Sentences with phrase «more renewable capacity»

By contrast, in the «stretch» scenarios, it is assumed that interconnection creates a European market for the UK's excess power, and that it becomes economic to build much more renewable capacity in the UK - with up to a 35GW supergrid interconnection.

In addition to these, there will also need to be big top - down efforts to improve the electrical grid, phase out coal, build much more renewable capacity, etc..

However, using your very persuasive logic, if I could invest # 500 elsewhere (instead of micro PV) and achieve 15 X more renewable capacity in the world — How would I do that?

Over the next 20 years China is expected to install more renewable capacity than the combined green energy additions of the US, EU and Japan put together.

Feed - in tariffs on fossil energy imports to the United States would surely end up reducing demand for fossil fuels as more and more renewable capacity became available — which is exactly what you would want to see happen if you are serious about slowing the rate of global warming.

To summarise, electricity retailers will need more renewable capacity over the next nine years (see graph below).

Not exact matches

Last year China built 10 times more renewable power capacity than natural gas - fired power, and three times more than coal - fired power.

The country's renewable capacity has more than tripled from 2008 levels as of 2016, and the solar market alone grew 95 % for the year according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.

They imposed a temporary moratorium on buying or building new natural gas capacity over 150 MW and ordered APS to return with plans to acquire more renewables.

IEA's «World Energy Investment» report shows that China was the largest destination of renewable - based power capacity investment in the world last year, reaching more than $ 90 billion, or over 60 percent of its total investment in generation.

This is expected to boost China's renewable energy capacity because financing from polluters can support more wind farms, hydroelectric dams and solar power plants.

Already, FERC is rewriting the rules for new transmission lines, potentially making it easier to permit new electricity - carrying capacity — and, as a result, unleashing the development of more renewable resources.

Germany's offshore wind capacity more than doubled last year as investors warm up to the technology, helping Europe's largest economy in its ambitious push into renewable power

At Xcel Energy, the utility firm with the highest total wind capacity in the United States, the number of forecasting errors has dropped since 2009, saving customers some US$ 60 million and reducing annual CO2 emissions from fossil - reserve power generation by more than a quarter of a million tonnes per year, says Drake Bartlett, a renewable - energy analyst with the firm who is based in Denver, Colorado.

«Tall towers,» Sritharan said, «can add more capacity for renewable energy in all states across the nation.»

If two - thirds of Fortune 100 companies want to buy electricity generated by off - site renewable energy sources this year, why hasn't more capacity been built?

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 GW capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 + gigawatts capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

Feed - in tariffs would also have the effect of lowering the consumer's costs for renewable energy, which would only grow cheaper over time, as more and more manufacturing capacity was built — because under equivalent economies of scale, renewables are definitely cheaper than fossil fuels.

Jacobson and Delucchi assumed that the bulk of the renewable energy would come from 3.8 million 5MW wind turbine (that would be 19TW rated capacity) providing half of the global energy demand at 11.5 TW (that is 28 % utilization which seems to be optimistic and the number I read so far where more around 10 - 20 % at best).

That battery storage initiative — we reported on it here — will add a 1MW storage capacity to the project, potentially offering even more utility in terms of stability of output and leveling out the peaks and troughs of renewable energy production.

-- China in 2012 increased electricity output more from non-hydro renewables than from all fossil - fueled and nuclear sources, and in 2013, added more PV capacity than the US had added since it invented PVs in 1954.

The flexibility offered by conventional thermal capacity, Berberich said, becomes progressively more vital as the ISO integrates more renewables.

The IEA forecasts show wind and solar together representing more than 80 % of global renewable capacity growth in the next five years.

The 10,900 megawatts of capacity installed worldwide generate enough renewable electricity to meet the needs of more than 6 million U.S. homes.

Building new transmission capacity doesn't necessarily mean that more renewable electricity will be integrated into the grid.

In August 2016, a new renewable energy mandate was passed and signed into law, requiring 1,600 MW of capacity from wind, more than double the capacity of Pilgrim (685 MW).

E.ON Italia S.p.A. With an installed capacity of more than 6 GW from traditional sources and 300 MW from renewables, and more than 900,000 overall customers in electricity and gas, E.ON Italia S.p.A. is today one of the major energy players in the country.

More importantly, given variable renewable output, the transmission lines can not operate at full capacity all the time.

A report from groups including the United Nations environmental arm and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) shows renewable energy installations were responsible for 61 % of the world's net power capacity additions in 2017, more than double the new - builds from fossil fuel - powered generation.

Ultimately, «this is a transition LADWP must make to meet existing targets, and this study shows getting all the way to 100 % renewables does not require any more renewable generating capacity,» Fields said.

This year the congress was much more ambitious on renewables than three years ago with energy Ministers predicting that India will exceed its target of 175GW renewable capacity and reach 200 GW by 2022.

Later, as more wind and solar capacity are added, renewable generation also surpasses coal - fired generation.

In its baseline New Policies Scenario, the IEA predicts that by 2040, total global generation capacity will increase by more than 60 %, and renewables will make up over 45 % of that total.

Backing out fossil fuels begins with the electricity sector, where the development of 5,153 gigawatts of new renewable generating capacity by 2020, over half of it from wind, would be more than enough to replace all the coal and oil and 70 percent of the natural gas now used to generate electricity.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power and more recently turbine blades, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 + gigawatt capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

In either case because Governor Cuomo has established goals for more renewables the source of the power from these transfer capacity improvements should be addressed.

According to the International Energy Agency, the world added more renewables - based power generation capacity in 2015 than all other technologies combined for the first time ever, and this movement is only expected to accelerate over the coming decades.

The shift will continue to accelerate, and by 2030 more than four times as much renewable capacity will be added.»

In addition, PacifiCorp has installed more than 10 times the generation capacity of these dams in renewable wind and solar facilities over the past decade.

Once completed, Los Vientos III and IV — announced last year — and Los Vientos V will bring Duke Energy's total wind - generated capacity to more than 2,100 MW, which firmly establishes Duke Energy Renewables in the top 10 for wind production in the country.

RE100 is partnering with the Chinese Renewables Energy Association (CREIA) in China to help build understanding and capacity that will enable more companies to source renewable electricity.

More than half of the country's new power generation capacity installed between now and 2040 is renewables - based, tapping Mexico's large wind and solar resources.

Led by wind and solar, renewables represented more than half the new power capacity around the world, reaching a record 153 Gigawatt (GW), 15 % more than the previous year.

Computerworld Renewable energy represented more than half the new power capacity in the world in 2015, reaching a record 153 gigawatts (GW)-- 15 % more than the previous year, according to a new report.

Of all new capacity built across the E.U. in 2016, 86 percent came from renewable sources like wind and solar, as well as more environmentally controversial sources like hydropower and biomass.

Reuters China will lead growth in global wind power capacity of almost 65 percent over the next five years, with other Asian countries also developing more renewable energy, the Global Wind Energy Council said on Tuesday.

More shocking, even in the wake of Fukushima, the Dutch are talking of approving their first new nuclear power plant in 40 years, because they can no longer afford to pay exorbitant fees for minimal amounts of renewable electricity (that is well below theoretically «rated» or «capacity» output).

Renewable technology has greatly expanded across the continent, with wind power overtaking coal as Europe's second - largest form of power capacity in 2016 — though coal is still used to meet more of the continent's electricity demand.

Recharge News Almost 42 % more PV capacity was installed than wind around the world in 2016, according to SolarPower Europe and GWEC figures Solar power shot past wind as the fastest growing renewable - energy technology for the first time last year, according to a new report by SolarPower Europe (SPE).