Sentences with phrase «technology than renewable»

There's a lot more to green technology than renewable energy.

Not exact matches

More companies in the clean technology and renewable energy sector are listed on TSX and TSXV combined than on any other exchange group in the world.

For example, generating efficient, renewable energy is a priority of the federal government, so businesses involving Cogeneration (using one fuel to simultaneously produce heat and electricity) or renewable energy technologies will find more government grant opportunities than others.

The company has invested heavily in renewable energy technology at its County Durham headquarters and presently generates more renewable energy than it uses making it the world's only Carbon Minus wine business.

It affirmed that the Kainji plant serves as a demonstration of innovative small - scale electrification solutions which is the first renewable energy power plant in Nigeria that combines more than one technology, and is able to operate both off - grid and on - grid.

Having built the first renewable energy power plant in Nigeria that combines more than one technology and operates both off - grid and on - grid, the German Agency for International Corporation, Abuja (GIZ), said it is implementing the Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP) on behalf of the European Union and the German Government with an overall budget of 24.5 million Euro.

By Dotun Ibiwoye Having built the first renewable energy power plant in Nigeria that combines more than one technology and operates both...

So far, though, Senate appropriators have allocated greater fiscal 2018 spending levels than their House counterparts for such science programs as the Energy Department's Office of Science, which is the nation's largest provider of funding for basic research in the physical sciences, and the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program, which seeks to advance technology for water and geothermal power and boost energy efficiency in manufacturing.

Cisco Systems San Jose, CA Information Technology 401 million green kWh, 46 % of total power used By switching nearly half its operations to renewable energy, Cisco has eliminated the carbon emissions equal to those of more than 31 million gallons of burned gasoline.

There is now adequate empirical evidence available around the world: Wherever people have brought about more efficient use of energy and greater use of renewable energy, you generate many more jobs than if you were to continue with conventional technologies and fossil fuels.

Although EPRI's technology judgments are based on its extensive research capabilities, its assumptions about the future for energy conservation and wind power are more restricted than advocates of conservation and renewable power say are possible.

With the development of clean energy technology at a crossroads (see «We really can run the world on renewable energy — here's how»), a historical perspective on roads taken and not taken is more relevant than ever.

A report by six members of the U.K. House of Lords says that the proposed Global Apollo Programme «would commit to spend at least 0.02 % of gross domestic product on energy research so that renewable technologies — principally wind and solar — become cheaper than coal in 10 years.»

Germany's offshore wind capacity more than doubled last year as investors warm up to the technology, helping Europe's largest economy in its ambitious push into renewable power

Vattenfall has high hopes for clean coal, but the company regards this process as a bridge to renewable - energy technologies rather than a permanent solution to climate change.

According to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency — ARENA, a governmental agency tasked with increasing deployment of renewable energy — which has invested A$ 9.9 million in the project a couple hours» drive southwest of Sydney, the co-location of solar and wind provides more continuous energy generation than having either technology workiRenewable Energy Agency — ARENA, a governmental agency tasked with increasing deployment of renewable energy — which has invested A$ 9.9 million in the project a couple hours» drive southwest of Sydney, the co-location of solar and wind provides more continuous energy generation than having either technology workirenewable energy — which has invested A$ 9.9 million in the project a couple hours» drive southwest of Sydney, the co-location of solar and wind provides more continuous energy generation than having either technology working alone.

SolarCoin chose solar rather than another renewable technology because investment in solar panels is easier than in wind turbines, for example.

Governments that sign on to the proposed Global Apollo Programme, described in a report released today, would commit to spend at least 0.02 % of gross domestic product on energy research so that renewable technologies — principally wind and solar — become cheaper than coal in 10 years.

Beyond ARPA - E, both the fossil and nuclear energy offices would see reductions of around five percent, while DOE's office for efficiency and renewable energy technology would be cut by 47 percent — all three reductions far smaller than the Administration had requested.

On the applied technology front, several programs did well, perhaps none more surprising than the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), always a source of dispute.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 GW capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 + gigawatts capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

1) That «clean» coal technology is currently far more expensive than existing renewable energy alternatives — solar and wind.

A lot of the systems design that people are looking at — like Christopher Clack — even if you can get the renewables up to 80 percent, then you have a piece there probably natural gas «peakers» [power plants that run in periods of high electricity demand], at least based on current technology, are way cheaper than any [energy] storage.

