Sentences with phrase «significantly by coal»

The emission factors vary significantly by coal rank, confirming a long - recognized finding, and also within each rank by State of origin.

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Under this scenario, by 2040 global energy demand will be significantly larger than it is now; oil, coal, and natural gas each will account for about one - quarter of total demand, and solar and wind together will account for roughly 5 %.

New Chinese hydro, nuclear, wind and solar are also significantly curtailing coal power generation, driven not only by energy security and climate concerns but also by efforts to reduce local pollution.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

Cheap shale gas is significantly reducing coal demand in the United States, but global coal consumption is still expected to rise 2.6 percent annually by 2017, the International Energy Agency said today in a report.

Although fracking in the U.S. produces more than 100 billion gallons of wastewater per year, the process requires significantly less water per unit of energy than extraction and processing for coal and nuclear power, according to past research by Jackson and his colleagues.

Because U.S. coal production peaked in 2002 (in terms of energy provided by coal), the U.S. will experience significantly higher coal and electric prices in future years.

If the U.K. sold its shale gas both domestically and abroad to replace coal, it could reduce local air pollution significantly and reduce global carbon emissions by 170 megatons.

3 — Of course, that just by itself would not have been a significant incentive, so the original wind development lobbyists then made the case for a quantum leap: that by adding wind turbines to the grid we could significantly reduce CO2 from those «dirty» fossil fuel electrical sources (especially coal).

The revised plan significantly reduced the number of coal plants in the pipeline and incorporated Nguy Thi's recommendation to increase renewable energy — such as wind, solar, and biomass — to 21 % of the total energy plan by 2030.

After accounting for all the methane leakage factors mentioned by the Post, the NETL study clearly demonstrates that life cycle GHG emissions from LNG exports from the U.S. are significantly less than emissions from coal generated electricity in China and in Europe.

China has shown the world how much it truly cares about global warming by burning significantly more dirty, carbon - unfriendly coal than it previously pretended.

«PV Costs Set to Plunge for 2009/10,» Renewable Energy World, 23 December 2008; «PV Costs Down Significantly from 1998 — 2007,» Renewable Energy World, 23 February 2009; Christoph Podewils, «As Cheap as Brown Coal: By 2010, a kWh of PV Electricity in Spain Will Cost Around 9 cents to Produce,» PHOTON International, April 2007.

Electricity production from coal in the United States has dropped significantly, replaced by increased generation from natural gas and wind power.

Ending the production of coal, oil and natural gas from public lands and waters could significantly reduce CO2 emissions by the US, according to a new study.

The «standards significantly underestimate the carbon - reduction contributions by energy efficiency, solar and wind power as clean replacements for dirty, retiring coal plants.»

I lived in Wyoming for 8 years and it breaks my heart that the state's landscape is being so significantly altered by the oil, coal and gas industry.

Both yield a phase - out of coal by 2030, but the date each specific plant goes offline differs significantly between the two approaches, with different potential impacts on regions within a given country.