Sentences with phrase «if use of renewable»

Alberta, which relies on coal to generate about half its power, would see electricity rates rise more slowly in coming decades if use of renewable energy increased, according to a study published today.

Not exact matches

The registration period is 15 years and is renewable indefinitely if there is continuous use of the mark.

If you look at all of them, they are using coal and nuclear, renewables are just supplementary.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

There is now adequate empirical evidence available around the world: Wherever people have brought about more efficient use of energy and greater use of renewable energy, you generate many more jobs than if you were to continue with conventional technologies and fossil fuels.

«If all of this acreage was used to produce renewable jet fuel from lipid - cane, it could replace about 65 % of national jet fuel consumption.»

«If we use the storage as the means to foster the adoption of significantly more renewables that offset the dirtiest sources, then storage — done the right way and installed at large - scale — can have beneficial impacts on the grid's emissions overall,» Webber said.

«Essentially, if we were to use the hydrocarbon oils from this alga to be a renewable fuel source, there would be no need to change any kind of infrastructure for making the fuel.

The combined effect of the three, the scientists found, is that the global energy system could experience unprecedented changes in the growth of natural gas production and significant changes to the types of energy used, but without much reduction to projected climate change if new mitigation policies are not put in place to support the deployment of renewable energy technologies.

If all those pig feces were collected in lined ponds to let anaerobic bacteria thrive, they could become a renewable source of 1600 tons of biogas, which can be used to generate heat and electricity on site while simultaneously reducing Israel's greenhouse - gas emissions.

Since transportation and storage of biomass add to the overall production cost if the materials aren't located near the biofuels facility, agricultural areas are the best location for renewable biomass to be used in ethanol production.

If we want to reduce the use of cooling water throughout the EU, says Dr. Behrens, we will need to close old, inefficient power stations, and replace them with renewable sources, such as wind and solar energy.

If such developments were to occur elsewhere, either because of shale gas or the advent of a truly global natural gas market, then, according to our analysis, this could have a major impact on the use of different fuels — oil, gas, coal, renewables, and nuclear.»

If the US military increases its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there will be no direct benefit to the nation's armed forces, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

The study estimates that hundreds of thousands of deaths from air pollution could be avoided if the US moved towards renewable energy and greater use of electric vehicles and trains.

Plug - in hybrids benefit from the more efficient use of fossil fuels in electricity generation even now and so have lower emissions than internal combustion engine cars, and if they get their juice from renewables, emissions would be very low indeed.

If you choose to use products that are free of harsh chemicals and made with renewable kitchen cabinets and materials instead, you can have a truly green kitchen that you will be proud of.

Yes, if the property will be used as collateral for the HECM and the mortgage will be held in fee simple, or on a leasehold under a lease for not less than 99 years which is renewable, or under a lease having the remaining period of not less than 50 years beyond the date of the 100th birthday of the youngest mortgagor.

If we'd have a global price for CO2, we wouldn't have to protect industry from raising costs of renewable energy and the income produced by selling CO2 certificates could be used to support poor households.

Even renewable natural resources (like trees) are of no ultimate use to us if the time necessary to mature to an economically useful size is longer than the rate at which we deplete them.

Solar energy in and of itself renewABLE, but if the solar panel manufacturers are polluting the environment, or if the solar panels end up in the landfill when they stop working, is using solar panels a sustainable practice?

Technically, the building is built to the Passivhaus standard of energy efficiency; the architects note that «even if renewable sources of energy are to be used, it is essential to minimize their level of consumption.»

«Everybody agreed that if we were going to get more than half of our electricity in our country from renewables by 2050 we were going to have to do things that we simply don't know how to do today at all and fundamentally change the way we use, generate and consume energy [relevant section here].

If you count reductions of use due to conservation and changes to renewables in energy, I would claim it is not only above zero, but pretty damn easy as long as we at least make the effort world wide.

If the main goal is to achieve a power source that could replace fossil fuels, we suspect the money would be better spent on renewable sources of energy that are likely to be cheaper and quicker to put into wide use.

He is wrong that A) we have to do so by all becoming small farmers, B) that if that were desirable we could do so easily, C) that economics is not science, D) that it doesn't help to use renewable energy instead of fossil fuels, E) that government policies are irrelevant, and most of all, that F) what he says is clear, but everybody is either too stupid and lazy to get it or is deliberately lying about it.

