Sentences with phrase «power over energy»

These planetary crises are being driven by unsustainable economic and development models, and the concentration of power over energy goods and services in the hands of a wealthy few.

Is it really a good idea to hand over absolute power over our energy and resource supplies to authoritarians who just happen to believe that they know what is best for humanity and the planet?

How about the attempt by the UN to turn the IPCC into a goverment entity only accountable to itself with supreme powers over energy?

Not exact matches

Indeed, thanks to a snowy winter and cool spring, the snowpack covering the entire Pacific Northwest — the vast majority of which is over 1,000 metres elevation and still snowbound — is creating a glut of zero - emission energy as that huge annual reservoir melts and powers hydroelectric turbines.

The idea is that when grid electricity rates are high, a building can switch over to using the batteries for power as a way to lower monthly energy bills.

Power generator Pacific Energy has reported a 1 per cent fall in profit over the last financial year despite record earnings from its Kalgoorlie Power Systems and hydro - electric businesses.

Over 54 gigawatts (GW) of wind power were installed globally in 2016 and cumulative capacity grew by more than 12 percent to hit 486.8 GW, according to an April 2017 report from global trade association the Global Wind Energy Council.

It cost 5 million euros ($ 5232000) to build, and the road, with its 30,000 square feet of solar panels, is being tested over a two - year trial period to see if it can actually create enough energy to power the village's street lights.

Two of the world's best known billionaires, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett, have made major bets on the future of energy, and how generating power, and transportation will evolve over the coming years.

Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

The growth of solar power over the next decade could cut the price of energy in WA, according to a man involved in one of the latest projects to take a step forward.

Designed in collaboration with Foster + Partners, Apple Park replaces 5 million square feet of asphalt and concrete with grassy fields and over 9,000 native and drought - resistant trees, and is powered by 100 percent renewable energy.

For more than two decades, Warburg Pincus has invested or committed over $ 9.5 billion across more than 50 energy investments around the world involved in oil and gas exploration and production, midstream, power generation, oilfield technology and related - services, mining and alternative energy development.

In 2014, nearly twice as many residential solar systems were installed over the year before — and nearly 2,000 Nevadans now have their own solar power, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.

The Advanced Power & Energy Cluster (APC), an SBA - funded initiative of the Defense Alliance, has helped Member companies achieve over $ 40 million in contracts.

The Alliance, together with its SBA - funded Advanced Power & Energy Cluster (APC) has helped Member companies garner over $ 60 Million in government and commercial contracts since 2011, and contributed to the creation of ove 800 jobs.

But he said moving to meet climate targets is becoming more affordable because while policy is still important the energy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds&renergy market is transforming so fast that «market forces have taken over», market forces around wind and solar power and batteries «are just accelerating regardless of what anyone else does» and decisions by companies like AGL Energy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds&rEnergy to close their Liddell coal power station «are being made on economic grounds».

While at Lazard, he worked on a variety of transactions in the power, energy, and infrastructure sectors, including strategic advisory and merger and acquisition assignments totaling over $ 35 billion in aggregate transaction value.

Our 300,000 energy sharers generate over 100 Megawatts, which is the equivalent of four peaker power plants.

He was involved in over $ 25 billion of transactions in the energy and power sector.

While the up - front price for its Solar Roof looks high, SolarCity asserts that tax credits and the estimated value of energy created over the product's 30 - year power warranty will save customers money in the long run.

Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Power Plant Operations Report The generation fuel mix of electricity in the Northeast Census division of the United States has shifted dramatically over the past Continue Reading

Solar power, which now generates almost 2 percent of the nation's electricity, has become popular among Democrats and Republicans alike, as people consider ways to have more control over their energy use and to reduce pollution as well as create jobs.

Evan Solomon explains how Denis Coderre's brouhaha over Energy East shows that Canada's balance of power is tipping toward long - marginalized city mayors

Puerto Rico's energy system currently routes electricity over long distances, which creates choke points for power, and the responsibility for these power lines that traverse the sparsely populated parts of the island fall to PREPA.

Research has shown that deploying renewable energy over a vast area connected by a transmission system would actually increase reliability and reduce intermittency compared to smaller networks since it would route power from areas where there is sunlight and wind to areas where there isn't.

Apollo Power (formerly SolarPaint) became active on the stock exchange just over two months ago, after completing the merger of its solar energy activity (which has yet to generate revenue) into stock market shell company Or City Holdings, formerly controlled by Inbal Or.

