Sentences with phrase «high by renewable»

That's just the number estimated to have died in the winter of 2014 because they were unable to afford fuel bills driven artificially high by renewable energy tariffs.

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The Sacramento Municipal Utility District has inked a 20 - year deal with EDF to buy all the gas generated by Heartland, helping the city meet high renewable energy standards set by the state.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

What would be really bold is suggesting that the GE factory closing in Hudson Falls be taken over by the displaced, fired workers; and have the plant move into high tech, or renewable energy production.

The shorter the stable timeframe, the more expensive any energy decision is likely to be, with voters eventually paying a premium — to energy suppliers — to compensate for the fact that energy projects (and especially renewable ones) are riskier for the investor, who invariably responds by factoring in higher returns.

«We can create millions of new jobs by leading this transition towards renewable energy sources, much higher levels of efficiency and recycling and sustainable capitalism.»

Albany County's new Waste Heat / Co-generation facility in Menands will not only save money by creating renewable energy, it will also cut CO2 emissions by nearly 1,500 tons per year and will reuse 50,000 gallons of water per day to cool the high - efficiency system.

It's fair to guess he was alluding to efforts by various elected officials to limit further investment in climate change studies, renewable energy technologies and proposals for outside - the - box basic research — the type of high - risk but also potentially high - payoff investigations from which transformative developments most often emerge.

«Many renewable energy technologies are driven to higher levels of deployment by the trends in the international energy markets.

«The people of the region consume more renewable natural resources than the region produces,» said Prof. Markus Fischer (Switzerland), co-chair of the Europe and Central Asia assessment with Prof. Mark Rounsevell (UK), «Although this is somewhat off - set by higher biocapacities in Eastern Europe and northern parts of Western and Central Europe.»

At Xcel Energy, the utility firm with the highest total wind capacity in the United States, the number of forecasting errors has dropped since 2009, saving customers some US$ 60 million and reducing annual CO2 emissions from fossil - reserve power generation by more than a quarter of a million tonnes per year, says Drake Bartlett, a renewable - energy analyst with the firm who is based in Denver, Colorado.

Shocks to ratepayers In fact, Japan's electricity prices are now among the highest in Asia, a condition created partly by high - priced renewables, but also by its heavy reliance on imported energy fuels following the closure of its nuclear plants, which provided 26 percent of the country's power before 2011.

The four interconnections are linked by short, high - voltage lines, but they do not provide nearly enough capacity to move sufficient power back and forth, much less to handle the additional burden of thousands of renewable sources with output that is intermittent and sometimes hard to predict.

Together with other project partners, KIT and INERATEC also study decentralized production of high - quality synthetic fuel from air and renewable power under the «Power - to - X» Kopernikus project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

This flexibility is designed to facilitate a higher concentration of intermittent renewable resources — such as wind and solar — than is currently possible because, by having such flexible gas - fired plants, grid operators can respond to sudden changes in renewable generation caused by variations in wind speed or cloud cover.

Sponsored by DOE's Office of Fossil Energy, the High Performance Computing for Materials (HPC4Mtls) Program is part of the larger HPC4 Energy Innovation Initiative, a Department - wide effort comprised of the Office of Fossil Energy, the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, and the Office of Nuclear Energy.

In spite of current energy trends moving towards green and renewable options, Alberta is planning on double its production of fossil fuels by 2030, meaning that higher supply will generate lower market rates, presenting a more affordable alternative to the American market.

Further to presentations by the Head of Engineering Department, the PDA in Project Management is now a core PDA for the newly developed Scottish qualification of Higher National Diploma in Energy Skills, addressing the looming skills shortage in Oil and Gas, and Renewable Industry.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

Chevrolet Factory Team to Demonstrate Performance and Environmental Benefits of E85 Ethanol in 12 - Race Series DETROIT — Corvette Racing is powered by E85 ethanol, a high - octane, renewable alternative fuel, in the 2008 American Le Mans Series.

Corvette Racing is powered by E85R ethanol racing fuel, a high - octane, renewable alternative fuel, in the 2010 American Le Mans Series.

Grattan Institute energy director Tony Wood said Sunday's and Monday's blackouts and high pricing showed that the state had botched its energy transition program by allowing baseload power sources — such as the Hazelwood power station — to be replaced by renewables, which delivered intermittent power.

If we make the switch and rely on renewable sources of energy like the sun, we can save billions of dollars by avoiding not only the costs of replacing these plants, but also the increasingly higher costs of climate change in areas like healthcare expenses and damage from extreme weather.

Applications for solar are being rejected by the utility company, and high cost interconnection review study fees are being charged to homes and business owners who are asking for permission to install solar or other forms of renewable energy.

(An article by Michael Liebrich of Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) earlier this year looked at the policy options for integrating higher amounts of renewables into electricity networks in a cost competitive way.)

Although coal - fired power generation may not be flexible enough to make up for the variability of wind power at the source region, the «hybrid - by - wire» strategy allows the lines to have a high utilization rate, and provides the flexibility to increase the share of renewable transmission in the future.

