The electric power is currently generated by two diesel generator sets.
Companies that fail to hit the target will be fined and the money given to those that do.Just under 3% of Britain's electricity is currently generated from green sources, about a third of it from wind power.
Searching, accessing, and storing an ever-increasing volume of Web pages, family snapshots, e-mails, old books, tweets, "cloud" applications, humorous videos, television shows, feature films, pornography, and everything else that can be found online requires electricity, and most of that electricity is currently generated by burning coal.
A significant proportion of energy used in manufacturing is currently generated through fossil fuels.
"One and a half percent of U.S. mail is currently generated by their processing," says Nancy Tubbs, the Intuit director of marketing who's no doubt hoping to translate this market share onto the web.
Some 78 % of the world's primary energy is currently generated by burning fossil fuels (oil, coal, gas) which is causing potentially catastrophic climate change, and horrendous pollution, and is unsustainable as they won't last forever.
The release of "Coat of Many Cupboards," a four-CD boxed set from Caroline Records covering XTC's prolific early years, 1978 to 1989, is currently generating hosannas from the English music press.
The latest figures from the trade body for wind and marine energy, Renewable UK, indicate that the country is currently generating just 1.3GW per year from offshore wind energy – roughly the equivalent of one coal fired power station.
Sheryl Sandberg, the company's chief operating officer, said Facebook's "sponsored stories" ad unit is currently generating around $1 million in revenue per day for the company, half of which comes from the mobile version of the service.
