Sentences with phrase «grid emissions benefits»

It includes guidance for states to prevent GHG regulation from removing the grid emissions benefits of voluntary renewable energy and maintain private investment in emissions - reducing renewable energy.

The CAR's Emission Reduction Unit (ERU) Reserve is intended to address the loss of regulatory surplus and grid emissions benefits in the voluntary market.

Not exact matches

But solar benefits the grid as well: cutting demand during peak use, reducing transmission and distribution costs, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and generating energy without polluting the air.

Community energy projects will reduce emissions while improving grid flexibility, benefiting consumers locally and across the region.

EnergyVision 2030 suggests one pathway to advance adoption of clean energy technologies in four core areas — grid modernization, electric generation, buildings, and transportation — and demonstrates that even relatively modest increases of clean energy technologies can significantly reduce emissions while delivering consumer and economic benefits for all.

To take full advantage of opportunities to benefit consumers and advance emissions - reducing technologies, almost all of the rules and regulations governing the electric grid need to be updated.

From providing flexible resources to enable widespread deployment of renewable energy resources, to improving grid resiliency and efficiency, to shifting peak loads and reducing harmful emissions, storage brings a multitude of benefits to the grid that are not being fully valued in our electric system today.

For instance, these models couldn't have accounted for the shale gas revolution in the U.S., which has led to rapid reductions in emissions at great benefit to its economy nor for the costs and difficulties of integrating highly intermittent renewables into Germany's electrical grid.

Further, even some utilities have found that when all the benefits provided by solar energy to the grid are tallied up — like avoided fuel costs, emissions - free energy and lower transmission and distribution costs — they are actually higher than the retail costs of electricity.

Over the vehicle's lifetime, however, the global warming emissions benefits of driving on electricity far outweigh the emissions costs of vehicle manufacturing; most EVs «pay back» their production emissions within one or two years of driving, a period that will shorten as electricity grids get cleaner.

The burning of natural gas instead of coal to generate electricity does offer important and immediate benefits, including reduced air and water pollutants, fewer smokestack carbon emissions, less power plant water use, greater flexibility of the power grid, and an economic boost to some regions of the country.

The report highlights: Trends in domestic energy demand and supply prospects to 2040, broken down by fuel and sector The outlook for the power sector and the increasing share of coal in the region's electricity generation The role that Southeast Asia will play in international energy trade and the implications for its energy expenditures The potential energy and environmental benefits of implementing pragmatic measures that would help limit the rise in the region's greenhouse - gas emissions An in - depth analysis of energy prospects in Malaysia to 2040 A focus on four key issues that will shape the direction of the region's energy system: power grid interconnection, energy investment, energy access and fossil - fuel subsidies

«Bottom line: 2B and 2C allow Boulder to explore the true costs and benefits of a high - renewables, low - emissions local grid.»

Pepperidge Farm discusses the benefits in environmental terms: together, the two power plants will reduce the company's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by about 9,400 tons compared with using grid power.

Synapse analyzes the policy treatment, regulations, costs and benefits, employment impacts, rate impacts, emissions, grid integration issues, siting issues, and technical and economic potential of renewable energy and distributed generation (DG) technologies.