Sentences with phrase «renewable capacity at»

The company is nearly completion of a new solar PV installation at its studio lot in Los Angeles, bringing the total onsite renewable capacity at this location to nearly 1.5 megawatts.

This study will encompass not only the mechanics of ground installations, but also the generating and renewables capacity at present and projected, to validate the concept in terms of the zero carbon objectives - and sustainability.

Not exact matches

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-- Dominion Energy Virginia said Tuesday that it plans to build at least eight new natural gas - fired plants during the next 15 years, cementing its shift away from coal, while depending on renewables for less than 10 percent of its energy capacity.

«India is one of the governments around the world that agreed at the UN's COP21 meeting to a new global climate accord, and its plans to boost renewable energy capacity is very substantial,» says Andrew Salvoni, head of Morgan Stanley's green and sustainable bond syndicate desk.

It was not about some breakthrough in the negotiations, but about a new initiative to deliver at least 300 gigawatts of electricity - generating capacity to Africa by 2030, all from clean or renewable energy.

But a recent study in PNAS suggested that wind (and other renewables) will fall short of slashing carbon emissions, because there just isn't enough of it in the U.S. Based on data from a company owned by one of the study's authors, this map's white areas show where wind turbines would be most effective — but because wind isn't available all the time, they'd only produce roughly 50 percent of the energy wind turbines could at maximum capacity.

But a study out today suggests that the United States could, at least in theory, use new high - voltage power lines to move renewable power across the nation, and essentially eliminate the need to add new storage capacity.

At Xcel Energy, the utility firm with the highest total wind capacity in the United States, the number of forecasting errors has dropped since 2009, saving customers some US$ 60 million and reducing annual CO2 emissions from fossil - reserve power generation by more than a quarter of a million tonnes per year, says Drake Bartlett, a renewable - energy analyst with the firm who is based in Denver, Colorado.

Alberta is phasing out all pollution from coal - fired electricity generation (6,300 MW) by 2030 and renewable energy — mostly wind — will replace two thirds of it with renewable energy; expected to drive development of at least 4,000 MW of new wind energy capacity.

We're making our government's largest ever investment in renewable energy — an investment aimed at doubling the generating capacity from wind and other renewable resources in three years.

Jacobson and Delucchi assumed that the bulk of the renewable energy would come from 3.8 million 5MW wind turbine (that would be 19TW rated capacity) providing half of the global energy demand at 11.5 TW (that is 28 % utilization which seems to be optimistic and the number I read so far where more around 10 - 20 % at best).

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,

Solar Photovoltaics (PV) are already growing rapidly and has been the fastest - growing renewable energy technology in the world over the last decade: the IEA believes that cumulative PV capacity has grown at just under 50 per cent per year on average since 2003.

Germany's top four utilities owned just 7 percent of the 71 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity installed at the end of 2011, environment ministry data shows.

The share of renewable capacity in the total generation mix increased from 34 % at the end of 2010 to a stunning 41 % in July 2012 (Figure 2).

More importantly, given variable renewable output, the transmission lines can not operate at full capacity all the time.

At an industry roundtable hosted by the U.S. - India Business Council (USIBC) in New York, Piyush Goyal, Minister of State with Independent Charge for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy discussed India's ambitious target of achieving 175 GW of renewable generation capacity and innovative ways of mainstreaming energy efRenewable Energy discussed India's ambitious target of achieving 175 GW of renewable generation capacity and innovative ways of mainstreaming energy efrenewable generation capacity and innovative ways of mainstreaming energy efficiency.

Synapse's Fields said LADWP will have about the same amount of renewables capacity in 2030 whether it is at 100 % renewables generation or the City Council - mandated 60 % renewables generation.

For a European grid with a share of 60 % renewable power (an optimal mix of wind and solar), grid capacity would need to be increased at least sevenfold.

While a strong enabling environment alone does not guarantee investment flows at scale, countries that have developed sizeable renewable energy capacity (above 100 MW) tend to have stronger legislation in place.

«This gulf will only widen over the next several years, with continued strong growth of renewables and the planned retirement of at least seven percent of nuclear capacity by 2025.

