Sentences with phrase «renewable capacity targets»

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

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Ultimately, «this is a transition LADWP must make to meet existing targets, and this study shows getting all the way to 100 % renewables does not require any more renewable generating capacity,» Fields said.

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.

This year the congress was much more ambitious on renewables than three years ago with energy Ministers predicting that India will exceed its target of 175GW renewable capacity and reach 200 GW by 2022.

Already, signed contracts for nearly 5,000 megawatts of new renewable energy capacity will allow the province to meet most of its 2030 renewable energy target, 12 years early.

For example, a significant portion of India's new installed power generation capacity will come from renewable energy sources in order to meet its national target of 15 percent renewable energy by 2020.

The assessment also revealed the need to create renewable electricity generation targets, in place of any existing capacity expansion targets.

Duke Energy, one of the two biggest utilities in our region, in late April announced plans to increase its renewable energy capacity to 8,000 megawatts by 2020, up by one - third over previous targets.

The government that owns the company, and may want to sell its generation capacity, has argued strongly for the renewable energy target to be discontinued.

China has expressed a strong interest in cleaner coal - based technologies like coal liquefaction and gasification, but the government appears to put official hope in renewable energy, setting a target of 12 % of its power generation capacity coming from renewables by 2020 — up from a mere 3 % in 2003.

AEMO notes that small - scale generation investment has increased rapidly over the last three years, the Large - scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET) is driving continued investment in wind generation capacity, and average spot market prices have been falling in every region since 2007 — 08.

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.

SaskPower's wind energy target is part of a broader plan that will see renewable energy sources make up 50 per cent of generating capacity in the province within 15 years.

Switching from immediate to intelligent PEV charging allowed for better alignment of renewable generation and load profiles, decreasing both the power and energy capacity of SES required to reach the RPS target.

Additionally, intelligent charging can reduce the amount of renewable generation that needs to be shifted to meet electricity demand, which can reduce the required capacity of energy storage systems need to meet a renewable energy utilization target.

In the study, published in the Journal of Power Sources, the UC Irvine team examined how the intelligence of plug - in electric vehicle (PEV) integration impacted the required capacity of energy storage systems to meet renewable utilization targets for a large - scale energy system, using California as an example for meeting a 50 % and 80 % renewable portfolio standard (RPS) in 2030 and 2050.

Additionally, PV Tech reported, «As India will spearhead the Alliance, it marks a move from Modi to bring India forward on the world stage of renewable energy on top of his already highly ambitious targets of 175GW of renewable capacity by 2022.»

However, in February 2011, Chinese officials revealed plans to resume the Nu River dams as part of China's 12th Five - Year Plan, which aims to add up to 140 GW of new hydropower capacity to meet its renewable energy targets.

India's 2027 renewable energy target requires 57 % of installed capacity to come from non-thermal energy, necessitating 21 - 22 GW annual renewable installations.

And as renewable capacity increases, economies of scale kick in and prices fall further, compounded by technological improvements, availability of cheaper financing, and ambitious targets by governments with clear energy policies.

India has set out some of the world's most ambitious renewable energy policies, including a target to ramp up solar installed capacity to 100 GW by 2022.

SaskPower's wind energy target is part of a broader plan to have renewable energy sources represent 50 percent of installed electricity generation capacity in Saskatchewan within 15 years.

New York City expands its target for solar power capacity, and sets new goal for energy storage, as mayor Bill de Blasio claims capacity from renewables has quadrupled on his watch.

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

The Texas renewable portfolio standard requires that utilities have 5,880 megawatts of renewable capacity by 2015, including a target of 500 megawatts of renewable - energy capacity from resources other than wind.

Combined, it will help Belgium meet its 2020 target of producing 13 % of its energy needs from renewable sources — a steep climb from the 9 % of current capacity in the country.

The legislation also set a target of reaching 10,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2025, although it will be exceeded much earlier.

Most states use a percentage target for the state's renewable portfolio by a certain year; a few states use targets measured in megawatts of capacity that the state must develop.

Finally, the plan calls for 100 megawatts of installed renewable energy capacity on federally subsidized housing by 2020 and a 20 percent renewable procurement target for federal buildings by that date.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently unveiled an ambitious new green agenda stipulating that the UK would increase its offshore wind capacity thirty-fold to meet its 2020 renewable energy targets.

Lot's of blame was thrown all round — at the end of the day it appears to be the original neglecting of a mandate of any kind of back up storage capacity in the original renewable targets (projects) encouraged by Govts for years.

As I wrote in November, the Indian government is aiming to invest $ 1 billion into renewable energy in the coming few years, and it has raised its 2022 solar power capacity target from 22 gigawatts to 100 gigawatts.

The government responded by setting new, ambitious annual installation targets and putting the projection to 213GW in 2020, 5 times larger than the current renewable energy capacity of the United States.

The Indian government's Eleventh Five - Year Plan includes a renewable energy target of 10 percent of total power generation capacity, with 4 percent to 5 percent of the final electricity mix to be achieved by 2012.

New wind capacity has been installed so rapidly in the last few years, it looked increasingly likely that Germany would overshoot its target of 40 - 45 percent of total power consumption coming from renewables by 2025.