Sentence examples for renewables provided from inspiring English sources

In terms of total primary energy supply (i.e. raw energy created), data for 2008 suggest that fossil fuels provided around 85%, nuclear contributed around 2% and renewables provided around 13%.

And the staggering fall in the cost of renewables provided much-needed confidence to many negotiating teams, whether from fossil fuel-dependent rich nations, or poorer countries in which local pollution is becoming politically unsustainable.

In the United States, the small turbines have benefited from a 30 percent tax credit enacted a few years ago — the first U.S. incentive to aid small wind turbines since the 1980s — in addition to assistance for rural renewables provided by the Department of Agriculture and state-level incentives.

The sustainable alternative would be to store energy generated at times when renewables provide a surplus, and use it when they fall short.

In fact, he says that now that renewables provide 94.5% of the country's electricity, prices are lower than in the past relative to inflation.

At present, renewables provide approximately 11percentt of our domestic electricity generation.

Personally I think we could reach the target of having renewables provide 20% of total energy consumption".

"If we blow it in gas plants over the next 100 years, that is less interesting than using it to "firm up" renewables, provide some replacement for coal (power) and for oil (transportation).

These policies led to an enormous success in terms of having a large share of renewables providing electricity services: wind alone accounts today for ~23.5% of electricity demand in Portugal.

"The majority of electricity we now produce is renewable, providing UK homes and businesses with low carbon, affordable and reliable power".

Lower quality microgrids are fully renewable, providing a very cheap but unreliable supply.