Sentences with phrase «shares of renewables»

This guidance document shows that modern district energy as the most effective approach for many cities to transition to sustainable heating and cooling, by improving energy efficiency and enabling higher shares of renewables.

So what we see is a move toward a system of integrating high shares of renewables.

I think we will see much more sector coupling in the years to come and really a convergence of these different sectors which will enable integration of prior shares of renewables because then the electric vehicles can serve as storage for electricity when it is generated by the reliable sources, but when it is not consumed at the same time.

Uneven uptake, barriers ranging from technology and financial risks, and integration challenges in markets with high shares of renewables persist.

That same year, Nicaragua pledged to increase its share of renewable energy from 53 % to 90 % by 2020.

While both provinces have set laudable targets for increasing the share of renewable power on their grids over the coming decades, they're still burning fossil fuels for power.

Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report provides the international community with a global dashboard to register progress on the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7): ensuring universal energy access, doubling progress on energy efficiency and substantially increasing the share of renewable energy by 2030.

How will you respond to changes in per capita consumption, population size, labour force productivity and share of renewables in the energy mix for example?

The target, it argued, «does not create any obstacles for social and economic development and corresponds to general objectives of the land - use and sustainable forest management policies, raising the level of energy efficiency, reducing energy intensity of the economy and increasing share of renewables in the Russian energy balance.»

South Korea got just 4.7 % of its power from renewables in 2016 and, in 2015, ranked 45th in a survey of 46 nations that looked at the share of renewables in each country's energy mix.

In addition to reconvening the panel, Cuomo wants to shutter the state's last coal plants, expand the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and increase the share of renewable energy on the grid.

First, increase the share of renewable energy sources, such as wind and hydro - power, in the fuel mix and as a result maintain high energy independence.

U.S. refiners need to accumulate credits, or Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs), to prove they have blended their share of renewable fuels into gasoline and diesel.

BRUSSELS — Toning down its environmental zeal of years past, the European Commission has proposed today to ax binding, national targets for the share of renewable sources in each member state's energy mix after 2020.

In the last decade, the share of renewables in the energy sector has doubled every 5.5 years.

«From the perspective of agricultural science, agrophotovoltaics is a promising solution for increasing both the land use efficiency and the share of renewable energy provided by the agricultural sector,» stresses Prof. Iris Lewandowski, Head of the Department of Biobased Products and Energy Crops, University of Hohenheim.

to consider should be the following: 1) the elimination or reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases; 2) increase of basic sanitation services provided to the population; 3) the elimination or reduction of deforestation and burning of forests; 4) reduction in the consumption of fossil fuels; 5) increase of the share of renewable energy in the energy mix; 6) the elimination or reduction of land pollution, air, ocean and water; 7) increase of energy efficiency or energy saving in agriculture, industry and transportation in general; and 8) increase of recycling of materials.

The standard of environmental performance required to consider should be the following: 1) the elimination or reduction of emissions of greenhouse gases; 2) increase of basic sanitation services provided to the population; 3) the elimination or reduction of deforestation and burning of forests; 4) reduction in the consumption of fossil fuels; 5) increase of the share of renewable energy in the energy mix; 6) the elimination or reduction of land pollution, air, ocean and water; 7) increase of energy efficiency or energy saving in agriculture, industry and transportation in general; and 8) increase of recycling of materials.

But the IEA expects the overall share of renewables in heat consumption to increase only slowly, rising from 9 % in 2015 to 11 % in 2022.

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 %.

The Wind Mission is modelled on the National Solar Mission which seeks to increase the share of renewable energy in India's energy mix.

In September 2010, the German government announced a new energy policy with the target of increasing the relative share of renewable energy in gross electrical generation to 35 % by 2020, 50 % by 2030, 65 % by 2040, and 80 % by 2050.

In its scenario, the share of renewables in road transport (including biofuels and renewable electricity for electric vehicles) is expected to increase only marginally, from 4.2 % in 2016 to 4.8 % in 2022.

