Sentences with phrase «growing electricity needs»

This study assessed how energy efficiency and renewable energy can meet Florida's growing electricity needs; electricity accounts for about half of the state's greenhouse gas emissions.

Finally, China is actively building out large - scale HVDC links to meet the growing electricity needs of Hong Kong, which already is a nexus for international fiber optic connections.

Not exact matches

Wind power is growing by leaps and bounds in China and might one day supply a significant portion of the country's electricity needs — but not until it surmounts a host of challenges

For years, attempts have been made to understand the mechanism behind the proliferation of cancer cells: they need metabolites to grow and proliferate as much as a vehicle needs gasoline or electricity to move.

We provide value to our utility customers through the reliability and diversity of our supply sources — helping them meet the growing need for clean, affordable, carbon - free electricity.

Normally, that electricity goes to make the sugars the plant needs to grow.

In other words, we would need to grow crops that suck CO2 from the air, then burn them to generate electricity and store the resulting gases so there is less CO2 in the atmosphere overall.

With the development and growing demand for electricity and the need to make it and the buildings it was used in safe, asbestos was introduced not only in industrial and commercial buildings, but also in our homes and our educational establishments.

As your colony grows you'll need to expand in order to grab more of the slowly depleting resources, and while it's tempting to simply extend the pipes and cables that carry electricity, oxygen and water it's a foolish errand as the longer the network the higher the chances of failures within those cables and pipes.

The free solar energy that hits the Earth each day can keep us warm, light our homes, grow our food, and generate clean renewable electricity, so we often invite it into our lives, but when the weather heats up in the summer, the sun can actually cause us to use more energy, because we then need to run air conditioners to cool us back down.

We end up with an endless stream of electricity sufficient to power the world's growing energy demand, with no need for any more fossil fuels.

Western and industrialized nations have, in addition to a dependency on massive quantities of oil, an ever - growing need for more and more electricity.

Nuclear power is projected to grow significantly, as many nations expand nuclear capacity to address rising electricity needs as well as energy security and environmental issues.

Texas, among the fastest growing states in the country, is facing an energy crisis as it strives to meet its electricity needs.

Authorities insist they must focus on meeting the growing needs of its 1.25 billion people, 300 million of whom lack access to electricity.

The independent Electric Power Research Institute recently concluded the nation will need another 45 more nuclear power plants - to meet growing electricity demand and achieve a 45 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Canada needs a variety of reliable, clean and safe sources of new energy to meet our growing electricity demand and to help reduce the impact of greenhouse gas emissions from our electricity sector.

The amount of electricity needed in the future will largely depend on how fast non-OECD economies grow and what type of activities make up that economic growth.

Based on a newly released report from Oliver Wyman, a leading global management consulting firm, «There is a growing need to increase electricity prices.

Expanding U.S. biofuel production will require tradeoffs between ambitious fuel production targets and other societal goals, including protection of the water we need for drinking, growing food, preserving aquatic habitats, and producing electricity.

Energizing Rural America: How Renewable Electricity Standards Generate Rural Economic Prosperity (2007) A niche producer of clean energy today, agriculture could grow to supply 20 - 25 percent of U.S. energy needs over the next two decades.

The public sector alone can not respond to the enormous investment needed to meet the growing demand for electricity in -LSB-...]

Brandy Gianetta, Ontario regional director for the Canadian Wind Energy Association, said the report fails to fully recognize that wind energy is making a significant contribution to Ontario's electricity supply needs today and this contribution will only grow in future years.

If Premier Prentice is committed to achieving cost - effective, long - term GHG emission reductions in the electricity sector as part of addressing climate change, wind energy will need to play a primary and growing role in Alberta's electricity system.

An international celebration of wind energy's growing contribution to meeting electricity needs around the world Ottawa, Ontario, June 15, 2014 (more...)

Today's electricity system can not meet our needs in a future of growing demand for power, worsening strains on water resources, and an urgent need to mitigate climate change.

This is because until the fossil fuel industry allows one of our govts to do the necessary renewable industry scientific technology review and in - depth research, we won't know for sure whether renewables can deliver all the electricity that our growing population will need — by the time we are forced to stop burning coal.

BECCS is another system that uses fast growing trees to be burned for electricity generation, and emissions stored underground in old oil wells, and deep permeable rock formations, but this needs gigantic areas of land, irrigation and fertiliser and expensive, energy intensive processes.

Solar power on the farm and in the garden can provide the electricity or heat needed to run essential parts of the growing operations, and while they may take an initial investment, the return on that investment could keep coming back for years and years.

With wind in the Nordic Carbon - Neutral Scenario growing from 7 % of Nordic electricity generation in 2013 to 30 % in 2050 — and to 70 % in Denmark — the need for flexibility in the energy system becomes more acute.

But even if new electrical storage capacity is added and the electrical grid is improved so excess electricity from thousands of rooftop solar arrays can be sent to distant locales in need of power, DeShazo says, he doesn't expect solar — industrial - scale or rooftop — to grow quickly enough to play a dominant role in L.A.'s power mix in his lifetime.

Add in what rooftop solar took care of, and that 49.95 % figure grows to well over half of electricity needs being met by solar.

Cities like Plattsburgh, New York — once popular among bitcoin miners for the low - cost electricity they provide — have already enforced temporary bans or «moratoriums» due to the growing difficulties of satisfying miners» needs.

Curiously, the research points out that, assuming Bitcoin's electricity needs continue growing at this rate, the global mining consumption could be greater than the UK's entire electricity supply by October next year.