Sentences with phrase «renewables sector»

A commercially viable renewables sector is a good goal, but for now it is important to keep the numbers in perspective.

While PM Abbott is in charge Australia will foolishly stick loyally to the centuries old fossil fuel industry and neglect the exponentially growing renewables sector.

To encourage investment in the emerging renewables sector, Japan's government in 2012 adopted a generous feed - in tariff program for new renewable energy projects, the result of which has been a glut of new mostly solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays coming online over the last 24 months, helping to increase the country's nonhydropower renewable energy portfolio to 2.2 percent of total consumption this year, according to government estimates.

Writing in the foreward of the report, Dr Fatih Birol, executive director of the IEA, says China has increased its solar PV capacity almost 800-fold over the past decade and is now the «undisputed leader» in several renewables sectors.

CPPIB — one of the world's largest pension funds, which invests on behalf of 20 million Canadians — has swiftly emerged as a significant player in the global renewables sector.

Southeast Asia offers rich renewable sector opportunities, recently exemplified by Chevron's multibillion - dollar sale of its Indonesian and Philippines geothermal projects, and the purchase of Equis Energy for $ 5 billion.

Brazil has one of the largest renewables sectors in the world, with three - quarters of its electricity supply coming from renewables including hydropower in 2015.

That reputation has already taken a severe battering from the delay — and a further postponement was the last thing the South African renewables sector wanted.

Fourth, Exelon's management of the Illinois nuclear fleet under deregulation has yielded benefits for air quality and decarbonization that dwarf those of the subsidized Illinois renewables sector.

Some 95 % of the UK renewables sector believe politicians are failing to address the industry's needs as they campaign ahead of the general election, a poll reveals.

While a much smaller market in the already smallish renewable sector, there's been growth here, too, with 69,000 individual units approaching a full gigawatt of installed capacity across the nation.

The huge public opposition driving Germany's nuclear exit means that its rapidly expanding renewables sector is effectively replacing nuclear, not coal, and this is set to continue.

Unfortunately, much of that hard - earned momentum was a casualty of the freeze as well as HB 483, which basically tripled setbacks for wind turbines and made future commercial - scale development unviable.The renewable sector is particularly lagging, in the E2 report showing a scant 1.5 percent job growth in Ohio far lower than the national wind and solar rate.

Liquid biofuel was the next biggest renewables sector, with 1.7 m jobs, with Brazil and the US the largest nations.

We continue to finance renewable energy companies in Singapore to aid in the growth of the domestic renewables sector.

Investment flows to the Mexican renewables sector have consistently increased, mainly driven by the new opportunities that the Energy Reform.

But we'll forge ahead with our aggressive reporting on environmental and energy topics, including climate change, land use, threatened ecosystems, government policy, the fossil fuel industries, the growing renewables sector and consumer choices.

Monadelphous Group has been awarded three contracts in the mining, energy and renewables sectors, to the value of $ 55 million.

Innovative funding patterns such as crowd funding platforms are gathering momentum in the renewable sector.

Yeo's work as chair has been praised, but he is a magnet for criticism too from those who object to the money he makes from the renewable sector.

A recent report - Maintaining growth in the renewables sector - explored in some depth the various renewable support mechanisms now in place with Europe's top electricity generators and the prospects for expansion of the renewable sector both in the short and medium term.

Unlike much of the rest of the EU — and unlike Germany, which has posted a major success story in growing its renewable sector — the UK has mostly eschewed the simple FIT approach to support in favour of a ragbag of measures.

Labour's promise to temporarily freeze energy bills — as well as being a con, with energy companies bound to hike up prices both before and after — would also be a huge blow to our renewables sector — spooking investors and threatening billions of pounds worth of investment in green energy.

The level of support for investment incentives for renewables will remain as planned and as published because these are essential for investor confidence in the renewables sector and our commitments to a low - carbon economy.

«Labour in Wales have failed in protecting our environment, while the Tories have declared war on the renewables sector.

Central to the party's policies will be support for the renewables sector in Scotland.

«This is one of the most significant stimulus policies for the renewable sector I've seen in the past 10 years,» said Alex Klein, senior director of renewable power research at the consulting firm IHS Inc..

Merkel's assessment that the renewable sector was not capable of filling the energy gap if Germany was entirely rid of nuclear power was directly in line with the coalition's newly unveiled «Energy Concept» — the ambitious energy policy with a 40 - year trajectory that called for, by 2050, greenhouse gas cuts of at least 80 %, increasing renewables to 80 % in electricity supply, and a 50 % reduction in primary energy consumption compared to 2008 levels.

Q: But you said that the gas industry had been faster off the mark than the renewables sector in reacting to Fukushima.

The proposal to close Diablo Canyon, the letter writers note, was «decided in secret negotiations between PG&E and unaccountable anti-nuclear groups, some with financial ties to the renewables sector.

It was decided in secret negotiations between PG&E and unaccountable anti-nuclear groups, some with financial ties to the renewables sector.

The renewables sector warned of a collapse in the price of renewable energy certificates, savage writedowns of existing assets and the shelving of planned projects if the RET was cut.

My own research shows that, even taking the OECD's analysis at face value, when we compare the «subsidies» given to green and brown sectors on a unit - for - unit basis, the renewable sector enjoys thirteen times the subsidy that the fossil fuel sector received.

Despite the broadening range of data analytics players competing in the renewables sector so far, no one company is dominant in the digital services space for wind energy, solar power or energy storage yet.

Reflecting the shift in where global capital is to be found, India signed a deal with Japan's Softbank, which pledged to invest $ 20 billion into the country's renewables sector.

We here at OSEA pride ourselves on being a part of the renewable sector and we were happy to support both of these ambitious conference's.

Top of mind for the renewables sector will be the imposition of onerous 2 km setback conditions on wind farms.

¶ The South Carolina House of Representatives passed a bill to eliminate a cap that solar industry advocates say threatens future growth of the renewable sector.

However, despite this market reality, the NEP's reliance on thermal power fuels scepticism about India's commitment to clean energy, and could distort investor confidence in the renewables sector.

It is estimated that between 2004 and 2014 employment in the renewables sector doubled, from about three million jobs in 2004 to 6.5 million in 2014.

In this context it is hardly surprising to see significant advances in India's renewables sector and especially solar, which grew by 81 percent in the most recent financial year.

The new data from China's energy administration reveal just how committed China is becoming to its renewables sector - and how that will underpin the country's energy security.

Born in the United States, Craig Morris has been living in Germany since 1992 and working in the renewables sector since 2001.

News about the rate at which new renewable power capacity is being added to grids around the world has been overshadowed by a remarkable trend that could revolutionize the renewables sector.

Washington State has more than 100,000 renewable sector jobs at more than 110 companies working to supply solar and wind development.