Sentences with phrase «ramp up renewable»

¶ Tata Power Co, one of India's largest private power utilities, is planning to invest as much as $ 5 billion to ramp up its renewable capacity fourfold, according to its CEO.

We have the tools to significantly ramp up renewable energy.

The Canadian government's contribution goes along with its commitment under the 2015 Paris Agreement — along with being aligned with the principles of the Africa Renewable Energy Initiative, which seeks to ramp up renewable - energy generation in Africa.

In talking with him recently, he said that everyone he has met on the trip agrees with his goal — from farmers in small towns to the members of Chambers of Commerce — and about needing to ramp up renewable energy now.

We simply need to ramp up renewable energy generation, and fast.

So, you should definitely get on board with battery storage; just don't make the mistake of thinking we can't ramp up renewable energy today without it.

Renewable energy supply growth: Can Maryland ramp up renewable energy acquisition fast enough?

«Canada's leaders have missed an opportunity to lay out a strong plan that would ramp up renewable energy and drive deeper cuts in their emissions,» said David Waskow, international climate director of the World Resources Institute.

In addition to bolstering first - term efforts to ramp up renewable energy and efficiency, the Plan is cutting carbon pollution through new measures, including:

We invest in coal only when poor countries have no other realistic options, including no short - term options to rapidly ramp up renewable energy alternatives.

In addition to bolstering first - term efforts to ramp up renewable energy and efficiency, the Plan is cutting carbon pollution through new measures, including:

Instead, they argue that Australia should base its climate policy on a carbon budget that sets an upper limit on the country's total emissions between now and 2050, institute a cap - and - trade scheme, consider closing selected coal - fired power plants, and ramp up renewable energy.

EPA's rule allows states to ramp up renewable energy and natural gas usage to reach goals.

Both want to see the United States fight climate change, ditch polluting fossil fuels, and ramp up renewables.

At a tense debate in February at UCLA where Jacobson argued over the merits of supporting nuclear versus ramping up renewables, sharing the stage with nuclear supporters like Environmental Progress» Shellenberger and fellow Stanford climate scientist Ken Caldeira, the question - and - answer session with the audience devolved into a shouting match.

Would we say, well, don't bother to ramp up renewables for a few more decades, because...?

We already have the tools to start significantly ramping up renewable energy today.

As we continue to ramp up renewables (which the CES will deliver), we need comparable regulatory certainty for energy efficiency: New York needs a clear energy - efficiency standard, even as the means of delivering that efficiency will continue to evolve under the REV.. Once this standard is put in place, it can ensure New York accomplishes what other leading states already have — year - over-year electricity savings of 2 percent a year or more.

Ramping up renewable energy in California is essential to lowering carbon emissions from the state's electricity sector.

These tools let us start ramping up renewables cost effectively today, while battery technology improves in the coming years.

CK: You have set aside billions of dollars to ramp up your renewables portfolio over the next few years.

What we should be doing is to slow down fossil fuel consumption while ramping up renewable energy collectors.

That makes Maryland the latest state to officially ramp up its renewables targets, following a string of similar legislative successes last year in Illinois, Michigan, Rhode Island, Oregon and Washington, D.C.

The information and data presented in this infographic are based largely on the UCS short report, Ramping Up Renewables: Energy You Can Count On.

In particular, states must carefully evaluate the risks of substantially shifting toward natural gas against the benefits of ramping up renewable energy sources and energy efficiency.

Evidently we are supposed to reduce carbon emissions by 10 - 20 % (I think 25 % even came up once) per year for the next 5 - 10 years, with the use of renewables accounting for only a minor part of that (and given the timescale to ramp up renewables, that is certainly realistic in the early years).

Not exact matches

How much the agreement reduces greenhouse gas emissions, and through that reduces warming, will depend on whether countries meet their targets for curbing emissions and deploying renewable energy and whether they ramp up their ambition in the years ahead.

