Sentences with phrase «other renewable sources»

Compared with other renewable sources of energy, wind energy yield per acre is off the charts.

He notes that unlike electricity from many other renewable sources, power from the batteries could be held back and used at times of peak demand.

Solar power represented more than half of the total investments, while wind was a close second and other renewable sources trailing far behind.

Yet that is exactly what is required for distribution of solar energy, wind power, and other renewable sources of electricity.

Leading the world green electricity race are 1) Iceland and 1) Norway, both generating a full 100 % of their electricity from green sources — Norway gets 99 % from hydro and 1 % from other renewable sources of energy; Iceland has, as many people know, a good deal of geothermal power (27 %), with hydro making up the remaining 73 %.

B. Existing Net Summer Capacity of Other Renewable Sources by Producer Type, 2006 through 2016 (Megawatts)

Currently, more than 85 % of the power generated by Brookfield Renewable Partners is hydro, with the rest coming from wind and other renewable sources like solar, biomass, and thermal.

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, has already declared a goal of having 50 percent of the state's power come from solar, wind, hydroelectric or other renewable sources in 15 years, but the state has had no means of enforcing that directive.

The utility said that it expected the plants, both using photovoltaic technology, which turns sunlight directly into electricity, would be competitive with other renewable sources, including wind and solar thermal, which uses the sun's heat to boil water.

We have world scale reserves of oil, natural gas, coal, uranium, hydroelectric power, wood and other renewable sources too.

Organizations that sign up to «buy» electricity generated from wind or other renewable sources generally do so for one or both of two purposes:

As of 2013, thermal sources represented 75 percent of Mexico's installed capacity, followed by hydropower generation, which accounted for 19 percent of total capacity, while other renewable sources, such as wind, solar and geothermal energy represented less than 6 percent of electricity generation in Mexico.

It is needed to facilitate the integration of offshore wind power and energy from other renewable sources and to interconnect different power networks in particular since it is efficient for the long - distance transportation of electricity.

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) on Thursday approved a rule requiring state utility companies to get a third of their electricity from solar power, wind and other renewable sources by 2020.

Moreover, it is thought by economists that the main reason for the flattening of emissions is the vast increase in wind, solar and other renewable sources of electricity.

Solar power recently crossed the threshold to become the cheapest energy source, and other renewable sources are quickly dropping in price, putting them close to par or better compared to conventional fossil - fuels.

«We need to encourage local power generation through wind, solar, geothermal and other renewable sources,» he said.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo also will propose committing $ 5 billion over 10 years through New York's energy agency to bankroll the state's Clean Energy Fund, which is intended to boost solar energy and other renewable sources.

«Similar to how a plant takes carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water to make sugars for itself, we are interested in using technology to take energy from the sun or other renewable sources to convert CO2 into small building block molecules which can then be upgraded using traditional means of chemistry for commercial use,» says Phil De Luna, a PhD candidate in materials science.

Energy produced from hydro, wind, solar, and other renewables sources is expected to exceed that from natural gas and double that from nuclear sources by 2016 — becoming the second most important energy source behind coal.

With a focused, decades - long effort, the United States could probably get most of its electricity from wind, solar, and other renewable sources.

Solar panels have become much, much cheaper and are being deployed in regions around the world, as are other renewable sources of energy.

Also, at the ACS meeting, Dr. Mariefel V. Olarte shared her team's work on turning pyrolysis oil, a liquid produced from thermal decomposition of agricultural wastes and other renewable sources, into transportation fuels and valuable chemicals.

January 28, 2014 - Audi is investing in a startup, Paris - based Global Bioenergies, that says it can make cheap gasoline from sugar and other renewable sources.

As today's Times reports, the House on Wednesday approved a bill to extend more than $ 17 billion in tax credits and other incentives for boosting production of energy from solar, wind and other renewable sources and to promote energy conservation.

WASHINGTON, DC — The global economy is now undergoing a transition from fossil and nuclear energy to clean power from solar, wind, and other renewable sources, according to the latest book from environmental analyst Lester Brown and his colleagues at the Earth Policy Institute (EPI).

First, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by helping developing countries switch from high - polluting fossil fuels to wind, solar and other renewable sources of energy.

How well are other renewable sources of energy faring?

Variable resources such as wind and solar power can provide up to about half of U.S. electricity, with the remaining 30 percent from other renewable sources.

But some of the power, under the agreement, must also come from wind, solar or other renewable sources that aren't hydropower.

Other renewable sources, such as biomass, geothermal, wave and small - scale solar power, will be integrated with the grid without the need to trade on the market.

These transfers occur principally when political leaders in some states enact «Renewable Portfolio Standards» (RPS) that require electric distribution companies to provide specified shares of the electricity generated from wind or other renewable sources.

I think it still makes sense to manufacture, use, and improve them as eventually the energy to produce them could come from PV and other renewable sources.

Many utilities, though, still don't consider the full value of wind, solar, and other renewable sources.

Some options hold the potential for net emission reductions that exceed 100 percent — meaning that more carbon would be sequestered during the production process than would be emitted as carbon dioxide during its life cycle — if fertilizer inputs are minimized and biomass or other renewable sources are used for process energy (see Worldwatch Institute, 2007).

And over 20 years or so, with continued growth of 20 - 30 per cent a year, the necessary scale would be achieved If so (and assuming contributions from other renewable sources) the transition to a post-carbon economy could be faster and cheaper than most existing estimates suggest.

At the time, the IFC justified the project on the basis of the «limited availability and high prices of gas, hydro, and other renewable sources.»

Passage of a climate - energy bill in the Senate is crucial to President Obama's energy plans, which push wind, solar, and other renewable sources.

However, because hydroelectric dams have an impact on land and water environments, and because dams can only be efficiently located in a limited number of places, some newer laws have been designed to encourage electricity generation from other renewable sources, such as wind, tides, geothermal energy, solar energy (photovoltaic cells, concentrated solar power, and solar thermal energy), landfill gas, etc..

During his overseas tours Senjem learned how Germany is closing nuclear plants and replacing that energy with solar, wind and other renewable sources.

We also turn to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable sources to largely replace oil, coal, and natural gas.

The Royal Society of Great Britain, one of the most distinguished of the world's learned societies, has called for a zero carbon world, in which energy is derived from sun, wind and other renewable sources.

Canadian electricity generation in 2000 totaled 567.1 billion kilowatt hours (bkwh), of which 60 % was hydropower, 26 % was conventional thermal power (oil, gas, and coal), 12 % was nuclear generation, and 1 % was derived from other renewable sources.

Geothermal energy is a clean, safe and plentiful energy source that minimizes ecological impacts better than any other renewable source of power.

During this battle, which he eventually lost, Trump referred to the # 200m development project as «the Scottish government's dangerous experiment with wind energy,» despite the fact that Scotland harnesses more than 38 percent of its current energy needs from wind and other renewable sources.

Fourth place is occupied by 4) Brazil, with 87 % hydropower and other renewable sources of electricity.

Coming in third is 3) Costa Rica, which gets 94 % of its electricity from green sources: 76 % hydropower and 18 % from other renewable sources (largely geothermal).

That is despite falling prices for energy from solar, wind and other renewable sources.

Federal production tax credits and grants for electricity from certain renewable sources as well as State - level renewable portfolio standards have encouraged both capacity additions and increased generation from wind and other renewable sources.