Sentences with phrase «percent of its electricity supply»

After decades of failed promise, photovoltaics remain expensive and inefficient and account for less than.03 percent of the electricity supply nationwide.

This push to demolish large dams on major rivers in the Pacific Northwest, which got 70 percent of its electricity supply from hydropower as of 2009, has been criticized by influential policymakers, such as House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (R - Wash.).

Inslee: «The feed - in tariff enacted in Germany in 2003 has helped the European nation achieve 55 percent of the world's installed solar capacity, provide 14 percent of its electricity supply from renewable sources and create at least 140,000 jobs. Similar policies also have been adopted by France, Spain and over 40 other countries, provinces and states.»

Not exact matches

The renewable power will be used to supply a new office in Bangalore, India, and will meet 80 percent of the new building's projected electricity needs.

Cloud Peak Energy is a sustainable fuel supplier for approximately two percent of the nation's electricity.

The mandate would be another step toward the governor's goal of a 40 percent reduction in carbon emissions from plants supplying the state's electricity.

Gas from the project is expected to help generate 1,100 MW of additional electricity and once on stream, it will produce enough gas to increase the country's electricity supply by 50 percent.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

The plant supplies as much as 25 percent of the electricity used in New York City and Westchester.

Under the new rules, ESCOs won't be able to sell new supply to residential and small - business customers unless they are cheaper than the utility or if at least 30 percent of the electricity they sell comes from renewable energy sources like wind, hydro or solar.

After the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, Germany adopted a policy of phasing out nuclear energy by 2022 and ensuring that 80 percent of the country's electricity supply comes from clean energy by 2050, or more than three times the level of 2010.

A rooftop array of solar panels measuring 30 meters square, operating at 50 percent efficiency, also could supply the necessary electricity.

That Senate bill sets a goal to reduce emissions by 83 percent from 2005 levels by 2050 and requires electricity suppliers to use renewables and electricity - saving measures for 20 percent of their demand by 2020.

Renewable energy, such as from photovoltaic electricity and ethanol, today supplies less than 7 percent of U.S. consumption.

Natural gas, which now supplies 25 percent of the nation's electricity, is the cleanest - burning fossil fuel, producing about half as much carbon per watt of power as coal.

What is less clear is whether Japan's plan to increase its nuclear output to supply 50 percent of all its electricity within two decades as part of a larger effort to trim CO2 emissions will still be followed

20 Desertec would cost an estimated $ 500 billion, but by 2050 it could supply enough renewable, nonpolluting electricity to fill 15 percent of Europe's demand.

Tony Trapp, managing director of Engineering Business Ltd. in England, calculates that capturing just 1 to 2 percent of global wave power — the share he considers recoverable — could supply 13 percent of the world's current demand for electricity.

Renewable energy sources could help plug these gaps: A U.S. Department of Energy study declared in 2001 that renewables could meet 20 percent of the nation's electricity supply by 2020 at a cost increase to consumers of just over 4 percent.

250 billion Kilowatt - hours of U.S. hydropower production in 2007, representing 6 percent of the country's total electricity supply.

Experts reckon that when wind power provides a significant portion of the electricity supply (with «significant» defined as about 10 percent of grid capacity), some form of energy storage will be essential to keeping the grid stable.

The scientists and engineers behind the project hope that DESERTEC will be able to supply 15 to 20 percent of Europe's electricity by the middle of the century.

Even though Texas relies on wind for just over 3 percent of its electricity, that is enough to inject uncertainty into the state's power supplies.

China is rapidly expanding its solar power supply, hoping to meet 10 percent of the nation's electricity needs with solar energy by 2030.

Such wrecked peaks are unknown to most Americans, even though more than 50 percent of our homes are supplied with electricity produced by coal - fired power plants.

True, it had the potential to clean up California's air, although that may be of little consolation to people living near coal - fired power plants, which supply more than 50 percent of America's electricity.

That strategy worked reasonably well until recently, when 28 state governments set «renewable portfolio standards» requiring their utilities to supply a certain portion of their electricity using renewables, such as 20 percent by 2020 or even sooner.

According to the study, 50 percent of electricity in Singapore is consumed by commercial and residential buildings, mainly to supply air conditioning for occupant comfort and to dehumidify air conditioned spaces.

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

According to IDC's Data Age 2025 study in 2017, the recent explosion of Big Data and global cloud storage generates 2.5 PB (1015 bytes) a day, stored in massive, power - hungry data centers that use 3 percent of the world's electricity supply.

It is Morocco's first utility - scale solar energy plant, with the goal of supplying power to over 1 million Moroccans by 2018 and helping Morocco produce 42 percent of its electricity through renewables by 2020.

Deregulation of the electricity market has resulted in some states allowing residents to choose their energy suppliers, where savings of 10 — 15 percent have become normal.

The authors further predict that renewable resources could supply 100 percent of US electricity and over 90 percent of total energy by 2100.

The bill will require suppliers of electricity in the state to get up to 2.5 percent of their power from offshore wind as early as 2017.

Here's something that makes Palo Alto just a little more fabulous, smug, and high - level - of - being: The town of 65,000 boasts that, since last year, it is officially the first city in America whose electricity supply is 100 percent carbon - neutral.

«Diablo Canyon's yearly output supplies 9 percent of California's total in - state electricity generation and 21 percent of its low - carbon generation.

The most significant closures were the Lambton and Nanticoke coal plants, which represented 25 percent of Ontario's supply of electricity.

Although nuclear reactors supply 13 percent of the world's electricity, nuclear power's limited role in our future has been clear for some time.

New England has abundant onshore wind energy resources, with the technical potential to supply about 60 percent of the region's current electricity use.

Canada now has 11,898 MW of installed wind generation capacity, enough to supply six percent of Canada's electricity demand and meet the annual electricity needs of more than three million homes.

This meant that wind power was supplying more then 40 percent of the country's electricity generation.

In most models that show the world reducing emissions enough to hit the 2 °C climate target, «solar energy emerges only as a minor mitigation option» — around 5 to 17 percent of global electricity supply in one representative study used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Ireland has the most ambitious wave power development goal: 500 megawatts of wave generating capacity by 2020, enough to supply 7 percent of its electricity.

Qatar to tap the solar potential of the Middle East to supply 10 percent of its electricity by 2018.

First, the city installed a large ground - mounted solar array — a 420 - kilowatt solar electric system that supplies about 8 percent of the plant's electricity needs.

Furthermore, in the next 20 years, the United States will require more than 100,000 additional wind turbines to supply 20 percent of the nation's electricity.

Nuclear power supplies some 20 percent of the nation's electricity.

Another major project is the completion of a refurbishment of the campus Central Utility Plant, a cogeneration plant that currently supplies about 50 percent of the electricity to the main campus, as well as heat and chilled water to most of the central campus buildings.

Wind is on track to supply 10 percent of U.S. electricity by the end of the decade.»

Coal, which once supplied about half the nation's electricity, has dropped to 40 percent as it has been replaced by booming supplies of natural gas and renewable sources such as wind and solar.