Sentences with phrase «larger shares of renewable energy»
Although the balancing of renewable power sources with fossil fuels is widely regarded as a temporary fix that's not suited for larger shares of renewable energy, most other technological strategies (described below) can only partially reduce the need for balancing capacity.
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Although solar had the largest share in terms of capacity, of the $ 6 billion devoted to the round, only around 38 % of the budget — $ 2.32 billion — was assigned to solar, while another 46 % — $ 2.76 billion — went to wind power projects, with the remaining amount being left to the other aforementioned renewable energy sources.
The largest share of the emissions reduction potential would come from renewables and energy efficiency.
By comparison, China has about 900 gigawatts of coal generating capacity, but recent coal curtailments provide an opportunity for renewable energy to take up a larger portion of China's energy market share.
«Unprecedented challenge» for fossil fuels as low LCOE for solar and wind power, allied to tumbling storage costs, sees renewables claim larger share of bulk and dispatchable generation while adding vital flexibility to global energy mix.
The United States is forecast to fall behind China as the largest producer of renewable energy with its share of global production declining from 24 percent today to about 15 percent in 2040, while China's share increases to about 30 percent by 2040.
Successful cases of islands with large shares of variable renewable energy, enabled by storage solutions, exist in every region.
The US has over 2,000 hydropower plants which supplies a 96 % share (in total) or about 50 % from clean usage (or a tad higher) of the total US renewable energy sources making it the largest.
Most power sector growth has occurred among variable renewable energy technologies — wind power and solar photovoltaics — raising concerns about potential challenges of integrating large shares of variable power into existing power systems.
As solar and other forms of distributed renewable energy become a larger share of the electricity production in the U.S., these variations of net energy metering are likely to become more common.