Sentences with phrase «renewable generation sources»

This is becoming more challenging due to the growing range of renewable generation sources making the electricity system more prone to changes in frequency.

An Asia - based group of entrepreneurs has put forth a vision for a global, interconnected energy grid that connects energy users with renewable generation sources half a world away.

Solar is the fastest - growing renewable generation source, but wind accounts for the largest absolute increase in generation.

Wind becomes the single largest source of renewable generation by 2040, supplanting hydropower as the largest renewable generation source.

In the short run, taking account of the costs of shutdown and startup, the marginal cost of electricity from an operating renewable generation source is negative *.

Not exact matches

While wind and solar power have grown in recent years, renewable sources accounted for just 10 % of total U.S. energy consumption and about 13 % of electricity generation in 2015.

Second, many states actively favor renewables in electricity generation, and even in places that don't, the word has gotten out that coal combustion is far deadlier to humans than any other electric generation source — including natural gas.

Renewable sources of energy have become increasingly important, with the International Energy Agency expecting renewable electricity generation to rise by over one - third by the yRenewable sources of energy have become increasingly important, with the International Energy Agency expecting renewable electricity generation to rise by over one - third by the yrenewable electricity generation to rise by over one - third by the year 2022.

The new plan calls for 30 % of power generation to be through renewable sources.

In 2014, renewable sources of energy already accounted for about 10 % of total U.S. energy consumption and 13 % of electricity generation.

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The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

Alberta and Saskatchewan stand out in Canada with power grids still heavily reliant upon fossil fuels, but both recently released targets for significantly more electricity generation from renewable sources.

The landmark report that found Alberta could reduce its reliance on fossil fuel power and replace that generation with a mix of mostly renewable energy sources within two decades.

Firm up renewable generation by reconciling the intermittency of power from these sources and storing excess capacity to dispatch when it's needed.

The province can drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels for power generation and replace it with renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, biomass, hydro and geothermal energy.

Anaerobic wastewater treatment and organic solid waste treatment, both with biogas generation, are definitely one of the most sustainable sources of renewable energy to consider for many industries around the world.

Apart from the nuclear issue, the exploitation of Scotland's fossil - fuel resources is a major industrial activity, and even more a source of tax revenue, while there is outstanding potential for renewable energy generation, especially wind, wave and tidal.

«We need to encourage local power generation through wind, solar, geothermal and other renewable sources,» he said.

«I continue to strive toward a clean energy future for the State of New York, including: the addition of more renewable energy generation, greater energy efficiency, reliability for all consumers, improved transmission infrastructure, fuel source diversity, and innovative environmental stewardship, all at a reasonable cost to ratepayers,» said Sen. Joe Griffo.

The approval of the natural gas - fired plant came at a time when the administration was generally attempting to move away from fossil fuel generation and toward renewable energy generation, per its Reforming Energy Vision, which seeks to make the energy grid more reliant on renewable sources and more efficient.

She added that currently Ghana has about 3 percent electricity generation mix from renewable sources.

Mona Quartey said, this is line with the Renewable Energy Act 2011 (Act 832) which envisages the attainment of 10 percent of electricity generation mix from renewable energy sourcesRenewable Energy Act 2011 (Act 832) which envisages the attainment of 10 percent of electricity generation mix from renewable energy sourcesrenewable energy sources by 2020.

The CHPE project on its face is absolutely unnecessary since the unveiling of the Governor's Energy Highway Blueprint which will upgrade the transmission system for all sources of power generation, not just the Western New York coal fleet but also for the renewable sources who are trying to come online and be competitive.

The government also vowed to provide 20 percent of electricity generation through «indigenous renewable» sources by that date, as well.

By harnessing energy from the sun — «this handy fusion reactor in the sky,» he called it last night — getting enough renewable energy on the power grid and smoothing out energy generation and use between peak and off - peak hours, the nation and planet can shift away from fossil fuels» dominance as a power source, he told the crowd.

The batteries could pave the way for renewable energy sources to make up a greater share of the nation's energy generation.

The study is the first step toward determining how robust the grid currently is and if it can handle variabilities and recover from losses in generation from renewable energy sources, McClelland said.

The German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) still encourages such usage until 2019, e.g. by subsidizing the generation of heat from wood energy with feed - in tariffs or by granting investment subsidies for heating installations such as wood pellet or wood chip heating systems.

