1930s was very explicitly a choice that our interests were inextricably linked with what happened in Europe (there is an argument, made by Paul Kennedy and others, that this can be said of much English and British history back to 1066) and that this inevitably meant speeding the decline of Empire and global power status.

For well over 70 years global powers have been consistently ramping up covert climate engineering programs that have now all but completely derailed the planet's life support systems.

The US population may be the last potential counterbalancing force that could have a chance at stopping the runaway juggernaut of global power which is responsible for the ongoing climate engineering insanity and so much more.

Sithe Global Power halts plans to build a waste - coal plant in Shade Township, Pennsylvania due to lack of progress in finding a financing partner for the project.

If global power sector emissions remain flat until 2025, before falling more steeply later on, then losses could reach $ 8.3 tn by 2060 and early retirements of coal and gas plants would climb to 2,350 GW.

Tansaekhwa developed in the wake of Korea's emergence as global power following the country's liberation from Japanese rule and the aftermath of the Korean War.

That establishes a conundrum: one must maintain these quite different forms of global power without knowing if the cost is justified, until the moment arrives when others would pay ten times over to hold what you have in hand.

Already the most dominant Chinese leader in generations, Xi has made it all too clear that China has entered a «new era,» and that it sees itself as a top global power, in stark contrast to the past four decades of «Hide your strength, bide your time,» as put by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who spearheaded the market - opening measures in 1978.