Sentences with phrase «capacity factor»

I have been informed that this wind farm has the, so far as I know, otherwise unheard of capacity factor of 47 %.

Her 38 percent capacity factor for wind is within the range used by researchers, but could be advanced by the newest turbine technologies and site selection methods.

Finally, I should say that the average capacity factor of Australian wind farms is closer to 35 % than 30 %; excellent by world standards.

This produces turbines with higher capacity factors because they can better capture available wind.

The low capacity factor of German wind turbines makes wind electricity expensive.

He found that a 400 MW solar field would achieve the best fit during summer, with capacity factor averaged between 15 % — 25 %.

But coal and natural gas are suffering reductions in capacity factor as more fuel - free generation gets added to the merit order effect.

The wind farm would produce approximately 2.5 billion kWh of electricity per year, assuming a generous 30 percent capacity factor.

Wind power just keeps getting better and better, cheaper and cheaper, with higher annual capacity factors each year.

But we know from available 2013 data that global average plant capacity factors were much lower at 59 % and 38 % respectively thereby making the plants less competitive than had been thought.

Wind, complemented by solar, has imminent potential to improve site production, increase capacity factor, and more fully utilize electrical connection infrastructure and balance of plant equipment.

If penetration exceeds capacity factor, it will periodically generate more than 100 percent of demand.

During the day, the plant's capacity factor rises to over 50 %.

Featuring the best - in - class capacity factor, the 2 MW - 127 demonstrates the next step in turbine technology and efficiency.

The strength of this approach is evident from the historical capacity factor of the Finnish nuclear fleet which is one of the highest in the world - over 90 %.

The annual average of its hourly capacity factor tops out at only 9 % in the middle of the day.

While utilization rises in the summer, the average natural gas plant capacity factor remains below 70 percent in the summer months of 2015.

A 1 kW wind turbine at 30 % capacity factor yields a barrel - equivalent in 235 days (78 days if you assume 33 % conversion efficiency of oil to electricity).

NOTE: These estimates were based on a conservative capacity factor.

With only a few notable exceptions they are typically operating very efficiently, that is, at high capacity factors, in an increasingly competitive environment.

An average capacity factor of 80 percent was used for the solution, compared to 55 percent for conventional technologies.

An average capacity factor of 21 percent is used for micro wind, compared to 55 percent for conventional technologies such as coal, natural gas, and oil power plants.

The best new offshore wind turbines, on the other hand, are already at a 50 percent capacity factor, and that may well rise to 60 percent and higher.

The average offshore wind turbine in 2015 was 3.4 MW but grew to 4.7 MW during 2016, with capacity factors exceeding those of natural gas plants.

Note: Each «x» and «o» represents a single coal unit, operating at an average historical capacity factor.

Renewables Calculations: Current generation from nuclear was converted to necessary installed capacity, using capacity factors of 20 % for wind power, and 15 % for solar power, and 69 % for geothermal power.

This second procurement's 9.45 TWh are an equivalent to approximately 1,200 MW of nameplate hydropower or approximately 1,700 MW to 3,000 MW of nameplate onshore wind, depending on capacity factor assumptions.

According to the Operating Performance Rankings industry report in the Nov. / Dec. 2008 issue of Electric Light & Power, coal - fired power plant capacity factors range from 72 percent to 93 percent, combined cycle from 41 percent to 86 percent and nuclear from 90 percent to 96 percent.

The numbers are off by a factor of about 5; the actual, real - world as - installed - and - operating capacity factor for wind power is about 8 % (and that's the high end of the range).

The 50 GW of planned coal could push national coal capacity factors as low as 50 %, just as gigawatts of cheap renewables come online, meaning unless new plants replace retiring capacity they could come online as stranded assets.

Based on data available from the National Renewable Energy Lab, the area may support average wind speeds of roughly 8.5 meter per second (19 MPH), with annual capacity factors over 42 %.

To push this thought experiment to its conclusion, if we take one of several weeks in 2012 when Germany's combined wind and solar capacity factors fell below 10 %, the country would have needed at least 600 GW of installed wind and solar PV to meet all demand, a breathtaking 1,000 % overcapacity (which, on the worst days, still wouldn't have been enough).

Capacity factors vary from grid to grid; so do available grid flexibility measures; so do public and political willingness to subsidize renewables.

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 normalized capacity 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.

If, as appears to be the case, the CF equation is not statistically significant, then it can not properly be used to justify the authorsí capacity factor equation and claims or the conclusions based on them.

The larger part of Senator Boswell's misrepresentation here was when he compared the wind power capacity factor to that of oil and coal, which he claimed to be «closer to 80 %».