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Renewable energy is generally defined as energy that is collected from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas: electricity generation, air and water heating/cooling, transportation, and rural (off-grid) energy services.
Based on REN21's 2014 report, renewables contributed 19 percent to humans' global energy consumption and 22 percent to their generation of electricity in 2012 and 2013, respectively. This energy consumption is divided as 9% coming from traditional biomass, 4.2% as heat energy (non-biomass), 3.8% hydro electricity and 2% is electricity from wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass. Worldwide investments in renewable technologies amounted to more than US$214 billion in 2013, with countries like China and the United States heavily investing in wind, hydro, solar and biofuels.
Generation is the act of producing offspring. In kinship terminology, it is a structural term designating the parent-child relationship. It is also known as biogenesis, reproduction, or procreation in the biological sciences. The term is also often used synonymously with cohort in social science; under this formulation the term means "people within a delineated population who experience the same significant events within a given period of time". Generation in this sense of birth cohort, also known as a "social generation", is widely used in popular culture, and has been the basis for societal analysis. Serious analysis of generations began in the nineteenth century, emerging from an increasing awareness of the possibility of permanent social change and the idea of youthful rebellion against the established social order. Some analysts believe that a generation is one of the fundamental social categories in a society, while others view its importance as being overshadowed by other factors such as class, gender, race, education, and so on.
In physics, energy is a property of objects which can be transferred to other objects or converted into different forms, but cannot be created or destroyed. The "ability of a system to perform work" is a common description, but it is difficult to give one single comprehensive definition of energy because of its many forms. For instance, in SI units, energy is measured in joules, and one joule is defined "mechanically", being the energy transferred to an object by the mechanical work of moving it a distance of 1 metre against a force of 1 newton. However, there are many other definitions of energy, depending on the context, such as thermal energy, radiant energy, electromagnetic, nuclear, etc., where definitions are derived that are the most convenient.
Common energy forms include the kinetic energy of a moving object, the potential energy stored by an object's position in a force field (gravitational, electric or magnetic), the elastic energy stored by stretching solid objects, the chemical energy released when a fuel burns, the radiant energy carried by light, and the thermal energy due to an object's temperature. All of the many forms of energy are convertible to other kinds of energy, and obey the law of conservation of energy which says that energy can be neither created nor be destroyed; however, it can change from one form to another.
Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from other sources of primary energy. The fundamental principles of electricity generation were discovered during the 1820s and early 1830s by the British scientist Michael Faraday. His basic method is still used today: electricity is generated by the movement of a loop of wire, or disc of copper between the poles of a magnet. For electric utilities, it is the first process in the delivery of electricity to consumers. The other processes, electricity transmission, distribution, and electrical power storage and recovery using pumped-storage methods are normally carried out by the electric power industry. Electricity is most often generated at a power station by electromechanical generators, primarily driven by heat engines fueled by chemical combustion or nuclear fission but also by other means such as the kinetic energy of flowing water and wind. Other energy sources include solar photovoltaics and geothermal power and electrochemical batteries.
National Geographic or NatGeo may refer to:
The Future of Power Generation A New Era for Renewables
Which Power Source Is Most Efficient?
Grid Storage for Renewables Integration
Can A City Run On 100% Renewable Energy?
Renewable Energy 101 | National Geographic
The Problem With Renewable Energy (and how we're fixing it)
StorEn Technologies - Enabling the Transition to Renewables
Electricity Generation - Non Renewables (preview)
Africa's Clean ENERGY REVOLUTION: Future MEGAPROJECTS
Germany's Renewable Energy Revolution
Eastern Renewable Generation Integration Study: Redefining What’s Possible for Renewable Energy
Renewables To Match Coal Generation By 2040
Renewable energies: the return of biomass
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Giant Sea Snake Renewable Electricity Generation
If Green Energy Is So Great, Why Aren't We Using It?
Why 2016 Could Be a Turning Point the Energy Revolution
Steven Chu (Stanford University): Renewable Energy: Generation, Transmission and Storage
Top 10 Energy Sources of the Future
Renewable Energy Explained in 2 1/2 Minutes
Electricity Generation - Renewables (preview)
Integrating renewables into microgrid on Kodiak Island
Smart Energy Systems: 100% Renewable Energy at a National Level (Full Version)
Innovation for distributed renewable energy systems | Diran Soumanni | TEDxUFS
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25 January 2018 Up-to-date insights into the competitiveness trends of renewable power generation costs have be-come an indispensable tool in navigating the rapidly evolving energy landscape. IRENA’s cost data and analysis allow for tailored policy recommendations of sector and market needs and the identification of priority areas for policy implementation. IRENA’s costing analysis leverages a database of more than 15 000 renewable energy projects, coupled with a database on Power Purchasing Agreements of more than 5000 projects. With solar and wind power costs falling, sometimes rapidly, up-to-date current cost data and projections provide the compass and map necessary for Governments to plot a least-cost path for their energy transition. IRENA has analysed solar and wind cost reduction ...
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