Sentences with phrase «conventional generation capacity»

UBS says the central European market is in rapid decline because of falling demand, the construction of too much conventional generation capacity, and a low Co2 price.

For example, the researchers found that in a high - wind scenario in the Southern Africa Power Pool, strategic siting and grid interconnections would reduce the need for conventional generation capacity by 9.5 percent, resulting in cost savings of 6 to 20 percent, depending on the technology that was avoided.

«It's important to forecast how much renewable power will be generated, because that tells us how much conventional generation capacity — whether nuclear, gas, or coal — needs to be brought online.

Not exact matches

To aid in efficiency, scientists have added nanostructured metal - organic heat carriers, or MOHCs, which boost the power generation capacity to near that of a conventional steam cycle.

This means it covers the direct cost of low - carbon subsidies, energy efficiency and carbon taxes, as well as indirect costs due to strengthening grids, backing up intermittent renewables, compensating conventional generation for lost revenue through the capacity market and savings due to the merit - order effect, which pushes down wholesale electricity prices.

-- 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 period has seen just one outage related to inadequate generation capacity, after two conventional power stations broke down at the same time.

ENERGY OVERVIEW Proven Oil Reserves (1 / 1 / 02E): 2.9 billion barrels Oil Production (2002E): 818,000 barrels per day (bbl / d), of which about 763,000 bbl / d was crude oil Oil Consumption (2002E): 483,000 bbl / d Net Oil Exports (2001E): 335,000 bbl / d Natural Gas Reserves (1 / 1 / 02E): 27.5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) Natural Gas Production (2000E): 1.32 Tcf Natural Gas Consumption (2000E): 1.17 Tcf Net Natural Gas Exports (2000E): 0.15 Tcf Coal Reserves (2000E): 474 million short tons (Mmst) Coal Production (2000E): 0.33 Mmst Coal Consumption (2000E): 1.47 Mmst Electric Generation Capacity (1 / 1 / 00E): 24 gigawatts (GW) Electricity Generation (2000E): 82.8 billion kilowattthours (bkwh); conventional thermal 52 %, hydroelectricity 41 %, nuclear 7 %

On May 26th, in sunny weather, Germany's 22GW of PV solar - generation capacity supplied 50 % of the country's electricity, and around the world PV looks like it may become a major energy option in the years ahead, accelerating past 50GW of grid - linked capacity, with price parity with conventional sources not far away.

Conventional steam coal comprised more than 80 percent of the electricity generation capacity retired in the U.S. last year.

STT is happy to go all out and say that in Australia wind power requires 100 % of its capacity to be backed up 100 % of the time by conventional generation sources.

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.

Since electrical demand probably won't match up very well with wind fluctuations, installed wind capacity does not displace conventional power generation in a 1 to 1 ratio.

This is an auction - based market in which conventional generation, along with interconnection, storage and demand response, bid to provide guaranteed capacity over the winter period.

Nearly 240GW of wind - generation capacity has been installed around the world so far, mostly on - land and mostly based on conventional three - bladed horizontal - axis propeller type designs.