Sentences with phrase «renewable power installations»

Last year was a record for renewable power installations in Europe, accounting for 71.3 % of new installations, with generating capacity of 32,043 megawatts - up 37.7 % on 2010.

In 2000, new renewable power installations totalled 3.5 gigawatts.

Not exact matches

Across the United States, solar power installations have become an increasingly popular and affordable source of renewable energy.

The installation generates 200,000 kWh of renewable electricity per annum — enough to offset the energy requirements of James Cropper's specialist laminating and technical coating facility, or the equivalent of powering 50 UK homes.

The restoration of the site also includes the installation of a combination of on - site renewable energy generating systems, such as power generating photovoltaic cells, a bio-fuelled steam - generating boiler and 6kW hydro - electric water wheel.

For Internet giant Google, this reality has driven efforts such as the installation of a solar array that can provide 30 percent of the peak power needs of its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters as well as increasing purchases of renewable energy.

Additionally, installation of electrolyzer systems on electrical grids for power - to - gas applications, which integrate renewable energy, grid services and energy storage will require large - capacity, cost - effective hydrogen storage.

SAM develops cost - of - energy estimates for grid - connected power projects based on local weather conditions, installation and operating costs, and system design parameters for a range of renewable energy technologies, including solar photovoltaics (PV), concentrating solar power (CSP), wind, and geothermal.

Large - scale renewable energy installations are most likely to be built in sparsely populated areas — which will require advanced, interstate transmission systems to deliver this power to major population centers.

Meanwhile, distribution grids, which connect smaller renewables installations and conventional power stations, will also require considerable expansion and modernization, the scale of which will depend on specific tasks assigned to the nation's 800 - plus distribution grid operators when developing smart grids.

China tops the world in wind and solar power installations and the government plans to invest more than $ 360 billion through 2020 on renewable energy.

For example, to increase the U.S.'s renewable energy capacity to 17 % would require installing 162,000 megawatts of power — a six-fold increase in our existing capacity.14 This would also require the installation of thousands of miles of new transmission lines from the upper Midwest to the South, costing as much as $ 93 billion and taking decades to complete.15 Given the scope of this task, narrowing policy options to renewable energy alone creates an unnecessary obstacle to a transition to clean energy.

A report from groups including the United Nations environmental arm and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) shows renewable energy installations were responsible for 61 % of the world's net power capacity additions in 2017, more than double the new - builds from fossil fuel - powered generation.

GRID Alternatives partners with Native American tribes across the U.S. to help them meet their renewable energy and economic development goals through solar power installations and hands - on job training.

A total of 4,215 renewable energy installations were ultimately selected in the round, of which 3,945 were solar power projects.

As costs shift from fossil fuels and the installation of expensive pollution controls at existing power plants to low - cost, underused energy efficiency and renewable energy, ratepayers will see a net benefit.

Renewable installations can require hundreds to thousands more acres of land than a coal, natural gas or nuclear power plant to produce the same power.

The U.S. Department of Energy's recently upgraded website contains all things energy related, and can direct you to the many subsites and programs it operates: www.doe.gov For information about all things related to renewable energy in the U.S., try the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's site at: www.nrel.gov Bricker & Eckler produces numerous resources related to Ohio's energy arena, specifically in their Energy & Public Utilities, Environmental, and Green Strategies groups: http://www.bricker.com/services.aspx The Ohio Power Siting Board keeps track of energy installations statewide: www.opsb.ohio.gov To access information about Ohio's certified renewable energy installations, try the PUCO's listing: http://www.puco.ohio.gov/emplibrary/files/util/EnergyEnvironment/SB221/Updated%20Approved%20REN%20renewable energy in the U.S., try the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's site at: www.nrel.gov Bricker & Eckler produces numerous resources related to Ohio's energy arena, specifically in their Energy & Public Utilities, Environmental, and Green Strategies groups: http://www.bricker.com/services.aspx The Ohio Power Siting Board keeps track of energy installations statewide: www.opsb.ohio.gov To access information about Ohio's certified renewable energy installations, try the PUCO's listing: http://www.puco.ohio.gov/emplibrary/files/util/EnergyEnvironment/SB221/Updated%20Approved%20REN%20Renewable Energy Laboratory's site at: www.nrel.gov Bricker & Eckler produces numerous resources related to Ohio's energy arena, specifically in their Energy & Public Utilities, Environmental, and Green Strategies groups: http://www.bricker.com/services.aspx The Ohio Power Siting Board keeps track of energy installations statewide: www.opsb.ohio.gov To access information about Ohio's certified renewable energy installations, try the PUCO's listing: http://www.puco.ohio.gov/emplibrary/files/util/EnergyEnvironment/SB221/Updated%20Approved%20REN%20renewable energy installations, try the PUCO's listing: http://www.puco.ohio.gov/emplibrary/files/util/EnergyEnvironment/SB221/Updated%20Approved%20REN%20Cases.pdf