I believe that the solution is to render all dirty energy forms more expensive than new renewables, We should spend our energies not entirely on moving behemoth governments not easily motivated to change their convenient pollution ways, but on inventing newer technologies, like the invention of the clock, basically giving birth to new energy world order.

In a year full of extremely grim news of observed climate change that is much more rapid and extreme than scientists had predicted, the rapid growth of clean renewable energy technology is definitely good news.

The potential for efficiency remains enormous, and given the likely improvements in technology and changes in societal norms over the next century which it will take us to do the right thing, we are likely to be able to cut fossil fuel use further than most people imagine possible, even if renewables don't become commercially competitive (which wind is already, and solar is in certain situations).

The technology of renewable energy is mature and tested, and costs of wind power are now lower than coal, and solar is getting close.

With the rapidly falling cost of solar and wind power, as well as energy storage technologies that make renewables more practical on a large scale, coal could lose its primacy faster than most expect.

The key problem with this «moral hazard» argument is the hypothesis that «cost - effective, proven, scaleable CDR solutions» are poised to proliferate at greater rates than GHG emission mitigation technologies (such as renewable energy and energy efficiency) that are required to decarbonize our economy.

However, you don't want to argue for a rational solution — i.e. cheap nuclear power (which also happens to be 10 to 100 times safer than our currently accepted main source of electricity generation, fossil fuel) and also happens to be a near zero emission technology (in fact much lower than renewables given they need fossil fuel backup, and given solar needs about 10 times as much material per TWh on an LCA basis).

Create tens of thousands of jobs while ensuring grid reliability; Drive more aggressive investment in clean energy technologies than the proposed rule, resulting in 30 percent more renewable energy generation in 2030 and continuing to lower the costs of renewable energy.

We have more tools available to make solar and other variable renewable technologies more reliable than ever, such as larger and more integrated grids, better resource forecasting, and more use of energy storage technologies.

As the government floats the prospect of help for cleaner - coal power stations and attacks Labor for committing too strongly to renewables, Shorten will say that to achieve the ALP's 50 % target much more private investment in renewable generation and technology will be needed than the amount required to get to the legislated Renewable Energy Targrenewable generation and technology will be needed than the amount required to get to the legislated Renewable Energy TargRenewable Energy Target (RET).

A CES that includes efficiency along with all low - and zero - emission technologies should have no greater impact on energy prices than proposals for a renewable energy standard.

Perhaps lesser known than direct policy support for energy storage and renewable technologies is the way California's network operator (CAISO) is starting to reconfigure how it procures demand response, with a positive impact for energy storage - and particularly behind - the - meter assets, as Ted Ko, policy director of Stem, explains.

This plan limits uninhibited growth and certain technologies that might be cheaper than renewable resources.

than $ 1 billion since 1998 to develop alternative energy technologies and has established Shell Renewables and Shell Hydrogen as business units.

As such, governments, environmental policy makers, and investors worldwide; have to play their respective roles to ensure that renewable energy technologies become less costly and more efficient, to supplement heavy usage of fossils, and to meet the future worlds» energy demand that is estimated to grow by more than 50 percent in the year 2020 by competent energy researchers.

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power and more recently turbine blades, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 + gigawatt capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

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.

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But when renewable energy technologies are offered as solutions to the exclusion of other low - carbon alternatives, they polarize rather than unite.

According to the International Energy Agency, the world added more renewables - based power generation capacity in 2015 than all other technologies combined for the first time ever, and this movement is only expected to accelerate over the coming decades.

(4) No current renewable technology can provide that power level for less than about $ 10 trillion in capital investment.

«In a record - breaking year for renewable energy creation worldwide, the 98 gigawatts of new solar capacity was higher than all other technologies, including other renewables, nuclear and fossil fuels.»

Between 1990 and 2015 these technologies grew much faster than any other power source (Figure 6), with wind power experiencing the most notable growth - from just 0.3 % of renewable electricity in 1990 to 22.9 % in 2015.

The new version of KWES still provides headline data on all fuels, and now also contains additional information highlighting the rapid growth of renewable technologies, for example that in four countries wind generation provided more than 10 % of all electricity, with solar providing more than 5 % in two countries.

With more and more companies being engaged in more than one renewable technology this seems inevitable, and I am often called upon to speak on more than just wind in various political fora.

An electric vehicle (EV) emits less than half of the CO2 of a conventional vehicle, and EVs will produce even fewer emissions as technology improves and more electricity is produced by renewables.