Sentences with phrase «percent capacity growth»

«Anticipating that Chinese growth will continue and extrapolating on past trends, the iron ore industry is now planning expansions equating to over 100 percent capacity growth in the next ten years.

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At the same time, the committee's median forecast for long - run expansion was unchanged at 1.8 percent, suggesting officials aren't yet convinced the tax package will significantly affect the economy's capacity for growth.

«Anyone can have the technical capacity to communicate, serve, or buy something, anywhere on the planet,» says Shriver, whose company has grown 300 percent growth over the past five years.

Amazon to get 18 new dams To sustain a growth rate of about 5 percent a year, Brazil needs to add 5,000 megawatts of installed capacity every year, according to Mauricio Tolmasquim, president of Brazil's Energy Research Co., the agency in charge of mapping the future of the energy sector.

That compares with an expected 4 percent annual growth in thermal power capacity, half that seen between 2005 and 2011, said Liu Xiangdong, director of planning statistics of the China Electricity Council.

«Those athletes given growth hormone improved their sprint capacity by 4 - 5 percent,» said Professor Ho.

Community groups will include Urban Tilth, an organization that hires and trains West County residents to build community gardens «to develop the capacity to produce 5 percent of our own food supply,» and Bright Futures, a nonprofit growth and development center for school children.

Growth has slowed slightly — from 16 percent in 2013 to an estimated 9 percent in 2016 — which could be a sign that charter schools are approaching capacity.

To slow demand growth in a tight - capacity economy, Greenspan doubled overnight interest rates from 3 percent to 6 percent in 12 months, handing bond investors their largest loss in almost 70 years.

Another factor is Bergan preserves 30 percent of our capacity for professional growth, idea exploration and chasing bold new possibilities.

PV capacity in the United States also saw strong growth in 2010, increasing by more than 50 percent to reach 2,500 total megawatts.

China is the undisputed renewable energy leader and is responsible for 40 percent of the global renewable energy capacity growth, with solar leading the way.

«This gulf will only widen over the next several years, with continued strong growth of renewables and the planned retirement of at least seven percent of nuclear capacity by 2025.

Reuters China will lead growth in global wind power capacity of almost 65 percent over the next five years, with other Asian countries also developing more renewable energy, the Global Wind Energy Council said on Tuesday.

After annual average growth of about 50 percent for five years, the U.S. electricity industry installed a total of 1 gigawatt - hour of new storage capacity between 2013 and 2017, according to the firm GTM Research.

That's a tiny base — less than 1 percent of installed solar PV capacity, according to GTM — but growth is accelerating.

For many years now, the top five countries — with roughly 70 percent of world wind generating capacity — have dominated growth in the industry, but this is now changing as the industry goes global, with 70 countries now harnessing their wind resources.

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The article says Burleson claimed that, «despite Piltz's claims that greenhouse gas emissions from planes have been increasing, Bureau of Transportation statistics show CO2 emissions from jet fuel have actually decreased by 5 percent since 2000, despite a growth in capacity.»

In the United States, the American Wind Energy Association projects a staggering 60 percent growth in wind - generating capacity this year.

In Thailand, estimates are that the drought will cut the country's economic growth by 0.6 to 0.8 percent this year and the four largest dams in the Chao Phraya River basin hold only 14 percent of their capacity.

New Mexico's third - quarter growth in capacity was 20 percent, good enough for fifth place behind Arizona, which is constructing its first large - scale wind - energy project, Pennsylvania (29 percent), Illinois (22 percent) and Wyoming (21 percent), the report said.

Over the past five years, U.S. wind energy capacity grew from 25,000 megawatts (MW) to over 61,000 MW, a 140 percent growth rate, yet electricity generated from these wind

Wind accounted for 37 percent of new generation capacity in the USA in 2010 — and that was a bad year for the growth of wind power in the US.

«The solar industry is poised for a rapid decline in costs that will make it a mainstream power option in the next few years, according to a new assessment by the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Prometheus Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Global production of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells, which turn sunlight directly into electricity, has risen sixfold since 2000 and grew 41 percent in 2006 alone... This growth, while dramatic, has been constrained by a shortage of manufacturing capacity for purified polysilicon, the same material that goes into semiconductor chips.

Over the past five years, U.S. wind energy capacity grew from 25,000 megawatts (MW) to over 61,000 MW, a 140 percent growth rate, yet electricity generated from these wind turbines grew at a rate of 200 percent, exceeding capacity growth and making wind energy cheaper than ever.