Sentences with phrase «grid capacity planning»

Not exact matches

A study earlier this year by German company Energynautics commissioned by Greenpeace found that grid upgrades totaling up to 140 GW of capacity would be necessary across the European Union and eastern and northern Europe to cope with the vast increase planned in renewable energy.

Enervault plans to have three grid - scale projects in operation by 2016, with capacities up to 30 MWh.

I do know that India's grid - connected PV capacity grew from 18 Megawatts in 2010 to nearly 3 Gigawatts in 2011, with another GW due to come online in 2012, while India is already exceeding the goals of its national plan to install 20 GW of solar power within ten years.

Centrica has revealed plans to build a single 100MW battery energy storage system in Ireland for delivery by 2022 to take advantage of capacity market and grid services opportunities currently under development.

On subseasonal timescales, probabilistic predictions of wind, solar and hydropower generation can help stabilize energy costs and supply by improving scheduling and trading, maintenance scheduling, reducing curtailments and imbalance penalties, improving decisions about reserve energy sources, maximizing grid integration, and planning capacity commitments.

The grid operator is also in the midst of a plan to let subsidized coal and nuclear plants leapfrog over competitors in bidding into that annual capacity auction.

-- In addition to the policy under paragraph (1), it is the policy of the United States that regional electric grid planning to meet these objectives should result from an open, inclusive and transparent process, taking into account all significant demand - side and supply - side options, including energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy and zero - carbon electricity generation technologies, smart - grid technologies and practices, demand response, electricity storage, voltage regulation technologies, high capacity conductors with at least 25 percent greater efficiency than traditional ACSR (aluminum stranded conductors steel reinforced) conductors, superconductor technologies, underground transmission technologies, and new conventional electric transmission capacity and corridors.

The project was completed with little public input, bypassing the Texas Public Utility Commission's Competitive Energy Renewable Zones (CREZ) process in which the PUC designated new transmission routes and assigned companies to add more than 2,300 miles to the grid in a $ 5 billion plan to reduce congestion and allow Texas wind capacity to swell to 18,500 MW by late 2013.

China aims to reach 210 GW of grid - connected wind capacity by 2020, as part of its 13th Energy Technology Innovation Five Year Plan.

India's grid operator plans to spend one trillion rupees ($ 15 billion) over the next few years to add nine new high - capacity transmission corridors — a sizable fraction of the $ 50 billion that Goyal has said will go to modernize the grid over the next decade.

Engineering economics of system planning for an integrated grid is a highly complex process involving modelling of load shapes, capacity factors, fuel risks (i.e., diversified fuel mix), inter-connections, reliability, etc..

We've already seen in Australia how rooftop solar, improved efficiency, and a low carbon price have reduced demand for grid electricity resulted in the shutdown of gigawatts of coal power and the shelving of plans for new gas capacity.

-- Plans for the development and improvement of high - priority national transmission projects into a national high - capacity transmission grid shall take into consideration --

States with significant solar capacity have been planning for the eclipse, and due to smart investments in modern grid technologies, national grid operators do not anticipate any reliability issues as a result.

All states with growing renewable energy projects face the problem of having an electric grid that is nearing its carrying capacity, and new transmission lines can take more than a decade to plan, permit and build, The New Mexican said.

That said, Planning Engineer did an excellent job presenting some of the important issues, from a transmission grid perspective, of the complications introduced by just one «good» idea — increased solar / wind generating capacity.

By 2015, China plans to increase its current estimated 60,000 megawatts of grid - connected wind power capacity to 100,000 megawatts.

It plans to build a web of power lines that would be able to deliver the wind energy from congested West Texas, home to 89 percent of the wind capacity on the state's main grid, to power - hungry cities.

In particular, planning for energy storage can help utilities defer expensive circuit upgrades and increase grid capacity to incorporate new renewable generators.

In tandem with hosting capacity analysis, proactive planning for the grid of the future requires effective forecasting of all types of DERs.

Lightsource has confirmed plans to soon connect 14 additional ground - mounted solar farms, adding a further 92 MW of solar PV capacity to the U.K. grid.