Sentences with phrase «of global electricity consumption»

Already sourcing over 80 % of its global electricity consumption from renewable sources, the company aims to reach 100 % by investing in solar and wind energy and converting diesel generators into lithium storage batteries for maximising its use of renewable power.

The Estée Lauder Companies, a global leader in prestige beauty focused on makeup, skin care, fragrance and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 25 + brands sold in 150 countries, has joined RE100 with a commitment to source 100 % of its global electricity consumption from renewable energy technologies by 2020 — the company powered its operations with 45 % renewable electricity in 2016.

In this second edition of the International Energy Efficiency Scorecard, we analyze the world's 16 largest economies, comprising more than 81 % of global gross domestic product and about 71 % of global electricity consumption.

In fact, the use of air conditioners and electric fans already accounts for about a fifth of the total electricity in buildings around the world — or 10 % of all global electricity consumption.

Companies joining RE100 set a public goal to source 100 % of their global electricity consumption from renewable sources by a specified year.

(It's worth noting that renewables only account for 26 % of global electricity consumption by EVs today; the IEA expects this to increase to 30 % by 2022.)

Using air conditioners and electric fans to stay cool already accounts for about a fifth of the total electricity used in buildings around the world — or 10 % of all global electricity consumption today.

The amount of energy used to pump these fluids is considerable and corresponds to approximately 10 % of the global electricity consumption.

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I don't trust government - reported statistics, thus I'd watch numbers that the Chinese government is less likely to fudge: electricity consumption, which was down during the global recession, same - store sales of American fast food restaurants in China, tonnage of goods shipped through railroads, and, though they may lag, sales by American and European companies in China.

It sees coal as remaining dominant in the electricity generation sector: global consumption will rise by 1.3 percent a year — from 147 quadrillion British thermal units of energy in 2010 to 180 quadrillion Btu in 2020 to 220 quadrillion Btu in 2040.

While the U.S. boom in shale gas helped push the fossil fuel's share of total global energy consumption from 23.8 to 23.9 percent, coal also increased its share, from 29.7 to 29.9 percent, as demand for coal - fired electricity remained strong across much of the developing world, including China and India, and parts of Europe.

The annual potential of solar energy far exceeds the world's energy consumption, but the goal of using the sun to provide a significant fraction of global electricity demand is far from being realized.

GCAM reference scenario results showing a global GDP and population drivers, b global primary energy consumption by fuel source, c global electricity production by technology, and d global allocation of land among major land cover and land use categories

Renewable energy is making impressive gains in the electricity sector, although these are not being matched in transportation and heating — which together account for 80 % of global energy consumption.

In the IRENA case, electricity rises from 21 percent of total global energy consumption today to 40 percent by 2050.

Due to recent changes to the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, the global standard for carbon accounting, companies can now report emission - reducing effects derived from the consumption of green electricity, which they were previously unable to do.

Experts agree that a shift in our energy and consumption is necessary to avert catastrophe brought on by global warming, yet there is strong resistance to a major move away from a coal - fired electricity and oil - based economy to one based on alternative sources of renewable energy.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

Over 70 percent of the increase in global coal consumption is to fuel India's power sector so that electricity is provided to more of India's population.

Just as diversity through electricity was the key to America's industrial sector being able to increase productivity without increasing oil consumption, so too is it one of two keys (the other being diversity through biofuel) to fueling the growing number of vehicles expected on global highways without adding to the strain on global oil supplies and without everyone choking on their own exhaust.

The company aims to buy enough wind power annually to account for every unit of electricity it consumes in the US, with the total amount greater than the global electricity consumption of many RE100 members.

Analysis in the new WEO - 2017 showed that for the first time the largest share of global subsidies that benefit fossil fuel consumption went to keep electricity prices artificially low (41 % of the global total), ahead of oil (40 %) and natural gas.

But with a global annual consumption of nine terawatt hours of electricity, moving forward with a 100 percent renewable energy goal required a lot of discussion and planning.

The total global GHG emissions accrued to lighting electricity consumption was estimated in 2005 by the IEA at 1,889 MtCO2 of which grid based lighting systems contribute to 1,528 MtCO2.

According to the Digiconomist Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, the total volume of electricity needed for bitcoin mining is now equivalent to 0.14 percent of total global energy cConsumption Index, the total volume of electricity needed for bitcoin mining is now equivalent to 0.14 percent of total global energy consumptionconsumption.

He claimed that by February 2020, the electricity consumption of mining operations will be similar to the current global consumption.

According to Digiconomist's Bitcoin Energy Consumption 2017 Index, Bitcoin's annual estimated electricity consumption is equivalent to 29.05 TWh or 13 % of the total global energy electricity cConsumption 2017 Index, Bitcoin's annual estimated electricity consumption is equivalent to 29.05 TWh or 13 % of the total global energy electricity cconsumption is equivalent to 29.05 TWh or 13 % of the total global energy electricity consumptionconsumption.

Many experts have expressed concerns about the gigantic electricity consumption of cryptocurrency mining, by arguing that it potentially damages the global environment.