Sentences with phrase «increasing electricity needs»

SASIA is a non-governmental association that strives to make Saudi Arabia a global leader in solar power generation by bringing together national and regional leaders in an effort to create commercially and environmentally viable solutions to increasing electricity needs.

Not exact matches

California's «NEM 2.0» policy has created a clear migration path to continue to allow solar customers to receive fair compensation for the solar power they produce even as the adoption of solar increases, and implicitly encourages the adoption of battery storage by assigning a higher value to electricity provided when the grid needs it most.

Rural women and their infants are at increased risk of disease, and have less access to fuel, clean water, and electricity needed to prepare alternatives to human milk.

We need to increase the current height from 4.8 metres to 6.5 metres, because we may want to use electricity to power the engine (in future).»

«At first the device only needed 1.56 volts of electricity to split water, but within 30 hours we had to increase the voltage nearly 40 percent.

«Our process can go into oil fields and operate without the need for electricity or water to convert what otherwise would be flared gas into gasoline or it can be mixed with crude [oil] to increase quality and quantity,» says Synfuels president Tom Rolfe.

«In order to sustain water and energy security in the next decades, the electricity focus will need to increase their focus on climate change adaptation in addition to mitigation.»

The company hopes to next year begin building another 25 wave - energy converters that could eventually increase the output to 21 megawatts, which is expected to serve the electricity needs of more than 15,000 Portuguese households.

As I have argued before, a 4x increase in efficiency (electricity — > motion as compared to heat — > motion) for an electric vehicle is not unrealistic, so we would need 10 mtoe to keep the traffic moving.

As for the notion that you need to put up wind turbines at a greater height to capture the increased wind speeds, Dabiri notes that wind speeds at lower altitudes are sufficient to supply several times the world's electricity demand.

«eLab Ignite: Finding Value at the Distribution Edge» will convene corporate customers, innovators, utilities and other key industry stakeholders to address the challenges and opportunities arising from the convergence of increasing capability and affordability of distributed resources, climate change and the need for a more resilient U.S. electricity system.

This means policymakers will need to put in place ways to increase system flexibility — such as grid interconnections, electricity storage and demand - side response.

In addition to increased attention to renewable energy at the state level, businesses are showing interest in using renewable energy sources for their electricity needs.

We will see increasing electrification, with wind energy providing a large part of the need that electrification creates, delivering one - third to fifty percent of the total future electricity demand.

Meanwhile, electricity, natural gas, and petroleum in the form of gasoline are all more expensive in California than in other states, [39] and anything that increases the cost of basic needs like energy and food is regressive.

Increased energy efficiency in homes and business led to lower electricity demand growth, reducing the need to generate electricity.

While it's good to see encouraging, early - stage progress in a handful of countries on electricity access, we urgently need targeted, refined strategies to increase investment in integrated electricity solutions.

The computer chip maker also announced it will increase the amount of clean power it purchases in the form of renewable energy credits (RECs) to more than 1.4 billion kilowatt hours — an amount equal to over half its 2010 electricity needs.

By using a wind turbine to produce most of, or all of the electricity they need, consumers can protect themselves from future increases in the cost of utility - provided electricity.

This study finds that energy efficiency potential is largely untapped in Louisiana, and that a set of policies and programs can cost - effectively meet 5 % cumulative of statewide electricity needs by 2020, increasing to 16 % cumulative by 2030; and 3 % cumulative of natural gas needs by 2020,...

To make it renewable means increasing current provision of renewable energy — that means scaling renewables not just to current electricity needs, but to this much larger number.

There is ample evidence in the UK of increasing fuel poverty (i.e., household spending over 10 % of disposable income keeping warm in winter) in the regions of wind farm deployment where higher electricity bills are needed to cover the rent of the land (from usually already rich) landowners, a direct reversal of the process whereby cheap energy over the last century has lifted a significant fraction of the world's poor from their poverty.

Does wind energy need to be stored to increase its contribution to our electricity grids?

Peru's overall demand for electricity is projected to increase an average of 4 percent each year between 2002 and 2030.23 Continued glacier retreat could create critical conditions between 2015 and 2025, affecting water supplies needed for 60 percent of the population and for hydroelectricity generation.20, 10,22

The problem, argues author Steve Denegri, a IT consultant and financial analyst, is that data centers face two unstoppable forces — the need to increase computing power, which requires upping the energy per square foot, and the increasing price of electricity.

These flexibility needs are rapidly expanding as a result of numerous industry trends: (a) recognition by policymakers that renewable energy resources are needed to meet long - term emissions reductions goals; (b) customers» increasing desire to voluntarily procure renewable energy or generate electricity on - site; and (c) substantial technological improvements that have driven down the cost of renewable resources to the point where, even before accounting for tax incentives, they are the lowest - cost option for new generating plants in some regions of the country.