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.

Between 2000 and 2010 — under a looming urgency to secure energy supplies posed by the Schröder nuclear phaseout — the share of renewables in Germany's power profile soared from 6.4 % (37 TWh) to 17 % (103 TWh), and installed nameplate capacities surged by almost 500 %, from 12 GW to 56 GW.

The share of renewable capacity in the total generation mix increased from 34 % at the end of 2010 to a stunning 41 % in July 2012 (Figure 2).

The highest shares of renewable energy are in states with plentiful hydro - power resources, such as Sweden, Finland and Austria.

South Australia's rising share of renewable power could cause blackouts in the state if the Australian Energy Market Operator doesn't intervene, the agency's chief executive, Matt Zema, said.

The government aims to raise the share of renewable energies in its total primary energy supply from 1 per cent in 1995 to 5 per cent in 2010 and 10 per cent in 2020.

This is much more specific than Russia's Paris pledge, which only said that policies would back an «increasing share of renewables in the Russian energy balance».

Government forecasts show that with the policy instruments currently in place, the share of renewables will be closer to 3 per cent than to 5 per cent in 2010.

Other achievements include energy intensity improvements, an increased share of renewables and a stronger focus on energy research and development (R&D).

REN21 contributed to the Policy Brief # 3: Substantially increase the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.

It tracks progress toward universal access to modern energy, doubling the rate of energy efficiency improvements and doubling the share of renewable energy consumption in the global energy mix.

Such a high share of renewables requires significant adaptation of energy markets to create fair and sustainable conditions for their further growth.

Although the balancing of renewable power sources with fossil fuels is widely regarded as a temporary fix that's not suited for larger shares of renewable energy, most other technological strategies (described below) can only partially reduce the need for balancing capacity.

Up to now, the relatively small share of renewable power sources added to the grid has been balanced by dispatchable forms of electricity, mainly rapidly deployable gas power plants.

The third edition of the GTF provides an evidence - based look at progress at the regional, country, and international level toward ensuring universal access to modern energy services, doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, and doubling the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency.

The world would need to triple the share of renewables, nuclear power and carbon - capture and storage to meet that goal.

They also agreed at a summit in Brussels yesterday to increase the share of renewable energy consumed in the EU to at least [continue reading...]

In OECD countries, however, the share of renewables in total energy supply is only 9.4 %.

It focuses on how to move further, faster in the coming five years towards the delivery of SEforALL's three, 2030 objectives: ensure universal access to modern energy services; double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency; and double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.

Mexico's energy reform is set to revitalise an ailing sector and boost the economy, IEA report says Mexico's wide - ranging energy reform, which began in 2013, is expected to reverse the country's declining oil production, increase the share of renewables in the power sector, and slow the growth in carbon emissions, providing a solid foundation for robust economic growth in the coming decades, according to the International Energy Agency.

«This shift towards a higher share of renewables clearly means a transformation of our energy system,» said spokesperson Beate Baron at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy (BMWI) in Berlin.

This represents nearly a quarter (23.0 %) of total OECD electricity production in 2015 (Figure 5), the largest share of renewables in gross electricity production for any year in the renewables time series (from 1990).

By virtue of an EU mandate to increase their share of renewables to 15.5 % by 2020, the country has bumped up its use of «Green energy» from 5 % in 2005 to around 10.4 % today.

Progress on increasing the share of renewables in the energy mix is set to fall short of the 2030 target, finds the report.

From 1980 till 2010 the share of renewable energy in Denmark rose from 3 % to 19 %.

The report argues that, even if electricity demand were to grow at around 1 to 1.5 per cent per annum between 2010 and 2020 and fossil fuel prices were to remain relatively high, the share of renewables in UK electricity sales is only expected to increase to around 10.25 per cent by 2015.

What is more, they also want to accelerate the deployment of new renewable energy, by raising the target for the share of renewables to 65 percent in 2030.