The Welsh government wants the UK government to devolve powers over large-scale energy generation projects.
But while it wants control over large scale energy projects, it is not seeking powers in regard to nuclear energy.
In doing so, they lost track of the most essential characteristic of a large-scale energy storage system: it must be cheap.
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But whilst working on large-scale energy projects in developing countries, she also realized that the pressing needs of many poor individuals were still not being served.
Any wind farm larger than 50 megawatt of power, and any large scale energy development such as the proposed grid connection in mid Wales comes under the authority of the Department of Energy and Climate Change in London.
In fact, the European Union as a whole scores 54% on the scale of energy dependency.
Companies stand to gain much more by expanding such investments to include community-scale sustainable energy innovations like Tapergie.
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Figures obtained by the BBC show the scale of the increase in interest in smaller scale wind energy developments.
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The project aims to create the world's first large scale wave energy farm by constructing a wave hub, or "socket", on the seabed.
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Simply, the manufactured high-rises of today allow greater economies of scale regarding energy use, building materials, sewage and waste, and overall footprint on the land.
Not only has the scope of electric equipment present in buildings expanded in recent years, the scale of energy consumed by plug loads has also grown.
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The inherent uncertainty in investing in novel technologies, coupled with the high capital costs and long time horizons, prohibits most venture capital funds from investing in large-scale clean energy projects.
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The alliance's manifesto calls for measures to reduce demand on the main electricity transmission grid, including smart meters, encouragement for community and small-scale local energy generation, and further research on methods of storage of electricity.
The EIO Task Force will be a one-stop shop for the private sector, so we can better harness the expertise of those who can invest and build economically viable, large scale renewable energy infrastructure on Army Installations.
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The goal is to establish a pre-qualified pool of private sector partners positioned to finance development of large scale renewable energy projects and re-coup their capital investment through the sale of energy to the Army, and excess energy back to the grid.
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When asked if they would be for or against the development of large-scale wind energy projects being built in their council area, 77% of SNP supporters, 71% of Liberal Democrat supporters, 64% of Labour supporters and 53% of Conservative supporters said they were in favour.
Nonetheless, Kolar says that the industry has seen a surge of interest in the last year, particularly from developers who have the capital and experience to deploy full-scale wave energy projects, and from government officials in island countries who see in wave power a clear path to energy independence.
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As the Breakthrough Institute has consistently argued, taking clean energy alternatives to scale and building globally competitive clean energy industries will ultimately depend on such improvements in cost and performance.
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Third, we should figure out how to use the scale of government energy consumption, especially through DOD, to provide test beds for important new technologies.
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Xtreme, which has attracted backing from venture capital firms and corporate investors like Dow Chemical, Fluor and BP Alternative Energy, is developing large-scale digital power systems for renewable energy and micro-grid applications.
The consequence will be a large-scale displacement of competing energy sources by gas.
As a result, gas industry projects in Texas had to scale back, as energy producers scrambled to find sufficient water.
One of the biggest impediments to increasing the percentage of renewable energy at scale is the present lack of grid capability.
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At the scale of the clean energy sector as a whole the effects of the cash grant program have been substantial and positive.
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As a result, transmission constraints in the United States and the European Union are threatening to table large-scale wind and solar energy projects under development.
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Developing countries need assistance to rapidly scale-up clean energy efforts.
In particular, the rise of utility-scale, centralized renewable energy and the associated infrastructure they will require are propagating an ossified, state-oriented system for providing and paying for electric service.
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Rather than simply subsidize production of current technologies, we need a comprehensive energy innovation strategy to develop, manufacture, and deploy riskier but more promising clean energy technologies that may eventually compete with fossil energy at scale.
For renewable energy on a smaller scale, a graduate student in Israel developed a prototype for an elegant rocking chair called Otarky that produces energy from its rocking motion and can be used to charge devices and power a lamp.
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Few flexmex projects of any meaningful scale address CO2 emissions from energy production, the primary contributor to global warming.
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