Sentences with phrase «renewable capacity additions»

The primary result is that the new nuclear displaces some of the renewable capacity additions as a means of compliance.

If you're a MAGA type, then seeing China top the list of new renewable capacity additions may also not seem like the best news.

And renewables capacity additions have nothing to do with meeting actual electricity demand, Jim D.

Not exact matches

Those kinds of prices, guaranteed for between 10 and 20 years, have helped fuel a surge in renewable energy development in Japan, leading to the addition of nearly 11,000 MW of solar capacity since 2012 while an additional 72,000 MW remains in the development pipeline, according to METI estimates.

Renewables accounted for almost two - thirds of net capacity additions in 2016, with almost 165 gigawatts (GW) coming online, the IEA adds.

In the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) Summer Loads & Resource Assessment, CAISO noted that the generation supply was expected to be adequate in order to meet peak electrical demand requirements in spite of drought - related concerns, in part because of recent renewable and natural gas capacity additions.

Net additions to renewable power capacity by selected countries and regions.

A report from groups including the United Nations environmental arm and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) shows renewable energy installations were responsible for 61 % of the world's net power capacity additions in 2017, more than double the new - builds from fossil fuel - powered generation.

The most recent waves of generating capacity additions include natural gas - fired units in the 2000s and renewable units, primarily wind, coming online in the late 2000s.

Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of capacity additions (what electric generating capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations); generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm power prices, energy prices, capacity prices, allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions; fuel consumption for different fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI power grids.

In addition, PacifiCorp has installed more than 10 times the generation capacity of these dams in renewable wind and solar facilities over the past decade.

In China, which accounted for about half the wind additions and 40 % of all renewable capacity increases, two wind turbines were installed every hour in 2015.

In addition, Section 211, of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109 - 58) provides that the Secretary of the Interior should, within 10 years of enactment of the Act,»... seek to have approved non-hydropower renewable energy projects located on the public lands with a generation capacity of at least 10,000 megawatts of electricity».

Here's the history of additions to electric generation capacity by renewables excluding big hydro, along with successive WEO projections:

Over the next 20 years China is expected to install more renewable capacity than the combined green energy additions of the US, EU and Japan put together.

Investment in renewable generation capacity will therefore largely be in addition to, rather than replacement for, the massive investment in fossil fuel and nuclear plant required...» — UK House of Lords, «The Economics of Renewable Energy,» Nov.renewable generation capacity will therefore largely be in addition to, rather than replacement for, the massive investment in fossil fuel and nuclear plant required...» — UK House of Lords, «The Economics of Renewable Energy,» Nov.Renewable Energy,» Nov. 25, 2008

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

That may be true at this moment; but even as some of these ads were being released, the addition of new renewable energy generation capacity was starting to equal and outpace new installations of fossil fuel plants in the U.S. and other countries.32

-- In addition to the policy under paragraph (1), it is the policy of the United States that regional electric grid planning to meet these objectives should result from an open, inclusive and transparent process, taking into account all significant demand - side and supply - side options, including energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy and zero - carbon electricity generation technologies, smart - grid technologies and practices, demand response, electricity storage, voltage regulation technologies, high capacity conductors with at least 25 percent greater efficiency than traditional ACSR (aluminum stranded conductors steel reinforced) conductors, superconductor technologies, underground transmission technologies, and new conventional electric transmission capacity and corridors.

In addition to these, there will also need to be big top - down efforts to improve the electrical grid, phase out coal, build much more renewable capacity, etc..

India has the world's most ambitious renewable energy capacity addition programme and electric vehicles offer potential synergies with this initiative.

The renewables plus nuclear in 2013 make up 57 % of new capacity additions, while those powered by fossil fuels alone are down to 43 %.

In 2015, 50 % of all new electricity capacity additions were from renewable sources, with wind representing 35 % of that growth.

Whereas non-fossil fuel capacity additions totalled 31 million kW in 2012, these renewable and nuclear power stations have totalled 36 million kW so far this year - and could be projected to be 43 or 44 million kW for the whole year.

In addition, many state - level renewable portfolio standards (RPS) are at or near capacity and will not incentivize new builds until RPS targets ramp - up.

In addition to continued growth in utility scale and distributed photovoltaic solar with battery storage, White foresees a continued wide mix of new renewables capacity.

While only 3.8 GW of thermal generation capacity was added in 2017, the addition of renewables capacity clocked in at 12.8 GW, split approximately one - third wind and two - thirds solar.

This results in direct addition of renewable capacity to the grid.

This is based on assumed annual demand growth of 6.34 %; further scenarios with higher growth rates and low addition of renewables capacity do require new coal stations, but still only at most half of those under construction.

Globally, new additions of installed renewable energy capacity, particularly for solar photovoltaic and wind power, reached record levels in 2016.

In Europe, the addition of electrical generating capacity from renewable energy sources in 2006 exceeded that from conventional sources, making it the first continent to enter the new energy era.

«(ii) additions of capacity made on or after January 1, 2001, or the effective commencement date of an existing applicable State renewable electricity standard program at an existing nonhydroelectric dam, if --

The renewables industry now has a bridge to the CPP: Before the tax extenders utility - scale wind and solar faced a bleak future with combined capacity additions dropping below 5 gigawatts (GW) per year until the CPP kicks into gear in 2022.

The tax extenders pull renewable capacity builds forward, allowing the industry to not just maintain, but expand capacity additions to unprecedented levels in the years ahead (Figure 2).

China accounted for about 40 percent of total renewable capacity installed in 2015 and about half of all the wind additions.

The CPP amplifies the value of Congress» holiday gift to the renewables industry with combined capacity additions topping out at 30 GWs per year in 2021.

-- The term «renewable energy» means energy generated from solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, municipal solid waste, or new hydroelectric generation capacity achieved from increased efficiency or additions of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric project.

IEEFA forecasts India will add 14 GW new renewable energy capacity in 2017 - 2018, more than doubling the 5.8 GW expected net coal additions.

Last year, China added more than a third of the global renewable energy capacity additions, the report states.

In addition, the activities include a total generation capacity of four gigawatt that come from coal, gas, and renewable sources in Spain and Portugal.

This year's edition reveals a global energy transition well underway with record new additions on installed renewable energy capacity, rapidly falling costs, and the decoupling of economic growth and energy - related carbon dioxide emissions for the third year running.

In addition, RWE will gain all renewable generation capacities from Eon.

Ancient respect for landscapes, including modest human additions, has been replaced with crass talk of «installed capacity» and «market share of renewables.»

In 2013,... (as well as meeting 2015 renewable capacity targets), new renewable energy capacity additions surpassed thermal installations for the first time.

Federal production tax credits and grants for electricity from certain renewable sources as well as State - level renewable portfolio standards have encouraged both capacity additions and increased generation from wind and other renewable sources.

To meet these goals, India will need to increase the pace of its renewable energy capacity addition sevenfold, from an average 3GW per year to at least 20GW per year.

The 2017 Edition of the REN21 Renewables Global Status Report reveals a global energy transition well underway, with record new additions of installed renewable energy capacity, rapidly falling costs, and the decoupling of economic growth and energy - related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Renewables made up just over half of total net additions to electric generating capacity from all sources in 2012.»