Sentences with phrase «majority of electricity»

Currently, the vast majority of electricity used to charge cars comes from coal - fired power stations, which inherently involves masses of carbon emissions.

Which is really more symbolic than anything — Oregonians already gets the vast majority of their electricity from hydropower.

The vast majority of our electricity comes from dirty, non-renewable sources like coal, oil and natural gas.

The Indian government has put large hydroelectric projects on the Indus in Kashmir, and the vast majority of electricity created by these dams is routed south out of the state of Jammu - Kashmir.

I think it's entirely possible that within a much shorter time frame than most people imagine possible, the overwhelming majority of the electricity consumed in the USA will be generated at the point of use, and large, centralized power plants will be a much less important part of the mix than they are today»

For countries such as the U.S. and Germany, which today produce more than half of their electricity from coal, or China and India, where a large majority of the electricity is generated from coal, it is difficult to see how cost - effective and politically viable emission reductions can be achieved during the next several decades without at least some continued use of coal....

In our winery, the 62kW roof - mounted solar installation (view our solar stats) generates the vast majority of our electricity.

But fossil fuels still account for the majority of both electricity use and primary energy use overall, and at no time in the near future will that change.

Putnam County is provided with the majority of its electricity from the nuclear Indian Point Energy Center in Westchester County.

That makes sense because when an eel is mostly submerged, the majority of the electricity dissipates in the water.

But it is a technology that has proven problematic in developed and developing countries — witness the ecological problems brought on by the Three Gorges — and most of the undeveloped locations for hydropower are located in the west of the country while the majority of electricity use is in the east.

But Constellation would then have to add $ 300 million in additional equity and agree to purchase a majority of the electricity the plant, as the Washington Post reported.

The good news: the U.S. is making a tectonic shift from burning coal to produce the majority of its electricity to using cleaner natural gas.

«Certainly for the next several decades, the majority of electricity will be generated by fossil fuels in a fairly conventional way,» says Bill Moomaw, an international energy policy expert at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, primarily because it is cheap and readily available.

If you were to install a system of solar panels and solar water heaters, then the majority of your electricity and hot water needs would be met by this renewable energy resource.

«This shows where we are heading, although the fact that renewables altogether are still far from providing the majority of electricity means that we still have a long way to go.»

I don't know how you can argue that a critical mass has been achieved when the majority of our electricity still comes from coal and gas fired plants.

Investor - owned utilities (private companies with ownership shares held by stockholders) serve the majority of electricity and natural gas customers in the United States.

More than 100 cities now get the majority of their electricity from renewable sources, according to a new report from CDP (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), an environmentally - oriented nonprofit.

I'm sure it is not to hard to dig up the figures for UK coal consumption, but at least until 1990 the majority of electricity production was still from coal.

In Seattle, where the majority of electricity comes from hydroelectric dams, the same EV produces the emissions equivalent of a gas - powered car getting over 500 mpg.

By 2040, the Energy Information Administration predicts that the 12 percent will rise to 16 percent, with fossil fuels still accounting for the majority of our electricity.

APS is an investor - owned utility that serves over 1 million customers and generates the majority of its electricity from coal, nuclear, gas and oil.

Germany gets the majority of its electricity and all of its transportation fuels from fossil fuels.

Long dependent on coal for the majority of its electricity, the Midwest now sits at an important crossroads — one that will determine where its electricity comes from for decades ahead.

«Even if they are now generating electricity from fossil fuels — the majority of electricity comes from fossil fuels — still it is changing, but it is a process.

There's a reason that when we think of wind energy, we think of giant masts with rotating blades and it's because that design is incredibly effective — just look at Scotland and other areas around the world that now get a majority of their electricity needs from wind power.

New Jersey, Virginia and South Carolina could all get the majority of their electricity this way (92 %, 83 %, 64 %).

The country is already dependent on natural gas and coal for the majority of its electricity generation, as roughly 26 percent of the country's electricity comes from natural gas, and another 28 percent from coal.

They have signed up to global reduction targets for carbon emissions, and are starting to close coal power stations which provide the majority of electricity.