Sentences with phrase «combined generating capacity»

As of 2010, the combined generating capacity of all the nation's coal plants was 342 Gigawatts.

This year's Solar Means Business study, which looks at «major commercial solar projects» as well as ranking the top corporate solar energy users, covered more than 1,680 commercial solar systems across the country, with a combined generating capacity of some 907 MW.

But a recent study by U.S. - based Navigant Research, which studies new energy technologies, suggested that their combined generating capacity might now exceed 750 megawatts worldwide.

First Wind today owns and operates 12 wind farms in six states, its portfolio comprising more than 500 turbines with a combined generating capacity of roughly 1,000 megawatts, or enough to power about 285,000 homes.

Not exact matches

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

The world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

It combines the capacity of generating genetically engineered mouse model on a large scale with a high - throughput and comprehensive phenotypic analysis of the animals.

The capacity of these machines allows the teams to combine multiple sample libraries into a single lane, routinely generating more than 600 Gigabases (Gb) per run (anticipated to rise to 1Tb per run with upgrades).

This ranking was generated by combining school funding and spending capacity, adjusts for inflation over the 10 years of the study; then uses a formula to «equalize» districts based on high needs student rates (as defined in Vincent v. Voigt).

It also helped that the forward - looking townspeople of Palo Alto have been planting solar panels on their homes and businesses — some 663 customers have a combined 5.65 megawatts of solar - generating capacity on their buildings.

The power sector added a significant amount of new natural gas - fired generating capacity over the last decade, much of which was in the form of efficient combined - cycle units.

(Remember that solar farms generate electricity at about 20 - 25 % of «nameplate» capacity on average, while combined - cycle gas plants nationally average 50 - 60 %, and can achieve 70 % or higher.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

The added generating capacity roughly equals that of the world's 16 largest existing power producing facilities combined.

Within weeks, the company announced it was putting its baseload generating plants, with a combined capacity of over 13 GW, including coal and nuclear units, on the auction block.

In Spain, BP Solar contracted to build some 278 small generating facilities with a combined capacity of 25 megawatts.

The monthly survey Form EIA - 860M, «Monthly Update to Annual Electric Generator Report» supplements the annual survey form EIA - 860 data with monthly information that monitors the current status of existing and proposed generating units at electric power plants with 1 megawatt or greater of combined nameplate capacity.

It aggregates publicly available data (such as capacity, generated power, and heat rate) on non-cogenerating coal units and combines this with publicly available cost methodologies to calculate the cost of complying with environmental regulations.

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

■ Some 14,000 MW of new — mostly gas combined cycle — generation has replaced older coal - and oil - fired generating capacity, a private investment of about $ 14 billion.

Vermont Yankee (closed) Pilgrim Station (closing), Brayton Point (closing), and Salem Harbor (closed, but facing NIMBY opposition to its plan to re-fuel the oil / coal plant with natural gas) together had almost equal generating capacity as all the Maine power producers combined.

Enbridge has invested approximately CAD $ 4 billion in renewable energy assets over the past five years, resulting in a portfolio of more than 1,600 MW of combined net generating capacity of green power projects.

The fact is that over the last five years, wind power has added more new electric generating capacity in the USA than coal and nuclear combined — in spite of the fact that both coal and nuclear have enjoyed large, and permanent public subsidies, while subsidies for wind have been small, short - term and therefore unreliable.