Sentences with phrase «conventional power grids»

Paired with Tesla's Powerwall 2 unit, the Solar Roof has the potential to give customers true independence from conventional power grids.

Regulators are now looking for alternatives to the conventional power grid, like microgrids, and are hoping that backing them up with renewable solar and wind power would reduce the bottlenecks in the power system and get the lights back on more quickly after a future disaster.

Not exact matches

The trouble is that on calm and cloudy days, grid operators still need to call on conventional power stations to meet expected demand.

By 2020, IEA expects photovoltaic technology fitted on residential and commercial buildings to reach «grid parity,» or the point at which solar power is consistently cost - competitive with conventional fossil fuels and nuclear power.

Case in point, Gallagher says, is «smart grid» technology that's designed to integrate renewable power coming from wind turbines and solar cells with the nation's 9000 conventional power plants and 300,000 miles of transmission lines.

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.

He didn't discuss the relative emissions of an electric vehicle charged from the conventional grid versus an internal combustion engine, nor did he discuss the fact that the majority of G - Wiz owners choose a green tariff to power their vehicle.

Meanwhile, distribution grids, which connect smaller renewables installations and conventional power stations, will also require considerable expansion and modernization, the scale of which will depend on specific tasks assigned to the nation's 800 - plus distribution grid operators when developing smart grids.

Since renewable power from wind and solar power is fed into the grid at the expense of gas and coal, conventional gas plants only run a faction of the time needed to make money with them.

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Since the lead time for construction of wind power plants is much shorter than that of transmission lines and conventional power plants, it becomes critical that grid augmentations are planned with significant foresight into political and industry intentions for the development of renewable energy based generation.

And let's recall that in the 1990s and mid-2000s, the conventional wisdom was that VRE would hit a ceiling at about 10 percent of total grid power in the US.

To cover the total loss of power when the wind drops or blows too hard, every wind farm needs a conventional back - up power station (commonly gas - fired) with capacity of twice the design capacity of the wind farm to even out the sudden fluctuations in the electricity grid.

In countries such as Kenya, whose economies are growing faster than either conventional, centralized electricity generation or power grids, the potential of microgrids to electrify powerless communities is huge.

Meanwhile, Tesla deployed solar to Puerto Rico as it began its recovery efforts from Hurricane Maria, quickly restoring power to a Children's Hospital on the island at a time when conventional fossil fuels were offline and electrical grids were down.

«Existing power grids designed and often managed for conventional power production in a national scope are suboptimal for a future where supply from renewable sources will become ever more important and where balancing is needed to compensate for their inherent variability.»

Plummeting power prices as a result of cheap wind and solar generation is causing a growing crisis among the owners of the costliest conventional power stations, which are first to be squeezed off the grid by cheaper renewable output.

However, as the team points out, it's important to look beyond the installed capacity and examine how much electricity is fed into the electric grid to displace conventional, polluting power sources.

Hydro, nuclear, wind and solar better left to lighting the carbon intensity of conventional grid power let alone tapping it for transportation.

It's a clear example of how conventional power - sector thinking is blinded to the role of renewables and the evolution towards a more decentralized grid.»

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These types of projects are also being promoted by the states and the power producer in an effort to reduce the demand and size of conventional power plants and lessen the strain on their grid.

Earlier this year a team of University of Minnesota researchers looked at the life - cycle air quality impacts of alternatives to conventional gasoline vehicles and found that powering vehicles with corn ethanol or with coal - based or grid electricity increases «monetized environmental health impacts by 80 % or more relative to using conventional gasoline.»

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Under the LRET, a REC is issued for each MWh of wind power dispatched to the grid, on the assumption that it in fact reduces or abates 1 tonne of CO2, that would otherwise be emitted by a conventional generator.

It will look into what the outcome is going to be to you, should you go off - grid and it will look into what is likely to happen to the grid, to the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, and to conventional power generators and to centralised renewables (such as wind, hydro, and big solar) should many people go off - grid.

These buildings still produce greenhouse gases because on cloudy (or non-windy) days, at night when the sun isn't shining, and on short winter days, conventional grid power is still the main energy source.

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.

In the US, there has been substantial political pressure over the role of coal in the electricity system, leading to energy secretary Rick Perry to order a study on grid reliability and baseload power, which led to a controversial rule from the US Department of Energy allowing conventional generators to receive costs from suppliers to remain available, even when they are not required by the market.

Requiring no gigantic «smart grid» sucking the efficiency like a vampire — things that are inherent to these nasty wind machines — Nuclear SMRs are going to allow us to meet all our CO2 reduction goals, without the canard of «nominal power output» being accepted by the lost eco-sheep, and without the 100 % conventional, CO2 - generating backup generators — which must be kept on idle at all times should the wind die down, or a cloud pass over a solar cell — and which all of these wind turbines require.

Geography — if you've found your little slice of heaven here on earth that's too far to feasibly plug in to the grid — is often a good motivator, but ethical, environmental and altruistic choices drive many an off - gridder to unplug from conventional power sources; producing and using your own clean energy can be a wonderfully empowering, liberating experience, and it sure can be nice to not receive all those bills.

On top of this, the report notes that solar thermal cooling technology - in which the sun's heat is used to power thermally driven absorption chillers or evaporation devices to cool air - can reduce the burden on electric grids at times of peak cooling demand by fully or partially replacing conventional electrically powered air conditioners in buildings.

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This means that that the grid must not only be prepared to operate as if the wind turbines weren't there, but also have extra (conventional power) backup to protect against any sudden drops in the wind.

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