Sentences with phrase «current generating capacity»

Capacities reported in this preliminary inventory are best estimates of current generating capacity, but are not meant to be capacity commitments by the associated facilities.

We either go down the fossil fuels route, and replace current generating capacity with gas and coal.

The generating capacity by 2050 could be 100 billion watts, about 10 percent of the country's current generating capacity.

«We'll need renewables, new nuclear, fossil fuels with CCS, and the cables to hook them all up to the grid as a large slice of our current generating capacity shuts down.»

Not exact matches

Based on current growth levels, and scheduled increases in generating capacity (i.e., not much), Ontario will have severe power shortages by 2018 when the oldest of OPGs nukes start going off - line.

The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.

«Iberian Peninsula's geothermal power can generate current electrical capacity five times over.»

And the efficiency with which a field generates electricity can be improved in the future by moving to higher temperature operation, he adds; the current design employs steam at 440 degrees Celsius and 63 kilograms per square centimeter of pressure at peak capacity.

A draft report on an Energy Department workshop on solar power's future last year said that preliminary analysis suggests that if solar power could hit a $ 1 per watt target for installed systems by 2020, one - third of the current cost, total U.S. solar generating capacity could rise to 5 percent of the nation's total.

Pettis: problem is the inexorable tendency of the current development model 2generate debt faster than it generates debt - servicing capacity.

Countries around the world are richly endowed with renewable energy, in some cases enough to easily double their current electrical generating capacities.

This grid will enable Scotland to develop nearly 60,000 megawatts of off - shore wind generating capacity, close to the 85,000 megawatts of current electrical generating capacity for the United Kingdom.

Holger Gassner, head of markets and political affairs at RWE Innogy GmbH, estimates that in 2050, a 10 - day span when wind farms generate less than 10 % of capacity would require 313 times the current pumped storage capacity to bridge the «calm.»

The corollary, government bureaucrats conclude, is that one of the best ways to discourage behaviors of which they disapprove is to tax and regulate it into oblivion, as is seen in the US through the current assaults on power generating capacity by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Because natural gas is a considerably more expensive fuel than coal, it takes a substantial CO2 cost to overcome this fuel cost disadvantage — about $ 30 / ton, on current fuel price expectations in the U.S.. On the other hand, consider pending investments to add new generating capacity in the United States over the next few decades.

Current law requires utilities to accept customer - generated electricity up to 4 % of their peak capacity that cap is being increased to 15 %.

If their power output per pound is similar to a horse, they should produce about 1 Terawatt of power, which is about equal to the current US installed generating capacity.

Based on a study from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture, we estimate that using forest and urban wood waste, as well as some perennial crops such as switchgrass and fast - growing trees on nonagricultural land, the United States could develop more than 40 gigawatts of electrical generating capacity by 2020, roughly four times the current level.

For example, China — with vast wind - swept plains in the north and west, countless mountain ridges, and a long coastline, all rich with wind — has enough readily harnessable wind energy to easily double its current electrical generating capacity.

An American Solar Energy Society (ASES) study concluded that the sun - rich southwestern United States — after excluding its less promising areas — has a potential solar power generating capacity of 7,000 gigawatts of electricity, roughly seven times current U.S. generating capacity from all sources.

-- The term «renewable energy» means energy generated from solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, municipal solid waste, or new hydroelectric generation capacity achieved from increased efficiency or additions of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric project.

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.

According to the Ontario Auditor General's Report 2011 The power - generating capacity of current wind and solar technology is much lower than other energy sources.

About 60 percent of Ontario's current generation capacity is already accounted for by low - emission hydro or nuclear - generated electricity, with the balance provided by natural - gas generation and to a lesser extent by renewables.

This would double its current electrical generating capacity of 1,200 megawatts from all sources.

World electrical demand doubles, requiring construction of nearly 5,000 gigawatts of new generating capacity, equivalent to adding six times current United States electric generating capacity.

A report from Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) claims that «the current mix of generating plant will be unable to ensure reliable electricity supply with significantly more than 10 GW of wind capacity.

This is the sentence she refers to: «Estimates of current global installed peak capacity vary widely, including 2400 MW (Greenpeace, 2004); 3100 MW (Maycock, 2003); > 4000MW generating more than 21 TWh (Martinot et al., 2005) and 5000 MW (Greenpeace, 2006).»

In late June 2008, President Mwai Kibaki announced a plan to install some 1,700 megawatts of new geothermal capacity within 10 years — 13 times greater than the current capacity and one - and - a-half times greater than the country's total electricity generating capacity from all sources.