Sentences with phrase «overall use of renewable energies»

For Europeans opposed to nuclear energy (the biggest source of low - carbon energy in the EU), the portmanteau places a huge bet on technologies such as wind and wave power, setting a target to triple Europe's overall use of renewable energies by 2020.

Not exact matches

The state's business sector is making major efforts to reduce overall power consumption while moving towards greater use of renewable energy generation.

Trade and industry minister Lord Truscott makes the case for nuclear power as just one part of an overall strategy, which includes greater energy efficiency and more use of renewables such as wind, wave and solar power.

But overall, Hutchinson stressed, the city is contracting for more than 100 percent of the energy the city will use in the form of renewable power.

The use of renewable energy in the United States could take a significant leap forward with improved storage technologies or more efforts to «match» different forms of alternative energy systems that provide an overall more steady flow of electricity, researchers say in a new report.

Most obviously, renewable sources of electricity from wind and solar sources can be used to electrolyze water — although the overall energy efficiency of this process is likely to be quite low.

And already, we know that the recent drop in overall U.S. emissions is due in part to steps that promote greater efficiency and greater use of renewable energy.

The campus greenhouse gas reduction plan outlined in the report centers on four key approaches: reducing the overall energy use on campus, reducing the use of fossil fuels in campus buildings and vehicles, increasing the use of renewable energy sources to meet campus needs, and minimizing the release of «fugitive» gases from campus operations such as specialty research gases in laboratory buildings.

In 2006, the European Union (EU), which consists of 27 members, committed to reducing its global warming emissions by at least 20 percent of 1990 levels by 2020, to consuming 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, and to reducing its primary energy use by 20 percent from projected levels through increased energy efficiency.1 The EU has also committed to spending $ 375 billion a year to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 percent by 2050 compared to 1990 levels.2 The EU is meeting these goals through binding national commitments which vary depending on the unique situation of a given country but which average out to the overall targets.

And the completion of projects like Masdar City should help to emphasize the idea of using renewable energy to lessen the UAE's overall carbon footprint.

Hydro and solid biofuels remain the most used form of renewable energy, and grew in line with overall TPES of 2.5 % and 1.5 % per year respectively.

While not forgetting that electricity accounts for only a small part of our overall energy use, it's true that a renewable revolution of sorts really is under way.

Each state developed its own plan for investing those funds, but overall, 52 % was used for energy efficiency programs, 14 % for energy bill payment assistance, including assistance to low - income ratepayers, and 11 % to accelerate deployment of renewable energy technologies.

In reducing the overall amount of electricity the state consumes, energy efficiency projects support New York's Clean Energy Standard, which mandates that 50 percent of all electricity used in the state come from renewable sources byenergy efficiency projects support New York's Clean Energy Standard, which mandates that 50 percent of all electricity used in the state come from renewable sources byEnergy Standard, which mandates that 50 percent of all electricity used in the state come from renewable sources by 2030.

While a relatively small fraction of our overall energy supply in 2008, the United States is the world's largest consumer of renewable energy from geothermal, solar, wood, wind, and waste for electric power generation using some 26 % of the world's total.

China aims to increase use of natural gas from four to eight percent of overall needs, and renewable energy from 8 to 11 %.

Fifteen states, including President Bush's home state of Texas, have enacted legislation requiring utilities to increase their use of renewable energy sources such as wind power or biomass in generating a portion of their overall electricity.

By reducing the overall amount of electricity the state consumes, they also support New York's Clean Energy Standard, which mandates that 50 percent of all electricity used in the State come from renewable sources by 2030.

As the fourth largest economy in the world, Germany is able to reach 90 % of their overall total electricity demand using mostly renewable power from solar, wind, hydropower, and biomass energy sources.

His overall conclusion that non-solar renewable energy can never replace FF appears to have been very persuasive, because he has used a lot of scientific detail explaining energy, but not a very critical analysis of renewable energy potential.