Sentences with phrase «than wind power»

In fact, globally, there is now more solar heat capacity in place than wind power capacity, and its still expanding.

However, the even bigger news is that the two points above apply to solar power even much more than wind power!

«What better application to look at than wind power, where we think about energy and sustainability foremost in our minds?

A US Senate report notes, «Comparisons of wind, solar, nuclear, natural gas and coal sources of power coming on line by 2015 show that solar power will be 173 % more expensive per unit of energy delivered than traditional coal power, 140 % more than nuclear power and natural gas and 92 % more expensive than wind power.

«Comparisons of wind, solar, nuclear, natural gas and coal sources of power coming on line by 2015 show that solar power will be 173 % more expensive per unit of energy delivered than traditional coal power, 140 % more than nuclear power and natural gas and 92 % more expensive than wind power.

He says that renewable energy is too expensive, but he is strongly supportive of nuclear power that is demonstrably more expensive than wind power.

Nuclear has passed its day, if it ever had a day; it is more expensive than wind power, there are significant dangers, the long - lasting waste is an unresolved problem, it is not renewable and it is inflexible.

At a 10 % penetration level (wind power production of gross demand) this is estimated as 1 · 5 % — 4 % of installed wind capacity, taking into account that load variations are more predictable than wind power variations.

In Texas, the only one of the 11 states with significantly declining electricity prices, deregulation rather than wind power is causing the decline in electricity prices.

These options are certainly to be supported, but while solar - thermal is somewhat more expensive than wind power, geothermal in Australia is yet to be proven to be viable at all.

The region can expand its use of wood and agricultural waste as a power source, but new bioenergy plants are generally more expensive than wind power.

Solar power may be more reliable than wind power; Germany's efforts in developing solar (and wind) power suggest it may be, given the amount of cloudiness that country experiences.

Solar thermal O&M is higher than wind power (though still lower than fueled plants).

Not exact matches

It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.

Utility - scale wind, solar and natural gas - fired power are each cheaper today than coal - fired power and that gap is growing wider.

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Over 54 gigawatts (GW) of wind power were installed globally in 2016 and cumulative capacity grew by more than 12 percent to hit 486.8 GW, according to an April 2017 report from global trade association the Global Wind Energy Counwind power were installed globally in 2016 and cumulative capacity grew by more than 12 percent to hit 486.8 GW, according to an April 2017 report from global trade association the Global Wind Energy CounWind Energy Council.

The whole thing started in 2015, when Stanford professor Mark Jacobson and some colleagues published a paper arguing that, by mid-century, the United States could be powered entirely by clean energy sources — and by clean, he meant the really clean stuff (wind, solar, hydropower), not the only - somewhat - cleaner - than - coal stuff like natural gas, nuclear energy, and biofuels.

Fossil fuels and nuclear power have received eight times more government subsidies than wind and solar over the past six decades.

More than 200 days since the Hurricane Maria's 150 mph winds and 36 inches of rainfall knocked over 80 percent of the island's power lines, thousands of Puerto Ricans are still in the dark.

The Global Wind Energy Council recently released its latest report, excitedly boasting that «the proliferation of wind energy into the global power market continues at a furious pace, after it was revealed that more than 54 gigawatts of clean renewable wind power was installed across the global market last year&raqWind Energy Council recently released its latest report, excitedly boasting that «the proliferation of wind energy into the global power market continues at a furious pace, after it was revealed that more than 54 gigawatts of clean renewable wind power was installed across the global market last year&raqwind energy into the global power market continues at a furious pace, after it was revealed that more than 54 gigawatts of clean renewable wind power was installed across the global market last year&raqwind power was installed across the global market last year».

In fact, after 30 years of government subsidies, wind power and solar power contribute less than 1 % of the earth's total energy output.

In the middle third of the U.S., wind farms have an all - in cost that is less than a third that of a new natural gas - fired plant, and wind power is also well below the cost of power from large - scale solar farms.»

Solar power might be an undeniable part of our future — the industry created double the amount of jobs as coal did last year and accounts for nearly 40 % of new electric capacity added to the grid, more than wind or even natural gas — but SolarCity itself isn't.

In 2013 the state generated more energy from the wind than any other state in the union — an amount equivalent to about half of Alberta's total power supply.

Wind power generated a record 6.3 - percent share of total US electricity last year, with four states — Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and South Dakota — generating more than 30 percent of their electricity from wind power, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said in its newly released US Wind Industry Annual Market Report 2Wind power generated a record 6.3 - percent share of total US electricity last year, with four states — Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and South Dakota — generating more than 30 percent of their electricity from wind power, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said in its newly released US Wind Industry Annual Market Report 2wind power, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said in its newly released US Wind Industry Annual Market Report 2Wind Energy Association (AWEA) said in its newly released US Wind Industry Annual Market Report 2Wind Industry Annual Market Report 2017.

