Sentences with phrase «high share of renewables»

Such a high share of renewables requires significant adaptation of energy markets to create fair and sustainable conditions for their further growth.

The highest shares of renewable energy are in states with plentiful hydro - power resources, such as Sweden, Finland and Austria.

Uneven uptake, barriers ranging from technology and financial risks, and integration challenges in markets with high shares of renewables persist.

«This shift towards a higher share of renewables clearly means a transformation of our energy system,» said spokesperson Beate Baron at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWI) in Berlin.

http://www.scidev.net/global/energy/news/green-energy-developing-world-renewable-energy.html Developing countries that already have a high share of renewable energy in their power mix are unlikely to grow this share further due to skyrocketing demand for cheap electricity, a report warns.

So what we see is a move toward a system of integrating high shares of renewables.

This guidance document shows that modern district energy as the most effective approach for many cities to transition to sustainable heating and cooling, by improving energy efficiency and enabling higher shares of renewables.

This trend is mostly driven by the rapid growth of two - and three - wheelers in China but also results from electric cars in European markets with high shares of renewable generation.

Not exact matches

First, increase the share of renewable energy sources, such as wind and hydro - power, in the fuel mix and as a result maintain high energy independence.

In energy systems heavily reliant on coal (as in China and India), where renewable alternatives are less readily available (notably in some industrial sectors), or where seasonal flexibility is required to integrate high shares of variable renewables, gas plays an important role.

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.

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.

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.

Demand - side response is one of several measures that can help integrate higher shares of variable renewables, including electricity storage, greater interconnection and more flexible power plants.

In other AEO cases that assume the continuation of tax credits or other policies that support nonhydro renewables, their overall generation and generation share relative to hydropower is much higher.

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.

This would translate to an average increase of 1.2 % per year in renewables» share of the energy mix — a rate seven times higher than in recent years.

Together, renewables and nuclear provided about 33 % of overall U.S. electricity production in 2015, the highest share on record.

Over 2012 - 14, 13 out of 20 high impact countries improved their share of renewable energy in TFEC, primarily by accelerating modern renewables.

The share of renewable energy in TFEC exceeded 30 percent in four of the 20 high impact countries - Nigeria, Brazil, Indonesia and India.

Even as their share grows, variable renewables face serious economic challenges at higher levels of integration.

An excerpt from NACS» press release on the recent study notes, «The cumulative effect of the two mandates is that renewable fuels will be required to represent a significantly greater share of the market than originally anticipated — perhaps as much as 40 %, or four times higher than today.»

* Planned, high cost «wind farms» would not be built if a large share of the cost were not being shifted to (and hidden in bills paid by) taxpayers and electric customers via generous federal tax shelters and the Texas «Renewable Portfolio Standard.»

These excerpts are interesting: «The overall global renewable energy share by 2050 could be as high as 87.1 % of final energy supply.»

And despite the steep, expensive rise in power generated by renewables since about 2000, Germany still obtained about 44 % of its power from coal as of 2014, which is a higher share than in the United States (33 % as of 2015).

In 2015 the share of renewables in the country's domestic energy mix increased to 33 %, At the same time, Germany managed to cut down its power consumption in the past year by 3.8 %, despite a booming economy (+1.4 %) which generally translates into a higher energy demand, by using LED technology and energy saving measures.

This publication — which is rooted in seven case studies comprising 15 countries — gauges the economic significance of the integration impacts of variable renewable energy; highlights the need for a system - wide approach to integrating high shares of variable renewable energy; and recommends how to achieve a cost - effective transformation of the power system.

The US has over 2,000 hydropower plants which supplies a 96 % share (in total) or about 50 % from clean usage (or a tad higher) of the total US renewable energy sources making it the largest.

Energy - intensive industries common in the Nordic countries — such as iron and steel — have a relatively high share of process - related emissions, which can not be mitigated through energy efficiency or renewable energy.