Sentences with phrase «conventional power generation»

The question has come up a few times without being answered — what is the impact on efficiency of conventional power generation?

Heat that is normally wasted in conventional power generation is recovered as useful energy, which avoids the losses that would otherwise occur from separate generation of heat and power.

That would be in line with conventional power generation costs of today and might make it more economically attractive.

Platts Andreas Franke examines the impact the remarkable rise of renewables is having on conventional power generation.

Windpower requires equivalent back - up by conventional power generation, and saves little, if any, «carbon».

In addition, Moody's expects the growth of energy storage will be credit negative for conventional power generation plants, because it will allow renewable generation to compete on an equal footing with conventional plants.

A new technical report «Concentrating Solar Power Gen3 Demonstration Roadmap» was released in January 2017 by NREL in the context of the SunShot Initiative — a program launched in 2011 in the U.S. aiming at making solar thermal electricity cost - competitive with power from conventional power generation technologies by 2020.

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.

The utilities that operate the nuclear plants have been hit hard by the energy transition away from their core business of conventional power generation and there has been widespread concern that they may not be in a position to finance the full costs of nuclear decommissioning and waste disposal, leaving the (future) taxpayer to foot the bill.

Over the past decade E.ON has established leading positions in conventional power generation in Europe and Russia.

With a portfolio consisting of conventional power generation, global energy trading, and exploration and production, the New Company will focus precisely on meeting these needs,» Teyssen said.

But because it was one of the first technologies to produce power, and its expansion happened in waves throughout the 20th century, it is generally seen as an older source of conventional power generation, Ruby said.

Today the E.ON Supervisory Board approved the new strategy decided on by the Board of Management, including carving out the company's conventional upstream and midstream business (conventional power generation, global energy trading, and exploration and production), spinning off a majority of it to E.ON SE shareholders, and listing the shares on the stock market in 2016.

The GRACE Energy Program promotes clean energy, focusing on renewable energy, distributed generation and energy efficiency, and describes the environmental effects of conventional power generation.

The GRACE Energy Program promotes clean energy and educates consumers about the environmental effects of conventional power generation.

The International Energy Agency estimates that global investment in energy efficiency was $ 221 billion in 2015, an increase of 6 percent from 2014 and 60 percent greater than investment in conventional power generation.

The company will stake its future on renewables in a major restructuring, spinning off its conventional power generation business, in part as a response to the growth in distributed generation.

In recent years, as the large - scale deployment of renewable generation gathers pace and the contribution of conventional power generation (gas, coal and nuclear) to electricity supply dwindles, popular concern over grid stability and reliability has grown substantially.