Sentences with phrase «renewables over the next several decades»

Such attacks seem somewhat pointless in that under any plausible scenario we are going to have both nuclear power plants and increasing deployment of renewables over the next several decades.

Not exact matches

The Clean Energy Standard was part of an effort by state regulators to shift the state's reliance from fossil fuels to renewable energy over the next several decades.

To start, nearly all of the CSLF meeting participants were bullish on the outlook for fossil fuel consumption, expressing the view that fossil use would increase over the next several decades due to a combination of demand factors (e.g. population and economic growth) and supply factors (e.g. lack of cost - competitive renewable energy).

The intermittency of wind and solar energy has some state regulators and energy companies a bit concerned, but they (along with that Nervous Nelly sitting across from you) should take comfort in the findings of a recent study that looked at the extent to which we can meet electricity demands in the lower 48 states over the next several decades with renewable energy.

The exploitation of renewable energy resources or development of other alternative energy technologies could emerge over the next several decades as a possible new general - purpose technology.

Several recent studies show little to no economic potential to increase biopower in the U.S. over the next two decades because of its relatively high costs compared with other renewable energy and low carbon technologies (EIA 2015, EPA 2015, NREL 2015, UCS 2014, UCS 2015).

It is also essential to adopt a long - term perspective for expanding the role of renewable energy in North America over the next several decades.