Sentences with phrase «peak electrical demand»

Catch is that, borrowing ain't so easy with gas below $ 4 mcf in the middle of the peak electrical demand air conditioning season.

In the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) Summer Loads & Resource Assessment, CAISO noted that the generation supply was expected to be adequate in order to meet peak electrical demand requirements in spite of drought - related concerns, in part because of recent renewable and natural gas capacity additions.

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The new system is also designed to allow a PHEV to use its battery as an energy storage device, enabling the car to hold electrical energy in the battery while the grid has surplus power (during off - peak hours, for example) and contribute its surplus energy back to the grid when the latter needs more power to meet peak demand, Su says.

Since the electrical grid has existed, so has the need for stored forms of energy that can be drawn on to meet times of peak demand and regulate frequency.

The battery energy storage system will be used to keep South Australia's electrical infrastructure reliable, charging from the wind farm and discharging to the grid at times of peak and high demand.

Larry Dale, an energy researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has studied the impacts of warming on California's electrical grid and agreed that the most costly impact on electrical systems would be because of peak demand.

Because electrical systems must be built to deal with that highest range of demand, operators will have to address these increases by either building more power plants, developing better battery storage capacity or convincing consumers to shift some of their use to off - peak hours.

«Only a system with its base - load provided by nuclear power, supplemented by gas for peak demand, and retaining the existing wind investment, can possibly supply the UK long - term with the huge amounts of secure and reliable, predominantly electrical energy, it needs.