Besides CHPs running with bio gas and heating boilers, we use a power - to - heat installation to convert excess power from renewables into heat.

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Renewable Energy Focus New market rules which will allow large power users to directly meet their renewable power obligations through private supply contracts could lead to up to US$ 6 bn being invested in Argentina's energy sector over the next three years, and lead to the installation of around 4 GW in new generation capacity, the Energy MinisRenewable Energy Focus New market rules which will allow large power users to directly meet their renewable power obligations through private supply contracts could lead to up to US$ 6 bn being invested in Argentina's energy sector over the next three years, and lead to the installation of around 4 GW in new generation capacity, the Energy Minisrenewable power obligations through private supply contracts could lead to up to US$ 6 bn being invested in Argentina's energy sector over the next three years, and lead to the installation of around 4 GW in new generation capacity, the Energy Ministry says.

«At this point 2012 is poised to be one of the largest years, if not the largest year in the U.S. wind market, in terms of installation,» said Alex Klein, research director for Renewable Power at IHS Energy Research, whose clients include renewable energy cRenewable Power at IHS Energy Research, whose clients include renewable energy crenewable energy companies.

In Canada the government offers the RESOP (Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program) that allows residential homeowners with solar panel installations to sell the EXTRA energy they produce back to the grid at 41 cents / kWh, while drawing power from the grid at an average rate of 20 cents / kWh.

Rooftop solar power — or, alternatively, microgrids powered by various combinations of small renewable installations and diesel generators — are the only way their inhabitants will ever get reliable electricity.

In 2000, renewables generated 3.5 gigawatts or 20.7 % of new power installations.

Recently growth in solar power installations has been particularly strong in the mid-west and south of the country — in pro-Trump states that have traditionally turned their backs on renewable energy and supported the president's fossil fuel policies.

The observation that «renewables continue to far outpace coal - fired power plant development» does not indicate whether coal will be employed for district heating in the future once present installations have been retired.

Installations of wind and solar totaled almost 155 gigawatts (GW) last year, more than the entire installed power capacity in the U.K., meaning that renewables continue to far outpace coal - fired power plant development.

Many other retailers are well ahead of Walmart in developing renewable power, including on - site installations.

According to a new study published by UN Environment, the Frankfurt School - UNEP Collaborating Centre and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the installation of renewable power capacity hit a record high last year, adding 138.5 gigawatts to the global power capacity, the approximate equivalent of 16 of the world's largest existing power producing facilities combined.

The average roof - top solar power system in Australia in 2011 was about 2.7 kilowatts (figures from the Australian Renewable Energy Regulator) and an installation of this size will generate about 4.3 megawatt - hours of electricity each year.

Across the world, it has become cheaper to build new renewable energy installations than to operate and maintain existing coal power plants.

The company, which has 22 facilities with solar arrays, three sites using landfill gas, and four that will soon have wind power installations, has been a leader in the use of renewable energy for over 20 years, saving an estimated total of $ 80 million.

Following the 497 - MW order for the EnBW Hohe See offshore wind - power - plant, EnBW has also awarded Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy with the installation of the neighboring 112 - MW - project EnBW Albatros.

