Sentences with phrase «nuclear power capacity needs»

The IEA has estimated that the world's nuclear power capacity needs to nearly double by 2025 to help meet climate targets.

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«Such,» they said, «is the talismanic power of nuclear weaponry that few politicians seem willing to trust the electorate with a real debate about the military capacity we need in the world of today.»

Those figures, say the authors of the report, an update on a similar report in 2003, mean that «even if all the announced plans for new nuclear power plant construction are realized, the total will be well behind that needed for reaching a thousand gigawatts of new capacity worldwide by 2050.»

«It's important to forecast how much renewable power will be generated, because that tells us how much conventional generation capacity — whether nuclear, gas, or coal — needs to be brought online.

Some new analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the pPower Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the ppower capacity in the regions surrounding the plant.

Nuclear power is projected to grow significantly, as many nations expand nuclear capacity to address rising electricity needs as well as energy security and environmental Nuclear power is projected to grow significantly, as many nations expand nuclear capacity to address rising electricity needs as well as energy security and environmental nuclear capacity to address rising electricity needs as well as energy security and environmental issues.

Nuclear power requires less expensive transmission (shorter distances and smaller transmission capacity in total because the capacity needs to be sufficient for maximum output but intermittent renewables average around 10 % to 40 % capacity factor whereas nuclear averages around 80 % toNuclear power requires less expensive transmission (shorter distances and smaller transmission capacity in total because the capacity needs to be sufficient for maximum output but intermittent renewables average around 10 % to 40 % capacity factor whereas nuclear averages around 80 % tonuclear averages around 80 % to 90 %).

Interestingly the US is already the largest nuclear power country by capacity, just low as a percentage of its needs (20 %).

I suggest, there is no need for ramping - capable nuclear power plants until nuclear capacity is sufficient to supply most of baseload — as is the case in France.

If we'd need 10,000 nuclear plants, how many solar plants would be required to achieve the same power and reliability; and how much area, how far apart would they have to be placed to provide reliable supply, how much storage would be required, how much transmission line length and capacity would be required how much total materials and how much transport between all the processing, production, construction and decomissioning steps?

In short, if we want a 100 percent renewables world, with no coal, gas, or nuclear, we'll need to build more power generation capacity, faster, than at any time in history.

And when we do need to add new capacity, it will likely come from far cleaner coal technologies, nuclear power and renewables like wind and solar, the two men asserted.

In terms of the outlook for increased nuclear generating capacity he stressed the need to increase «safety culture» in Russia as well as the power and resources of the Russian nuclear safety regulator.

German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity — equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity — through the midday hours of Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank has said... Norbert Allnoch, director of the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry in Muenster, said the 22 gigawatts of solar power fed into the national grid on Saturday met nearly 50 % of the nation's midday electricity needs.