Sentences with phrase «by conventional generation»

Bloom additionally notes that wind and solar plants that utilize inverter and information technologies can supply essential reliability services which have been traditionally supplied by conventional generation, enough to handle instantaneous penetrations of 60 % on the Western Interconnection.

STT is happy to go all out and say that in Australia wind power requires 100 % of its capacity to be backed up 100 % of the time by conventional generation sources.

The supply being intermittent, it has to be supplemented by conventional generation, and when you add the carbon budget of this to the carbon budget of the turbines and panels you probably end up positive.

Not exact matches

Conventional wisdom holds that the millennial generation, influenced by the 9/11 attacks, burdened with student debt and reared in a world of high - speed mobile devices, is a unique group of young people.

It is the memorial of an agreement that deems it necessary (hence, conventional); it must be made by man (hence, artificial); yet it is marked in the organ of generation (hence, also natural).

This project recognizes the progress made by the culinary sector after a generation of chefs realized they could move beyond the conventional limits of their profession to integrate awareness and skills in a field rich with dynamic exchange.

Now, researchers at Toyohashi Tech have developed «Terapio,» a next - generation robot that replaces the conventional medical cart used by healthcare staff during their rounds in a hospital.

For example, the researchers found that in a high - wind scenario in the Southern Africa Power Pool, strategic siting and grid interconnections would reduce the need for conventional generation capacity by 9.5 percent, resulting in cost savings of 6 to 20 percent, depending on the technology that was avoided.

The fully - independent rear suspension of the first - generation Indica, which caused a lot of wheel geometry issues, has been replaced by a more conventional non-independent, twist beam axle seen in most hatchbacks today.

Two BMW M generations and the simpler system offered in regular - production BMWs were created by adding SMG controls to a conventional manual transmission.

The 2013 Dodge Dart features next - generation electric dual - pinion steering, which delivers sporty handling by managing significant loads at all steering wheel operating speeds, power assist curves modulated according to driving conditions and up to a 3 % improvement in fuel efficiency when compared with a conventional hydraulic system.

He pointed out that exhibitions are not collected nor have they been documented with the consistency and depth that historical research requires, leaving in obscurity the work and imagination of curators who absorbed the lore of their elders and informally passed on their accumulated expertise to the succeeding generation: Only by comprehending those genealogies can we understand how some objects rather than others entered into conventional art history.

For the collective, it suggests that the conventional critical wisdom and market trends are but two possible filters for the work of a generation, subject to challenge and revision by those, like Rubinstein, with the intellectual curiosity, patience, and diligence to look beyond the status quo.

This contribution is made all the more important by a previous generation's omission of the west coast from conventional art historical narratives.

I particularly enjoyed the workshop on «Storytelling in the Anthropocene: Picturing People and the Planet» (find the summary here), which featured illuminating video reports on humanity's growth spurt from Bangladesh, the Philippines and Nepal by a new generation of visual communicators who are breaking down conventional definitions of media.

However, contrary to this conventional wisdom, new nationally representative survey data analyzed by American University communication researchers and collected by the Yale Project on Climate Change and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication reveal that Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 are, for the most part, split on the issue of global warming and, on some indicators, relatively disengaged when compared to older generations.

This is the kind of flexibility conventional generators have which allows utilities, by altering the level of their output, to accommodate the forecast uncertainty and variability of non-dispatchable renewable generation.

This is particularly relevant for power systems where the peak load is expected to increase at the same time as conventional power plants to be replaced by intermittent renewable power generation.

Plummeting power prices as a result of cheap wind and solar generation is causing a growing crisis among the owners of the costliest conventional power stations, which are first to be squeezed off the grid by cheaper renewable output.

What these critics fail to recognize is that the contribution made by conventional sources of electricity generation represent a historical legacy — they do not reflect modern investments in the electricity grid.

«If properly supported solar will become the first renewable to compete with conventional generation by the end of the decade,» he added.

Even with studies skewed by overly optimistic treatment of alternative energy and overly pessimistic treatment of conventional technology it's still generally hard to make the alternative technology appear competitive with natural gas generation.

Using conventional energy accounting, a switch from coal & gas generation to solar / wind would reduce our primary energy consumption by 2/3, and yet the electricity generated wouldn't change at all.

Renewables did not increase their output, with wind generation during the storm period actually falling by 12 % as compared to the pre-storm period, thus contributing to the problems faced by the conventional sector.

That's well ahead of the 2020 goal set by the Dept. of Energy's SunShot Initiative, which Pres. Barack Obama launched in 2011, and makes it competitive with the cheapest, conventional, fossil fuel generation.

Solar job estimates fail to account for jobs lost as a result of «the crowding out of cheaper forms of conventional energy generation,» «indirect impacts on upstream industries,» and from «the drain on economic activity precipitated by higher electricity prices.»

Windpower requires equivalent back - up by conventional power generation, and saves little, if any, «carbon».

This follows on the release of a new paper by three scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) which explores the issue of minimum requirements for conventional generation in California and Texas and how this causes curtailment of renewable energy.

The added costs imposed by intermittent energy sources like wind energy include the displacement of lower cost generation (e.g., natural gas), requirement of dispatchable backup generation, reduced capacity factors for conventional generation, increased electric price volatility, and decreased system efficiency.

The company claims that its design can be reduce manufacturing costs by 53 %, cut maintenance costs by 80 %, and would represent a 40 % reduction in both the carbon footprint and generation costs, when compared to conventional bladed wind turbines.

Clothes washers that have earned the ENERGY STAR use next generation technology to cut energy consumption by 25 % and water consumption by 33 % compared to conventional washers.