Sentences with phrase «nuclear electricity now»

How do you deal with the fact that wind electricity is competitive with fossil fuel and nuclear electricity NOW and is still coming down?

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Four or five decades from now, physicists say, nuclear fusion may provide nearly limitless cheap, clean electricity.

Shocks to ratepayers In fact, Japan's electricity prices are now among the highest in Asia, a condition created partly by high - priced renewables, but also by its heavy reliance on imported energy fuels following the closure of its nuclear plants, which provided 26 percent of the country's power before 2011.

Right now, America gets about one - fifth of our electricity from nuclear energy.

An Energy Department review of geothermal sources last year said we might be able to generate as much electricity by 2050 that way as is now produced with nuclear plants.

-- Micropower — the Economist's term for renewables, less big hydro, plus cogeneration — now produces one - fourth of the world's electricity (> 2x nuclear output); see RMI's July 2014 Micropower Database update for details.

In China, electricity from wind farms now exceeds that from nuclear power plants.

With nuclear providing always - on electricity that will become more cost - effective if a price is placed on heat - trapping carbon dioxide emissions, utilities have found it is now viable to replace turbines or lids that have been worn down by radiation exposure or wear.

Perhaps most significant, hydrogen - powered electricity is now competitive with nuclear, LNG and coal in carbon and risk - adjusted terms (ie against nuclear).

The lifecycle cost of electricity from new nuclear plants is now $ 148 per megawatt - hour, or 14.8 cents per kilowatt, while it is 5 c / kwh for utility scale solar and 4.5 c / kwh for wind.

• Kyoto Protocol • EU ETS • Australian CO2 tax and ETS • Mandating and heavily subsidising ($ / TWh delivered) renewable energy • Masses of inappropriate regulations that have inhibited the development of nuclear power, made it perhaps five times more expensive now than it should be, slowed its development, slowed its roll out, caused global CO2 emissions to be 10 % to 20 % higher now than they would otherwise have been, meaning we are on a much slower trajectory to reduce emissions than we would be and, most importantly, we are locked in to fossil fuel electricity generation that causes 10 to 100 times more fatalities per TWh than would be the case if we allowed nuclear to develop (or perhaps 1000 times according to this: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html • Making building regulations that effectively prevent people from selling, refurbishing or updating their houses if they are close to sea level (the damage to property values and to property owners» life savings is enormous as many examples in Australia are already demonstrating.

If they had never been imposed, the cost of nuclear could now be around 10 % of what it is, 66 % of electricity generation globally could be from nuclear and 9.5 million fatalities from genuine pollution could have been avoided.

Consequently, there are now 17 nuclear power stations around the earthquake - prone Japanese archipelago, comprising 54 nuclear reactors that provide 30 percent of Japan's total electricity generating capacity.

But now cheap gas is also driving nuclear plants out of competitive energy markets, and some nuclear plants licensed to operate for several more decades could close before 2020, taking their low - carbon electricity with them.

Finally, there is the very unstable electricity output: nuclear reactors are fairly often being serviced, especially since most of them are quite old now, and no electricity is produced during these service periods.

Lovins said that micropower (i.e. distributed energy generation) now accounts for one - sixth of world power, surpassing nuclear as a source of electricity for the first time in 2006.

France is happy because it can flog its nuclear to suckers like Spain (France now the world's biggest electricity retailer) and it wins in any carbon trade offs.

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Low cost natural gas is in demand and has been replacing coal and nuclear power in electricity markets in New England, which is now over 50 percent dependent on natural gas.

The IESO has ensured that Ontario's electricity needs can be met now and into the future by contracting for energy from diverse resources such as wind, solar, hydro, bioenergy, nuclear and natural gas.

For example, if nuclear power had not been blocked by the greenies, Eco NGOs, «Progressives» in 1993, Australia's CO2 emissions from electricity generation could be half what they are now.

Many countries have now liberalized the electricity market where these risks, and the risk of cheaper competitors emerging before capital costs are recovered, are borne by plant suppliers and operators rather than consumers, which leads to a significantly different evaluation of the economics of new nuclear power plants.

With its nuclear power reactors in the process of being shut down by government decree (done in a hysterical state of mind in the wake of Fukushima), Germany now needs to find an alternative supply for electricity, and real soon.

Despite Connecticut's successes, the state is now at risk of losing its lone nuclear plant, which currently supplies over half of Connecticut's electricity consumption and provides 96 percent of the state's zero - carbon electricity.

Many of the three billion people who do not have electricity would now have had it, saving many additional fatalities per year (not included in the number I gave previously which was only for replacing coal generation with nuclear generation).

If nuclear power replaced coal fired electricity generation overnight throughout the world, it would avoid over 1 million fatalities per year now, and over 2 million per year in 2050.

We'd now be at perhaps 30 % of global electricity generated by nuclear power.

Dominion, which provides electricity to a majority of Virginia, including virtually all of Hampton Roads, will continue to study ways to diversify its portfolio of power sources, which now relies mostly on nuclear, coal and natural gas, he said.

Even the most aggressive and optimistic scenarios for a «nuclear renaissance» that the nuclear industry itself has put forward would, at most, keep nuclear power's share of global electricity generation about where it is now.

Unless CSP becomes a lot cheaper I see most electricity generated by wind with possibly some nuclear and NG and hydro providing peak demand (as it does now).

It now looks like solar PV in the UK produced just 66 GWh of electricity in 2009 — less than a thousandth of what the nuclear energy sector did, with fewer people.