By installing a large PV solar nameplate capacity, using the need to pay off this (subsidized) investment as the rationale for approved rate increases, and then selling us (mostly) the cheaper electricity they make from coal and uranium, they actually increase the profitability of coal and uranium more than PV solar.

Indeed, the Ecological Footprint of many Indians may need to increase to allow for sufficient food, shelter, electricity, sanitation, medicine and material goods.

As California moves toward increasing renewable energy beyond the current requirement of 33 percent by 2020, the state's approach to managing the electricity grid needs to evolve to take full advantage of its low - carbon resources.

Security of Supply in Electricity Markets: Evidence and Policy Issues also identifies some areas, including the further development of transmission networks, where investment is urgently needed to eliminate bottlenecks, facilitate trade and increase reliability.

Based on a newly released report from Oliver Wyman, a leading global management consulting firm, «There is a growing need to increase electricity prices.

The study also does not account for increasing solar panel efficiency over time, something that is likely to reduce the amount of land needed to generate a megawatt of solar electricity.

Under the bill, utilities would need to get 11 % of their electricity from renewables next year, and this would increase roughly 10 % every five years until the 80 % by 2050 target is met.

The approach builds upon existing state programs by identifying cost - effective actions to increase clean energy in the electric system and to leverage that clean electricity in the transportation and building sectors to achieve needed emissions reductions.

Solar advocates have increased their forecasts for the amount of electricity that could be supplied by a technology known as concentrating solar power, saying that C.S.P. may be able to deliver up to 7 percent electricity demand worldwide by 2030 and up to a quarter of those needs by mid-century.

These needs include projects that, for example, would reduce the risk from and vulnerability to flooding and drought, as is occurring in Nicaragua, and mitigation projects that would increase efficiency and exploit solar energy to provide electricity, instead of fossil fuels.

India's rapid economic growth will increase significantly the electricity demand during the next decades, therefore India needs to make massive investments in order to expand its current installed capacity and to improve the stability of its electric grid.

You'd only need 666 TWh of wind generated electricity to cover a 2000 TWh primary energy increase.

During extreme heat events, nighttime temperatures in the region's big cities are generally several degrees higher28 than surrounding regions, leading to increased heat - related death among those less able to recover from the heat of the day.36 Since the hottest days in the Northeast are often associated with high concentrations of ground - level ozone and other pollutants, 37 the combination of heat stress and poor air quality can pose a major health risk to vulnerable groups: young children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions including asthma.29 Vulnerability is further increased as key infrastructure, including electricity for potentially life - saving air conditioning, is more likely to fail precisely when it is most needed — when demand exceeds available supply.

Until Americans understand this and make known their objections to the electricity price increases to their elected representatives, they will be vulnerable to the CIC's falsehoods and untrue assumptions concerning the supposed need for and advantages of a major expansion of «renewable» sources of electricity.

To be sure, the costs of solar will need to continue downwards as solar power deployment extends across the country and contributes an increasing percentage of US electricity generation and competes at the wholesale electricity rate.

«While we understand and appreciate the attractiveness for building dams for electricity as green energy, we need to recognize the impact of these «green developments» on local communities; from increasing poverty because of loss of lands, to increased conflicts over less grazing and water,» said Angelei who continues to advocate for dam - affected peoples.

Furthermore, moving electricity over long distances (to places where it is needed) results in «line losses» reducing its true availability and increasing its cost.

However, when you think about specific sources of emission such as power generation and transport emissions there are far more effective ways of reducing these emissions that avoid the need for increasing the price of fuels and / or driving up the average price of electricity to the point where investment in clean electricity is justified.

Natural gas is projected to increase the most of any fuel to supply the needs of the electricity and industrial sectors.

A much wiser approach would be to allow the US market for electricity to determine whether more or fewer solar panels are needed without any subsidies or coercion since the basis for fearing catastrophic effects from increasing levels of carbon dioxide is scientifically invalid.

Do we compensate electricity suppliers if, rather than reducing the total emissions target, we increase the number of indusries that need to obtain permits?

That increased demand means electricity providers will need to increase capacity to guard against spikes in usage, potentially requiring up to $ 180 billion of additional grid investment, the study, detailed Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests.

This would certainly make the 15 % easier to meet, what with China's aggressive plans to increase nuke capacity ten-fold by 2020, and suggest it would now need less new renewables - based electricity to meet this 15 % standard than originally thought.

Even though we plan to add over 60 billion square feet of new buildings to our building stock (a 23.3 % increase) over the next two decades, and renovate as much or more, Building Sector operational energy consumption — which accounts for 75.7 % of electricity use — will be low enough to prevent the need for any new power plant capacity in the U.S.