Sentences with phrase «renewable capacity instead»

Not exact matches

The latest iteration does away with renewable obligation certificates (their equivalent of Australia's renewable energy certificates) and instead auctions off government support for a fixed amount of renewable energy capacity.

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

However, using your very persuasive logic, if I could invest # 500 elsewhere (instead of micro PV) and achieve 15 X more renewable capacity in the world — How would I do that?

It would be an exceptionally useful experiment in managing the adoption of renewable energy technologies to isolate California from all external sources of fossil, nuclear, and hydropower generation and to rely instead upon solar and wind backed by a combination of grid - scale energy storage facilities and gas - fired backup generation capacity.

Instead of a single or other simple (e.g. night and day) tariff, dynamic pricing and more complex tariff structures are expected to be introduced to allow «demand response», in other words, to allow customers to buy electricity at constantly changing prices, thereby cutting demand at peak times, and thus, resulting in a lower need for peak capacity as well as better integration of renewable energy sources.

Among the concerns bubbling to the surface in the last week or so are: (1) Renewables might not be doing such a great job of replacing fossil fuel capacity after all, (2) Energy storage might be fomenting yet another carbon emissions problem instead of solving one, and (3) Renewables might be making electricity rates go up, not down.