Sentences with phrase «renewable electricity resources»

OTTAWA — Canada's abundant renewable electricity resources offer the country a competitive advantage in global efforts to cut carbon pollution and deliver clean growth, and can power our economy as it shifts from fossil fuels to clean energy.

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Its three largest utilities also offer net metering programs for commercial, residential and agricultural customers who generate their own electricity from renewable resources.

(The House of Representatives passed a climate bill last summer, mandating 15 % of electricity come from renewable resources, among other measures.)

The Powerpack project, a joint venture with local electricity provider, Southern California Edison (SCE), will support grid operation during peak hours and improve the integration of renewable energy resources.

The natural - resource - rich state is also known for its natural gas production (it leads the nation), coal, electricity (again, number one in the States) and renewable energy — specifically, wind energy.

This is the first time a utility has contracted for a system that stores and releases solar energy after sunset, and will help KIUC meet its goal of using renewable resources to generate half of Kaua`i's electricity by the end of 2019.

This project also supports New York's Clean Energy Standard, an aggressive, nation - leading mandate to obtain 50 percent of the state's electricity from renewable energy resources by 2030.

Department to Design Clean Energy Standard, Ensuring that 50 % of Electricity in New York State Comes From Renewable Energy Resources by 2030

The projects are part of the state's Clean Energy Standard, which hopes to make 50 percent of the electricity used in New York come from renewable resources by 2030.

Don Jessome, president and CEO of Transmission Developers Inc., the company that would build the line, said in a statement that his firm «looks forward to working with all stakeholders to further the development of the fully - permitted... project to deliver clean, low cost electricity generated from renewable resources to southeastern New York.»

The executive said Ulster County currently gets all of its electricity from renewable energy resources and that the county is the only «net carbon - neutral» county in New York state.

Close Indian Point power plant by 2021 - Unit 2 Reactor to close April 2020 and Unit 3 Reactor April 2021 - End use of a plant with numerous safety violations - «Current Indian Point Employees will be Offered relocation and opportunities with other plants and utilities within the state; training in renewable technologies» - «Entergy will provide $ 15 million in funding for environmental and community benefits» - Cuomo is working on replacement resources so that there can be no cost increases in electricity after Indian Point closes More

Officials said the new solar power will account for a «major component» of Austin Energy's recently adopted Resource, Generation and Climate Protection Plan, which calls for meeting 55 percent of all delivered electricity using renewable resources by 2025.

New report argues that even the Southeast can get a significant amount of electricity from renewable resources

Already, FERC is rewriting the rules for new transmission lines, potentially making it easier to permit new electricity - carrying capacity — and, as a result, unleashing the development of more renewable resources.

Wellinghoff's goal is to enable a near total transformation of the electricity sector, allowing for renewable resources, such as the sun, wind and flow of rivers, to meet a greater proportion of U.S. electricity demand.

This would still require a major investment in new electricity generation from renewable resources, particularly wind power because it is a well - established and relatively cheap technology.

South and Central America could generate 100 percent of their electricity with renewable resources, a new study finds

China still draws 82 percent of energy from coal, but large dams are crucial to the country's climate change program, which aims to increase its proportion of electricity from renewable resources from the current 7.2 percent to 15 percent by 2020.

Moreover, as the materials are based largely on renewable resources, after dismantling they can be reused as a source of heat and electricity.

The homes — and the adjacent businesses they supported — would get 50 percent of their power from renewable resources, including solar electricity and solar water heaters.

In fact, Germany hopes to develop technology to store excess electricity from renewable resources as gas to be burned later, a scheme known as «power to gas,» according to economist and former German politician Rainer Baake, now director of an energy transition think tank Agora Energiewende.

Of course, copper is the primary metal used around the world to move electricity and that's a route Hochschild followed as well, moving into energy products and, then, in 2003, starting to trade renewable energy credits — another government run market in chits that show a given electric utility has produced or bought a sufficient amount of electricity from renewable resources, such as the sun or wind, to meet a mandate.

As part of that commitment, the government has pledged to produce 15 percent of all electricity by 2020 using renewable resources, including 250 GW of wind power expected to come online by the end of the decade.

At the heart of their plan is an unusually ambitious goal: to produce 75 percent of the nation's electricity from renewable resources by 2020.

In fact, another agency is specifically tasked with leading that charge: the California Public Utilities Commission is responsible by law for ensuring that publicly owned utilities in the state get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable resources by the end of this year (although the utilities have until 2013 to prove that they have complied) and 33 percent by 2020.

Power supply The CEC also has a mandate to prioritize new electricity - generating projects that either improve the efficiency of producing that power or are derived from renewable resources, such as the sun, wind and hot rocks (geothermal).

