Sentences with phrase «of nuclear power capacity»

However, G20 countries are also the key driver of low - carbon technology deployment, holding 98 % of global installed wind power generation, 96 % of solar PV and 94 % of nuclear power capacity.

But He said that would depend on China achieving a real reduction in coal consumption from sometime around 2020 or 2025, and on the nation meeting its target of having 150 - 200 gigawatts of nuclear power capacity by 2030.

Not exact matches

The country's nuclear power plants have been shuttered with only part of the capacity replaced by wind and solar.

«I am quite sure that nuclear power generation will at least maintain its footprint,» he said, suggesting the nuclear industry will continue to increase capacity and remain part of a wider energy mix worldwide.

More likely, there are still nuclear plants running, and there may even be some natural gas plants lingering in the system — not running at full capacity, but they have the ability to power up quickly when there's not a lot of sun or wind.

That would add to around 400 GW of globally installed power capacity and is comparable to the world's total nuclear power capacity of around 390 GW as of the end of 2016.

The closure of Hydro - Quebec's Gentilly - 2 nuclear power plant temporarily lowers Quebec's fiscal capacity, as measured under the Equalization program, which in turn lowers Ontario's Equalization entitlement over a three - year period.

«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.»

«By reducing the capacity, you damage the nuclear power plant at the heart of its economic function.»

Tom Greatrex, chief executive of the UK Nuclear Industry Association, said: «Building new nuclear capacity in west Cumbria is an integral part of the UK being able to replace old power stations, keeping a balanced mix as carbon emissions are rNuclear Industry Association, said: «Building new nuclear capacity in west Cumbria is an integral part of the UK being able to replace old power stations, keeping a balanced mix as carbon emissions are rnuclear capacity in west Cumbria is an integral part of the UK being able to replace old power stations, keeping a balanced mix as carbon emissions are reduced.

It also assumes that 45 new nuclear power plants could be built by 2030, using existing reactor sites, adding 64 gigawatts of new capacity.

Additional energy capacity will come from two new reactors at Plant Vogtle, a nuclear power plant in eastern Georgia, near the South Carolina border, that Georgia Power owns jointly with Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton Utilipower plant in eastern Georgia, near the South Carolina border, that Georgia Power owns jointly with Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton UtiliPower owns jointly with Oglethorpe Power Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton UtiliPower Corp., the Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia and Dalton Utilities.

Targets for nuclear power range from 35 % of generating capacity down to zero — a total nuclear phaseout — although those close to the deliberations believe the government will settle on 15 % when it finalizes the policy this summer.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

At the end of 2016 Japan had 14,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel stored at nuclear power plants, filling about 70 percent of its onsite storage capacity.

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.»

From downtown Munich to the fields of Bavaria, those panels exploited the photoelectric effect (in which light expels electrons to create an electric current) to crank out the equivalent of 16 nuclear power plants operating at full capacity.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

Given 5 - 10 years of dev and some nuclear batteries / currently unknown hi - drain hi - capacity power source this could become feasible, Spartan - 001 here we come:).

The researchers specifically excluded power resources such as nuclear, hydroelectric, wind and solar as each of these already produce electricity at maximum capacity.

RE # 27, Paul — to repeat, it still seems to be that if you have $ 4 billion to spend on non-CO2 producing energy sources, the better investment would be to build 40 solar - cell manufacturing facilities at $ 100 million apiece; for example see Honda Solar Factory; this would result in some 1,100 megawatts of solar cell capacity being produced per year, in comparison to a single nuclear power plant (typical power level: 600-1200 MW) being built.

Operating nuclear power reactors have a generating capacity of more than 380,000 megawatts of electric power.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission is currently involved in pre-licensing vendor design reviews - an optional service to assess of a nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 3Nuclear Safety Commission is currently involved in pre-licensing vendor design reviews - an optional service to assess of a nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 3nuclear power plant design based on a vendor's reactor technology - for ten small reactors with capacities in the range of 3 - 300 MWe.

And yes central power will be another piece (nuclear is great for baseload power... it operates at 90 % capacity factors even if the price of building a new plant has risen by 130 % since 2000) Centralized wind and solar will mature but then there's the transmission issue...

