The Scottish government's target for 2011 was to meet 31% of the country's energy needs from renewables.
Monmouth Tory MP David TC Davies suggested "exciting" shale gas technology could help Britain's energy needs.
The world's energy needs might grow more slowly than forecast, reducing the need for nuclear power.
However, China still relies heavily on using coal, which supplies 70 per cent of China's energy needs.
It is now Europe's sixth-largest economy, a major transit route for Europe's energy needs, and a serious regional power.
Eventually he believes wave power could supply 20% of the UK's energy needs, the same proportion currently supplied by nuclear.
It already delivers 25% of America's energy needs, at a cost which gives the United States a real advantage over Europe.
If completed, imported natural gas will be stored in seven excavated caverns, allowing storage for enough gas to satisfy NI's energy needs for 60 days.
Fossil fuels supply 80% of the world's energy needs and, as the main driver of China's and India's growth, they will remain pre-eminent for decades.
Together the projects are expected to create more than 500 wind turbines, generating 1, 500 megawatts of electricity - or 1.5% of the UK's energy needs.
Supporters of the barrage say the privately-financed project could generate up to 5% of Britain's energy needs by using more than 1, 000 turbines and tidal power.
Meeting Britain's energy needs from onshore wind power would require covering literally the entire country in turbines, even assuming that the wind was guaranteed to blow.
Hafren Power says its scheme - between Lavernock Point and Somerset - would generate 5 per cent of the UK's energy needs and could be privately financed.
Waterfall added that FloDesign's low-wind technology has the potential not only to revolutionize wind-power technology, but also to make wind-power a viable energy solution for New England's energy needs.
From news that Germany met half the country's energy needs with solar power to an Egyptian teenager who built a new quantum space propulsion system, 2012 was a big year for clean tech.
Speaking at a news conference in February, President Vladimir Putin said the new program would boost the country's nuclear power capacity to provide 30 percent of the country's energy needs, up from its current 16 percent.
In other words, when the oil runs out, which it eventually will, Abu Dhabi wants to be ready to sell the world solar or wind or whatever renewable technologies will be needed to supply people's energy needs.
The changes, the company says, mean its plans are more fish-friendly and will also reduce the amount of inter-tidal mud flats that will be lost to feeding birds, while still generating 5% of the UK's energy needs or enough to power 3.4 million homes.
Tony Blair was supposed to deliver a heavily-trailed speech to the CBI at 9.15 this morning, the centre piece of which was to announce a new review into the nation's energy needs with a focus upon finding out if a new nuclear programme was the way forward.
In the first poll of their views, carried out in May this year, 76% of these sportsmen said they had personally noticed climate change, and 78% said that the right way to address America's energy needs was to conserve more, develop fuel-efficient vehicles and use more renewables.
While speaking at the Euroscience Open Forum in Barcelona, Spain, in July, Arnulf Jaeger-Walden, one of Europe's leading energy authorities, said that less than 0.4% of the solar energy that falls on the deserts of North Africa and the Middle East would satisfy all of Europe's energy needs.
In particular, the sunlight and wind speed are too weak to meet a meaningful portion of the region's prodigious energy needs ... at least with today's technology.
Entrenched energy industries like to say that renewable energy can never provide a significant amount of U.S. energy needs.
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Clearly corn-based ethanol is not a sustainable solution for the U.S. energy needs.
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The government says the dams are essential to meet Chile's growing energy needs.
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Although it's likely to take quite a large herd, Pfeiffer believes that harnessing these geobioreactors properly could offer a long-term solution to U.S. energy needs.
With foreign petroleum products expected to provide 70 percent of U.S. energy needs in the coming decades, energy conservation, independence and diversity have become paramount initiatives.
The leveraged buyout announcement, which TXU formally announced Monday, leaves several questions unanswered: Why are 11 plants no longer needed to meet the state's future energy needs?
And returning to the initial questions: Why are eight of 11 plants no longer needed to meet the state's future energy needs, and how will the company meet its increased demand for power?
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