Sentences with phrase «power generation capacity comes»

China has expressed a strong interest in cleaner coal - based technologies like coal liquefaction and gasification, but the government appears to put official hope in renewable energy, setting a target of 12 % of its power generation capacity coming from renewables by 2020 — up from a mere 3 % in 2003.
Half of all new power generation capacity came from renewables that year.

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This outsized power - generation capacity provides the Fords an opportunity to grow into new technologies that come up during their service life.
The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has announced that the country will enjoy stable power supply in the coming weeks as Ghana's electricity generation capacity now exceeds demand at peak periods.
Transmission upgrades and efficiency measures already are in service, Cuomo said, adding that other generation resources ready to come online by 2021 will help generate more than enough electrical power to replace Indian Point's capacity.
Consequently with the dramatic decrease in efficiency of fuel burn in the standby fossil fuel generators there is sweet FA practical reduction in CO2 emissions with the introduction of wind and solar power generation systems particularly when the energy costs of the producing and building the so called renewable energy systems are added to the grossly inefficient running of the ready to go to full generation capacity in minutes, fossil fuel powered standby generators which in many cases must be kept running at low or zero power generation to be able to come on line in minutes when the so called renewable energy systems fail to produce power,
By comparison, a net of about 73 GW of fossil fuel generation came online in 2017 — 121 GW of new coal and gas - fired power capacity, less 48 GW of gas and coal that were retired.
New solar photovoltaic capacity drives nearly all of the growth in solar generation, with increases coming from both the electric power sector and end - use sectors such as distributed or customer - sited generation (i.e., rooftop installations).
For example, a significant portion of India's new installed power generation capacity will come from renewable energy sources in order to meet its national target of 15 percent renewable energy by 2020.
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.
New low - carbon generation — renewables and nuclear — from capacity coming online in 2015 is expected to exceed the entire growth of global power demand that year.
Most of these requirements take the form of a «renewable portfolio standard» (RPS) adopted by 26 states and the District of Columbia or «alternative energy portfolio standard» (AEPS) adopted by three states, which requires a certain percentage of a utility's power plant capacity or generation to come from renewable or alternative energy sources by a given date.
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.
It has been almost 30 years since any new power generation capacity was built in Serbia, but that stretch is coming to an end as China Machinery and
In Honolulu, Stem is helping Hawaiian Electric improve its capacity to host solar power generation, particularly at the beginning and end of the day, often called the «ramp,» when solar power generation is coming on at sunrise and when it is diminishing at sunset.
The increase in demand comes as New Delhi continues to expand its coal - fired power generation capacity.
They an installed capacity of nearly 100 % of their average demand which means that on windy days 100 % of their electricity comes from wind turbines but it also means that all their other power generation facilites must shut down on windy days or they must export the excess power.
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