Sentences with phrase «capacity additions»

This will account for more than eight percent of the total wind power capacity additions in 2009 and 2010.

While wind capacity additions exceeded those from all other energy sources in 2008 and 2009, this was not the case in 2010.

The renewables plus nuclear in 2013 make up 57 % of new capacity additions, while those powered by fossil fuels alone are down to 43 %.

And this graph below illustrates what it means in terms of capacity additions.

These data do not include solar capacity additions below 1 MW in size that are typically used in distributed power applications at residential and commercial sites.

Most of the natural gas - fired capacity additions from the 1950s through the 1970s were steam turbines — some of these were dual - fired units capable of burning natural gas and oil.

It shows historic and projected solar power capacity additions, by technology.

In 2013,... (as well as meeting 2015 renewable capacity targets), new renewable energy capacity additions surpassed thermal installations for the first time.

In total, renewables provided a record two - thirds of global net capacity additions.

The most recent waves of generating capacity additions include natural gas - fired units in the 2000s and renewable units, primarily wind, coming online in the late 2000s.

Most capacity additions over the past 20 years have been natural gas - fired units.

While the competitive bidding reduces cost, these off - shore wind plants nevertheless represent large capacity additions determined by the government rather than the market.

During the past five years capacity additions of wind turbines were the main driver of the growth in wind power output.

In 2015, 50 % of all new electricity capacity additions were from renewable sources, with wind representing 35 % of that growth.

Renewable energy projects often have shorter lead times than other generator capacity additions.

This abundance and affordability is why natural gas accounts for more than half of all recent power plant capacity additions.

Thus, production will level off and then decline when capacity additions no longer equal annual declines in the existing capacity.

Moreover, as the better quality resources are committed to production, new capacity additions will be drawn from increasingly poorer quality resources.

These values reflect utility - scale solar capacity additions, and do not include any distributed generation (i.e., rooftop solar).

If all planned wind generators for 2012 come on line, as reported by industry participants, wind capacity additions could top 12,000 MW for this year.

Unfortunately, we don't yet have numbers on rooftop solar power capacity additions.

Knowing the drivers of and the constraints upon the rate of capacity additions is thus a crucial element of the forecasting process.

Data on capacity additions for solar energy was provided by the Canadian Solar Industries Association.

Whereas non-fossil fuel capacity additions totalled 31 million kW in 2012, these renewable and nuclear power stations have totalled 36 million kW so far this year - and could be projected to be 43 or 44 million kW for the whole year.

More than 90 % of the wind generation capacity additions in 2013 were located in five states: California, Kansas, Michigan, Texas, and New York (see graph at end of article).

In the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) Summer Loads & Resource Assessment, CAISO noted that the generation supply was expected to be adequate in order to meet peak electrical demand requirements in spite of drought - related concerns, in part because of recent renewable and natural gas capacity additions.

This year, as is the case in many years, expected capacity additions in December are much higher than in any other month.

Wind power has recently represented one of the largest new sources of electric capacity additions in the United States, though a considerable drop in wind energy's contribution occurred in 2010.

When just considering the impact of the CPP, combined wind and solar annual capacity additions drop by a factor of 4 from 2015 levels bottoming out at 4 GWs and don't begin to recover until 2022.

To put in some context, even with the cancellation of some proposed plants, planned capacity additions in India are still more than three times greater than Germany, a major coal user.

The renewables industry now has a bridge to the CPP: Before the tax extenders utility - scale wind and solar faced a bleak future with combined capacity additions dropping below 5 gigawatts (GW) per year until the CPP kicks into gear in 2022.

New nuclear capacity additions over the long term are unlikely to make up for shutdowns as the world's reactors, already averaging 27 years in operation, age further.

Here are EIA's models for cumulative capacity additions by scenario in gigawatts:

California's 228 MW of capacity additions came from the Alta Wind X and Alta Wind XI phases of the Alta Wind Energy Center (currently the largest wind farm in the United States at 1,548 MW of total capacity).

The change in eligibility requirements and the timing of the 2013 extension (the deadline wasn't extended past 2012 until the beginning of 2013) contributed to wind capacity additions falling from an all - time high of 13 gigawatts (GW) in 2012 to less than 1 GW in 2013.

In particular, 2016 was a boom year for solar power, with solar capacity additions reaching a high of 75 gigawatts

Planned coal - fired capacity additions from a number of countries in and around the Middle East will add 41 gigawatts (GW) of new electric generating capacity over the next decade, based on announced projects and projects currently in the permitting process.

Examples are emissions performance standards in Canada and the United Kingdom for power generation capacity additions as well as the carbon price support in the United Kingdom.

Distributed solar PV capacity additions also grew in 2013, with industry reports estimating nonutility additions of 1,900 MW.

Solar accounted for 39 percent of the United States's new energy capacity additions across all sources last year.

Off - grid PV capacity additions and additional initial access per year from solar home systems from 2016 - 22 in Asia (left) and SSA (right).

The combination of the extenders and the CPP now has the industry positioned for growth well into the next decade with annual capacity additions topping out at an unprecedented 30 GWs in 2021.

The CPP amplifies the value of Congress» holiday gift to the renewables industry with combined capacity additions topping out at 30 GWs per year in 2021.

«The favourable economics of the small - scale PV technology — ie, the reduction in payback period — will drive the sixfold increase in small - scale PV capacity and the technology's contribution to total capacity additions between 2013 and 2030.»

Solar PV is set to lead capacity additions, pushed by deployment in China and India, meanwhile in the European Union, wind becomes the leading source of electricity soon after 2030.

EIA projections for total solar thermal capacity additions in 2013 and 2014 include six projects for a total of 1,257 MW, with more expected in 2015 and 2016.

Gordon and Lewis also stressed that China's clean energy story is only partly about capacity additions.

Both a capacity - weighted average based on projected capacity additions across the 22 U.S. regions of the NEMS electricity market module (EMM) and a simple average of the regional values are provided, together with the range of regional values.