Sentences with phrase «supplied by renewable»

Business Green reports that she has transitioned «the majority of her fashion premises within the UK to operate on green electricity and gas after partnering with Ecotricity, and plans to be entirely supplied by the renewable energy provider by 2018.»

In the Southeast, we dream of a power system largely supplied by renewable energy generation and storage, the kind that is being introduced in other regions of the United States.

The reduction, according to Die Welt's Daniel Wetzel, was attributed to the USA's 17 % energy supplied by renewable sources and that 20 % of the electric power was produced by nuclear plants.

Building energy demands exceeding those captured and / or supplied by renewable sources must be supplemented by non-renewable sources.

In order to conciliate between the imperatives of this dependence on foreign supplies, growing energy demand and the requirements of environmental preservation, the national energy strategy of Morocco has set a target of 42 % of its total electric production being supplied by renewable energies by 2020.

One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified timber, bamboo and other products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.

As Kelly notes, it has been 40 years since the modern renewable energy developments began, and yet the fraction of world energy supplied by renewables (wind, solar and cultivated biomass sources combined) has hardly increased.

80 % of the world's energy supplied by renewables by 2050?

En route to its 2050 Energiewende goal of 80 % of the nation's power being supplied by renewables, especially spurred on by the phaseout of nuclear reactors, Germany broke another renewable energy record on Sunday, May 11, 2014.

For example, a recent study by the International Renewable Energy Agency found that pursuing both efficiency and renewables will increase the share of load supplied by renewables (because total loads are reduced) and reduce system costs and carbon emissions relative to both business - as - usual and renewable - only scenarios.

Not exact matches

If fully realised, the North Sea Wind Power Hub could, according to those involved in the project, supply 70 to 100 million Europeans with renewable energy by 2050.

Similar agreements — aimed at boosting renewable power supply by integrating electricity systems across borders — exist between Manitoba and Minnesota, Norway and Germany, and are currently being explored between Japan, China, South Korea and Russia.

Walmart is committed to generating zero waste, being supplied by 100 per cent renewable energy and offering customers products that are produced responsibly.

This is done not only by supplying renewable energy from the closed anaerobic reactor, thus reducing or even eliminating reliance on fossil fuels, but also by replacing traditional, open, methane - producing lagoons, and by replacing power - consuming, sludge - producing aerobic WWTPs.

After careful evaluation, we learned that Hormel Foods does not have manufacturing operations in areas defined as water scarce regions by the World Resource Institute (annual renewable water supply per person < 1,700 cubic meters / person / year).

Mr Salmond pledged last year that 100 per cent of Scotland's gross electricity consumption will come from renewable sources by 2020, supplied mainly by thousands of wind turbines.

The shorter the stable timeframe, the more expensive any energy decision is likely to be, with voters eventually paying a premium — to energy suppliers — to compensate for the fact that energy projects (and especially renewable ones) are riskier for the investor, who invariably responds by factoring in higher returns.

Instead, the glittering prizes are going to Denmark, on target to generate some 50 % of its electricity from wind by 2020 — and with a renewable industry currently supplying around half the world's wind turbines.

As the state shifts toward renewable energy, under a mandate to power half its electrical grid with solar and wind by 2030, nuclear also supplies about 60 percent of its carbon - free power.

This was a triumph for the powerful renewables lobby, led predominantly by German and Scandinavian suppliers, but it is not helping the climate as much as carbon reduction targets would.

For a second year in a row, the PSC has deeply slashed the amount of renewable energy that utility companies are forced to buy under Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, casting further doubt on the governor's goal of having renewables supply 50 percent of the state's electricity by 2030, while reinforcing the program's status as primarily a bailout for money - losing upstate nuclear plants.

Among her plans of what she'd like to accomplish once elected: Promote / support bills in Congress that adopt clean sources of energy by helping to end the intricate system of public subsidies that keep dirty sources of energy artificially cheap, and promote renewable sources: solar, wind, and hydro; Protect waterways / drinking supply by reducing the risk of contamination and ensure that when contamination is found, the responsible parties are held accountable; Fight for public financing of elections; Work every day to overturn Citizens United.

The draft bill would require utilities above a certain size to supply 25 percent of their power from renewable sources like wind, solar and biomass energy by 2025, although efficiency measures could be used to meet a fifth of the target.