«Experts project that by 2010 the number of solar water heaters installed in China will equal the thermal equivalent of the electrical capacity of 40 large nuclear power plants.»

By the time that new nuclear power plants can even begin to generate any «carbon free» electricity, we can build and deploy hundreds of gigawatts of wind and solar generating capacity — and that's with today's mainstream, already commercialized technology, let alone the innovations like thin - film solar that are just beginning to enter the market.

200 nuclear power plants would eliminate over 50 % of U.S. carbon emissions as well as produce enough hydrogen capacity to replace all oil imports and related automobile emissions.

During a peak viewing time when most sets are on, such as the Super Bowl, TVs in the state collectively suck up the equivalent of 40 % of the power generated by the San Onofre nuclear power station running at full capacity.

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.

A number of scenario analyses forecast tight generation capacity in the southern regions, where most of the phased - out nuclear power is concentrated, and suggest excess power from the north should be rerouted to the south — a recommendation strongly advocated by the Federal Network Agency and ministries involved with the transition.

Between 2000 and 2010 — under a looming urgency to secure energy supplies posed by the Schröder nuclear phaseout — the share of renewables in Germany's power profile soared from 6.4 % (37 TWh) to 17 % (103 TWh), and installed nameplate capacities surged by almost 500 %, from 12 GW to 56 GW.

China plans to raise its total installed nuclear power generating capacity to 70 GW by 2020 and to raise the proportion of China's nuclear power to 5 % of the total installed electricity generating capacity by 2020.

Cheap natural gas, stagnant power demand, and power prices that have fallen significantly since 2008 have jeopardized the economics of about two - thirds of the nation's 100 - GW nuclear capacity, according to a working paper from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research.

Faced with the on - going nuclear crisis in Japan — the costs of which could make the March earthquake and subsequent tsnuami the most expensive natural disaster the world has ever seen — nearby China may be moving to double its target for solar photovoltaic (PV) power capacity over the next five years.

Consequently, our proposed CES would include a percentage of natural gas when replacing existing coal capacity, 25 coal with carbon capture and sequestration, waste - to - energy, biomass, energy efficiency and nuclear power.

About half of Japan's nuclear reactors will probably have to be inspected, reducing the nation's power generating capacity by 15 %.

Nuclear power is characterized by high capacity factors and because Indian Point provides over 20 % of New York City's power the location of the replacement generation matters.

Nuclear power plants in the US run around 90 percent of the time, so they have a 90 percent capacity factor.

The share of nuclear power, the other non-fossil energy source, remained constant at about 6 %, for many years, with nuclear capacity increasing in line with increasing global energy consumption.

The US actually has more nuclear power capacity than France or Japan (who have turned most of theirs off now), but it is a lower percentage of its total than France.

New low - carbon generation — renewables and nuclear — from capacity coming online in 2015 is expected to exceed the entire growth of global power demand that year.

Nuclear power also has the technical capacity he thought, IMO, although the risk from terrorism probably makes it unworkable as the primary mainstay of future power.

China is building more than a third of the world's nuclear reactors currently under construction, and has plans to triple its nuclear power capacity by 2020.

More shocking, even in the wake of Fukushima, the Dutch are talking of approving their first new nuclear power plant in 40 years, because they can no longer afford to pay exorbitant fees for minimal amounts of renewable electricity (that is well below theoretically «rated» or «capacity» output).

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

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

Dr Schiffer argued that nuclear energy is a viable means in diversifying existing generating capacities, while limiting the growth of carbon emissions and securing power supply.

In the absence of nuclear power, maintaining sufficient electricity capacity will require strong policies to promote energy efficiency and renewable energy.

As nuclear power generation disappears by 2022, electricity production from natural gas will play an important transitional role in Germany in order to fill the gap left open from the closing of nuclear capacity.

For example, nighttime energy demand is much lower than during the day, and yet we waste a great deal of energy from coal and nuclear power plants, which are difficult to power up quickly, and are thus left running at high capacity even when demand is low.