A new study co-authored by Steven Davis, associate professor of Earth system science, shows that the U.S. can meet 80 percent of its electricity demand with renewable solar and wind resources.

Whitney explains that oil and local, renewable resources can work in tandem to supply electricity to microgrids.

«(ii) 4 megawatts in capacity, in the case of a facility that is placed in service after the date of enactment of this section and generates electricity from a renewable energy resource other than by means of combustion.

The report, «Beyond Renewable Portfolio Standards: An Assessment of Regional Supply and Demand Conditions Affecting the Future of Renewable Energy in the West,» compares the cost of renewable electricity generation (without federal subsidy) from the West's most productive renewable energy resource areas — including any needed transmission and integration costs — with the cost of energy from a new natural gas - fired generator built near the customers iRenewable Portfolio Standards: An Assessment of Regional Supply and Demand Conditions Affecting the Future of Renewable Energy in the West,» compares the cost of renewable electricity generation (without federal subsidy) from the West's most productive renewable energy resource areas — including any needed transmission and integration costs — with the cost of energy from a new natural gas - fired generator built near the customers iRenewable Energy in the West,» compares the cost of renewable electricity generation (without federal subsidy) from the West's most productive renewable energy resource areas — including any needed transmission and integration costs — with the cost of energy from a new natural gas - fired generator built near the customers irenewable electricity generation (without federal subsidy) from the West's most productive renewable energy resource areas — including any needed transmission and integration costs — with the cost of energy from a new natural gas - fired generator built near the customers irenewable energy resource areas — including any needed transmission and integration costs — with the cost of energy from a new natural gas - fired generator built near the customers it serves.

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To make the process even cleaner, the electricity needed to replenish the batteries will come from renewable resources.

But energy stocks also include green energy: power from renewable resources like solar power, wind power, geothermal power, generating electricity from ocean waves, plus nuclear power.

The authors further predict that renewable resources could supply 100 percent of US electricity and over 90 percent of total energy by 2100.

A renewable portfolio standard is a state policy that requires electricity providers to obtain a minimum percentage of their power from renewable energy resources by a certain date.

If you were to install a system of solar panels and solar water heaters, then the majority of your electricity and hot water needs would be met by this renewable energy resource.

And again, my position is that (1) nuclear power is not needed, since we can get all the electricity we need, and more, from renewables; (2) nuclear can not possibly be expanded enough, quickly enough to have any significant impact on reducing GHG emissions in the time frame that's needed, while renewables can be (and already are); and (3) resources invested in expanding nuclear power would be far more effectively invested in renewables and / or efficiency, and the opportunity costs of nuclear therefore mean that putting resources into nuclear power hinders rather than helps the effort to quickly reduce CO2 emissions from generating electricity.

The draft promotes renewable energy by requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet a certain percentage of their load with electricity generated from renewable resources, like wind, biomass, solar, and geothermal... [They] begin at 6 % in 2012 and gradually rises to 25 % in 2025.

However, it does afford some additional advantages because it allows for the possibility that the electricity could be produced without CO2 emissions (by renewable resources like solar or wind) or that emissions from the electricity production could be more easily sequestered.

Among the proposals is the establishment of a Reduction Tax Credit (RTC), whereby eligible parties would receive a tax credit for every kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity reduced, just as wind and other renewable resources receive a Production Tax Credit (PTC) for every kWh produced.

In addition, four New England states have established policies to secure a percentage of their electricity from renewable resources such as wind.

Using long - distance, high - voltage electricity transmission to deliver electricity from renewable resources to highly populated and polluted regions could increase the use of green energy, reduce carbon emissions, and maximize air quality and health benefits.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

By reducing the overall amount of electricity the State consumes, this project advances Governor Cuomo's Reforming the Energy Vision strategy and recently enacted Clean Energy Standard, a nation - leading mandate that 50 percent of New York State's electricity come from renewable energy resources by 2030.

The groups participating in the motion included the Advanced Energy Economy, the American Biogas Council, the American Council on Renewable Energy, the American Petroleum Institute, the American Public Power Association, the American Wind Energy Association, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, the Electric Power Supply Association, the Electricity Consumers Resource Council, the Energy Storage Association, the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the Natural Gas Supply Association, and the Solar Energy Industries Association.

Investments that encourage the construction of new renewable resources will cut the demand for fossil fuel - based electricity, reducing air pollution and global warming emissions.

Earth has an abundance of clean, renewable energy resources that can be used to generate electricity, provide heat, and power vehicles, all while emitting little to no CO2.

Building enough new solar and wind capacity to meet California's 33 percent renewables by 2020 mandate will not be easy — but reliably getting the electricity generated by those resources to the places where it will be consumed may be even tougher.

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