Sentences with phrase «renewables like»

We have renewables like hydro - geothermal - power which are long - standing reliable technologies.

Will it replace coal or undercut renewables like solar and wind out of the market?

For now, that mostly means natural gas plants, but it can also mean batteries and other kinds of energy storage, always - on renewables like geothermal and landfill methane, or programs that shift and control demand («demand response»).

The situation is a clear example of what may await the rest of the country if we have get a climate bill passed, Many environmentalists are against nuclear power because of waste problems, safety issues, and the idea that money spent on nuclear is better spent on renewables like wind and solar.

They certainly don't want the demand for their products — and consequently their profits — to be reduced by a large - scale, rapid move away from burning fossil fuels and towards climate - friendly renewables like wind and solar generated electricity.

Scientists feel this could be a great solution for capturing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing excess energy generated from renewables like wind and solar.

In contrast, renewables like wind and solar offer many island communities the chance to generate affordable energy locally and finally bring electricity to villages long without it.

Charts lie this are good for showing the reality of how slowly developments take place and the unlikelihood of a sudden massive breakthrough that suddenly reduces the cost by orders of magnitude (because that is what would be required, and even if energy storage was free, renewables like wind and solar would still not be viable at current prices (or probably ever, IMO) to provide a major proportion of electricity generation.

In this hour, we'll feature activists working for a clean energy future and show how renewables like solar can not only cut emissions, but open the door to a happier and healthier tomorrow for all Brazilians.

A 2011 decision to phase out nuclear power by 2022 has meant that renewables like wind and solar power are expected to swiftly take the place of nuclear energy on the German power grid.

If renewables like wind and solar are more expensive, it makes everyone a little poorer and they'll use less energy.

Since Texas has its own grid, known as the Electricity Reliability Council of Texas or ERCOT, and has installed more wind capacity than the next three wind - leading states combined, the Texas experience shows what variable renewables like wind power do to the grid.

A recent report by the Center for Global Development finds that 60 million more Africans would gain electricity if the same $ 10 billion were invested in natural gas and not just renewables like solar.

As Third Way has explained, variable renewables like wind and solar will only get us part of the way.

The problem is that CEM7 defines clean energy much too narrowly, focusing primarily on renewables like wind and solar.

Edmonton, Alberta — October 9, 2014 — Environmentally and economically, there are too many upsides to renewables like wind energy for Alberta to ignore.

Edmonton, Alberta — October 9, 2014 — Environmentally and economically, there are too many upsides to renewables like wind energy for Alberta to i (more...)

And when we do need to add new capacity, it will likely come from far cleaner coal technologies, nuclear power and renewables like wind and solar, the two men asserted.

Renewables like wind and solar are now cost - competitive — and sometimes even cheaper — than fossil fuels in more and more regions around the world and this trend is only growing.

However the Ethics report is more cautious and says that, although renewables like wind and solar, can and should be ramped up rapidly, Germany also needed an extra 10GW to replace the nuclear plants.

Other renewables like tide and biomass will still be somewhere in the future, but will not be a better alternative than they are now, and in the case of biomass, much worse.

«We are looking towards the future where wave power generation will join the commercial realm along with other types of renewables like wind energy,» said Jason Bak, CEO of Finavera Renewables.

The agreement boosts energy efficiency and renewables like solar, wind, biomass and geothermal energy.

As James Hansen and three other notable climate scientists urged in an open letter earlier this month: «Renewables like wind and solar and biomass will certainly play roles in a future energy economy, but those energy sources can not scale up fast enough to deliver cheap and reliable power at the scale the global economy requires.

States and environmental advocates said the U.S. is already moving away from coal, the dirtiest fuel in the electricity mix, thanks to improvements in efficiency and competition from natural gas and renewables like wind and solar.

It's meeting their arguments in as level - headed and reasonable a way as possible, and continuing to push better alternatives, including renewables like solar and wind.

Renewables like solar, hydro, wind, electric vehicles, and all the Scribblers in the world refuse to believe that civilization continues to cause global warming - and that at our present pace, size and activity, there is no stopping it, ever, by building even more civilization.

Better yet, we should accelerate our nation's transition away from dirty fossil fuels and toward cleaner, safer renewables like wind and solar.

As renewables like wind and solar approach 30 per cent grid penetration, operators will need to increase the flexibility of their grids using natural gas generation, manage up to 2...

For his summer project, Jemin has been comparing the mining, material use and waste impacts of different energy sources including renewables like solar and wind, which we tend to think of as having little to no environmental impact.

With utilities looking to expand their generating fleets with intermittent renewables like wind and solar, the importance of pumped - storage hydro has never been greater.

An advanced hydrogen - bromine flow battery could make renewables like wind and solar more profitable and widespread.

Even with annual growth rates above 10 percent the share of new renewables like wind and solar in India is unlikely to reach 10 percent of the mix before 2040.

But of course electricity from renewables like solar and wind creates energy for electric cars without CO2.

But if the main effort to cut emissions is through subsidies for chic renewables like wind and solar power, virtually no good will be achieved — at very high cost.

While the ideal in regard to energy and the environment would be greatly reduced energy generation and consumption, replacement of fossil - fuelled electricity by renewables like wind is next best.

But after 13 years of the AEPS, Pennsylvania generates less than 4 percent of its electricity from renewables like wind and solar, even though 14.2 percent of the retail electricity sold in the Commonwealth is generated by AEPS - sanctioned «alternative» sources.

I've seen plenty of studies showing renewables can reach 30 % or more of grid penetration, but none showing that the grid can function without baseload — a good share of which can be from renewables like hydro, geothermal and biomass.

Repealing the Clean Power Plan moves the United States further from the global reality that fossil fuels are the energy of the past and renewables like solar and wind will power the future.

Look at the list of countries making real commitments to clean energy and you'll see a list of strong economies that aren't suffering because they've embraced renewables like solar and wind power.

SolarReserve won the bid for two tranches auctioned by the State Government of South Australia; one auction to supply at least 25 % of grid needs with dispatchable renewables like CSP with thermal storage, geothermal, or PV or wind plus battery storage.

While CAGW predictions fail to materialize and mis - guided nations and leaders continue to focus on beneficial warming as if it's the end of the world and ignore reality, the push for renewables like solar / wind, will end up making our power grid unstable - leaving millions without reliable power during the times when they'll need it the most - ie., during very cold winters.

Symptoms include an advocacy for a carbon tax, a predilection for decentralized renewables like rooftop solar, and an unexamined presumption that AGW must be solved by cleverly devising a truly cunning new plan using the free market system (that's the same free market system that works for carbon fuels, right?).

In the US, more than 600 utilities already offer customers the option to choose green power from renewables like wind and solar.

The challenge from renewables like wind and solar is, of course, that their generation is variable and, therefore, storage is crucial to maintaining continuity of energy flow.

Renewables like wind and solar and biomass will certainly play roles in a future energy economy, but those energy sources can not scale up fast enough to deliver cheap and reliable power at the scale the global economy requires.

And that's why, in my State of the Union address back in January, I called for a new Clean Energy Standard for America: By 2035, 80 percent of our electricity needs to come from a wide range of clean energy sources — renewables like wind and solar, efficient natural gas.

Vancouver also leads the world in the use of hydroelectric power, which makes up 90 percent of its energy supply, and regularly uses renewables like wind and solar.

The electricity sector can reduce emissions relatively easily by adopting renewables like solar and wind, while cars and trucks can't harness these zero - emissions energy sources without sophisticated and expensive energy storage technologies.

And renewables like wind and solar have been booming.