Sentences with phrase «up use of renewable»

Environmental groups want deadlines tightened so emissions are cut sooner, and think states can ramp up use of renewable power and energy efficiency more effectively than the agency had predicted.

The Volkswagen brand is stepping up the use of renewable energy in production with a view to further reducing its environmental footprint.

China's Premier has pledged to cut the percentage of fossil fuel in China's energy mix while scaling up the use of renewable energy and clean technologies.

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Whether or not we realize it, researchers are coming up with new ways to create and use plastics that could benefit the plastics industry — as well as society and the environment — by reducing the costs of consumer goods, making renewable energy more available and reducing plastic waste.

More seriously the increased production will speed up the exhaustion of nonrenewable resources and make more difficult the attainment of sustainable use of renewable ones.

Atlanta, GA - Futamura has announced that Brevard, NC - based Cermount is using NatureFlex ™ packaging film as part of a renewable stand - up pouch.

This sets the standard for the term Natural and stipulates: * Product must be made up of at least 95 percent truly natural ingredients or ingredients that are derived from natural sources * No ingredients with any potential suspected human health risks * No processes that significantly or adversely alter the purity / effect of the natural ingredients * Ingredients that come from a purposeful, renewable / plentiful source found in nature (flora, fauna, mineral) * Processes that are minimal and don't use synthetic / harsh chemicals or otherwise dilute purity * Non-natural ingredients only when viable natural alternative ingredient are unavailable and only when there are absolutely no suspected potential human health risks

«By scaling up use of energy efficiency and renewable energy resources, New Yorkers can effectively limit pollution, reduce harmful carbon emissions, slash energy bills, and create new jobs.

Renewable energy continues to grow, with use of wind energy up 5 percent, geothermal energy up 11 percent, and residential solar energy up 11 percent.

If China's use of renewable and nuclear energy grows at a plausible rate, and the country captures some of its emissions from coal - burning power stations and keeps making improvements in energy efficiency, by 2050 its total emissions could end up 4 per cent lower than today, says Zhou.

Coal, oil and natural gas still account for 67 percent of energy use in the United States, a figure that sums up the nation's conflicted stance on renewable energy.

Vancouver also leads the world in the use of hydroelectric power, which makes up 90 percent of its energy supply, and regularly uses renewables like wind and solar.

The introduction of the carbon tax, along with Australia's target of generating 41,000 gigawatt hours of renewable energy a year by 2020, up from 21,000 in 2013, has helped increase renewable energy use and reduce the country's heavy reliance on coal, Dargaville says.

The statement lines up with recent Department of Defense goals to reduce the use of petroleum products, increase renewable energy and cut non-combat greenhouse gases 34 percent by 2020.

Prior to joining at the DOE JGI, Dr. Yoshikuni was a co-founder and Chief Science Officer at a clean technology start - up, Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. where his significant achievement was using synthetic biology to develop the first microbial platform technologies enabling to unlock the potential of macroalgae as highly environmentally sustainable and cost - effective biomass for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals.

A new study by consultancy Roland Berger defines an integrated roadmap for European road transport decarbonization to 2030 and beyond; the current regulatory framework for vehicle emissions, carbon intensity of fuels and use of renewable fuels covers only up to 2020/2021.

The school will use up to 80 per cent less energy than a conventionally built equivalent facility, reducing carbon emissions by 60 per cent without the use of renewable energy.

SAFE research took up the challenge posed by market competition to create value through the sustainable use of renewable and non-renewable resources of the territory.

The Nusa Penida Renewable Energy provide cheap electricity for the inhabitants of Nusa Penida Island and the windmill is also used to pump up the underground water which is located 200 meter under the hill, providing cheap healthy water for the community.

Inspired by growing up in Denmark and Iceland, Eliasson's use of natural elements evokes an awareness of the sublime world around us and how we interact with it; his projects often point toward global environmental crises and consider art's power to offer solutions to issues like climate change and renewable energy.

A reasonable policy would be to build up to a $ 125 / barrel tax on oil, to be mostly rebated per adult citizen while concurrently dropping demand via the expansion of renewables using a chunk of the tax.

Fossil fuel interests are using their clout at the White House and in Congress to sabotage every renewable energy program that comes along, while make sure massive government subsidies, on the order of $ 100 billion a year when you count it all up, continue to flow to the fossil fuel industry (U.S. military expenditures are $ 500 billion a year, and good chunk of that is devoted to protecting overseas oilfields, for example).

Moreover, he claims that as renewable energy use increases, this measure of efficiency will decrease as the best land for wind, biomass, and solar power gets used up.»

What exactly is the technology that will allow us to use renewable energy sources that all seem to require a vast amount of space without putting up transmission lines?

Solar energy in and of itself renewABLE, but if the solar panel manufacturers are polluting the environment, or if the solar panels end up in the landfill when they stop working, is using solar panels a sustainable practice?

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.