The most promising of these options include renewable sources of a variety of types, advanced fossil - fuel technologies that can capture and sequester carbon, and hydrogen - powered fuel cells for vehicle propulsion and dispersed electricity generation.

Power providers also should invest in more resilient renewable energy sources and consider local climatic constraints when selecting sites for new generation facilities, the authors said.

Electricity generation from hydropower, historically the largest source of renewable electricity generation, fluctuates from year to year because of precipitation patterns.

However, replacing these power sources with wind and solar farms requires megawatt - level storage capacity to buffer the intermittent generation from these renewable sources.

There is currently a shortfall of 50 % in the 12 % target for the generation of heat from renewable sources and a shortfall of 18 % in the 30 % target for the generation of electricity from renewables.

The European Union set «20-20-20» targets — a 20 per cent reduction in carbon emissions from 1990 levels; increasing energy generation from renewable sources by 20 per cent and a 20 per cent improvement in the EU's energy efficiency — and it is expected that public sector buildings lead the way.

We all know that the best option for energy generation in the future is a variety of renewable energy sources, hopefully backed up by smart grid and energy storage technologies.

In 2016, Denmark and Germany successfully managed peaks of 140 % and 86.3 %, respectively, of electricity generation from renewable sources, and in several countries (Portugal, Ireland and Cyprus, for example), achieving annual shares of 20 - 30 % electricity from variable renewables without additional storage is becoming feasible.

Actually, it's the other nations that have already agreed, and it is the U.S. that is refusing to go along by passing a benchmark renewable energy generation goal — a law that mandates that 20 % of electricity will be from renewable sources within, say, five years.

It'd be great to think that renewable energy sources and distributed electricity generation could solve such problems, and they're great where they work.

[Andy Revkin — The price differential between renewable energy sources and coal burning is shifting, but a 10 - year transformation is hard to foresee given the incredibly small base from which solar is growing (see the solar link in the previous annotation) and the long timeline for boosting geothermal generation, among other issues.

All of which is to say, from a technical perspective, for electricity generation renewable energy sources (totally excluding nuclear power) could produce several, several times the amount of electricity currently generated in the United States.

India's ambitious pledge to expand generation from solar, wind and other renewable energy sources is great, but will long remain frosting on a fossil fuel cake.

Guest post: Roger Andrews Renewable energy, particularly wind and solar, continues to set records for electicity generation and installed capacity in many parts of the world, and as shown in Figure 1 wind and solar growth in recent years has indeed been quite spectacular (the data used to construct this and following Figures are from the 2014 BP Statistical Review of World Energy): Figure 1: Electricity Generated from Solar and Wind, 1965 - 2013 But Figure 1 doesn't tell the whole story because solar and wind are only two of the four main sources of renewablRenewable energy, particularly wind and solar, continues to set records for electicity generation and installed capacity in many parts of the world, and as shown in Figure 1 wind and solar growth in recent years has indeed been quite spectacular (the data used to construct this and following Figures are from the 2014 BP Statistical Review of World Energy): Figure 1: Electricity Generated from Solar and Wind, 1965 - 2013 But Figure 1 doesn't tell the whole story because solar and wind are only two of the four main sources of renewablerenewable energy.

Rapid deployment of solar photovoltaics (PV), led by China and India, helps solar become the largest source of low - carbon capacity by 2040, by which time the share of all renewables in total power generation reaches 40 %.

However, you don't want to argue for a rational solution — i.e. cheap nuclear power (which also happens to be 10 to 100 times safer than our currently accepted main source of electricity generation, fossil fuel) and also happens to be a near zero emission technology (in fact much lower than renewables given they need fossil fuel backup, and given solar needs about 10 times as much material per TWh on an LCA basis).

And the carbon footprint per mile of driving an electric car declines every time the grid gets cleaner, whether from adding renewable energy sources or replacing a coal - fired generation plant with one using natural gas.

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The RET is for 23.5 % of Australia's electricity generation in 2020 to come from renewable sources.

Although coal - fired power generation may not be flexible enough to make up for the variability of wind power at the source region, the «hybrid - by - wire» strategy allows the lines to have a high utilization rate, and provides the flexibility to increase the share of renewable transmission in the future.

Coal will remain the largest source of electricity generation, however growth in renewable generation will be twice as large as that of gas and coal combined over the next five years.