If we define «Adaptation to climate change» as ending the use of fossil fuels and quickly building renewable energy infrastructure, then yes, there is opposition — from established fossil fuel interests, mostly.

If you look at being able to being able to put [energy storage] into wind turbines, making sure to stabilize grid, allowing more renewables to come in, and you can use it with solar to absorb power in middle of the day.

While the Climate Change pundits agree that energy efficiency and renewables are in the long term, «the most sustainable solutions both for security of supply and climate,» they argue that «global greenhouse gas emissions can not be reduced by at least 50 % by 2050, as they need to be, if we do not also use other options such as carbon capture and storage.»

If the energy used for building and maintaining the extra infrastructure is accounted for in a life cycle analysis of a renewable power grid, it would be just as CO2 - intensive as the present - day power grid.

If it is renewable then it is not new renewable that is going to be used to increase the amount of no - CO2 generation.

If it were possible to cut this number in half from a combination of DERs, low - energy new construction, and renewable energy use, this would be the equivalent of removing 263 coal - fired power plants from operation (EIA 2009; Green Power Partnership 2011).

If we're successful — and world leaders make the kind of emissions reduction commitments that can keep warming within safe limits — the upshot is that we're going to have to scale down our use of fossil fuels as a planet and scale up renewables in a big, big way.

Such a hybrid infrastructure would lower the use of carbon fuels for the generation of electricity, because renewable energy can replace them if there is sufficient sun or wind available.

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per daIf the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per daif the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per daif the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

Looking at the 6 US cents a kilowatt - hour concentrated solar thermal power can now apparently cost under good conditions, solar thermal heat may be competitive and if the cost of renewable electricity falls low enough at times that can be used.

If Germany, the embodiment of renewables, is failing to reduce its use of coal for power generation, why should anyone expect developing nations to not use coal to increase living standards in their countries?

-- If electricity is generated using both a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resource and an energy source that is not a renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resource (as, for example, in the case of co-firing of renewable biomass and fossil fuel), the Commission shall issue Federal renewable electricity credits based on the proportion of the electricity that is attributable to the renewable energy resource or other qualifying energy resource.

However, using your very persuasive logic, if I could invest # 500 elsewhere (instead of micro PV) and achieve 15 X more renewable capacity in the world — How would I do that?

But if California uses additional low or zero - carbon grid management methods such as storage, demand response, electricity exports, and more flexible operation of renewable generators, greenhouse gas emissions would drop by 27 percent.

Map out if you know of any local community institutions that have committed to renewable energy or taken steps to use renewable energy.

If the ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) required more, then you're running into the ethanol «blend wall» — that is, to satisfy the RFS, refiners would have to blend fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to use.

If a carbon tax succeeded in reducing the use of fossil fuels, or forcing people to move to renewable energy, then it would erode its own tax base over time.

Pumped hydro is enormously expensive and much more expensive if used for storing energy from intermittent renewable energy supplies as distinct from reliable baseload supplies when power is cheap (midnight to 6 am) for release during the day, regularly almost every day of the year.

Additional fossil fuel resources, specifically natural gas, would be permissible only if a utility can demonstrate that it can not meet standards using a portfolio of renewable resources.

If renewable energy prices continue to drop, that would enable greater use of such energy for conversion of CO2 through chemical or catalytic methods.

From there, Institute staff will determine the project's Energy Use Intensity (EUI), comparison with an appropriate baseline, and any percentage of renewable energy production (if applicable).

If renewable technologies such as a wind turbine and / or photovoltaic cells are used to generate electricity, then it is possible to have a «net - zero carbon» home (where the amount of energy that you consume per year is equal to (or less than) the amount of energy that you produce on - site).

Instructs the Secretary to assign 60 % of appropriated funds for any given year to facilities that use solar, wind, geothermal, or closed - loop (dedicated energy crops) biomass technologies to generate electricity if there are insufficient appropriations to make full payments for electric production from all qualified renewable energy facilities.

Mandating the use of renewable fuels has, thus far, been a failed experiment; the lack of commercial - scale cellulosic biofuels plants in the U.S. has left it unclear if even a drop of cellulosic biofuel was blended into the fuel supply in 2011.