Sentences with phrase «than the power sector»

While industrial sources receive less attention than the power sector, they're responsible for about 21 % of global emissions.

Even so, that amount of emissions was equal or greater than the power sector emissions produced by 23 states including Virginia, Minnesota, New Jersey, Washington, and Massachusetts.

Not exact matches

Farmers operating under supply - management boards in the Canadian dairy, chicken and other protected agricultural sectors can be expected to offer justifications for the market power that enables them to sell their wares at prices substantially higher than in most other countries.

Many in the technology sector think chatbots — interactive messaging powered by artificial intelligence (AI)-- are the next big form of communication, and their prevalence is already larger than you might expect.

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

The US export sector is getting the benefit of a lower dollar; there's a significant fiscal package in the pipeline, which will add more than 1 per cent of GDP to private spending power; and sharp cuts have been made in US official interest rates, with financial markets expecting more to come.

The results are impressive: for example, jobs in the solar power sector south of our border have been growing ten times faster than national average employment growth, now employing more than 142,000 individuals, with 23,000 of these jobs added in 2013.

For four decades, the garment industry has powered Bangladesh's economy and put more people to work than any other sector.

It also includes a provider directory featuring the rankings of more than 300 companies serving or powering the digital banking sector.

The bill essentially bans any company that does more than $ 20 million dollars in business with Iran's energy sector — either oil, gas, or nuclear power — from being able to bid on state or local government contracts.

More than seven months after Republican Gov. John Kasich signed it into law, Ohioans have repealed SB 5, the anti-union legislation that would curb collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers and gut the political power of public - sector unions.

Touting his government's work in the energy sector, he said, «it has taken a lot of hard work and effort fast tracking the deployment of emergency plants and speeding up the completion of ongoing plants ensuring that we added more than 800 megawatts of power over an 18 - month period.»

Across the UK, more than a million public sector workers took part in the industrial action, thought to be the biggest over pay since the Conservative / Liberal Democrat coalition came to power in May 2010.

Dr Bawumia on Tuesday said government has taken some major decisions in the energy sector where power producers in Ghana can not charge more than 10 cents per kilowatt hour arguing that Ghana is paying the highest in the sub-region for power per kilowatt hour.

Rather than pursuing the centralized power systems favored by big utilities and international lending agencies, the initiative encourages the private sector to develop small independent grids in remote regions.

Not only does this plan work on all sources of carbon emissions rather than just the power sector, but its starting point for a price on carbon far exceeds the effective price that the Clean Power Plan would have achieved, Kaufman power sector, but its starting point for a price on carbon far exceeds the effective price that the Clean Power Plan would have achieved, Kaufman Power Plan would have achieved, Kaufman said.

During her more than 30 years working in nuclear power, government and oil and gas sectors in both the US and international markets.

Much has been said in recent months about the growing power of public sector unions in American government and their coercive effect on sustainable fiscal management, but nowhere in the nation is the power of public sector unions more destructive and unrivaled than in California.

Unlike other hybrids in its sector the RLX Sport Hybrid's electric motors and batteries don't just improve fuel economy, they also add healthy dose of power and actually improve performance rather than hinder it.

My value investing is different than most value investors, because I spend more time on industries, either buying quality companies in beaten - up sectors, or companies with pricing power, where that power is underdiscounted by the market.

Researchers at Stanford University who closely track China's power sector, coal use, and carbon dioxide emissions have done an initial rough projection and foresee China possibly emitting somewhere between 1.9 and 2.6 billion tons less carbon dioxide from 2008 to 2010 than it would have under «business as usual» if current bearish trends for the global economy hold up.

-- As Ashok Gadgil and I showed ~ 23 years ago from World Bank data, investing in negawatts wherever they're cheaper than megawatts cuts by ~ 4 orders of magnitude (3 from intensity, 1 from velocity) the capital needed by the power sector — the most capital - intensive sector, gobbling about 1/4 of all development capital.

«Folks, clearly there is more going on in our world and our energy sector than the Clean Power Plan can account for.

China also announced its long - awaited Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in December, although this will initially cover only the power sector rather than the eight sectors originally proposed.

As the government looks to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and increase the reliability of its power sector, it plans to more than triple geothermal installations by 2015.

