Sentences with phrase «peak load electricity»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

A Powerpack system enables StubHub to store electricity during off - peak times, when the grid is more capable and favors delivering excess electricity, then discharge to the stadium during peak evening hours when the grid is under its heaviest load.

I think, to spur its development, we need electricity pricing that encourages investment in load - shifting, a guaranteed return for delivering a megawatt - hour at peak demand for more than it costs at the time of peak excess supply.

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.

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.

The issue is particularly sensitive in the fastest - growing nations, with the biggest increase happening in hot countries like India — where the share of AC in peak electricity load could reach 45 % in 2050, up from 10 % today without action.

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).

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.

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.

These technologies minimize a consumer's load during peak periods or shift a consumer's load when renewables are generating electricity.

(B) Megawatts subject to the ability of a load - serving entity to call on demand response programs, smart appliances, smart electricity or energy storage devices, distributed generation resources on the entity's customers» premises, or other measures directly capable of actively, controllably, reliably, and dynamically reducing peak demand («dynamic peak management control»).

A real one could accumulate nuclear electricity overnight for use during the day's load peaks.

But the U.S. needs a diversified fuel mix portfolio on all of its electricity generation resources to meet base load, intermediate load, and peaking loads.

With utilities and grid operators increasingly concerned about meeting big peak demand ramps in metropolitan load centers, rooftop solar's potential coincident electricity supply has become more valuable.

-- Nothing in this section diminishes any authority of a State or political subdivision of a State to adopt or enforce any law (including regulations) that increases electricity grid efficiency, smart grid and distributed generation deployment, dynamic peak management control, demand response and distributed storage, or the regulation of load - serving entities.

Local power storage can also be used for load - shifting in areas with tiered electricity rates, where higher prices charged for power during peak periods and off - peak periods have lower rates.

Developing forecasts of electricity consumption and peak loads for major customer classes (residential, commercial, and industrial), drawing on publicly available, state - level economic, climate, and energy data

That could mean that electricity demand in most U.S. regions will peak in the winter — not during the summer as it does now — if no efforts actively manage loads.

The CPUC would be required to increase the percentage of electricity output delivered by clean resources by 5 % in 2020 and by 6 % «every third year thereafter until December 31, 2029, or until 40 % of demand during the peak load time period is supplied by clean peak resources,» the bill reads.

Basic load power stations are working 24 hours a day, cant they stop generating electricity at off - peak time and generate more electricity at peak time?

Reducing household electricity consumption through demand side management: the role of home appliance scheduling and peak load reduction.

While we can expect that PV will likely be cheaper in the future, solar updraft towers could provide an economically - viable alternative to «PV + energy storage» for peak load (as solar updraft towers can store thermal energy in the ground for night electricity production to greatly reduce intermittency at minimal additional cost).

If electricity was dynamically priced, price fluctuations would be arbitraged by those market participants who could shift their demand or supply at least cost; among other things, this would remove the need for expensive peak - load plants and make solar and wind energy much more practical.

With the unofficial start of summer just around the corner, utilities and independent system operators are looking for ways to relieve peak loads and congestion on the electricity grid for the coming season and down the road.

What sort of load are we going to be putting on top of existing peak electricity demand and how would we cope with it?

An approach being researched by the content delivery network provider helps reduce the grid - connected load during peak demand periods, when electricity is most expensive.

SB 338 requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and all other locally owned utilities to start planning to meet their net - load peak energy and reliability needs with alternatives to fossil - fuel generating plants, while also providing the electricity at the lowest cost to consumers.

A power outage affecting 11,000 customers in the Sydney suburbs of Burwood and Strathfield at around the time of peak electricity demand (around 4 pm) was not caused by load - shedding, but would have reduced power demand at a critical time.