Sentences with phrase «increase electricity production»

This is despite the fact that the country currently has enormous power shortages and plans to increase electricity production dramatically.

Since more rain and snow can't be ordered, it's difficult to increase electricity production from the hydroelectric plants.

Not exact matches

ENTSO - E's spokeswoman was not sure how Kosovo managed to rebalance its electricity production and consumption, but said an increase in production was likely.

These include warm summer weather, which drives up use of air conditioners and electricity, the increased popularity of natural gas (versus coal) among power producers (partly reflecting the low price of the former), and cutbacks in production by some players in the natural - gas industry.

Although favourable in many parts of North America, electric vehicles in China, where 77 % of the total electricity production is coal - derived and many plants do not have advanced air pollution controls, raise concerns regarding increased air...

Thanks to a two cents per kilowatt - hour production incentive from the U.S. government, they are being built at a rate that will increase the amount of wind - generated electricity by nearly three gigawatts a year.

Increasing value of prediction One way to overcome energy output challenges is to anticipate peaks and valleys in wind electricity production.

Salination reduces soil fertility, while populations keep increasing and reservoirs become silted, so reducing storage capacity and electricity production.

However, areas along the Rhine in Germany, Bulgaria and Poland will also face increasing pressure on their electricity production.

Emissions across nearly all sectors grew in 2013, with increased GHG emissions from electricity generation, more vehicle miles traveled on the nation's roadways and greater industrial production, according to the EPA.

If a region's electricity production exceeds this 600 - ton threshold, such as in countries like India, Australia and China, electrification could actually increase carbon emissions and accelerate climate change.

«Cheap natural gas, the rapid decline in the cost of solar and wind generation, and continued flat electricity demand make it next to impossible that U.S. coal production will significantly increase in coming years.»

This is evident by the decline in bituminous coal being burned in the U.S. for electricity and the increasing share of coal production and consumption coming from the lower btu sub-bituminous and lignite coal.

In one decade (1977 — 1987), France increased its nuclear power production 15-fold, with the nuclear portion of its electricity increasing from 8 % to 70 % [231].

Even with the massive increase in wind energy production over the past ten years, we have only just now reached the point where wind energy is providing 1 % of the electricity used in the US.

Britain has no choice given the current and increasing reliance on North Sea gas for electricity production.

There was some bad news for Drax recently as the UK government decided that biomass subsidies would not keep climbing as the «carbon price floor» — levied on fossil fuel production (and due to rise further)-- on electricity consumption has caused a backlash from manufacturers, consumer groups and energy suppliers who are concerned that the «tax will push up prices, make the UK uncompetitive and force the premature closure of coal - fired power plants, increasing the risk of blackouts.»

Heavy rainfall increased hydroelectric power production in California this year, adding to the surplus of electricity.

As solar technology advances, solar energy production is also increasing significantly, allowing the system to produce more of the overall household electricity.

As they increase production it will be cheaper than coal powered electricity.

The share of solar PV in OECD renewable electricity production increased from a negligible amount to 7.1 % in the same time period, and biogases increased from 0.3 % to 3.2 %.

In - state electricity production from natural gas declined by 19 TWh in 2016, while Hydro increased by 15.1 TWh, Solar by 6.2 TWh, and Wind by 1.3 TWh.

Because of their additional cost and increased maintenance, track mounts are best suited to situations where you have limited space and want to maximize the electricity production from a limited number of solar panels.

In 2016, emissions from electricity produced within California decreased by 19 percent, but two - thirds of that decline came from increased production from the state's hydro - electric dams, due to it being a rainier year, and thus had nothing to do with the state's energy policies, while approximately a third of the decline came from increased solar and wind.

A major driver in these efficiency gains has been our increased investment in cogeneration — a technology enabling us to capture heat generated from electricity production that is otherwise wasted, and use it in other industrial processes.