The 300 plants produce one - quarter of all the electricity generated in the EU but are responsible for more than 70 % of the EU's sulphur dioxide emissions and more than 40 % of nitrogen oxide emissions from the power sector.

The US transport sector is emitting more carbon dioxide than power generation for the first time since the 1970s.

The transportation sector has eclipsed power plants as the biggest source of US carbon emissions, and EPA calculated in 2010 that the tougher fuel - efficiency standards would prevent more than one year's worth of total US carbon emissions over the lifetime of new vehicles sold from 2012 through 2025.

Similarly, a decision by EPA to classify biomass fuels as «carbon neutral» in its Clean Power Plan regulations would boost that sector more than a well - designed and hefty carbon tax would shrink it.

Julie Tighe, DEC Chief of Staff, said that «emissions from the power sector in New York have fallen more than 50 % since the states agreed to set the cap in 2005.»

Present CO2 emissions per person in China are now equal to those of Italy and higher than France, although the sectoral shares of households, transport, power generation, manufacturing industry and the service sector are quite different.

Despite EEI's 1989 pledge to reduce atmospheric emissions, annual CO2 emissions from the electricity sector remained higher in 2016 than they were when McCollum testified in 1989, due in large part to ongoing efforts by some in the industry to sow doubt about climate science and block legal limits on CO2 emissions from power plants.

Rather than replacing this energy source with fossil fuels, thus boosting carbon emissions and encouraging runaway climate change, the world can use this opportunity to pursue a much safer electricity sector powered largely by wind, solar, and geothermal energy.

Indeed, some private sector analysts think there will be further coal - to - gas switch in power generation in 2013, though much less than occurred in 2012.

Early in the month, members of EURELECTRIC, a pan-European power sector association of more than 3,500 companies, announced that it would cease investing in new coal plants after 2020.

Along with the hot summer, annual precipitation for 2003 was as much as 12 inches (300 millimeters) below normal, leaving most of Europe in a drought.21 Damages to the agricultural sector were estimated at more than U.S. $ 16 billion (more than $ 13 billion).3, 21 Many areas saw an increase in wildfires, while low water levels in major rivers led to problems ranging from irrigating crops to cooling power plants.4, 21,22

Looking at just emissions from the electric power sector, emissions in Minnesota dropped by slightly more than the U.S.. However, since 2009, the state has made little to no progress on emissions even as electricity generation by wind increased by 92 percent.

Using electricity to substitute for other fuels in end ‐ use sectors plays an important role in deep emission cuts, since the cost of decarbonizing power generation is expected to be lower than that in other parts of the energy supply sector.

Anyone still banging on about CO2 emissions in the electricity generation sector, ought to be banging on about nothing other than nuclear power.

In this sense, to achieve fairness and neutrality in the power transmission and distribution sector by unbundling as planned by fiscal 2020, power utilities must move further to separate ownership (which has already been achieved in Europe), rather than remaining at the (low) level of legal unbundling they are currently planning.

An analysis using industry data found that building the ACP and a second controversial pipeline project, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, would more than double the carbon footprint of Virginia's power sector.

Although the transportation sector is made up of more than CAFE covered vehicles, reducing average fuel economies is as detrimental to the environment as revising downward or rescinding the Clean Power Plan (CPP).

In other words, the significance of the DOI auction is really more about public sector support for offshore wind innovation rather than how many homes the leases will potentially power.

Focus on policy correction rather than reversal in order to incorporate resilience into a comprehensive energy policy that can stand up under political shifts and provide stability for the U.S. power sector 2.

«If these proposed tax credits are enacted, they would drive cost - effective CO2 reductions in both the industrial and power sectors that together account for more than half the CO2 emissions in the US.

In 2030, the regional cap on power - sector emissions will be 65 percent lower than in 2009, RGGI's first year.

Additionally, natural gas prices would be 2.3 times higher for the power sector in 2040 than in 2013, and average consumer natural gas prices would nearly double over the same time period.

Growing economic headwinds in the fossil fuel sector — particularly in the coal and oil industries — may bring about radical change much sooner than Obama's Clean Power Plan.

Baden - Württemberg's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are split quite equitably between three main sectors; power with more than 20 %, transportation with nearly 30 % and buildings with about 25 %.

The calculations presented in this report suggest that more than half of the emissions avoided in the US power sector may have been exported as coal.