Cars have a role to play, especially if we can clean them up a lot by powering
them with electricity generated from clean sources.
That means that it is better for the environment to power a gadget
with electricity generated by coal, rather than by a solar panel.
Cross-posted from The Great Beyond A gargantuan plan of supplying European consumers
with electricity generated in the Saharan desert could see the light of day earlier than even the most optimistic solar energy aficionados had expected.
At the moment, «Toyota is working on an electric vehicle that will get some of its power from solar cells equipped on the vehicle, and that can be recharged
with electricity generated from solar panels on the roofs of homes.»
Speaking at CSP Seville, he cited Brazil as one of the pioneers of renewables tenders, saying wind power reached price parity
with electricity generated from fossil fuels by the time of the country's second tender auction in 2009.
Photo: Vlasta JuricekMore good news on the renewable energy front Monday: The cost of onshore wind power has dropped to record lows, and in some regions is competitive
with electricity generated by coal - fired plants, according to a survey by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, a market research firm.
«A new study called Solar Vision 2025, issued by the Canadian Solar Industry Association and prepared by consultants Ernst & Young, reports the cost of solar power projects will be cut by more than 50 % before 2025, making the solar electricity competitive
with electricity generated by oil, gas, hydro or nuclear plants,» said Dr. Shawn Qu, CEO and President of Canadian Solar.
We can also play a significant part in decarbonising our heat and transport sectors — EVs make a lot more sense when you power
them with electricity generated from clean sources.
Solar power, being a fuel - free electricity source, is not subject to the price increases associated
with electricity generated by power plants that run on gas or coal.
Supporters credit the tax break, which expires Dec. 31, with making wind more competitive
with electricity generated from coal and natural gas, and say ending it would put half of the country's 75,000 wind jobs at risk.
Through the 2018 solicitation NYSERDA seeks to purchase Tier 1 Renewable Energy Certificates associated
with electricity generated from eligible facilities that enter commercial operation on or after January 1, 2015 and on or before November 30, 2020, unless extended to November 30, 2022.
So if the world moves toward a system for tracking emissions, who is responsible for a particular batch of carbon dioxide — the company that mined and sold the coal, the power plant that burned it, the consumer who buys the exported widget made
with the electricity generated by that combustion, or...?
The draft promotes renewable energy by requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet a certain percentage of their load
with electricity generated from renewable resources, like wind, biomass, solar, and geothermal... [They] begin at 6 % in 2012 and gradually rises to 25 % in 2025.
Liquid fuel providers — producing and selling diesel fuel, gasoline, or biofuels — and electricity providers — «fuelling» plug - in hybrid vehicles
with electricity generated with renewable energy — can now compete for the transportation dollar.
«Hybrid Drive» for urban driving and powerful acceleration using the motor
with electricity generated by the engine.
In the future, our cars may all run on battery power, and perhaps we'll charge them up
with electricity generated from renewable sources of energy.
In contrast
with electricity generated from coal or natural gas, nuclear power contributes little to greenhouse gas emissions and could therefore help in the effort to reduce global warming.
In Maine, cooking the same turkey in the same oven but
with electricity generated primarily from renewable energy releases less than three pounds of carbon dioxide.
Those cars charge up their batteries
with electricity generated when the car brakes and then used that «recycled» energy to power their electric motors, which take over from the vehicle's gasoline engine at low speeds and in stop - and - go traffic.
Householders would also be able to use the smart meters to feed the grid
with electricity generated through solar panels.
Not exact matches
But the math only works in places
with so - called «net metering» laws, which require utilities to buy the
electricity rooftop panels
generate at prices far above what they pay for centralized power.
Oregon - based solar installation firm called Elemental Energy calculated that a wall
with 10 - foot - high solar paneling would
generate approximately 7.28 gigawatt - hours (GWh) of
electricity each day.
Even
with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would
generate about 7.28 GWh of
electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the
electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).
Under an agreement
with Russia, the United States was to convert 34 metric tons of plutonium into fuel for civilian reactors that
generate electricity.
The projects
generate revenue by selling the
electricity they produce, which then allows the investors to get paid back
with interest.
