Sentences with phrase «capacity transmission grid»

-- Plans for the development and improvement of high - priority national transmission projects into a national high - capacity transmission grid shall take into consideration --

Not exact matches

And say for now, don't consider the possibility that power carring capacity of the grid may need to be upgradded, or new transmission power lines may need to be built.

What if you don't have access to enough hydro, or you do but can't use it for some reason (not enough transmission capacity, or grid needs an upgrade)?

These «loop flows» have been blamed for congestion of cross-border transmission capacity and, worse, pose threats to the network security conditions of Germany's neighbors, the affected countries» grid operators said in a March 2012 report.

Building new transmission capacity doesn't necessarily mean that more renewable electricity will be integrated into the grid.

Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of capacity additions (what electric generating capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations); generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm power prices, energy prices, capacity prices, allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions; fuel consumption for different fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI power grids.

While carbon pricing can theoretically address the externalities associated with climatic harm from emissions, it can not automatically deal with the externalities holding back grid development, which include the monopoly status of many of the firms involved, issues concerning economies of scale, the fact that the absence of transmission capacity restricts the emergence of renewable generation capacity (and vice versa).

With a share of 100 % renewable energy sources and 12 times the current grid capacity, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants can be reduced to 15 % of the total annual electricity consumption, which represents the maximum possible benefit of transmission for Europe.

MVM and OVIT are also responsible for the technical side of system operation, i.e. dispatch, system control and operation, maintaining adequate reserve capacity, operation, maintenance and expansion of the transmission grid and international interconnectors, provision of ancillary services, etc..

Utility - scale solar energy projects (defined for the Solar PEIS as facilities with a generation capacity of 20 MW or greater) generate electricity that is distributed to consumers through the electric power transmission grid.

-- In addition to the policy under paragraph (1), it is the policy of the United States that regional electric grid planning to meet these objectives should result from an open, inclusive and transparent process, taking into account all significant demand - side and supply - side options, including energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy and zero - carbon electricity generation technologies, smart - grid technologies and practices, demand response, electricity storage, voltage regulation technologies, high capacity conductors with at least 25 percent greater efficiency than traditional ACSR (aluminum stranded conductors steel reinforced) conductors, superconductor technologies, underground transmission technologies, and new conventional electric transmission capacity and corridors.

The project was completed with little public input, bypassing the Texas Public Utility Commission's Competitive Energy Renewable Zones (CREZ) process in which the PUC designated new transmission routes and assigned companies to add more than 2,300 miles to the grid in a $ 5 billion plan to reduce congestion and allow Texas wind capacity to swell to 18,500 MW by late 2013.

The regulator said the volume of electricity the grid is forced to buy will be determined by technical criteria such as transmission capacity and end - user demand in regions where capacity has been idled.

New transmission capacity to connect renewables to the grid is assumed to be almost as expensive as generation; one of the data sources cited in the ALEC report actually estimates transmission costs at one - fourth the ALEC level.

India's grid operator plans to spend one trillion rupees ($ 15 billion) over the next few years to add nine new high - capacity transmission corridors — a sizable fraction of the $ 50 billion that Goyal has said will go to modernize the grid over the next decade.

Also, «using adjacent grids» means adding even longer transmission lines of very high capacity.

This could be done through building much higher capacity electricity transmission capacity between the Mekong States and China's southern electricity grid nexus in the city of Kunming.

The current installed capacity on Ontario's transmission grid is more than 36,900 MW.

c. Bearing the extra costs and burden of providing backup generating capacity, transmission and grid management associated with the intermittent, variable and largely unpredictable output from «wind farms.»

The Ontario Government's energy investment priority should be in new gas, nuclear and / or hydroelectric capacity, upgrading existing generating facilities, and in refurbishing transmission grids.

Over the years, grid - connected battery storage has been used in various ways, including for energy arbitrage, generation capacity deferral, ancillary services, ramping, transmission and distribution capacity deferral, and end - user applications — which entail managing energy costs, power quality and service reliability, and renewable curtailment.

Mexico is rapidly becoming Latin America's hottest clean energy market, with an annual target of 2,000 MW of new energy capacity driving widespread development of solar and wind projects and upgrades to grid and transmission infrastructure.

To ensure that supply always meets demand, a renewable power grid needs an oversized power generation and transmission capacity of up to ten times the peak demand.

All states with growing renewable energy projects face the problem of having an electric grid that is nearing its carrying capacity, and new transmission lines can take more than a decade to plan, permit and build, The New Mexican said.

Perhaps you are suggesting that regional variation in transmission costs is actually a crucially important feature of the market, and that my proposal to assume uniform transmission capacities across the grid is an unjustifiable oversimplfication.

That said, Planning Engineer did an excellent job presenting some of the important issues, from a transmission grid perspective, of the complications introduced by just one «good» idea — increased solar / wind generating capacity.

In February, it announced an arrangement (again in the U.S.) to supply the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) with demand response capacity to facilitate grid stability as BPA integrates more wind - powered generation into its transmission system.

Typically, too, they require backup generation, as well as backup capacity, and they typically place stress on transmission - grid operations (owing to their stochastic nature).

More expansive transmission lines will also be required to connect that capacity to the grid, with full implementation potentially taking up to 15 years.

In addition to making capacity available to transmission network operators via the primary reserve market so that the network operators can use it to keep the grid frequency regulated at 50Hz, the project will also pilot measures to restrict the curtailment of wind energy.

However, the integration of intermittent energy sources on the grid poses some challenges, such as reliability of the transmission network, lack of capacity storage technology and balance between electricity supply and demand.