Sentences with phrase «other electricity generation technologies»

Or indeed the mining of materials for other electricity generation technologies?

If the unjustifiable impediments were removed, competition and innovations would take off; technologies would improve faster, safety would improve and costs could be expected to decline at around 10 % per capacity doubling (typical for other electricity generation technologies over the past 100 years or so).

Nuclear is still a factor of 600 safer than the main alternative, coal, and still much safer than all other electricity generation technologies (on a fully life cycle basis).

So nuclear generation is not as safe and it is more expensive than it would have been if it had been allowed to compete and develop on an equal footing with other electricity generation technologies.

Even when the plants do a Fukushima (an exceedingly rare occurrence and the frequency per unit of electricity produced is decreasing), the fatalities and health consequences are negligible and, properly normalised for the amount of electricity they supply, are less than any other electricity generation technology operating routinely.

Lastly, nuclear is safer than any other electricity generation technology, including wind and solar: http://nextbigfuture.com/2012/06/deaths-by-energy-source-in-forbes.html

Not exact matches

Despite ample wind and sun, some of the highest electricity prices in the country, and the steep cost decline in renewable energy technologies, Puerto Rico has fallen far behind other US regions in renewable energy investment, forming barely 2 percent of its generation mix.

Researchers categorized the electricity system into three principal components: consumers; generation technologies; and the wires, poles, storage and other hardware required to connect end users and generators.

Artificial reef construction by means of mineral accretion, also known as «third generation» artificial reef systems, is a novel technology which uses electricity to «grow» limestone rock on artificial frames and increase growth rates of corals and other reef organisms.

Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low - cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.

Offshore wind is a rising force, but remains for the moment a relatively marginal one at 0.2 % of global electricity generation; wind and other marine technologies face stiff competition from a range of onshore options, including other low - carbon sources of generation.

Bearing in mind the portfolio of other renewable energy technologies available, 2 percent of electricity generation from perennial biomass in 2050 still comprises a significant portion of global electricity demand.

Electricity markets are undergoing massive transformation, as the push for low - carbon power generation shifts the industry towards high investment in renewables and other new technologies even as demand stagnates or declines in many countries.

Requires FERC to: (1) issue to each generator of renewable electricity a REC for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated after December 31, 2011; (2) issue three RECs for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated by an existing distributed renewable generation facility; and (3) review the effect of issuing three RECs and to reduce such number for any given energy source or technology to ensure that such number is no higher than is necessary to make such facilities using such source or technology cost competitive with other sources of renewable electricity generation.

-- Except as provided in subparagraph (C), not later than January 1, 2014, and not less frequently than every 4 years thereafter, the Commission shall review the effect of this paragraph and shall, as necessary, reduce the number of Federal renewable electricity credits per megawatt hour issued under this paragraph for any given energy source or technology, but not below 1, to ensure that such number is no higher than the Commission determines is necessary to make distributed renewable generation facilities using such source or technology cost competitive with other sources of renewable electricity generation.

Through the process of integrating landfill methane with other solutions, the total addressable market for electricity generation technologies was adjusted to account for reduced demand resulting from the growth of more energy - efficient technologies, [8] as well as increased electrification from other solutions like electric vehicles and high - speed rail.

Other studies of nearly decarbonizing the power sector by mid-century show that more efficient, advanced biopower technologies using low - carbon feedstocks, such as agricultural residues and energy crops, could provide a modest contribution of up to 15 percent of U.S. electricity generation (NREL 2012, UCS 2013).

The competitiveness of conventional coal - fired electricity generation relative to other technologies diminishes as the stringency of an emissions cap increases.

More new wind electricity generating capacity was added in 2012 than any other generation technology, including natural gas — a record 13,100 megawatts.

[5] The German Offshore Wind Act is a part of Germany's broader Renewable Energy Act (EEG 2017), which provides for technology - specific (including OSW - specific) energy auctions aimed at driving down the cost of electricity generated by OSW and other renewable generation methods (Kilgus and Bader 2016).

Other provisions in the act — such as tax incentives that encourage the adoption of energy - efficient technologies, a shift to more combined heat and power generation, and the adoption of real - time pricing of electricity (a measure that will discourage optional electricity use during peak demand periods)-- would cut electricity demand enough to avoid building an additional 37 coal - fired power plants.

CSP and offshore wind had cumulative installed capacity of just 5 GW and 13 GW respectively at the end of 2016, while the cost of electricity from recently commissioned projects for these technologies is higher than for other renewable power generation technologies.

In January DECC submitted an appeal in which they noted that «the High Court's decision was based on the view that the proposed approach to implementing new tariffs for solar PV is inconsistent with the FIT scheme's statutory purpose of encouraging small - scale low - carbon electricity generation» But DECC said «The overriding aim of the proposed reduction in tariffs for solar PV (as set out in the recent consultation) is to ensure that over the long term as many people as possible are encouraged to install small scale low - carbon generation (including other technologies as well as solar PV) and benefit from the funding available for the FIT scheme.