Sentences with phrase «total electricity needs»

In nine states it provided more than 12 percent and in 17 states, more than five percent... In a 2010 study, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory reported over 10 million MW of wind resource in the U.S., enough to power the equivalent of the nation's total electricity needs 10 times over.»

According to the nation's transmission system operator, renewable energy production reached 4,812 gigawatt hours, surpassing Portugal's total electricity needs for March, which totalled 4,647 gigawatt hours.

In a 2010 study, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory reported over 10 million MW of wind resource in the U.S., enough to power the equivalent of the nation's total electricity needs 10 times over.

In 2000, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson directed the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to purchase 3 percent of total electricity needs from non-hydro renewable sources by 2005, and 7.5 percent of total electricity purchases by 2010.

WWF Scotland director Lang Banks said: «While Sunday's weather caused disruption for many people, it also proved to be a good day for wind power output, with wind turbines alone providing the equivalent of all Scotland's total electricity needs.

Longwood's goal is to install a total of 3 MW of solar power by 2018, which will provide approximately 70 % of its total electricity needs

The state wants by 2020 many more of these parks, at least 3,000 megawatts worth, or about 13 percent of the state's total electricity needs.

The percentage of green electricity in the UK is about 5 % of total electricity need.

Not exact matches

That day, total electricity consumption in Scotland — including homes, industry and businesses — was 41,866 megawatt hours, WWF Scotland said, meaning that wind power produced the equivalent of 206 percent of the nation's needs.

Another, broader, problem is that only a part of the electricity needed to power EVs will come from clean sources, and an even bigger one is that 280 million electric cars account for only a fraction of the total rise in electricity demand that the IEA expects through 2040.

The need of fuel for power has risen in recent times as the country's electricity generation mix has tilted more to thermal power, which this year is expected to account for about 70 percent of the total power generation capacity of the country.

By looking at the plant's total annual utility use and the fraction of yearly operations needed to print a single issue of DISCOVER, David Hakenewerth, a manager at Quebecor's Jonesboro facility, determined that producing one month's edition of the magazine consumes 63,364 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 1,704 therms of natural gas.

Dave figured his total energy bill for the month (600 kilowatt - hours [kWh] of electricity for his house + 60 gallons of gasoline for his car) to be $ 280 or so; Tesla estimates it'd take 375 kWh to make their car go 1,500 miles (Dave's monthly driving estimate), so he needs about 975 kWh per month.

The total energy needed for producing this power is roughly a factor 2 to 3 higher because the efficiency of power plants is roughly 30 - 50 %, see Electricity generation.

We will see increasing electrification, with wind energy providing a large part of the need that electrification creates, delivering one - third to fifty percent of the total future electricity demand.

The IEA first assessed the water - energy nexus in the World Energy Outlook 2012, dedicating a chapter to analysis of the water - for - energy relationship, reviewing water requirements for different energy sources (primary energy production and electricity generation) and estimating total freshwater needs by scenario, energy source and region.

The installations at the two Regional Food Bank facilities are comprised of a total of 2,673 solar panels and expected to combine for approximately 973,000 kilowatt - hours of annual generation, to meet approximately 60 percent of the facilities» electricity needs.

Coal based power plants produce 70 percent of our electricity needs and 40 percent of our total carbon dioxide emissions.

To cover the total loss of power when the wind drops or blows too hard, every wind farm needs a conventional back - up power station (commonly gas - fired) with capacity of twice the design capacity of the wind farm to even out the sudden fluctuations in the electricity grid.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the United States has enough harnessable wind power to satisfy total U.S. electricity needs several times over.

The ambitious vision — to be supplying a third of Britain's electricity needs by 2030, through delivering 30GW of installed capacity — will bring # 48bn of investment in clean - energy infrastructure for the UK, 27,000 skilled jobs and a reduction in total electricity system costs of # 2.4 bn.

Turbines in Scotland provided 39,545 megawatt - hours (MWh) of electricity to the National Grid on Sunday while the country's total power consumption for homes, business and industry was 37,202 MWh — meaning wind power generated 106 % of Scotland's electricity needs.

For instance, people get hung up about total energy availability, when to my mind that's not a problem at all: in the first world, at least, I see no real problem with producing all the electricity we need.

The first effect poses an obstacle for meeting renewable energy utilization targets, since more renewable generation will be needed to meet a targeted percentage of the total electricity load demand with renewable energy.

The installed generating capacity of solar panels (4,000,000 MW) needed to meet the NEM's demand, if only one day of energy storage is available, is equal to the world's total electricity generating capacity (4,000,000 MW).

And that did not include the electrical distribution systems necessary for the whole country to take power from this one spot, nor any kind of storage technology for using electricity at night (it was hard to cost one out when no technology exist for storing America's total energy needs for 12 hours).

5 % of total funds must be used to create a clean national transportation low emissions plan, which would establish an electric vehicle strategic deployment goal for 2020 and project the near - and long - term infrastructure and standardization needs for EVs, electricity providers, vehicle manufacturers, and electricity purchasers.

We need electricity even after clouds roll in or the sun goes down (unless you're a goth and enjoy total darkness).

Do we compensate electricity suppliers if, rather than reducing the total emissions target, we increase the number of indusries that need to obtain permits?

The electricity sector's share of greenhouse gas emissions in Ontario in 2012 was only about 9 percent of total emissions, compared to the transportation sector with 34 percent and the industrial sector with 30 percent (Ontario, Auditor General 2015), meaning that further environmental gains in the electricity sector are inherently limited.4 In any event, this impact needs to be compared to other alternatives, such as further enhancing transmission connections and expanding power purchase agreements with neighbouring jurisdictions, in particular Quebec and Manitoba, which have substantial clean hydroelectric resources.

Rummelhoff said once completed the Dogger Bank will have a total generating capacity of 4.8 GW and is set to become the world's largest offshore wind farm, potentially delivering more than 5 % of the UK's electricity needs.

Scotland's total electricity consumption for that Sunday was 37,202 MWh, meaning wind power generated the equivalent of 106 % of Scotland's entire electricity needs on the day.

It is unlikely that electricity can power more than 50 % of the energetic needs, and that, due to intermittency, solar and wind can power more than 20 % of the grid, leaving 10 % of the total energy needs — i don't know any country where this threshold is overcome.

One approach to overcoming this cost factor is to concentrate light from the sun using mirrors or lenses, thereby reducing the total area of silicon needed to produce a given amount of electricity.

To both achieve emissions reduction goals and fully displace nuclear power, renewable energy would need to scale up from 17 % of the country's power supply today to a full 57 % of total electricity generation in just nine years» time.

According to the Digiconomist Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, the total volume of electricity needed for bitcoin mining is now equivalent to 0.14 percent of total global energy consumption.