Sentences with phrase «huge energy demands»

As coal mining companies rush to extract this coal to meet India's huge energy demands, conflicts between local villagers and the coal companies have become more common, especially since traditional agricultural communities are rarely given a say in whether and where mining projects will occur.

But my comment addresses the huge energy demands as people move beyond the very poorest.

«It doesn't necessarily cause huge changes in projections because a lot of countries are showing a huge energy demand.

And the effects aren't limited to California: The duck curve influences utilities all over the West, which contribute energy to the grid, in part, to help satisfy California's huge energy demand.

Not exact matches

With no industry experience, connections, or money, Sandy Reisky followed the huge demand he saw for renewable energy production.

The others were the explosive growth of renewable energy sources, especially solar photo - voltaic energy; China's increasing prioritization of cleaner energy; and the huge long - term rise in global electricity demand, reflecting higher living standards in the emerging world — notably in the shape of demand for air conditioning.

Seventy - eight percent of total energy demand comes from cities and a huge investment is needed to hit the COP21 climate objectives: $ 53 trillion, according to the UN.»

Given that the sun shines daily, there is always going to be a huge demand for solar energy supply.

Shell has yet to comment on the demands, but the company's chief executive said in September it was «preparing for increasingly robust legislation on emissions» and «understand that renewable has a huge role to play in the energy system of the future.»

We also demand that Government immediately stops all the corruption - induced procurements in the energy sector that has only short - term benefits but places huge, long - term costs on an already fragile economy.

Required for practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and open to all with a technical degree, the exam demands a huge commitment of time and energy, as the prospective employers well know.

«The issue is not whether Canada's done enough on climate change, it's that energy production is such a huge element of the Canadian economy, there's not much they can do to achieve rapid reductions of the sort that climate activists are demanding.

He believes it could also play a role in a future large - scale hydrogen generator, which would collect the energy from sunlight in huge fields and then run that electric current through water to produce vast amounts of hydrogen to meet, for example, the demand from a future fleet of hydrogen - powered vehicles.

However, as a gas storage and carrier requires a huge energy which may cause even an unexpected risk, innovative new materials are in high demand to handle the gases under a lower pressure and a room temperature.

THE BIG PICTURE: LAND UNDER PRESSURE The current pressures on land are huge and expected to continue growing: there is rapidly escalating competition between the demand for land functions that provide food, water, and energy, and those services that support and regulate all life cycles on Earth.

With the boom in U.S. energy production, these companies have seen a huge rise in demand for traffic along their infrastructure and have ramped up capital spending to increase the size of their network.

Technologies with huge potential include demand management, energy efficiency, solar, wind, bioenergy, and nuclear, with the possibility of breakthroughs.

Wind mills and solar panels will not provide for huge energy new demands of an exploding US population if the Sun does not resume the high level of activity we have enjoyed since the end of the «Little Ice Age» 150 years ago.

Since the opportunities for reducing waste and inefficiency are so huge, and since solutions for doing so are already in hand, and since much more powerful solutions emerging daily, there is plenty of room to reduce energy use without depriving anyone of the goods and services that are actually what's «in demand».

While it is all fine and dandy to promote alternative energy sources such as windfarms and biofuels, I think it's safe to say that those types of technologies are not able to support American's huge demand for energy.

These lifestyle changes need to be huge because of the increasing energy demands — it's not about changing lightbulbs, or turning the TV off standby.

(clockwise from top left) Cars queuing for petrol in London during the 1979 oil crisis; the Saskatchewan Conservation House in Canada, one of the pioneering low energy houses of the 20th century, was built in 1977; constructed even earlier was the Solar 1 house at MIT, which was built in 1939, and featured 33 sqm of solar thermal panels and a huge storage tank to meet its heating demand.

Businesses are also moving forward: Auto company General Motors announced it will transition to producing only electric vehicles; 100 of the world's most influential businesses are creating a huge demand for renewable energy; and ten of the world's largest companies have launched a global campaign to expand corporate electric vehicle use and charging infrastructure (a big deal when you consider that about half of the cars on the road belong to companies).

The global coal industry regularly cites the IEA's «New Policies Scenario» as driving huge growth in demand, and solving energy access problems.

«Environment Minister Ian Campbell says Australian renewable energy companies are well placed to take advantage of China's huge demand for energy.

There are huge efficiency gains to be made in everything from transmission to demand management to energy storage.

While part of this reduction in emissions is attributable to a reduction in energy demand due to the economic downturn, another reason for this huge reduction is an increase in the use of natural gas for electricity.

The world will of course use a variety of technologies to meet future energy demand, but these findings leave no doubt: the potential for wind power to replace fossil fuels and take a leading role in stabilizing climate is huge.

But if the demand for electricity substantially increases in the coming years, especially with more hybrid gasoline - electric vehicles, Natan said, «it's not a huge stretch of imagination to see why these companies are going into renewable energies.»

As the world looks to find energy efficient equipment that reduces energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions, converting to HFC - free refrigeration and air conditioning holds huge and immediate promise.

Greater investment in energy efficiency has huge potential to cut and manage demand, with both economic and emissions benefits.

Yesterday the International Energy Agency warned that the growing appetite of China - added to the huge demand in the US and Europe - had created an unsustainable trend.

Because despite adding considerable electricity generation capacity in the last decade, India's energy supply is still not meeting its huge growing demand, and a lack of supply and infrastructure issues means the price of grid electricity is rapidly rising.

Renewable energy has huge potential to substitute fossil fuels in China, and to meet energy demand growth in the future... renewable energy could contribute more than 40 % of China's total energy demand in 2050, and more than 60 % of power generation.

According to Energy and Environment Daily, the demand for recycled materials has bottomed out, leading to a buildup of huge storage piles of unwanted stuff.

Their current 5 - year plan is full of action to develop knowledge and products that are based on the view that there will be a huge global market demand for new energy technology, rail transport, ice breaking ships, nuclear power, etc..

Though perhaps as it would supply only 10 % of Los Angeles» total energy needs another large step needs to be taken... plus a huge crash course in energy demand reduction through energy efficiency programs and personal reassessment of what constitute genuine energy needs, and what are merely luxuries.

«Only a system with its base - load provided by nuclear power, supplemented by gas for peak demand, and retaining the existing wind investment, can possibly supply the UK long - term with the huge amounts of secure and reliable, predominantly electrical energy, it needs.

Because the energy system is so large, and demand for energy is rising so quickly, to achieve these changes will take a huge collective effort.

The process places a huge demand on energy consumption, something that both Chinese regions such as Xinjiang and Canadian provinces such as Quebec boast plenty of.

In the corporate sector efficiency consultants are in huge demand as companies look to their energy bills as a neat way to cut costs without harming productivity.