Sentences with phrase «cheaper peak power»

This is surely the point — not whether some consumers somewhere are getting cheaper peak power while paying more for average electricity costs.

Not exact matches

Cook: We charge the batteries at night when more power is available and it's cheaper, and then discharge them during during peak times.

They sop up cheap surplus power from Denmark when the wind is blowing and return expensive hydroelectric power during peak periods.

The newly unveiled Volt's lithium ion battery pack, which will power the four - seat compact for about 40 miles per charge, will also be able to be replenished with cheap off - peak power by plugging it into the nationwide electric grid overnight.

The GTS costs # 55,188 in the UK and peak power is 355bhp at 6000rpm, making it just shy of # 10,000 more expensive than the 335bhp S model and # 7,000 cheaper than the 394bhp Turbo.

A lot of the systems design that people are looking at — like Christopher Clack — even if you can get the renewables up to 80 percent, then you have a piece there probably natural gas «peakers» [power plants that run in periods of high electricity demand], at least based on current technology, are way cheaper than any [energy] storage.

California's Energy Imbalancing Market is a strategy to buy cheap out - of - state hydropower from federal dams to replace the government - induced high price for natural gas peaker power as a result of shifting to green power.

Because drivers will mostly plug in their cars overnight, they will benefit from cheaper off - peak power rates.

It has now been reported that the cost of renewable energy plus battery storage is now comparable to, or actually cheaper than, the cost of the previously most economical form of the «peaking» power needed to compensate for sudden changes in electric grid demand or generation — natural gas.

For pumped hydro to be viable it needs cheap, reliable power supply in off peak times (every day of the year).

Hydroelectric power is also cheap, clean, and good for both baseload and meeting peak demand, but limited by available natural sources.

Then there's «intermediate load,» with the next - cheapest tier of power plants, and at the top of that second hump, «peak load,» satisfied by (usually natural gas) «peaker plants» that are expensive to run but easy to ramp up and down quickly.

As well as selling the Leaf, we've seen residential energy storage using recycled EV batteries, while a trial is currently underway allowing Leaf owners to charge their cars using cheaper off - peak power before feeding it back into the grid during peak times.

Skyonic uses cheap or free off - peak power for caustic production.

It does three main things: First, it can store solar energy if you have solar panels; second, it can store energy from the grid off - peak when power is cheapest (in places where utilities have time - of - use dynamic pricing) and release it when power is most expensive, saving you money and smoothing out the demand peak, which is good for the grid overall.

Again the modelling that has been done suggests that only 3 or 4 GW of well dispersed wind would be required with 750MW or so of extra peaking power from cheap gas turbines.

Despite substantial installation costs, «given falling solar costs and rising avoided costs for utilities, it looks as if right around year 12 to 13, large - scale in - basin solar — rooftops and parking lots — will become cheaper than the natural gas alternative that you have to supply peak power,» he says.