Sentences with phrase «peak demand relies»

Peak demand relies heavily on gas - fired generators.

This is crucial because California can not meet peak demand relying only on in - state generating plants.

Not exact matches

In a recent press release, CPUC stated that consumer cooperation would mean CPUC wouldn't have to rely on inefficient, expensive, and often fossil fuel — dependent peakers (or «last resort» power plants) to make up for the imbalance of supply and demand.

Capacity Credit is a probabalistic estimate of how much capacity wind can be relied upon to deliver at the times of peak demand.

Instead of investing in repowering the in - basin plants and relying on natural gas peakers to balance the system, LADWP would need to learn to use energy efficiency, demand response and battery energy storage.

But if the grid goes another direction — relying more on large and expensive generation plants, for example — storage would make it easier to manage peak demand without surplus capacity.

An earlier EWEA Tradewind study found that, for the 2020 medium scenario (200 GW, 12 % wind penetration), aggregating wind energy production from multiple countries strongly increased the capacity credit, the amount of capacity that can be relied on to meet peak demand, almost doubled it to 14 %, which they say corresponds to approximately 27 GW of firm power in the system.

There are efforts underway now to shift more electricity demand to times when renewables are most abundant, build more energy storage and local distributed resources to reduce congestion, make the grid more resilient, and reduce the need to rely on natural gas peaker plants, especially ones in disadvantaged communities.

That depends on the «capacity credit» of wind — how much of the wind plant capacity can be relied on statistically to meet peak demand.