Denmark, Spain and Portugal have relatively high renewable energy shares, driven by use of wind and solar.

Instead, Sierra Club Canada advocates a sensible mix of solutions, involving the highest possible level of energy efficiency by North American households and businesses alike, the deployment of renewable sources such as wind and solar power, and a widespread shift to new, innovative technologies like hybrid and fuel cells to move people and goods around.

And they can not ramp generation up quickly to meet recently increasing demand fluctuations caused by higher renewables penetrations on LADWP's system.

First, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by helping developing countries switch from high - polluting fossil fuels to wind, solar and other renewable sources of energy.

The flexibility provided by demand - side response is therefore both a valuable resource facilitating the integration of a high share of variable renewables, and a symbol of the shift away from the traditional paradigm of supply following demand.

McGuinty ceded that his proposals to implement renewables were poorly planned and managed; renewable projects were taken over by deep pocketed oil companies that would foist them on people in notably contentious locations giving wind a bad name, high FITs that did not adjust to market forces over the long term, no comprehensive agreement with neighbours for better power sharing agreements, no power storage strategy, no coordinated conservation or efficiency plan that included distributed generation, CHP, microCHP, automated demand response management, and worst of all there was no options analysis of subsidies to various producers.

Which also suggests that high temperatures from renewables may be difficult in terms of steady baseload power as required by a continuously operating smelter but it is in no way out of the question.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

Increasing the Massachusetts RPS to 2 percent at the same time as Connecticut increases its RPS to 1.5 percent per year will drive the demand for renewables even higher, resulting in 2,000 MW of new renewable construction by 2030; increasing the Massachusetts RPS to 3 percent at the same time as the Connecticut RPS is adjusted can drive up to 4,100 MW of new renewables throughout New England by 2030.

The site, designed by high - end professional artists and authored by business people involved in the hemp trade, captures the essence of why hemp is earth's most important renewable resource and puts it in terms anyone can understand.

Demonstrate leadership and achieve your sustainability goals by working with NativeEnergy on Help Build projects, renewable energy projects or high - impact carbon offsets.

Energy consumption is reduced by the high performance building envelope, high efficiency mechanical systems, and then offset with renewable energy.

Requires FERC to: (1) issue to each generator of renewable electricity a REC for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated after December 31, 2011; (2) issue three RECs for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated by an existing distributed renewable generation facility; and (3) review the effect of issuing three RECs and to reduce such number for any given energy source or technology to ensure that such number is no higher than is necessary to make such facilities using such source or technology cost competitive with other sources of renewable electricity generation.

This includes wind, solar, and other renewable energy supplies, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) anticipates will grow by 75 percent between 2011 and 2035, a rate higher than the growth in coal, natural gas, or oil over the same period.

Recharge news The rapid advance of Britain's offshore wind industry will lead to an «explosion of innovation» in the coming decades, with floating arrays the go - to design by 2030 and multi-rotored turbines and kite - shaped high - altitude concepts taking up prominent places in the European seascape, all serviced by drones and underwater - robots, according to new predictions from UK government - industry body the Offshore Renewable...

As renewable energy displaces high - carbon fossil fuel generation, cleaner electricity can replace petroleum and natural gas in transportation and heating by fueling electric vehicles and heat pumps.

The report argues that, even if electricity demand were to grow at around 1 to 1.5 per cent per annum between 2010 and 2020 and fossil fuel prices were to remain relatively high, the share of renewables in UK electricity sales is only expected to increase to around 10.25 per cent by 2015.

While Lord Browne's vision is not exactly popular in Congress, Senators John Kerry and Jim Jeffords have proposed harvesting 20 percent of U.S. energy from renewable sources by 2020, while Kerry and John McCain crossed party lines to together push for higher fuel - efficiency standards.

Global investment in renewable power and fuels (excluding large hydro - electric projects) was $ 270.2 billion in 2014, nearly 17 % higher than the previous year, according to the latest edition of an annual report commissioned by the United Nations Environment Program's (UNEP) Division of Technology, Industry and Economic (DTIE) in cooperation with Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance and produced in collaboration with Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

The report, published last week by the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF), a think tank that has campaigned against wind farms, will give ammunition to sceptics, especially within the Conservative Party, who believe the cost of subsidies to the wind industry is far too high and that the growing number of turbines are blighting the countryside.

The high - profile battle between MGM and NV Energy brought attention to the obstacle that regulated power markets pose to the uptake of cheap renewable energy, which has since been attacked further by other big power consumers leveraging their size.

California unions killed the Democrats» last - minute push to force the state to adopt 100 percent renewable electricity production by 2046, over worries the nation's highest utility costs are killing jobs.

By establishing a flexible approach, the ZERO Code is applicable to all new commercial and institutional buildings, and mid - to high - rise housing, including buildings with limited on - site renewable energy generating capacity (e.g. buildings in dense urban environments).

The EU can achieve a much higher renewable energy targets by involving citizens in producing and controlling their own energy but this potential must be recognised.»