Sentences with phrase «power generation capacity»

Half of all new power generation capacity came from renewables that year.

Its total planned coal - fired power generation capacity is 50,000 megawatts.

Rather that replace these dirty sources of energy with expensive, unpopular, polluting electrical generation capacity, perhaps we will begin to turn to solar powered generation capacity.

The regulations are even more absurd than the 2014 draft regulations in part because they raise the percentage of power generation capacity from «renewables» from 22 to 28 %.

Such a shift in demand would cause higher utilization of power plants at night and therefore less excess power generation capacity available to charge electric cars.

Questions about electric grids and electric power generation capacity are distractions.

Indeed, where emerging economies are installing new power generation capacity, the economic argument in favor of renewables is strong and getting stronger.

The total planned coal - fired power generation capacity is 80,000 megawatts.

(That's about the total power generation capacity of Germany.)

Even by 2020, projects contracted via competitive procurement will represent a relatively small subset of annual new renewable power generation capacity additions — and trends in auction results may not remain representative of LCOE trends at a project level.

The need of fuel for power has risen in recent times as the country's electricity generation mix has tilted more to thermal power, which this year is expected to account for about 70 percent of the total power generation capacity of the country.

China has already put in place enough power generation capacity for its current needs.

Examples are emissions performance standards in Canada and the United Kingdom for power generation capacity additions as well as the carbon price support in the United Kingdom.

But, in nearly all future scenarios modeled by the state's electric system operator, new power generation capacity comes entirely from solar additions — 20 GW in the baseline scenario.

Coal made up about 31 percent and LNG 26 percent of the country's total power generation capacity last year.

To put that in context, Alberta's total power generation capacity currently stands at around 14,000 megawatts.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) said that the nation's power generation capacity dropped from 3,959 megawatts on Jan. 4 to 2,662 megawatts on Jan. 22.

While all these projects are sizable, they collectively represent only a small portion of what will be required to meet IEA's projection that renewables will constitute 40 percent of Africa's power generation capacity by 2040.

The Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2018 report, compiled by BNEF, the United Nations Environment Program, and the Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre, said solar power led all renewable sources, accounting for 98 GW — or 38 % — of new global power generation capacity installed last year.

According to the International Energy Agency, the world added more renewables - based power generation capacity in 2015 than all other technologies combined for the first time ever, and this movement is only expected to accelerate over the coming decades.

The researchers found that wood pellets burned in European and UK power plants, such as the Drax facility in North Yorkshire — which has transitioned some of its coal power generation capacity to wood pellets with the support of UK government subsidies — actually emit more CO2 per kilowatt hour than that generated by coal.

If MDBs continue to build out and increase natural gas power generation capacity, they should work with their clients to anticipate the transition out of gas to zero carbon alternatives, make deep gains in energy efficiency, and / or have a plan to incorporate CCS.

With Governor Brown's recent Executive Order instructing all of California's state agencies to take climate change issues into account when making public policy decisions, doing infrastructure planning, and making regulatory decisions, a golden opportunity is arising in the Golden State for advocates of the renewables to force California to adopt a renewables - only approach to building new or replacement power generation capacity.

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.

In short, if we want a 100 percent renewables world, with no coal, gas, or nuclear, we'll need to build more power generation capacity, faster, than at any time in history.

The Scottish renewables industry drew praise today from UK Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry for delivering 25 % of the country's total clean power generation capacity.

«SkyPower's commitment will reduce Djibouti's dependence on energy imports and significantly increase local power generation capacity,» said Charles Cohen, Executive Vice President of SkyPower.

The funding will «accelerate the research and development of (the) economic storage» of solar thermal power generation capacity to extend the operating range of plants, says eSolar CEO John Van Scoter.

-RRB- programs whereby home and building owners with solar or other renewable power generation capacity are compensated for the energy they send on to the utility grid

It has a total planned annual coal mining capacity of 300 million tons and a total planned coal - fired power generation capacity of 52,000 megawatts.

However, it does rate highly when it comes to the amount of solar power generation capacity installed statewide (third in the nation), as well as the energy cost savings residents and businesses can and are realizing from solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.

However, these large sources of zero - emission power are being prematurely retired with respect to their operating licenses because of low wholesale electricity prices resulting from low natural gas prices, excess power generation capacity, declining renewable energy costs, and low growth in electricity demand.

Morocco's state - run power utility has just invited companies to bid on five wind farm projects with a total power generation capacity of 850 megawatts, as part of its plan to build 2,000 MW of wind power by 2020.

Figure ES.3 illustrates the annual rates at which new power generation capacity would need to be added in each scenario.

· Infrastructure companies: These private players would stand to benefit from the build - out of power generation capacity.

According to the Power Ministry, the expected load shedding may result from their decision to rest some hydro plants, which will reduce the power generation capacity.

Hydropower a decade ago was the leading source of power, contributing more than half of the country's electricity generation capacity — which perhaps explains why the cost of buying power is now high following the reversal in the country's power generation capacity.

«Of course the gas from Atuabo will not change our power generation capacity.

That is a fact and of course there are efforts to increase our power generation capacity.

At the end of 2011, worldwide wind power generation capacity was just 0.2 TW.

To aid in efficiency, scientists have added nanostructured metal - organic heat carriers, or MOHCs, which boost the power generation capacity to near that of a conventional steam cycle.