That Senate bill sets a goal to reduce emissions by 83 percent from 2005 levels by 2050 and requires electricity suppliers to use renewables and electricity - saving measures for 20 percent of their demand by 2020.

Obama has asked Congress to increase renewable energy to one - fourth of the American power supply by 2025, but only a revamped grid will be able to handle such a load.

But by keeping customer preferences on file and automatically switching to a new service when those preferences are met, Reddy hopes renewable energy suppliers will see the demand more clearly.

But even with that expansion, renewable supplies will provide only a sliver — roughly 5 percent — of the nation's energy needs by 2030, according to the EIA.

20 Desertec would cost an estimated $ 500 billion, but by 2050 it could supply enough renewable, nonpolluting electricity to fill 15 percent of Europe's demand.

The EIA says world energy consumption is likely to grow by more than 50 percent over the period 2010 to 2040, with fossil fuels supplying 80 percent of the total, despite a growth in renewables and nuclear power.

Renewable energy sources could help plug these gaps: A U.S. Department of Energy study declared in 2001 that renewables could meet 20 percent of the nation's electricity supply by 2020 at a cost increase to consumers of just over 4 percent.

The technology could also supply a source of renewable jet fuel required by recent European Union aviation emission regulations.

In particular, Tabarelli believes it is «almost impossible» that Italy will reach its target, set in 2009, of using renewables to supply 17 % of the country's total energy needs by 2020.

That strategy worked reasonably well until recently, when 28 state governments set «renewable portfolio standards» requiring their utilities to supply a certain portion of their electricity using renewables, such as 20 percent by 2020 or even sooner.

A comprehensive review of biofuel options by the independent U.K. Renewable Fuels Agency, released in July 2008, concluded that operational challenges and low - quality fuel would keep biocrude on the margins of world fuel supplies until 2020 at the earliest.

It is Morocco's first utility - scale solar energy plant, with the goal of supplying power to over 1 million Moroccans by 2018 and helping Morocco produce 42 percent of its electricity through renewables by 2020.

«This could help to balance a grid supplied by intermittent renewable sources.»

In spite of current energy trends moving towards green and renewable options, Alberta is planning on double its production of fossil fuels by 2030, meaning that higher supply will generate lower market rates, presenting a more affordable alternative to the American market.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

The authors further predict that renewable resources could supply 100 percent of US electricity and over 90 percent of total energy by 2100.

As part of this strategy, we worked with Congress to pass energy legislation that specifies a new fuel economy standard of 35 miles per gallon by 2020, and requires fuel producers to supply at least 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel by 2022.

The focal points of our chat were recent papers in which Jacobson and others proposed how New York State could move entirely to renewable energy supplies by 2050, as well as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo «s ambitious Reforming the Energy Vision (or REV) initiative, aimed at making the state's electricity grid cleaner, more resilient and more affordable.

The draft promotes renewable energy by requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet a certain percentage of their load with electricity generated from renewable resources, like wind, biomass, solar, and geothermal... [They] begin at 6 % in 2012 and gradually rises to 25 % in 2025.

Since the majority of utility - supplied electricity comes from fossil fuel sources and is by no means «carbon neutral» your strategy needs to include a source of renewable energy.

«This act is further intended to contribute to the increase in the percentage of renewable energy sources in power supply to at least 12.5 per cent by 2010 and to at least 20 per cent by 2020.»

That said, according to Xabier Viteri of Iberdrola (Spain's largest utility), feed - in tariffs would have to remain in place in the medium term if Spain is to meet its EU obligation of supplying 20 % of its energy needs from renewable sources by 2020.

Our commitment to source renewable power for 100 percent of our global energy needs by 2020 — which is paired with a plan to facilitate US$ 200 billion in clean energy financing through 2025 — is driven by «out - of - the - box» innovators and a commercial approach that will deliver a more resilient energy supply chain.»

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.

But against the backdrop of the decade - long nuclear contests, the FIT system (as established by the EEG in 1991) that obligated supply companies to purchase wind, solar, and biomass power and then pass costs to consumers was fueling tremendous growth of renewables.

Meanwhile it must also, under European commitments, ensure that 15 % of the country's total energy supply (electricity, heat and transport) comes from renewable sources by 2020.

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