However, autonomous buildings also usually include some degree of sustainability through the use of renewable energy and other renewable resources, producing no more greenhouse gases than they consume, and other measures.

Significant industries include IT, pharmaceuticals, biomedical engineering, biotechnology, electronics, traffic engineering, and renewable energy.

Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar-and wind-derived electricity.

* The north-west areas of County Mayo have some of the best renewable energy resources in Europe, if not the world, in terms of wind resources, ocean wave, tidal and hydroelectric resources.

Thermal energy is economical in areas of high industrial density, as the high demand cannot be met by renewable sources.

Sources of electricity were fossil fuels 67 %, renewable energy 16 % ( mainly hydroelectric, wind, solar and biomass ), and nuclear power 13 %, and other sources were 3 %.

Ninety-two percent of renewable energy was hydroelectric followed by wind at 6 % and geothermal at 1. 8 %.

In energy policy, the FDP calls for a combination of nuclear, coal, oil and gas and renewable energy for electricity production.

As part of their stance on the subject of renewable energy, Greenpeace have launched the " Go Beyond Oil " campaign.

Today the economy of the islands is dependent on crofting, fishing, tourism, the oil industry and renewable energy.

On February 17, 2011, IKEA announced its plans for a wind farm in Dalarna County, Sweden, furthering the furniture giant's goal of running on 100 percent renewable energy.

IKEA stores recycle waste, and many run on renewable energy, and energy-saving bulbs and sensors are used.

Unless that electricity is produced from a renewable source — and is not required for other purposes — hydrogen does not solve any energy crisis.

Ocean waves can be used to generate wave power which is a renewable energy.

Olives are now being looked at for use as a renewable energy source, using waste produced from the olive plants as an energy source that produces 2. 5 times the energy generated by burning the same amount of wood.

Even renewable energy must be stored in order to make it reliable.

Carbon neutral fuel is synthetic fuel — such as methane, gasoline, diesel fuel or jet fuel — produced from renewable or nuclear energy used to hydrogenate waste carbon dioxide recycled from power plant flue exhaust gas or derived from carbonic acid in seawater .< ref name = MacDowell2010 > ( Review.

Carbon neutral fuels have been proposed for distributed storage for renewable energy, minimizing problems of wind and solar intermittency, and enabling transmission of wind, water, and solar power through existing natural gas pipelines.

Many renewable energy sources ( most notably solar and wind ) produce intermittent power.

* Hybrid renewable energy system

* Grid parity of renewable energy

WRI's Green Power Market Development Group, a partnership of Fortune 500 companies dedicated to building corporate markets for renewable energy, completes the larges commercial and industrial purchases of renewable energy in U. S. history.

Spanish companies invested in fields like renewable energy ( Iberdrola was the world's largest renewable energy operator ), technology companies like Telefónica, Abengoa, Mondragon Corporation, Movistar, Hisdesat, Gamesa, Indra, train manufacturers like CAF, Talgo, global corporations such as the textile company Inditex, petroleum companies like Repsol and infrastructure, with six of the ten biggest international construction firms specialising in transport being Spanish, like Ferrovial, Acciona, ACS, OHL and FCC.

Thus, the Council was to consist of ( 1 ) all U. N. members administering trust territories, ( 2 ) the five permanent members of the Security Council, and ( 3 ) as many other non-administering members as needed to equalize the number of administering and non-administering members, elected by the United Nations General Assembly for renewable three-year terms.

Its initial investment in renewable energy projects was made in 1973 when it financed the development of a geothermal power plant in El Salvador.

American Superconductor was chosen for The Tres Amigas Project, the United States ’ first renewable energy market hub.

Navarre leads Europe in its use of renewable energy technology and was planning to reach 100 % renewable electricity generation by 2010.

By 2004, 61 % of the region's electricity was generated by renewable sources consisting of 43. 6 % from 28 wind farms, 12 % from over 100 small-scale water turbines, and 5. 3 % from 2 biomass and 2 biogas plants.

Lacey was the twelfth city to be designated an official " Green Power Community " by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency for its use of renewable energy sources ; 5 % of its total energy use comes from green power sources.

A wind farm at Bungendore in New South Wales was purpose-built to generate enough renewable energy to offset the Sydney plant's energy use, mitigating concerns about harmful greenhouse gas emissions, a common argument used against seawater desalination.

This status was granted by the State through the renewable concession contract, number 001-CON-97, concluded with the Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics for a term of 15 years.

In February 2010 the " Bündnis 100 % Erneuerbare Energien " was founded, that aims to bring all capable regional people and institutions together, to switch the entire region of Ulm and Neu-Ulm to 100 % renewable energy by 2030.

The term soft energy technology was coined by Amory Lovins to describe " appropriate " renewable energy.

It was used to model sunshine data for application to solar renewable energy utilization.

The school's highest category score was an A in Investment Priorities, since Bryn Mawr invests in renewable energy funds, but the score was brought down by lower grades in categories like Green Building ( in which the school earned a D, since the campus currently features no green buildings ).

On 10 December 2011 he was appointed a member of the Pontifical Council for Culture for a five year renewable term by Pope Benedict XVI.

The council granted permission in July 2007, but the decision was called in by the Secretary of State because of the wider implications of the proposal for renewable energy development in the South Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and strong opposition from countryside protection groups and local residents.

The weekend conference was intended to appeal to those " interested in creativity, film, art, sustainable living, organic agriculture, brain development, consciousness, meditation, natural medicine, renewable living peace ".

Denmark was planning to introduce a greater number of battery driven electric cars on the streets — charged on renewable energy from the country's many windmills — ahead of the UN Climate Summit that descended on Copenhagen in December 2009.

This incentive, the renewable energy Production Tax Credit ( PTC ), was created under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 ( at the value of 1. 5 cents / kilowatt-hour, which has since been adjusted annually for inflation ).

The United States and most Latin American countries instead entered into the Buenos Aires Convention in 1910, which required a copyright notice ( such as all rights reserved ) on the work, and permitted signatory nations to limit the duration of copyrights to shorter and renewable terms.

In 2009 the Rwanda Development Board ( RDB ) and the African Parks Network entered into a 20 year renewable agreement for the joint management of Akagera.