Legislating a new urban resource extraction policy, which requires mandatory consultation with urban municipalities before approving energy development projects within their boundaries, ensures licences are compatible with municipal development plans, and grants municipal governments veto power over the final licencing decision.

Over 60 utilities and ISOs throughout North America trust Rodan Energy to manage their Demand Response resources to ensure a reliable power system.

Over a seven - year period, Ontario will be allowed to import up to two terawatt hours of electricity annually from Quebec — or enough energy to power a city of roughly 200,000 people.

An atheist in this discipline would look at a probability of 10 to the power of 97 in the fine tuning of dark energy influence over expansion of the universe and understand to different degree what that says about the first cause or singularity.

Wood, water power, coal, oil, and gas are insufficient to provide for the world's energy needs over any extended period.

For Holloway human reason is that natural and immediate power of spiritual mind over physical matter which recognises unities of matter - energy and sees the potential to develop them into new unities.

has wasted some good brain power and life energy over our exsistence.

i have been on a bit of a health kick lately... (you would never know it by those s'mores brownies i posted, but hey - its all about balance) and have been obsessing over these energy bites or power balls or protein bites or whatever else you want to call them.

I was impressed with how well it worked as a pick - me - up in place of coffee over the weekend and it gave me plenty of energy to power my reorganization project.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

Powered by billions of earthworms working rapidly in concert with beneficial microbes, the BIDA ® System will begin processing Fetzer Vineyards» wastewater during the 2016 harvest season, accruing energy savings up to 85 % over current wastewater treatment technologies and optimizing water conservation measures in support of the fight against climate change.

Over the hushed soundscape of pre-season McLaren critics, a Honda power unit stutters, burps out a bit of electrical energy and then curls up into a ball, the lyrics «hello darkness my old friend» reverberating softly out from the Toro Rosso garages.

Arsenal fans are the best all over the world»cause we have the power of Puma and the and the energy of the Duracell Alexis Sanchez battery!

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

The 2017 season had been over for about 30 minutes last month when Brad Keselowski, one of title eligibles who fell short of beating Martin Truex Jr. in the championship finale, rationale explained why the 2018 Monster Energy Cup Series season presented significant hurdles to himself and other Ford - powered drivers.

«Over a decade ago, building new plants in New York City was easier because Con Edison was in the business of both generating and distributing power, and could build new plants whenever they were needed, said Ashok Gupta, director of energy policy at the Natural Resources Defense Council.»

According to the Energy Commission which is mandated to ensure that energy supply meets demand at all times, even though the expected power supply this year is a significant improvement over that of last year, it will still not eliminate the threat of load - shedding until the country is able to obtain significant imports from neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire to augment sEnergy Commission which is mandated to ensure that energy supply meets demand at all times, even though the expected power supply this year is a significant improvement over that of last year, it will still not eliminate the threat of load - shedding until the country is able to obtain significant imports from neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire to augment senergy supply meets demand at all times, even though the expected power supply this year is a significant improvement over that of last year, it will still not eliminate the threat of load - shedding until the country is able to obtain significant imports from neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire to augment supply.

At 9 a.m., the state Senate Committees on Investigations and Government Operations, on Energy and Telecommunications, and on Aging hold a joint public hearing on the power outages in the Hudson Valley over the past two weeks, Legislative Office Building, Van Buren Hearing Room A, second floor, Albany.

The Chairman of the Energy Commission, Dr. Kwame Ampofo has stated that the power crisis that bedeviled the country for over three years has been resolved.

Astorino, speaking with reporters on Monday after addressing the Conservative Party's annual confab in Albany, pointed to a federal law that gives the Department of Energy authority over the closure of nuclear power plants.

Miliband has stood up to the power of the Murdoch press, he has stood up to the energy companies, he has set the public agenda over bankers bonuses, and over the cost of living crisis facing ordinary people.

«This report shows the government's plans are stacked in favour of nuclear power over renewable energy and are so vague they risk locking the UK into a new generation of polluting fossil fuels,» senior economy campaigner Simon Bullock commented.

Last month, east London MP, Stella Creasy, who was a target of leftwing anger last year over her Commons vote in favour of bomb attacks on Syria, said there was «emphasis by some in these groups on controlling the levers of power to select — or deselect — MPs and party officials» and concluded: «Groups like Momentum now appear to be draining the very energy from our political process they claimed to be promoting.»