The fact is that even while production has significantly increased, total criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions have fallen simultaneously, in large part due to industry's commitment to environmental protection and the expanded use of abundant, affordable natural gas in electricity generation.

The last two made 18 percent of the world's 2009 electricity (while nuclear made 13 percent, reversing their 2000 shares)-- and made over 90 percent of the 2007 to 2008 increase in global electricity production.

Public policy can't make Texas more densely populated (in the short or even medium run) or cooler, but it could promote public transportation, increase gasoline and electricity prices, and shift electricity production towards less carbon intensive alternatives to coal.

If my memory serves me right, Moscow is aiming to meet a 67 % increase or so in Russian electricity demand / production by 2020.

The newest wind turbines are highly technologically advanced and include engineering and mechanical innovations to help maximize efficiency and increase the production of electricity.

Approximately half of the goal is met through increased energy efficiency to first reduce energy demands, and the other half is achieved by switching to renewable energy sources for electricity production (Figure 1).

The Russian electricity monopoly Unified Energy Systems (UES) has been told by Gazprom it is not getting any more gas i.e. no increases in current supply - production is flat and it is supplies to Europe that fills the Gazprom coffers.

During a brief building period that lasted less than 40 years, electricity production from nuclear reactors in the U.S. increased from zero to 800 billion kilowatt - hours per year.

While the price of residential electricity in the United States has increased only 30 percent since 1995, the price of natural gas has more than tripled due to rising demand and production costs.

[283] In 2011, Ukraine's Energy Ministry predicted that the installed capacity of generation from alternative and renewable energy sources would increase to 9 % (about 6 GW) of the total electricity production in the country.

Some criticized that paper for relying too heavily on adding turbines to existing hydroelectric dams — which the group suggested in order to increase peak electricity production without changing the number or size of the dams.

After decades of increases, U.S. CO2 emissions from energy use (which account for 97 % of total U.S. emissions) declined by around 9 % between 2008 and 2012, largely due to a shift from coal to less CO2 - intensive natural gas for electricity production.

We assume a solar panel life span of 30 years, a decline in panel production of 0.5 % per year, inverter replacements at years 10 and 20, and retail electricity rates increasing 2.18 % per year (National average utility bill increase of 2.18 % based on EIA data for the last reported 20 years, nationally (1997 - 2017).

The fact is that even while production has significantly increased, total criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions have fallen, in large part due to expanded use of abundant, affordable natural gas in electricity generation.

In one decade (1977 — 1987), France increased its nuclear power production 15-fold, with the nuclear portion of its electricity increasing from 8 % to 70 % [231].

Countless people in the energy industry believe that as the demand for electricity increases in the future, natural gas will play an even bigger role in electricity production.

The majority of these emissions came from an increase in electricity production, heating and transportation.

The state also adjusted its regional planning law in order to allow for a more widespread use of wind energy, hoping the share of wind energy in its electricity production could increase from its current 0.8 % to 10 % by 2020.

Two days earlier EPA announced final regulations (which I call the Skyrocketing Rates Power Plan or SRPP, but which EPA calls the «Clean Power Plan» or CPP for obvious reasons) requiring states to decrease CO2 emissions from electricity production and use primarily by increasing the capacity of non-hydro «remewable» (wind and solar) sources of electric power from 4 percent to 28 percent by 2030.

Eventually, coal production will rebound somewhat as overall U.S. electricity demand increases over time and as natural gas prices rise.

The study said more efficient production and increasing use of low - carbon electricity would, therefore, likely be the best short - term improvement.

This is because the damages caused over the life cycle of a vehicle are caused not only by gasoline consumption, which is reduced with plug - in vehicles, but also by emissions from battery and electricity production, which are increased with plug - in vehicles.

Electricity production from coal in the United States has dropped significantly, replaced by increased generation from natural gas and wind power.

Incentives to electrify transportation and heat production would increase the requirement for electricity, but cut fuel demand by yet another third.

This increased reliance on natural gas for the state's electricity production also has environmental costs.