Sentence examples for renewable it from inspiring English sources

Back in the late-70's ethanol produced from corn was promoted as the perfect answer to the energy crisis: it was renewable, it was domestic, and it was supposed to be less polluting.

If a source of electricity already widely used by some utilities — hydropower or nuclear power, for example — is deemed renewable, it allows utilities to meet the new renewable-energy requirements while doing little to add wind or solar power to the electrical grid.

That is clean, it's renewable, it's homegrown, it's creating jobs all across America.

[They say:] 'We're out here trying to be renewable; it's cheaper over there to be renewable'".

If switching to natural gas long delays the dominance of renewables, it's not doing us much good.

"For coal power stations you're talking thousands of jobs, gas it goes down to a few hundred and renewables it is just the supply chain".

Shell has pulled out of renewables: it retains a small stake in biofuels development, but the company's offshore wind business is no more.

Energy efficiency has been called "the fifth fuel" (after coal, petroleum, nuclear power, and renewables); it is seen as a cost-free tool for accelerating the transition to a green-energy economy.

"That figure isn't high because China aims to reach about 15% by 2020, so it is only a five percentage point increase in 10 years, and given the huge growth in renewables it should be higher".

For renewables, it's intermittency, the inability to produce power when the sun isn't shining and the wind is still.

While China is increasing the amount of renewable energy it produces, it is also increasing its emissions.