They appeared to have regular shingled rooftops, but Musk said they'd actually been retrofitted
with a new product called the Solar Roof, a potentially transformative system that's nearly indistinguishable from a traditional rooftop — and one, he promised, that lasts longer and costs less, all while
generating electricity.
They appear to have regular shingled rooftops, but Musk says they've actually been retrofitted
with a new product called the Solar Roof, a potentially transformative system that's nearly indistinguishable from a traditional rooftop — and one, he promises, that lasts longer and costs less, all while
generating electricity.
GREG WARREN:
With coal fired and natural gas plants continuing to
generate around two thirds of the nation's
electricity and renewables accounting to less than 10 percent, there remains plenty of room for growth.
With our agreement with Mexico that we announced today, let's generate half the electricity on this continent from clean energy sources within a dec
With our agreement
with Mexico that we announced today, let's generate half the electricity on this continent from clean energy sources within a dec
with Mexico that we announced today, let's
generate half the
electricity on this continent from clean energy sources within a decade.
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 2017.
The platform enables households to select
electricity from specific sources, and share self -
generated electricity with others.
A simple example is the switch to fixtures that
generate equal light
with a fourth of the
electricity.
Global Water Engineering has partnered
with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and
generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.
In 2008 we covered our largest wholesale bakery in Berkeley
with photovoltaic panels in order to
generate much of our own
electricity.
For specific industry applications
with high organic loads, enough biogas can be
generated to fully cover a production plant's energy needs and still have a biogas surplus to feed it into power generators and sell
electricity to the national grid, often
generating carbon credits, where these apply, as well as profit.
The anaerobic wastewater biogas technologies — which extract methane to
generate green
electricity or to fuel boilers and other factory equipment — are particularly applicable to food, beverage and agribusiness companies, or any industry that has a biological waste stream or wastewater
with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.
Through a partnership
with Eneco UK, the 20 - turbine wind farm, located just south of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands, will
generate electricity equivalent to -LSB-...]
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (Oshkosh, Wis.) Implemented a kitchen and dining recycling program that combines a food pulper
with an innovative dry fermentation anaerobic biodigester that digests food waste to produce methane gas that is used to
generate electricity that meets up to 10 % of the campus» needs.
Our
electricity and hot water are
generated with the help of a vast solar array on our roof
In keeping
with the Sydney Games» pledge to be environmentally responsible, some 400 buggies powered by solar -
generated electricity will ferry athletes, officials and VIPs among the 32 venues.
And
with larger panels, the more
electricity you can
generate.
Watch along as they create a working volcano,
generate electricity with a lemon, launch a vinegar - powered rocket and more!
At all of our sanctuaries
with nature centers, we
generate electricity by using photovoltaic arrays, which harness energy from the sun.
Instead, the glittering prizes are going to Denmark, on target to
generate some 50 % of its
electricity from wind by 2020 — and
with a renewable industry currently supplying around half the world's wind turbines.
«Africapitalism can help shape the new trade paradigm because it requires governments, donors and the private sector to work together in «Shared Purpose» to ensure the creation of national plans and supporting policies around specific sectors and related targets, so the private sector can step in
with capital and expertise geared to achieve those targets, be they tons of grain produced, megawatts of
electricity generated or industrial parks created» he stated.
Don Jessome, president and CEO of Transmission Developers Inc., the company that would build the line, said in a statement that his firm «looks forward to working
with all stakeholders to further the development of the fully - permitted... project to deliver clean, low cost
electricity generated from renewable resources to southeastern New York.»
With four years to plan for the nuclear plant's closure, some of those reliability issues may be resolved as other
electricity generating resources come online.
New York should be able to easily comply
with the regulations because it
generates only about 3.5 percent of its
electricity from coal, said Judith Enck, the EPA's regional administrator.
Electricity Oswego County, powerhouse of the northeast, generates over 5,500 megawatts of electricity with extremely high r
Electricity Oswego County, powerhouse of the northeast,
generates over 5,500 megawatts of
electricity with extremely high r
electricity with extremely high reliability.
He then measured the total direct emissions associated
with the making of a product; for example, the amount of coal burned to
generate a kilowatt of
electricity and how much carbon dioxide was released in the process.