However; there is no doubt that the efficiency and capacity of renewable energy technologies are increasing at a higher rate; and may in the near future compare to the efficiency and capacity of fossils.

Instead of building a clean, renewable - energy economy and technological capacity, Australia will continue to stumble at the back of the pack.

I suggest looking at three trends: 1) China renewable energy certificates and other market mechanisms launching in 2017, 2) upgrading of China domestic manufacturing capacity, and 3) exports to countries in the One Belt One Road initiative, known as OBOR.

Jenkins and Trembath propose a «rule of thumb»: «It is increasingly difficult for the market share of variable renewable energy sources at the system - wide level to exceed the capacity factor of the energy source.»

Camelina appears to be a promising renewable feedstock for producing hydrotreated renewable jet (HRJ) fuel, but annual production capacity for camelina - based HRJ is projected at only 68 — 98 million gallons by 2020.

The Climate Group just released an upbeat report, China's Clean Revolution, which lauds China for trailing only Germany in 2007 for renewable energy investments (US$ 12 billion vs. $ 14 billion), for leading the world in installed generating capacity of renewable energy at 152 GW by the end of 2007, and for being a leading manufacturer across various low carbon technologies.

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».

We now have the situation where we are committed to continue heavily subsidising renewable - energy projects at a time when excess capacity is increasing and prices to non-subsidised power stations (but not to users) are falling.

In Germany at one stage over half he renewable energy capacity was community - owned.

[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.»

Renewable Energy World The Global Wind Energy Council published some incredible numbers for the global wind market in February this year, the global cumulative installed capacity reaching 433 GW at the end of 2015.

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

Separately, China Recycling Energy Corp. (CREG) has been awarded a contract to recycle waste gas and waste heat into electricity (7MW capacity) for China Zhonggang Binhai Enterprise Ltd., a nickel - iron manufacturing joint venture between China Zhonggang Group and Boasteel Group at a facility in Cangzhou City, China, reports Renewable Energy World.

Wind power is the world's leading source of renewable electricity, excluding hydropower, with 238,000 megawatts of capacity installed at the start of 2012.

-- 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.

It allows renewable sources such as wind and solar power to operate at full capacity during peak generation periods by storing excess energy until it is needed to meet later demand.

By using existing renewable capacity and only dealing in that they do at least give individuals a choice to be not part of the problem.

But it turns out that countries with far higher levels of so - called variable renewables are doing without capacity markets at all, finding that other measures are sufficient, such as investing in transmission capacity, reforming power markets and requiring renewable energy technologies themselves to play a bigger role in meeting power demand.

Wind capacity in the United States has grown steadily over the past 8 years due to state Renewable Portfolio Standards and to lucrative subsidies at the Federal and State levels.

India's renewable - energy contribution stands at 33 GW of installed power capacity as on December 2014.

Total installed capacity of renewable energy installations more than doubled in 2011 and as of 2012 [update] stands at 397 MW.

New transmission capacity to connect renewables to the grid is assumed to be almost as expensive as generation; one of the data sources cited in the ALEC report actually estimates transmission costs at one - fourth the ALEC level.

Although China is adding wind and solar power capacity at a rapid clip, after years of exporting most of their solar panel output, the scale of the country's coal use doesn't lend itself to easy or quick substitution by these renewables.

Given that at some time in the relatively near future we need to invest in significant renewable capacity, should we not also invest, at the same time, in storage capacity?

Those scenarios had in common two assumptions that Loftus and colleagues regarded as out of the realm of reality: efficiency improving at as much as 3 to 4 times the historic rate, and buildup of renewable generation capacity at many times the rate at which today's total electric generation capacity was built up in past decades.

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.

So while renewables made up 18 % of total capacity at the end of 2017 — up from 15 % the year before — it contributed only 7.5 % of generation for the year.

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.

The falling price of the solar installations led Dan Kammen and his students at Berkeley's Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory to suggest that solar — currently a two - gigawatt speck in the nation's 1,152 - gigawatt capacity — could finally reach that place in the sun that backers have so often rhapsodized.