«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.
Not exact matches
Base prices for the Civic line start at
about $ 13,000 and
peak on an option -
loaded Si.
This has knocked
about 171 megawatts of power generation from the grid and is projected to cause at least six hours of daily
load shedding during the monsoon season — Nepal's
peak power producing period.
In June I heard a report
about a new EU - wide study done in the UK that showed clearly that by combining all forms of renewables: wind all over Europe, solar in North Africa, hydo, hydro storage, solar thermal, and demand management, you could meet a slowly growing EU
load with almost no natural gas for
peaking plants to help level the
load.
The «killer» quote is surely this: «The normalised
load factor for UK onshore wind farms declines from a
peak of
about 24 % at age 1 to 15 % at age 10 and 11 % at age 15.»
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.
The normalised
load factor for UK onshore wind farms declines from a
peak of
about 24 % at age 1 to 15 % at age 10 and 11 % at age 15.
The California Independent System Operator (CAISO)-- the electric system operator for most of the state — will also contend with the normal challenges of managing this complex system including: dry to moderate drought conditions in much of the state, an increasing amount of variable generation from renewable sources, and the challenge of importing
about 23 % of its
peak system
load from sources outside CAISO.
The normalized
load factor for UK onshore wind farms declines from a
peak of
about 24 % at age 1 to 15 % at age 10 and 11 % at age 15.
So at
peak load the 1.3 GW of batteries would provide
about 1.4 minutes of power.
The entire system is sized to supply a
peak heat
load of 10 kBtu —
about 3,000 Watts, or the equivalent of running 2 hair dryers at the same time.
Some storage would be helpful, especially pumped hydro, but when there are local UK wind shortfalls, in addition to all the usual backup available from the rest of the grid system, what
about importing power via a super-grid, shifting demand
peaks by interactive
load management, and using biomass - fired backup?
It idled at
about 37 decibels and reached a
peak of 45dB at heavy
load.