Sentences with phrase «of electricity»

The organization has set itself the target of sourcing 100 percent of its electricity from renewable sources of energy by the year 2025.

All renewables combined amounted to 5.4 percent of electricity generation in 2012.

It's long been known that white roofs reflect more heat back into space, reducing the amount of electricity used for A / C and thus drastically cutting down on energy consumption.

Renewable energy is growing rapidly and is already a significant source of electricity in many states and countries.

The agency predicts that this share will increase to 28 percent by the year 2021, making renewables the fastest - growing source of electricity generation in the world.

But, in fact, it can reduce the total cost of electricity generation, the new study finds.

The amount of electricity used on an hourly basis.

Imagine being able generate six hours of electricity from a single liter of urine.

Yes, it «could» be — if the public policy and regulatory decisions keep driving up the price of electricity generated from traditional sources.

In 2015, the state set goals of having 50 percent of electricity generated by carbon - free renewables by 2030.

This starts with the sustainable energy supply of electricity production.

The wind farm would produce approximately 2.5 billion kWh of electricity per year, assuming a generous 30 percent capacity factor.

A utility - scale project is that which is capable of producing 20 or more megawatts of electricity for distribution to customers through the electricity transmission grid system.

All of this reduces the investment and operation cost for developers, makes offshore wind projects more profitable, and ultimately lowers cost of electricity for consumers.

The focus of the congressional request was on subsidies for electricity generation, both on a total dollar amount and on the amount per unit of electricity production.

He also called for a national «renewable portfolio standard» to increase the amount of electricity produced by sources other than fossil fuels.

Once I had kg CO2 emissions per kWh of electricity produced in a single column, I could see which states were best and which were worst.

You support the solar industry through a variety of tax and regulatory policies — voted in by politicians you elected — that favor it over other lower - cost forms of electricity generation.

The only electricity - system argument for nuclear energy is that it generates a lot of electricity with very little carbon.

By installing more energy storage technologies like solar batteries, electric utilities and grid operators can more easily manage the flow of electricity from renewable resources.

Lighting amounts to approximately 20 per cent of the electricity consumption in the world.

When the project is done, it will be the world's largest solar community (with about 15 percent of its electricity coming from the panels).

The Scottish government has pledged to get the equivalent of 100 per cent of electricity demand from renewable sources by 2020.

And much of this is happening in parts of the world that generate most of their electricity with coal.

Most of our electricity comes from coal and nuclear power plants.

They are jointly operated to supply exactly the amount of electricity demanded at any given time.

We've personally also had to deal with fire and water damage as well as extended loss of electricity at different times in our family's history.

Because most states have renewable portfolio standards (or renewable energy standards) that require power companies to produce a set percentage of their electricity from sources such as wind and solar.

Such devices can produce a lot of electricity on a bright sunny day.

Such grids will enable utility companies to monitor energy use in minute detail, allowing them to alter the price of electricity as demand changes.

That amounts to about 3 percent of the electricity consumed by its customers.

And wind turbines are consumers of electricity when the wind isn't blowing within their optimal range of speed.

It also provides transmission services to third parties as well as the generation and sale of electricity into the wholesale market.

Thirty - one nations rely on nuclear energy for a portion of their electricity supply.

Thanks to these regulations, automakers have prevented emissions of 130 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — equivalent to a year's worth of electricity use for 20 million homes.

Together, the bikes generate 600 watts of electricity per hour when in use.

Cells can meet their energy needs in the form of electricity through nano - wire connections.

Recent improvements in energy efficiency will accelerate the rule's implementation, the agency projects, with a roughly 8 percent cut in the national average cost of electricity bills by 2030.

«It's looking quite promising that a solar roof will actually cost less than a normal roof before you even take the value of electricity into account,» said Musk.

They failed to deal with some of the biggest obstacles to sustained growth — like the severe lack of electricity across the continent — and spur industries that would create jobs.

In the recent past, coal generation has played an important, albeit supporting, role to gas — producing a third of electricity generation in 2013, compared to 41 % globally.

The paper, «From fossil fuels to renewables: The role of electricity storage,» also offers evidence that better storage technology boosts the efficiency of the entire electricity sector.