Sentences with phrase «year came from renewable sources»

The state - run Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) reported that most of the electricity so far this year came from renewable sources.

As much as 90 % of new electricity generation in last year came from renewable sources, according to preliminary IEA data.

Not exact matches

Mr. Cuomo, a Democrat, has already declared a goal of having 50 percent of the state's power come from solar, wind, hydroelectric or other renewable sources in 15 years, but the state has had no means of enforcing that directive.

Mr Salmond pledged last year that 100 per cent of Scotland's gross electricity consumption will come from renewable sources by 2020, supplied mainly by thousands of wind turbines.

Create a $ 5 billion Clean Energy Fund over 10 years so that the state can reach its goal of having 50 percent of its energy come from renewable sources by 2030.

Change # 3: After the 3 - 5 years duration of a new research grant ends, all the grants coming from this new funding source would not be directly renewable, except as a new grant funded from the standard Congressional appropriations.

And that's a lot: globally last year, up to 90 % of new energy capacity came from renewable sources, according to a report this week from the International Energy Association.

With an electricity grid supplied by hydroelectric dams across rivers, from the heat of its numerous volcanoes, and from wind and the sun, the small Central American nation expects 97 percent of its energy generation to come from renewable sources this year.

Biomass is a renewable energy source not only because the energy in it comes from the sun, but also because biomass can re-grow over a relatively short period of time compared with the hundreds of millions of years that it took for fossil fuels to form.

In the first quarter of this year, one fifth of all electricity used in Britain was generated from renewable sources: that's an indicator of how far we've come and how big the opportunity is.

Over the past few years, a rising tide of legislation has sought to repeal or weaken renewable portfolio standards (RPS), which require a certain share of a state's electricity supply to come from sources like solar and wind.

The Clean Energy Standard will require 50 percent of New York's electricity to come from renewable energy sources like wind and solar by 2030, with an aggressive phase in schedule over the next several years.

The major reason, Ikea said, was that the share of its buildings» energy coming from renewable sources decreased during the year.

Beijing's second major energy objective in the 12th Five Year Plan is to increase the share of energy supply coming from non-fossil sources (nuclear and renewables) to 11.4 % in 2015, up from 8.6 % in 2010.

And this year alone, California has had to discard 300,000 megawatt hours of excess electricity from the grid, all of which came from renewable sources.

The facility will also push Hawaii closer towards its goal of having 20 percent of the state's energy come from renewable sources by the year 2020.

The moves are part of the strategy agreed to in March last year of reducing emissions to at least 20 % below 1990 levels by 2020, and for 20 % of energy consumption across the EU to come from renewable sources by 2020.