While the ISO acknowledges that higher levels of renewable energy «can minimize system stress and maintain reliability» it depicts
a high renewable energy future as «unlikely» and throughout its analysis, the ISO undercounts or discounts the contributions of both renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Not exact matches
Yet with global growth declining, oil inventory at record levels, and momentum on the side of increasingly cost - competitive
renewable energy technologies, there remains a
high possibility the
energy sector will face another existential crisis in the near
future.
In 2018, bankers say they expect another big year of investment, targeted more at sectors considered important to
future economic growth like
high technology and
renewable energy.
As the world's largest provider of enzyme and microbial technologies, our bioinnovation enables
higher agricultural yields, low - temperature washing,
energy - efficient production,
renewable fuel and many other benefits that we rely on today and in the
future.
These
higher levels of the grid will be drawing on an increasing proportion of fluctuating
renewable energy sources in the
future.
Yet with global growth declining, oil inventory at record levels, and momentum on the side of increasingly cost - competitive
renewable energy technologies, there remains a
high possibility the
energy sector will face another existential crisis in the near
future.
-- A growing number of affordable, long - range electric vehicles coming on the market — Ongoing policy - making commitment to those vehicles, even from a post-Brexit conservative UK government (the
future is a little less certain on this side of the pond)-- Low cost, large - scale
renewables and wide - spread
energy storage — A wider range of non-car transportation options, including affordable,
high - quality e-bikes — Internal combustion engines shall henceforth forever be known as the Suck - Squeeze - Bang - Fart engine
LADWP's preliminary clean
energy future paper labels its reliability concern a «ramping challenge» that has accelerated with the addition of
high volumes of
renewables.
The return on investment is extremely
high: a recent Synapse study found that consumers could save $ 41 billion in 2040 in a clean
energy future in which
renewable resources make up 70 percent of all generation.
However; there is no doubt that the efficiency and capacity of
renewable energy technologies are increasing at a
higher rate; and may in the near
future compare to the efficiency and capacity of fossils.
Key findings of the SRREN include that the technical potential for
renewable energies is substantially
higher than projected
future energy demand, and that
renewable energies play a crucial role in all mitigation scenarios.
This fact sheet includes sections titled, New
Renewable Energy Generation, New Transmission, Increased System Flexibility, and Planning for a
High Re
Future.
A generally overlooked but crucial point about
high -
energy, 100 - percent
renewable proposals is that they seek to meet
future demand patterns in a way that would leave in place today's great distortions in access to
energy and other resources.
APCo says if demand is
high enough, it will invest in new
renewable energy facilities to add supply, which might decrease the cost of the tariff in the
future.
However, NREL's 80 - percent - by - 2050
renewable energy study, which included biomass and geothermal, found that total water consumption and withdrawal would decrease significantly in a
future with
high renewables [7].
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California must bolster its current
energy foundation with an aggressive and wide - ranging agenda that will continue to reduce
energy demand, promote development of
renewable energy resources, ensure development of cleaner fossil resources, give consumers more
energy choices, and build the necessary infrastructure to protect the state from
future supply disruptions and
high prices.
We can gain some insight into the costs of
high penetration of
renewables — using existing technology — from the US National
Renewable Energy Laboratory's (NREL) 2015
Energy Futures report.
There are two main groups competing for the
energy supply of the
future: the
high carbon group, consisting mainly of the fossil
energy organizations, and the low carbon group, consisting mainly of fission /
renewables / fusion proponents / developers / vendors.
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