Sentences with phrase «build new wind power capacity»

Not exact matches

And yes central power will be another piece (nuclear is great for baseload power... it operates at 90 % capacity factors even if the price of building a new plant has risen by 130 % since 2000) Centralized wind and solar will mature but then there's the transmission issue...

By the time that new nuclear power plants can even begin to generate any «carbon free» electricity, we can build and deploy hundreds of gigawatts of wind and solar generating capacity — and that's with today's mainstream, already commercialized technology, let alone the innovations like thin - film solar that are just beginning to enter the market.

The state has 7,000 megawatts of new wind power capacity under construction, more than half of the 12,000 megawatts currently being built nationwide.

Based on industry cost estimates for building new generating capacity, ratepayers are committed to covering an estimated $ 10 billion for constructing these wind farms and billions more for the transmission needed to move this new power to market.

The Utilipoint article apparently was stimulated by the recent announcement of FPLEnergyís intention to add more windmill capacity and, particularly, its plan to build a 204 MW «wind farm» in New Mexico and sell the power to Public Service Company of New Mexico.

According to Flassbeck, the former Director of Macroeconomics and Development at the UNCTAD in Geneva and a former State Secretary of Finance, a recent period of extremely low solar and wind power generation shows that Germany will never be able to rely on renewable energy, regardless of how much new capacity will be built.

Remember, you can build all the capacity you want, but in an integrated grid that new gas power plant is competing with wind, solar, hydropower and other renewables.