Sentences with phrase «thermal generating systems»

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However, the thermal energy CSP generates can be held back for several hours via storage systems such as molten salts — and then used after the sun sets when demand is still high for, say, air conditioning, television, and lighting.

Ultimately, the solar arrays and solar thermal system were acquired to generate electricity and hot water at Blackstone Valley.

Plans for a solar - thermal heating system that can generate hot water for all the snack bar operations

We need a new vision of the electric generation, transmission and distribution system rather than one that moves electricity generated at remote locations, arriving at the point of end use... with a loss of 67 percent of otherwise valuable thermal energy.

The United States has slightly more than 20,000 megawatts (MW) of solar generating capacity, which includes utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) and solar thermal installations, as well as distributed generation solar PV systems, also known as rooftop solar.

In addition to using sunlight to generate electrical power, as conventional PV panels do, the company's energy system captures the sun's thermal energy, which may then be used for heating water and home air conditioning.

The open cycle consists of the following steps: (i) flash evaporation of a fraction of the warm seawater by reduction of pressure below the saturation value corresponding to its temperature (ii) expansion of the vapor through a turbine to generate power; (iii) heat transfer to the cold seawater thermal sink resulting in condensation of the working fluid; and (iv) compression of the non-condensable gases (air released from the seawater streams at the low operating pressure) to pressures required to discharge them from the system.

Solar thermal power (electricity) generation systems collect and concentrate sunlight to produce the high temperature heat needed to generate electricity.

A windmill that drives ground thermal mechanically into a system built to store capacity at high times to release from its reservoir when the windmill is stilled is many times more efficient than one that generates electricity and stores power in batteries.

Electric power can be supplied by solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays and by solar thermal systems in which the Sun heats a fluid that generates steam to drive a steam turbine.

Under each scenario examined, the economically optimal system configuration includes a nuclear reactor generating a thermal product such as steam or a heat transfer fluid — a configuration that can economically reduce GHG emissions from industry.

N - R HES systems are managed by a single entity that link a nuclear reactor that generates heat, a thermal power cycle for heat - to - electricity conversion, at least one renewable energy source, and an industrial process that uses thermal and / or electrical energy.

Concentrating solar power or solar thermal power system: A solar energy conversion system characterized by the optical concentration of solar rays through an arrangement of mirrors to generate a high temperature working fluid.

The houses generate energy with photovoltaic (also called solar electric) systems that produce electricity and with solar thermal systems for space heating and cooling and water heating.

The efficiency matters because this process will have all the capital cost of a solar thermal electricity generating system.

Abengoa Solar will use a so - called «solar trough design» for the plant - which consists of rows upon rows of parabolic mirrors that focus the sun's rays on water - filled tubes to heat them and produce steam to power electricity - generating turbines (i.e. a solar thermal system).

Our time on campus showed us countless examples of sustainable practices in action: A 32 - unit solar thermal array as well as two solar photo - voltaic systems (which convert sunlight into electricity and generate more than 30,000 kWh annually), and two wind turbines that produce 10 million kWhs of electrical power annually — meeting 60 % of the electrical needs for the Morris campus!

It will, however, utilize many of the same elements: waste and water will be recycled and reused, housing will be built and orientated to take advantage of prevailing winds and maximize energy efficiency, efficient district - wide systems will handle heating and cooling, and electricity will come from planned wind and solar thermal plants, or be generated on site.

Solutions presented by the selected startups ranged from deriving power from extreme heat to an ice thermal energy storage system, and from energy generated by waves to an energy marketplace.