Sentences with phrase «average wind farm»

An average wind farm takes up roughly 4,000 acres and requires 25 wind turbines as tall as 30 story buildings — a huge expanse of land.

When we talk about «proof» we're not talking about smoke and mirrors «modelling» based on long - term average wind farm output — which ignores the extra gas and coal being burnt (and wasted) in order to balance the grid to account for wild fluctuations in wind power output (see our post here); and to maintain additional «spinning reserve» (see our post here) to account for complete collapses in wind power output — as seen in this post.

Average wind farm installation prices have dropped to roughly $ 1,590 / kW (kilowatt).

Considering that most wind farms don't generate at full capacity very often it should be obvious even to the writer of STT that the average wind farm must generate power far more than 25 % of the time.

It invested in developing wind farms, only to pull back from the sector after deciding wind was a waste because the average wind farm delivered lower margins than the average deepwater oil well.

Not exact matches

The Arkwright Summit Wind Farm will connect to the grid in the Town of Pomfret and will have an installed capacity of 78.4 megawatts, enough to power about 33,000 average homes with clean energy each year.

Under the third round, generators that burn off methane from landfill sites will receive an average of 3.79 p per kilowatt - hour, operators of waste incinerators will be paid 3.48 p / kWh, and wind farm developers 4.32 p / kWh.

In Scotland, where a separate announcement was made in December to allow 30 renewable energy projects, wind farm operators will be paid an average of 3.99 p / kWh.

In 2005 the average power they generated was 57.9 per cent of their maximum capacity, a record for any wind farm.

INNERGEX RENEWABLE ENERGY INC. $ 15 (Toronto symbol INE; High - Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Utilities sector; Shares outstanding: 108.6 million; Market cap: $ 1.6 billion; Dividend yield 4.4 %; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.innergex.com) operates 31 hydroelectric plants, 21 wind farms and one solar power field.

Its wind farms are just 2.7 years old (on average), and wind turbines generally have an estimated 25 year + life.

Most of MacKay's conclusions are based on average wind speeds of 6m / s and a consequential on shore wind farm output of 2W / square meter.

The capacity factor of wind farms in Australia averages around 35 % higher than many conventional power stations.

To put this in perspective, a 100MW (roughly average size for Australia) wind farm can be expected to generate, on average, around 6,000 MWh in a week and the average weekly power consumption for the whole of SA is about 300,000 MWh.

Located in the eastern part of Poland, the wind farm is to generate an annual energy yield of up to 100 GWh, resulting in a capacity factor of an above - average 33 percent.

On average, a solar farm must cover an area 150 times larger than nuclear to generate the same quantity of electricity as a nuclear plant; wind farms must cover an area 750 times larger.

On average throughout the year, and depending on location, modern wind farms produce 10 - 45 % of their rated maximum power capacity, roughly double the annual capacity factor of the average solar PV installation (5 - 30 %).

There are two plausible explanations for the observed decline in average load factors as wind farms age.

The results show that after allowing for variations in wind speed and site characteristics the average load factor of wind farms declines substantially as they get older, probably due to wear and tear.

Please note that the table gives the cost of building a wind farm divided by the maximum number of Watts that wind farm is capable of generating (cost per installed Watt) and the number of Watts it has generated on average (cost per generated Watt).

Mr Joshi's post includes a graph showing that the average output of SE Australia's wind farms, which all feed into the same power grid, generated an average of around 800MW for the week of the heatwaves.

The average price received by large generators for electricity (wholesale price) from wind farms was in the order of $ 50 / MWh (5c / kWh);

In the seven days to 19 January, wind farms contributed around 6 per cent of overall supply in SA and VIC, and as a consequence, wholesale prices were at least 40 % lower (on a consumption weighted average basis) than they would have been without the contribution of wind.»

Simultaneously, the average size of the grid - connected European offshore wind farms is now 493 MW, 34 % higher than the previous year.

The average operating life of wind farms is about 20 years and of residential solar PV is likely to be about 12 - 15 years.

