Sentences with phrase «total nuclear electricity»

Find the total nuclear electricity ever generated, put a price on carbon — say the $ 23 carbon tax -, assume nuclear has displaced black coal.

Not exact matches

North Carolina gets 32 percent of its total electricity from five nuclear reactors currently in operation in the state.

The proposal comes as state energy officials continue crafting a Cuomo - backed clean energy plan (Clean Energy Standard) that would include unspecified subsidies to financially stressed nuclear plants, which currently provide about 30 percent of the state's total electricity.

China plans to raise its total installed nuclear power generating capacity to 70 GW by 2020 and to raise the proportion of China's nuclear power to 5 % of the total installed electricity generating capacity by 2020.

Nuclear power made up only 2 % of total electricity generation in 2010.

Reading from Figure 2 above we can see that the total health effects of generating electricity from coal is 25 deaths / TWh and from nuclear is about 0.5 deaths / TWh.

Assuming nuclear replaced all remaining coal fired electricity generation, the world would avoid a further 487,000 fatalities per year (total fatalities avoided by existing nuclear plus replacement of existing coal generation = 648,000 fatalities per year.).

Officials want nuclear power to account for 20 percent of Japan's total electricity generation by 2030.

Nuclear power provided 29 percent of Japan's total electricity before 2011, but will decline to 13.6 percent by 2023 and 1.2 percent by 2040, according to reports.

Consequently, there are now 17 nuclear power stations around the earthquake - prone Japanese archipelago, comprising 54 nuclear reactors that provide 30 percent of Japan's total electricity generating capacity.

According to NRDC's Pathways report, by 2050, the current fleet of nuclear plants is mainly retired, and nuclear power makes up only 3 percent of total electricity production.

Eliminating Price - Anderson would be total craziness as it would either (A) shut down every nuclear unit in the U.S. or (B) if Utilities could theoretically get adequate insurance from the private market to satisfy their bond - holders, regulators, and politicians — it would be extremely pricey and electricity rates would go through the roof.

While total output from low carbon technologies, such as hydro, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and nuclear power, has continued to grow, their share of global primary energy supply has remained relatively constant; fossil fuels have maintained their dominance and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) has yet to be applied to electricity production at scale.

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Solar and wind each provide 20 % of total electricity supply; nuclear capacity is tripled, and the technology for coal plant carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is assumed to be available without constraint.

(in the US) 4100 TWhrs Electricity = 352 Million TOE = 16 % of 2182 MTOE (Total US Energy Used) So we can change over 75 % of electricity to some type of nuclear and some biElectricity = 352 Million TOE = 16 % of 2182 MTOE (Total US Energy Used) So we can change over 75 % of electricity to some type of nuclear and some bielectricity to some type of nuclear and some big industry.

Nuclear produced 32 percent of the state's total electricity generation and 57 percent of its zero - emissions generation last year.

Canadian electricity generation in 2000 totaled 567.1 billion kilowatt hours (bkwh), of which 60 % was hydropower, 26 % was conventional thermal power (oil, gas, and coal), 12 % was nuclear generation, and 1 % was derived from other renewable sources.

It shows fuel shares of total world energy supply, including the contribution of fossil sources (oil, coal and gas), nuclear power (providing for about 16 % of global electricity demand and 6.5 % of all energy use) and renewables (13 % of total energy).

-LSB-... published costs of nuclear - generated electricity never take into account the total lifetime cost of nuclear plants, including decommissioning, maintenance and waste disposal, so one is never able to compare like with like (it's the only form of electricity in which overall costs are ignored)-RSB-

About nuclear: electricity is 16 % of world energy use, and nuclear is supplying 16 % of that, i.e. 3 % of total energy demand.

Or to point out that the published costs of nuclear - generated electricity never take into account the total lifetime cost of nuclear plants, including decommissioning, maintenance and waste disposal, so one is never able to compare like with like (it's the only form of electricity in which overall costs are ignored).

Global nuclear electricity generation (blue area, left axis) and nuclear's share of total world power generation (red bars, right axis).

According to the Digest of UK Energy Statistics, nuclear power provided 69,098 gigawatt hours (18 % of total) of electricity to consumers in 2009, whereas there were only 50 megawatts of installed solar PV capacity on the grid in the same year.

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.