I subsequently learned the shared cross-border DNA runs deeper than Prime Rib; with some of the continent's breeziest open - range landscapes, both Alberta and Texas proved early wind - power leaders.

At the end of 2013 there were more U.S. wind power megawatts (MW) under construction than ever in history: Over 12,000 MW of new generating capacity was under construction, with a record - breaking 10,900 MW starting construction activity during the fourth quarter.

Wind power is becoming more dynamic than ever.»

Prices for electricity would be 4 percent lower by 2033 with a transition to more wind, solar and hydroelectric power than a persistent reliance on coal and natural gas, according to a report by Calgary - based environmental research firm Pembina Institute and Clean Energy Canada, a Vancouver - based organization that promotes renewable 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, and thermal.

They became headless, heartless, and ruthless... their only power was at the voting booth, rather than in the community of the wounded and seeking.

But for a human to become intemperate on The Walking Dead is deadly, for intemperance «more than any other thing renders man unable and unwilling to «take heart» against the wounding power of evil in the world.»

If Ross occasionally plays loose with the facts, he remains true to the core of the story, and many of the racetrack scenes evoke more sharply than ever before on film a sense of the surpassing grace and power of the running horse, the sound of rolling thunder of the hooves and a sense of the precarious, perilous nature of the jockeys» existence as they bound along hell - fired at 40 miles an hour, monkeys on a stick, wind - sheared and often screaming at each other in the din.

On this call, API founders Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson talk with Lu about how: — our «flaws» are actually pathways to raising resilient, secure, connected kids; — without an awareness of how our story drives our fears, our kids re-enact it; — without self - understanding and empathy, parents then tend to manage rather than engage, control rather than connect, in a chronic practice of «defensive parenting»; — we can turn our old wounds to new wisdom and free our kids from repeating our stories; — the gift of our anger, fear, doubt, chaos, anxiety, struggles, and conflicts is that they can shed compassionate light on our old wounds and we can use this light to «heal» our inner conflicts, and pave our path for ourselves and our kids; and — doing this paving work «keeps our light on»... and our children's light on, and teaches them the power of forgiveness, humility, and humanity.

It has been suggested that purchasing a $ 15 Wind Power Card can offset the more than 1,000 pounds of CO2 emissions that are used in hospital deliveries.

Those wind guilds jumpstarted the wind industry in Denmark, where one - fifth of the nation's electric power today comes from wind, more than any other nation.

The MP for Wealden responded: «I think frankly you will find different views among colleagues - colleagues are more divided on onshore wind than nuclear power.»

I think it's far worse than that, with shades of Gentile's corporatism); that it has continued the conversion of competing and / or divergent centres of power into a recursive bureaucratic autarchy, emptying out the wider polity of any sort of dialogue or dialectic, shades of Gentile again, and that socially and fiscally it has been profoundly regressive, continuing the marketisation of the severely wounded NHS and of education, also badly bleeding, treating school and university students as «product», not as people; adopting a broadly Powellite attitude to migrants (useful economic fodder, mustn't change the culture, «British jobs for British people»); devising the catastrophe of PFI / PPP within a broader neo-liberal agenda, and so on.

The state expects more than 1.2 million homes could be powered by offshore wind.

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.

The day of unrelenting winds mixed with heavy snow left more than 21,000 customers without power on Long Island.

A fierce nor'easter that flooded streets, snapped trees in pieces and knocked out power to more than 1.8 million homes and businesses continued to lash the Atlantic coast, but the winds were expected to slowly let up as the storm moved offshore.

More than 60 groups delivered a letter to the governor calling for a large scale, long - term commitment to wind power.

A New York utility, the Long Island Power Authority, plans to construct a wind farm off eastern Long Island that would be the nation's largest offshore wind energy project, three times larger than one due to go online this year off Rhode Island.

In September, the University of Delaware's Center for Carbon Free Power Integration (CCPI) reported that US offshore wind power is further away in the US from commercial - scale deployment and operation than it was in Power Integration (CCPI) reported that US offshore wind power is further away in the US from commercial - scale deployment and operation than it was in power is further away in the US from commercial - scale deployment and operation than it was in 2005.

They should produce more clean energy than they use through solar and wind power and heat pumps for heating and cooling.

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.

The most famous wind nebula, powered by a pulsar less than a thousand years old, lies at the heart of the Crab Nebula supernova remnant in the constellation Taurus.

Biello: And they do have some more aggressive policies than even the U.S. at present as far as renewable energy goes, whether those who actually realized they have had a lot of problems with kind of wind farms that didn't perform up to expectations, but they do have fairly aggressive targets for how much energy it needs to come from renewable resources like the wind and the sun, they have become the manufacturer, as in all things, for Photovoltaics and the wind turbine blades that are basically powering the green revolution in the West.