Sentence examples for global electricity generation from inspiring English sources

In 2010, the International Energy Agency predicted that global solar PV capacity could reach 3,000 GW or 11% of projected global electricity generation by 2050 enough to generate 4,500 TWh of electricity.

Even so, solar energy today accounts for only about 1% of US and global electricity generation.

This would clean up global electricity generation, cut energy costs, and even ease international tensions.

The world's installed PV capacity exceeds 200 gigawatts (GW), accounting for more than 1% of global electricity generation.

Wind Energy is expected to make enormous contributions to the global electricity generation market, hitherto dominated by fossil fuels.

Renewable energy now supplies 23percentt of global electricity generation, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, with capacity having doubled from 2000 to 2012.

Globally, electricity generation accounts for a large and potentially growing water demand, and as such is an important component to assessments of global and regional water scarcity.

For example, the U.S. Energy Information Administration projects global coal electricity generation will grow from 8.1 terawatt-hours (TWh) in 2010 to 11.1 TWh in 2050, while global natural gas electricity generation will grow from 4.6 TWh in 2010 to 11.1 TWh in 2050.

"The biggest culprit in global warming is electricity generation, and the public gets that," said Jim Gonzalez, a former San Francisco supervisor who helped draft the ballot initiative for John G. and Peter Sperling, the father and son who founded the University of Phoenix and are each worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

This would require only a few percent of current annual global solar PV electricity generation, but it would have a noticeable impact on CO2 emissions.

Actual 2009 production will depend on how quickly the global markets for electricity generation and steel rebound as well as the size and timing of stimulus packages in the United States, China and elsewhere, the company said.