Clean energy advocates are calling on Governor Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to ramp up plans for large scale renewable energy beyond the $ 1.5 billion over 10 years proposed this month by the New York State Energy Resource Development Authority.

In Welsh's view, it's no coincidence that opposition to the U.S. renewable fuels policy has ramped up just as the three big cellulosic facilities — Project Liberty in Emmetsburg, Dupont's Nevada, Iowa plant and the Hugoton, Kan. facility built by Spanish multinational Abengoa — are to begin producing the fuel.

But in an analysis just published in The Electricity Journal, scientists say that much of this problem could be addressed with enhanced energy storage technology or by developing «hybrid» systems in which, on a broader geographic scale, one form of renewable energy is ramping up even while the other is declining.

Under the federal renewable fuel standard, the United States must ramp up biofuels production to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

Will the renewable energy transition end up creating yet more greenhouse emissions, as we ramp up the manufacture of wind turbines and solar cells?

My guess would be that's something like the current price for doing all the needed load balancing with contemporary lead - acid battery storage, counting ramping up the lead industry to satisfy the sourcing and management of that much lead and sulfuric acid — in other words, it's somebody saying «it would cost the Earth * to do that» as an argument that there will be no progress in energy storage, so it'd be a waste to build more renewables.

The influential paper, published in Science, divided the challenge of keeping emissions of greenhouse gases through mid-century at levels prevailing in the 2000s into seven «wedges» of carbon dioxide reductions — through switching to renewable and nuclear power, ramping up energy efficiency, ending deforestation and taking action in other areas.

As oil and coal fall back and renewables ramp up strongly, natural gas becomes the largest single fuel in the global mix in the Sustainable Development Scenario.

From statewide efforts to increase renewable energy sources and ramp up energy efficiency, to supporting communities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, New York is working to address the threat of climate change.

Coal production would ramp up as coal - fired plants are being phased out in favor of cheaper natural gas and carbon - free renewable energy.

The panelists will discuss renewables integration in the context of EPA's Clean Power Plan, which calls for a ramping up of renewable resources across the country.

And they can not ramp generation up quickly to meet recently increasing demand fluctuations caused by higher renewables penetrations on LADWP's system.

The 10 Club members currently account for more than 40 percent of global investments in renewable energy, and could serve as an inspiration for how countries can ramp up their level of ambition.

If policy makers followed the carbon law, adoption of renewables would continue its current pace of doubling energy production every 5.5 years, and carbon dioxide sequestration technologies would need to ramp up in order for the the planet to reach net - zero emissions by the middle of the century, say the researchers.

However, a natural gas plant is currently being built in the state which can be ramped up or down to accommodate intermittent renewables.

Energy efficiency works hand in hand with coordinated improvements in the energy system: by reducing overall demand for energy, energy efficiency allows renewable energy resources to ramp up and offsets the additional electricity that will be used by electric vehicles and heat pumps.

Energy efficiency works hand in hand with coordinated improvements in the energy system: by reducing overall demand for energy, energy efficiency allows renewable energy resources to ramp up and offsets increased electricity demand from electric vehicles and heat pumps.

In the Accelerated Scenario, renewable generation was ramped up in both New England and New York beyond the levels in Primary Scenario.

Energy efficiency works hand in hand with coordinated improvements in our energy system: by reducing overall demand for energy, energy efficiency allows renewable energy resources to ramp up and offsets increased electricity demand from new technologies.

Will the renewable energy transition end up creating yet more greenhouse emissions, as we ramp up the manufacture of wind turbines and solar cells?

A renewable portfolio standard for electricity that ramps up to 90 or 95 percent by 2050 at the latest with an option to increase the speed of phase out to 2040.

In Japan, sluggish power demand, rapid renewables deployment and the potential nuclear ramp - up provide a downside risk for coal.

In a webinar with Climate Tracker, which is composed of a network of climate journalists around the world, Higham said apart from no new coal - fire plants should be approved beyond 2020 and all existing plants should be in the process of being retired, renewable energy financing must be ramped up to US$ 700 billion.