We are currently using up the renewable resources of 1.7 Earths — unless things change, we'll need three by 2050 Global Footprint Network

The chancellor now says she wants to slash the use of coal, speed up approvals for renewable energy investments, and reduce CO2 emissions drastically.

Facebook - which allows people to stay in touch with friends around the world - says it has releases the figures on its energy use, make - up and carbon footprint in a bid to be open and to help others in the sector to increase use of renewables.

This is directly opposed to the plan drawn up by the UN just this past spring, where they said that 80 % of energy needs could be met using renewable sources by 2050 or so.

Cypress Creek Renewables, which developed 1GW of PV projects in an 18 - month stretch up to the beginning of this year, has used Lockheed Martin's lithium - ion battery storage solutions in a dozen just - completed solar - plus - storage projects.

If we're successful — and world leaders make the kind of emissions reduction commitments that can keep warming within safe limits — the upshot is that we're going to have to scale down our use of fossil fuels as a planet and scale up renewables in a big, big way.

A part of the new entrant reserve, amounting to 300 million allowances, will be made available to support the investments in up to 12 demonstration projects using the carbon capture and storage technology and demonstration projects using innovative renewable energy technologies.

On our existing policy pathway, the District would achieve an 18 % reduction in energy use, with renewables making up only 32 % of our energy mix by 2032 — far short of our 50 % goals.

You can take some of these simple steps to cut out emissions from your vehicle while driving: Buy a fuel efficient vehicle, give your car a break and use public transport, use renewable fuels and don't forget get your car tuned - up regularly.

By virtue of an EU mandate to increase their share of renewables to 15.5 % by 2020, the country has bumped up its use of «Green energy» from 5 % in 2005 to around 10.4 % today.

all the while technology makes cars get higher mpg, solar helps entire nations power themselves — hell, even the white house is putting up solar panels, and the branches of the US military are prepping to draw 25 % of all energy from renewables in a few years, and electric cars whiz around, and LEDs use 75 % less energy.

We'll need all the solar, wind, oceanic, biomass, hydro, and geothermal energy we can get, but renewable energy (now about 13 percent of global energy use) simply can not be scaled up at the pace needed to supplant our fossil fuel use — certainly not before the predicted down - curve in available oil and gas supplies.

There are immense direct and indirect public benefits in transitioning to an efficient renewable energy system in terms of reduced incidence of diseases such as asthma, freeing up of most of the supplies of water that are now used for thermal electricity generation (and hence reduced conflict over water), reduced air, water, and soil pollution that accompanies fossil fuel production, processing and use, and greatly improved prospects of avoiding the worst consequences of climate change.

These states have indicated their dissatisfaction with the current electricity - generation system by enacting binding RPSs, which require that wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, waste, or other renewable resources be used to generate up to 30 % of the electricity sold by 2025.

The report also considered the impact on land use from scaling up such operations; it estimated that 1.3 percent of the state's land area would have to be devoted exclusively to renewables.

Using the Solar Estimate calculator, we determined that given an average monthly utility bill of $ 150, the owner of a two - bedroom home on Montagu Street in Charleston's up - scale 29401 zip code should produce around 9,890 kilowatt - hours (kWh) of emissions - free renewable energy over its useful life; resulting in an estimated net profit (energy cost savings less the cost of equipment and installation) to the homeowner of $ 57,878 over 25 years.

As renewables like wind and solar approach 30 per cent grid penetration, operators will need to increase the flexibility of their grids using natural gas generation, manage up to 2...

The firm prices are due to robust use in India, Japan, South Korea and even China, where coal consumption has held up despite huge programs to boost the use of gas and renewable energy.

Established in 2010, the Program for Scaling up Renewable Energy in Low Income Countries (SREP) aims to demonstrate the economic, social and environmental viability of low - carbon development pathways in the energy sector by creating new economic opportunities and increasing energy access through the use of renewablRenewable Energy in Low Income Countries (SREP) aims to demonstrate the economic, social and environmental viability of low - carbon development pathways in the energy sector by creating new economic opportunities and increasing energy access through the use of renewablerenewable energy.

That's why the amount of fossil fuels used goes DOWN in nations as they ramp up and build more and more renewable power sources.

All these things are made using mammoth amounts of energy: far from achieving massive energy savings, which most plans for a renewables future rely on implicitly, we would wind up needing far more energy, which would mean even more vast renewables farms — and even more materials and energy to make and maintain them, and so on.

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A new Earthscan book «Energy 2050», edited by Jim Skea, Paul Ekins and Mark Winskel, outlines some of the results of the recent work within the UK Energy Research Centre, looking at a range of mixes of energy systems, some with large renewable or nuclear percentages, some with large energy savings in various sectors, and then at possible pathways up to 2050, using the MARKAL - MED model.

As explained in my new book, Environmentalism Gone Mad (available here), Federal coercion to expand the use of «renewables» would end up forcing electric power ratepayers to spend much more to obtain much less reliable electric power.