The programme has a budget of around $ 15 billion, shared between 35 countries — or very roughly $ 12 million per year, per country on average — barely enough cash to finance a small wind farm.

To get an average of 1500 MW of usable power output from a wind farm, you have to install excess capacity.

, wind farms covering 6 percent of the entire land surface of the 48 contiguous states, an outrageous and unrealistic increase in ecologically harmful hydroelectric power, and a build out of electricity generation capacity that hurtles along at 14 times the average rate of capacity expansion in the past half - century.

If we build 3GW of wind farms we might get 1GW of average output across a year.

Dr. Shawn Smallwood's 2004 study, spanning four years, estimated that California's Altamont Pass wind «farm» killed an average of 116 Golden Eagles annually.

These benefits accrue to less affluent regions: 70 percent of wind capacity is installed in counties below the median average national income, and property taxes from wind farms provide millions for local schools and other services.

The smaller part of this misrepresentation by Senator Boswell was his statement that the capacity factor of wind power is around 20 % to 30 %, while the fact for the average of all south - eastern Australian wind farms is a capacity factor of about 35 % (from Australian Energy Market Operator figures).

What a capacity factor of 30 % means is that a wind farm that can generate a maximum of, say, 100 MW will, on average, generate 30 MW.

The two wind farms would produce enough energy each year to power the equivalent of more than 50,000 average households with clean, homegrown energy.

Analysis of site - specific performance reveals that the average ormalised load factor of new UK onshore wind farms at age 1 (the peak year of operation) declined significantly from 2000 to 2011.

That this is quite false is shown by the average South Eastern Australian wind farm having a capacity factor of 35 %.

I would like to see the environmental impact statement for 400 one gigawatt wind / solar farms (average output over a calendar year) and the lead / acid battery production facilities necessary to back each of them up over all anticipated combinations of overcast / calm / darkness to ensure that the 400 gigawatt baseload capacity was available with a reliability equal to or superior to that of the fossil fuel plants that they replaced.

Still, given that an Australian wind farm with an installed capacity of 50 MW would be only moderate in size, even if the average household consumption is 1 kW we can calculate that this moderate - sized wind farm would generate enough electricity to supply more than 17 000 homes.

South Australia has, on average, about 33 % of its electricity generated by wind farms (as of 2015).

At the time this photo was taken, an average of around 33 % of SA's power was generated by wind farms and another 5 % by solar PV.

Even within one large wind farm though, variation is «averaged - out» because as the wind slows in one part of the wind farm it might be blowing more strongly in another part.

Again, most wind farms were generating at quite a substantial rate most of the day and they achieved an average capacity factor of at least 35 % for the day, as can plainly be seen from the graph.

Over 50mw, Lewis wind farm has waited 6 years in Planning for its refusal decision at the scottish executive plus feasibility studies and the average two year wait to get hold a turbine, etc, etc if it had won.

Not only is the Hallett group the biggest in installed capacity, it is by far the most productive wind farm in Australia, generating an average of about 134 MW.

Annually, the wind farm generates an amount of energy capable of powering nearly 20,000 average Michigan households in a year; that amount of electricity would be enough to power 100 % of the households in Wexford County annually, including the City of Cadillac with energy to spare!

The averages were calculated from differing starting dates for the various wind farms.

Due to the vertical axis design, sound levels were tested at 6 decibels above ambient, rendering it virtually inaudible and the 1.2 kW Windspire installed at the [Beekman 1802] farm will produce approximately 2000 kilowatt hours per year in 11 mph average wind.

Hopefully knowing more about this effect can help us design more efficient wind farms that produce more clean electricity on average.

Limited evidence suggests that the level of extremely low - frequency electromagnetic radiation close to wind farms is less than average levels measured inside and outside Australian suburban homes.

I have calculated the capital costs of wind power in Australia at around $ 2.00 per installed Watt, or $ 6.00 per generated Watt (the weighted average capacity factor of Australian wind farms is 34 %).