Austin has pledged to meet 30 percent of its energy needs with renewable sources by 2020, aided by planned wind - power installations that will surpass their predecessors in efficiency.

The report claims that Walmart's renewable energy projects are «far too small relative to the huge scale of Walmart's operations» and that the company's clean energy deployment is only in «relatively few» states, with about three - fourths of its solar installations in just two states (and more than half are just in California), and none at all in «large swaths of the country, including including many of the most coal - intensive states — the states that would benefit most from clean power.»

Still, following the March disasters, the Japanese government quickly moved to support renewable energies passing a revamped feed - in tariff (FiT) bill which is slated to go into effect 1 July, 2012, and will purchase not only excess power, but all power generated by solar installations over 10kW.

Ambitious new initiatives have cascaded out of Schwarzenegger's office — including the two measures raising the renewable - power requirement on utilities, a state subsidy program to encourage the installation of electricity - generating solar panels on 1 million California roofs, and in January 2007, an executive order establishing the nation's first «low - carbon fuel standard,» which requires a reduction of at least 10 percent in the carbon emissions from transportation fuels by 2020.

MMA Renewable Ventures LLC, a subsidiary of Municipal Mortgage & Equity will finance the installation through a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).

US solar power capacity recently surpassed 10 gigawatts as the price of solar panels has fallen some 75 % during the past 5 years... Wind installations have surged past 60 gigawatts and non-hydro renewable energy sources accounted for more than 99 % of all new US electrical generating capacity installed during January.

Wind turbines can offer viable renewable power generation for a cleaner energy future, but the most efficient of them are not suited to any type of urban or small scale installations, so for many of us, they are at least one step removed from our daily lives.

Private money is financing privately developed renewable energy projects, beginning with geothermal, that will power U.S. military installations.

The need for investment in the grid is evident from the increasing number of grid interventions to balance intermittent power supply from renewable energy installations, which cost grid operator TenneT, for example, nearly 1 billion euros in 2017, he writes.

Under the Renewable Energy Act, which has been imitated around the world, any renewable power investor — be it a household installing a solar array on the roof, a cooperative erecting a windmill, a farmer running a biogas installation, or an institutional investor operating an offshore wind park — could sell their green electricity at a guaranteed price above wholesale market price, fixed in advance for 20 years (for more details, see the factsheet Defining features of the Renewable Energy Act (ERenewable Energy Act, which has been imitated around the world, any renewable power investor — be it a household installing a solar array on the roof, a cooperative erecting a windmill, a farmer running a biogas installation, or an institutional investor operating an offshore wind park — could sell their green electricity at a guaranteed price above wholesale market price, fixed in advance for 20 years (for more details, see the factsheet Defining features of the Renewable Energy Act (Erenewable power investor — be it a household installing a solar array on the roof, a cooperative erecting a windmill, a farmer running a biogas installation, or an institutional investor operating an offshore wind park — could sell their green electricity at a guaranteed price above wholesale market price, fixed in advance for 20 years (for more details, see the factsheet Defining features of the Renewable Energy Act (ERenewable Energy Act (EEG)-RRB-.

CLEW: Professor Ehrhart, one of the arguments for switching from administratively determined feed - in tariffs to auctions is to keep the costs for renewables down — but the first round has resulted in slightly higher payments than the current feed - in tariff for power from free - standing PV installations.

While it may remain profitable to build renewable energy installations, incentives against cutting carbon emissions were not strong enough: Prices for allowances to emit carbon dioxide have dropped and cheap gas in the United States is pushing an additional supply of hard coal on the market, reducing coal prices to their lowest in four years and incentivising utilities to sell more power from brown - and hard coal - fired power stations.

That is one of the campus» several energy conservation - related features; it will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and a large on - site solar installation.

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A study by the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory of US wind farms built between 2000 and 2009 found that, on average, only 1.1 percent of the total wind farm area suffered surface disturbance, and only 0.43 percent was permanently disturbed by wind power installations.