Sentences with phrase «than renewable sources»

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The world added more energy from renewable sources than from fossil fuels in 2015 and 2016 — because they finally became cost effective.

Second, many states actively favor renewables in electricity generation, and even in places that don't, the word has gotten out that coal combustion is far deadlier to humans than any other electric generation source — including natural gas.

Google's total purchase of energy from renewable sources in 2017 was greater than the electricity used by its global operations, the tech giant has said.

Indeed, nowhere are the barricades being stormed more aggressively than in PG&E's home, California, whose mandate for change is more audacious than any other state's: Its law requires that 50 % of utilities» power be generated by renewable sources by 2030.

In a new collaborative report, «An Underappreciated Disruptor,» Morgan Stanley's Utility and Clean Tech analyst, Stephen Byrd and Shared Mobility & Auto analyst, Adam Jonas, argue that the price of both solar and wind energy, as well as new storage units, have reached a point where renewable energy can finally become a dependable rather than an unpredictable source of energy.

Currently, more than 85 % of the power generated by Brookfield Renewable Partners is hydro, with the rest coming from wind and other renewable sources like solar, biomass, andRenewable Partners is hydro, with the rest coming from wind and other renewable sources like solar, biomass, andrenewable sources like solar, biomass, and thermal.

«That means the electricity to power every light, refrigerator and check out - lane comes from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels,» it states.

By capturing methane gas from cow manure and using it to generate electrical power, the Straus Dairy Farm prevents a greenhouse gas that is 72 times more detrimental than CO2 within a 20 - year period from getting into the atmosphere, while also creating a renewable energy source.

Cuomo has argued that nuclear power is cleaner than fossil fuels and is a needed bridge fuel during a transition to wind, solar and other renewable energy sources.

Having the Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface ski centers join The Climate Reality Project's «I Am Snow 100 %» program is in line with Cuomo's Clean Energy Standard, which requires that half of all electricity used in New York come from renewable sources, rather than fossil fuels, by 2030, the governor's office said in a press release.

A new report from the conservative Empire Center, a fiscal watchdog, finds that New York state's Clean Energy Standard plan to boost renewable sources of energy and support struggling nuclear plants could cost more than the state estimates.

Under the new rules, ESCOs won't be able to sell new supply to residential and small - business customers unless they are cheaper than the utility or if at least 30 percent of the electricity they sell comes from renewable energy sources like wind, hydro or solar.

Governor Cuomo has argued that nuclear power is cleaner than fossil fuels, and is a needed bridge fuel during a transition to wind, solar, and other renewable energy sources.

For example, firms that directly purchase clean energy, either by installing renewable energy systems atop office buildings or arenas, or signing power purchase agreements with a renewable energy producer, are much closer to the actual clean energy source than those who buy RECs, critics contend.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

Hydrogen is a very good carrier for renewable energy because it is abundant, generates zero emissions, and is much easier to store than other energy sources, like solar or wind energy.

In the short term, new gas - fired power stations can help cut emissions, but only if they replace existing coal - fired power stations rather than nuclear plants or renewable energy sources.

Electric power generated by renewable energy sources causes substantially less pollution than energy generated from fossil fuels, the report says.

Twenty percent of the energy used to stage the games came from renewable energy sources, even though Beijing still relies on coal for more than 40 percent of its electricity consumption.

Google will funnel some of its profits into a new effort, dubbed RE < C (for renewable energy cheaper than coal, as Google translates it) to make sources such as solar - thermal, high - altitude wind and geothermal cheaper than coal «within years, not decades,» according to Weihl.

Upland cotton, which accounts for more than 90 percent of cultivated cotton worldwide and has a global economic impact of $ 500 billion, is the main source of renewable textile fibers.

The goal of this project is to create an affordable, land - based, renewable oil source with properties that make it easier to create great - tasting food products than current alternatives.

Although all renewable energy sources — sun, water and wind — suffer from peaks and troughs in productivity, «we consider wave energy to be more predictable than wind,» says PWP CEO Phil Metcalf.

With the seven reactors off - line, Kleiner says, Germany already gets more energy from renewable sources than from nuclear plants.

These alternatives include liquids from both renewable (plants) and nonrenewable (coal and natural gas) sources that are better than an oil refinery on a greenhouse gas (GHG) life - cycle basis.

Conservative critics say New Jersey's solar success is driven by government programs, including a renewable portfolio standard that requires utilities to derive more than 20 percent of their electricity from clean sources.

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.

The approach is especially promising because stem cells are a renewable source of beta cells, meaning patients can generate many more islet cells from one pancreas than could be gathered by extracting only the mature islet cells.

The government says that completely banning fossil fuels from local industry will be a «titanic and beautiful task,» even though the country already generates more than 99 percent of its electricity using renewable energy sources.

· Electricity generated from renewable sources causes 70 - 90 per cent less pollution harmful to ecosystems and human health than coal power.

These sources may be renewable or may have lower emission than an internal combustion engine.

For example, we have replaced more than 60 percent of our fossil fuel requirements in our manufacturing process with renewable energy sources.

This landfill free solution is recommended as a «clean, reliable, and renewable source of energy» that «produces electricity with less environmental impact than almost any other source of electricity» by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

I agree with SA that, once the transition is well advanced, there's no reason why energy from renewable sources has to cost more than energy from fossil fuels, when all costs are counted.

If the «green - factor» is a priority, then it can be argued that web hosting companies that directly use renewable energy sources should be considered more green than those who purchase carbon credits.

[Andy Revkin — They «recognize» and «promote» the importance of energy sources other than fossil fuels, but don't specify any steps to accelerate a transition to a renewable energy and away from unfettered combustion of coal and oil.

Facebook has been getting a lot of flack from the green community since it became well known that they're purchasing power from coal - powered plants rather than from renewable energy sources.

While the climate situation is far worse than most people think, the options for quickly phasing out fossil fuel and nuclear energy and replacing them with clean renewable energy sources are much better than most people think.

More than three out of four survey respondents (77 percent) said the United States should use more renewable energy sources, and of those, most believe that this change should begin immediately.

I can assure you that China will be beating us to the punch with exports of renewable energy that is scaling faster than any other new power source in the world right now.

As today's Times reports, the House on Wednesday approved a bill to extend more than $ 17 billion in tax credits and other incentives for boosting production of energy from solar, wind and other renewable sources and to promote energy conservation.

Solar power represented more than half of the total investments, while wind was a close second and other renewable sources trailing far behind.

So, rather than build more «renewables,» just keep shutting down other sources as consumption falls.

Many of the world's largest corporations — Wal - Mart, Apple, Ikea — are investing in becoming «net zero,» using no more energy than they produce with renewable sources.

When your renewable sources like wind and solar are all pumping out more power than you can use, you use the excess to push the train full of rocks up a hill.

-- China in 2012 increased electricity output more from non-hydro renewables than from all fossil - fueled and nuclear sources, and in 2013, added more PV capacity than the US had added since it invented PVs in 1954.

The second step I'll take is to require that 10 percent of our energy comes from renewable sources by the end of my first term — more than double what we have now.

The world's great forests are part of the climate machinery, and more than 195 nations agreed in Paris in 2015 to take steps to contain climate change, both by managing the way they used land and by switching from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy.

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San Francisco has set ambitious clean energy targets, with a goal of sourcing 50 % of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020 (ten years earlier than the deadline for California's equivalent target).