Sentences with phrase «intensive than electricity»
The hydrogen economy can be got off the ground and running just fine with reformed natural gas, which is no more carbon intensive than electricity for battery cars is at the moment.
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On average, electricity from natural gas is many times more carbon - intensive per unit than wind or solar.
«The possibility that a country like India could move to a fully renewable electricity system within three decades, and do it more economically than the current system, shows that the developing countries can skip the emission intensive phase in their economic development.
She points out that wind power is actually more labour intensive than coal, and requires 2.5 time more units of labour for every MW of electricity produced.
Buying green energy is more environmentally effective if you live in a place like Alberta, where the electricity is fossil - intensive, and less effective in British Columbia, where each kilowatt - hour produces more than 100 times fewer emissions than a kilowatt hour in Alberta.
Defines «reporting entity» to mean: (1) a covered entity; (2) an entity that would be covered if it had emitted, produced, imported, manufactured, or delivered in 2008 or any subsequent year more than the applicable threshold level of carbon dioxide; (3) other entities that EPA determines will help achieve overall goals of reducing global warming pollution; (4) any vehicle fleet with emissions of more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent on an annual basis, if its inclusion will help achieve such reduction; (5) any entity that delivers electricity to a facility in an energy - intensive industrial sector that meets the energy or GHG intensity criteria.
Service - based economies tend to use less electricity than economies with high levels of industrial activity, as commercial services are generally less energy - intensive compared with manufacturing.
Denmark, the world's most wind - intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19 % of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil - fuel plant.
«The underlying energy consumption trends that resulted in these changes — mainly because more electricity has been generated from natural gas than from other fossil fuels — have helped to lower the U.S. emissions level since 2005 because natural gas is a less carbon - intensive fuel than either coal or petroleum.»
The rule is designed to speed up the retirement of the nation's fleet of coal - fired power plants — the most carbon - intensive way of creating electricity — and could more than double the rate of coal plant closures by 2040.
He wants to give out many emission permits free to energy - intensive industries and to the local distribution companies (LDCs) that funnel electricity to users, rather than auctioning the permits off, and he wants permit giveaways to the industrial sector to continue throughout the whole length of the cap - and - trade program, rather than be phased out.
I agree that any capital intensive electricity generation technology forced to operate at less than maximum achievable load factor due to policy, market or engineering reasons will be placed at a potential economic disadvantage.