Sentences with phrase «need additional electricity»

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Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

Building the additional electricity generating capacity needed to meet peak heat demand is simply unaffordable.

The agency is working with developer Apex Clean Energy to meet 100 percent of Fort Hood's electricity needs with onsite solar PV panels that are complemented by additional energy wired in from a wind farm in Floyd County, more than 300 miles northwest of the facility.

We have generated small amounts of electricity just by getting the fabric damp — without the need for any additional circuits or components.

In a 2014 paper in Nature, they concluded that atomic vibrations in the STO travel up into the iron selenide and give electrons the additional energy they need to pair up and carry electricity with zero loss at higher temperatures than they would on their own.

If I understand the above calculation correctly, it would seem that, in the electricity sector, we could mostly concentrate on meeting additional demand with efficiency and carbon neutral generation (and avoid some of the fights associated with replacing existing coal generation plants); but if we need to reduce emissions by 80 % by 2050, then I am not sure whether this makes sense.

In Hong Kong, as in much of the rest of the world right now, a debate is raging about how best to generate the additional electricity that is needed to power economic growth and development.

Because you will be using more electricity you may need to hire an electrician, upgrade your circuit breaker panel, and put in additional circuits for equipment such as the HRV.

To ensure that electricity supply always meets electricity demand, additional measures need to be taken.

He hopes this will facilitate further development of the wind project, including supporting the environmental assessments and interconnection studies needed to assess the impact of additional electricity on the grid.

Much of the additional needed electricity is projected to come from natural gas, creating more emissions in the process.

Additional infrastructure is needed in the electricity sector for creating a well - integrated national grid, and the market should be designed to give strong signals to locate generation where it is most valuable to the whole system.

Residential solar power usually must be supplemented by traditional electricity from the power grid to provide additional electricity when the solar panels can not meet energy needs, such as when it is nighttime or extremely cloudy.

An additional $ 600 - 800 billion is needed, the report says, including at least $ 45 billion for electricity expansion, $ 4.4 billion for modern cooking fuels, $ 394 billion for energy efficiency, and $ 174 billion for renewable energy.

This additional analysis will also include the effects of proposed changes to the LCFS, such as potential revisions to the calculation of ILUC (indirect land use change) values, options for refineries to generate credits via a refinery credit provisions, provisions for electricity credits for off - road applications, and a cost containment provision, which may affect the volumes and types of fuels needed for compliance.

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.

Electric power system planners forecast the demand for electricity at the time of the peak, and then identify existing and potential generating resources needed to satisfy that demand, plus enough additional resources to provide a comfortable reserve margin.

As risk consultant Edgar Gaertner has pointed out, Europeans are compelled to pay 20 cents per kWh of offshore wind electricity generated, plus an additional 5 cents per kWh for transmission, regardless of whether the electricity is needed at the moment it is generated.

However, additional reforms are necessary: In order to access the benefits of competition, to provide effective customer choice and to integrate Central European and EU energy markets, Slovakia needs to finalise the unbundling of the gas sector and the privatisation of electricity distribution, eliminate electricity price distortions and ensure fair access to energy facilities including storage.

After going solar, if you use more electricity than your system produces, you will need to pay for the additional electricity from your utility.

Additional turbines could provide electricity for other energy needs.

To fix that problem needs mindblowing additional resources, most of which need electricity to make — the Catch 22.

When there is a need for additional electricity, a steam turbine converts the heat energy back to electricity.

That is, the country would need to generate an additional 207 billion kWh of zero - carbon electricity in 2020, or 38 % of Germany's projected 2020 electricity demand.