Sentences with phrase «noncoincident peak load»

With a peak load of 719 megawatts, we deliver a safe and reliable supply of electricity to over 152,549 customers from the residential, institutional, commercial and industrial sectors, through 2,820 kilometres of overhead and underground cables, spanning 420 square kilometres of service territory.

With a contract now in place between Tesla and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), the battery «will help solve power outages, reduce intermittencies, and manage summertime peak load to support the reliability of South Australia's electrical infrastructure, providing enough power for more than 30,000 homes — approximately equal to the amount of homes that lost power during the blackout period last year,» Tesla said in a statement.

We would run three turbines now, anytime we need peak load, we will bring in an additional turbine or two and when the load goes down we will keep reducing again so that we can nurse the lake back to its original level.

An offshore wind farm at the center of a LIPA plan to address spiking electric demand on the South Fork will produce excess energy when it's needed least, and fall short of a sharply expanding summer peak load, a recent analysis found.

One of the main objectives of the project is to even out the peak load across a neighbourhood, and most of the technology needed to achieve this is already available.

Plus, the power draw at that peak load is much higher and the amount of time spent in that mode is much greater than on a standard PC.»

«The peak load in late winter is probably what's driving mortality,» Langwig said.

One would count on always being able to get some contribution from the dams, which after all can store up water (and thus the energy derivable from it) for whenever the peak load occurs.

The reason is that variation changes where your your body's peak loading is, so I'm not always taking the same foot strike every time.

(grin)-RSB- The problem is solving the peak load problem on the consortium supplier end causes a technology capacity issue on the local district end...

In addition, the electric pump is able to support the mechanical pump when peak loads apply, enabling a more compact and efficient design for the mechanical pump.

When energy use approaches peak loads (where the less efficient power plants come online), they start taking action.

OhmConnect alerts you during peak loads.

Most funds indicated they could quickly clear backlogs once services resumed, and we deferred USM and other production runs during January to help with this processing peak load.

Tesla said it «will help solve power shortages and manage summertime peak load to improve the reliability of South Australia's electrical infrastructure.»

We recently had ComEd install one of those devices on our A / C unit to let them vary off the compressor during peak load times.

Wind, for example, you will find discussed in terms of energy needed, costs, energy produced, whether it can serve as peak load, base load, mini-generators, Liebig's Minimum, locations... etc..

As battery cars and plug - hybrids become more common the storage capacity and load - shifting (for charging) of the transportation fleet becomes very favorable in terms of load management — ditto the potential to use the fleet of parked batteries to assist during peak loads.

Peak loads correlate very well with solar availability (for obvious reasons) but locally the peak lasts later than the sun does.

I'm not arguing that storage isn't very helpful, or necessary to meet some needs, but solar energy can do a whole lot more than «shaving peak loads», and the whole notion of how we think of «base» and «peaking» should be rethought, or at least (to the degree we use the notion) we should understand it's ultimate sources and limits.

Jeff Huggins [ANDY REVKIN says: Sure, solar can play a role in shaving peak loads and the like.

We have existing infrastructure for large - scale electricity transport, much of which is unused most of the day due to the need to handle short - term peak loads.

Second, your comment begins with the seemingly reluctant admission that «solar can play a role in shaving peak loads and the like.»

The firm noted in analysis this month that demand response capability totals approximately 6 % of PJM's total system peak load.

In the two years since the nuclear moratorium, the nation has urgently needed new baseload power plants to shoulder the country's annual peak load of 80 GW.

That accounts for a couple percentage points of the city's 180 - megawatt peak load.

Over the past several years, the peak load (or the most electricity required at any point) has fallen by between 2 and 3 percent.

Wind - generated electricity can not, by its nature, replace or displace these «base load» or «peak load» generators.

Using targeted communication like phone calls — and no price signals or in - home devices — the company showed consistent peak load reductions across a test that involved Consumers Energy in Michigan, Efficiency Vermont / Green Mountain Power, and Glendale Water & Power in California.

It is «the resource you would build if you need something that just provides capacity [and] the ability to meet peak loads.»

«Once you get customers thinking about peak load as a concept, then you can introduce a dynamic pricing program, which perhaps gets you deeper savings,» he said.

This is particularly relevant for power systems where the peak load is expected to increase at the same time as conventional power plants to be replaced by intermittent renewable power generation.

It should account for the regular cycling of energy efficient units during the period of annual peak load.

Actual peak reduction: The actual reduction in annual peak load (measured in kilowatts) achieved by customers that participate in a utility demand - side management (DSM) program.

It reflects the changes in the demand for electricity resulting from a utility DSM program that is in effect at the same time the utility experiences its annual peak load, as opposed to the installed peak load reduction capability (i.e., potential peak reduction).

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Lastly, in a grid with 100 % renewable power production, the generation capacity would need to be ten times larger than the peak load, and excess electricity would surpass the EU annual electricity consumption.

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) can be a night - only dispatchable (D - CSP) plant; with its entire solar energy absorbed by day to be delivered after dark to cover the evening peak load on the grid, according to a study funded by the US Department of Energy (DOE).

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In the case of a grid with 80 % renewables, the generation capacity needs to be six times larger than the peak load, while the excess electricity would be equal to 60 % of the EU's current annual electricity consumption.

The area infrastructure is set for July and August, so if we get 50 % of the peak load the beach can handle it (we have over 15 km of really good beaches).

Peak load times happen to coincide with the peak hours for sunshine.

Average winds tend to pick up mid-day, and tend to be quite strong throughout the summertime — essential times to serve peak loads.

Peak load electricity — the power that consumers draw on in the middle of a hot summer afternoon, for instance — costs a lot more than a region's average cost of electricity.

If the system were designed to encourage the use of solar to cover peak load, the cost savings would be substantial, he says.

It is NOW that the supposed «greenhouse issues» should be removed, being unrealistic in the «inferences» they have presented to begin with, or there WILL be Uranium installed as the major backbone Peak Load generation fuel with the Metal Wire grid.

From providing flexible resources to enable widespread deployment of renewable energy resources, to improving grid resiliency and efficiency, to shifting peak loads and reducing harmful emissions, storage brings a multitude of benefits to the grid that are not being fully valued in our electric system today.

Molten - salt energy storage will be used to store energy for a few hours in order to generate power during the evening peak load.

An economic model designed to predict consumer response to real - time pricing found that in the mid-Atlantic states, peak load would be reduced by 10 to 15 %.