Sentence examples for of renewable capacity from inspiring English sources
Globally, nearly 80GW of renewable capacity was added, including 31GW of hydropower and 48GW of non-hydro capacity.
In fact, it said, overall additions will not "surpass the level of renewable capacity additions reached in 2009, of 21 percent annual growth, before 2020".
Our view reflects a large amount of renewable capacity to be added onto the electricity grid, particularly in offshore wind (reaching 10GW by 2020) and solar photovoltaic (reaching 7GW by 2020).
It was met with headlines declaring AGL was going greener, but critics were quick to point out it aimed to create 1,000MW of renewable capacity, which is roughly AGL's share of the government's renewable energy target.
For that matter, the 100,000 megawatts of renewable capacity that were added around the globe in 2014 are equivalent to the total installed nuclear power capacity in the US.
In the past five years, the amount of renewable capacity has tripled while fossil fuels' has fallen by one-third, as power stations reached the end of their life or became uneconomic.
Utilities own only 7% of renewables capacity in Germany, for example.
In 2005, he signed a bill requiring Texas to have 5,880 megawatts of renewables capacity by 2015.
At the end of last year, China had installed a whopping 378GW of renewable energy capacity – about a quarter of renewables capacity installed worldwide, and over seven times Australia's entire grid-connected power capacity.
Additional good news culled from the NDEP shows the country is well ahead of its renewable capacity target of 40% by 2022.
For example, the New England States Committee on Electricity, or NESCOE, explored the impacts of various scenarios of increased renewable capacity on the electric transmission in New England [4].
