Sentences with phrase «at utility scale»

Eventually, this technology could deliver lower - cost solar energy at a utility scale.

At the utility scale at least, solar PV plants have reached grid parity, and in some cases are even cheaper than gas or coal.

This could all be fixed if we could just figure out a way to store power at utility scale..............

«Solar import tariffs imposed by the U.S. government in January are likely to have only a limited impact on solar energy development in the country, but are likely to tip the scales toward wind projects at the utility scale,» the RECAI stated.

Powerpack systems support applications including peak shaving, load shifting and demand response for commercial customers while offering renewable firming and a variety of grid services at utility scales.

«Today, PV is about 18 cents per kilowatt - hour at the utility scale, without subsidies,» says Ramesh of SunShot, which will bid to make solar electricity cost - competitive with coal and other fossil fuels on a budget that is less than 20 percent of Solyndra's loan guarantee.

The critical challenge to making renewable energy competitive with fossil fuels at the utility scale is making the electricity dispatchable.

While conventional offshore wind farms are common off the coast of European countries such as Denmark, Sopko said she's not aware of any commercial floating wind projects operating at utility scale.

This, given the climate change requirements, and technology cost forecasts for wind and solar, the emergence of battery storage and home management systems, as well as solar thermal plus storage at utility scale, not to mention the fuel cost of coal and gas, and the financing risk attached to that, seems an extraordinary prediction.

The total amount of renewable energy that New York can generate at the utility scale has grown from 20 % in 2010 to 22 % in 2013.

Put another way, in the early days of Fukushima I thought it would get into partial or full meltdown, because I knew that Alvin Weinberg (one of the co-inventors of the LWBR) said it was fundamentally unstable at utility scale with cooling removed.

The study finds that the N - R HESs modeled could provide operational flexibility to participate in energy management at the utility scale by dynamically optimizing the use of excess plant capacity.

Ms. Zoi worked on energy modeling for ICF International and was an analyst for Pacific Gas & Electric, conducting short - and long - term planning for electricity and natural gas at the utility scale.

«The tremendous wind resources of the northern Great Plains have many Indian tribes looking at utility scale renewable energy generation as a «no - regrets» sustainable homeland economic development strategy, with a positive impact on CO2 emission reductions.

Laura Cunningham, a wildlife biologist who, like André, belongs to a coalition called Solar Done Right, says opponents of huge public lands projects like the one at Ivanpah aren't against solar energy — even at the utility scale — per se.

Powerpack systems support applications including peak shaving, load shifting and demand response for commercial customers while offering renewable firming and a variety of grid services at utility scales.

«Solar import tariffs imposed by the U.S. government in January are likely to have only a limited impact on solar energy development in the country, but are likely to tip the scales toward wind projects at the utility scale,» the RECAI

At the utility scale, flattening electricity demand (due to building efficiency gains) in the U.S. will make the need for new fossil fuel fired power plants unlikely.