Sentences with phrase «demand for electricity»

During the day, when demand for electricity is higher, power will be generated by both the wind turbines and water flowing from the upper reservoir to the lower.

Coal use patterns around the region reflect the rising demand for electricity needed to power and steer economic growth.

A utility could fully charge vehicles when solar is plentiful, for example, and then limit charging during periods of peak demand for electricity.

Total carbon dioxide emissions from the electric power sector declined even as demand for electricity remained relatively flat over the previous decade.

This has all led to a decline in demand for electricity from the grid and this, in turn, has impacted heavily on the profitability of coal - fired power stations in particular.

Rising global demand for electricity will make nuclear an increasingly important source of energy in coming years.

Demand for electricity varies throughout the day, but it does so in fairly predictable ways.

Other reasons include competition from natural gas, weaker than expected demand for electricity and aging coal - fired plants.

By examining these offers along with the forecast demand for electricity, the network operator determines the amount of electricity needed to meet demand.

It's been like a game, as we all strive to drive the daily demand for electricity closer to the amount the building's solar panels can produce.

As the world demand for electricity continues to grow, the long - term outlook for natural gas remains strong.

The other reason at play here for those — for the wild fluctuations was the increase in demand for electricity because there was a cold snap and that played there.

For many, many decades, demand for electricity followed a fairly predictable daily course, allowing utility grid managers to become experts at predicting and satisfying it.

However, your point is a good one in that during times of high demand for electricity, consumers should have incentives to conserve electricity.

In 2017, it had 300 days in which renewables met its entire demand for electricity.

Modern homes have much greater demand for electricity compared to when these systems were commonly installed.

According to government projections, the price cut will increase demand for electricity and push up emissions of CO2 by about half a million tonnes a year.

Demand for electricity varies through day and night and through different seasons.

Daily demand for electricity is greater during the middle of the day than at night.

They've explored the idea, spurred by growing demand for electricity in Westchester and New York City, for more than 30 months.

Growing demand for electricity in Westchester and New York City is having an impact on some Hudson Valley counties.

This happening at a time when we are seeing a shift in final energy consumption with demand for electricity doubling globally by 2060.

«Instead of meeting consumer demand for electricity by adding more electricity to the system, we pay people to reduce their usage,» McAuley explained in an email.

Any move to ban ICE powered cars and replace them with electric cars should be done together with other actions that reduce the need for cars, including changing planning rules to promote walkable cities, changing building codes to dramatically reduce demand for electricity for air conditioning, changing transportation priorities to encourage cycling and walking, and do a massive rollout of new sources of renewable energy.

o How do you think the increasing future demand for electricity can be satisfied?

The late winter and early spring are periods of low demand for electricity, because air conditioners aren't in heavy use, making it easy for solar to get larger market share.

But a few reactors are being built here in the U.S. And in the countries where demand for electricity is rising quickly — like China — nuclear plants are a LOT cheaper to build.

Utility energy efficiency programs generate significant financial benefits to Ohio's customers in four primary ways: (1) they help reduce customer demand for electricity, thereby directly reducing monthly electricity bills for participants; (2) they reduce customer demand, or load, which...

In addition, demand for electricity fluctuates and utilities need to find a way to provide power that matches changing demand.

The green line in the second graph shows the total demand for electricity in Victoria as recorded by the Australian Electricity Market Operator (AEMO).

The project has been plagued by billions of dollars in cost overruns, stagnant demand for electricity, competition from cheap natural gas plants and renewables, and the bankruptcy of Westinghouse Electric, the lead contractor and the designer of the AP1000 reactor that was supposed to be the foundation of a smarter, cheaper generation of nuclear power plants.

Will an increase in natural gas demand for electricity generation in states that currently use coal have a significant impact on prices that California pays for natural gas?

Although, according to Terry Barker of the University of Cambridge, it could also lead to a collapse of the European emissions trading scheme as declining demand for electricity leads to a plummeting price for emissions credits.

Rolling back environmental regulations will not lead to a significant resurgence of the coal industry because those regulations played only a minor role relative to slowing demand for electricity and a surge in cheaper, cleaner sources of energy.

Robust economic growth in many developing nations is expected to boost demand for electricity for air conditioning, cooking, space and water heating, and refrigeration.

This flexibility is particularly important as demand for electricity often peaks in the early evening.

Looking forward in CELT 2018, ISO New England estimates that over the next decade, annual demand for electricity will decline by 0.86 percent per year, on average (see Figure 1).

The authors have not justified their assertion that wind energy could supply a significant amountóapproximately 30 % of U.S. base load demand for electricity.

With most of the authorities fighting to implement more regulations and lesser subsidy to the miners due to their outrageous demand for electricity, the bitcoin mining appears to do more harm than good to our ecological system.

Our modelling indicates strongly that a tax at this low level will have no effect upon coal - fired generation and, given the relatively low price elasticity of demand for electricity at the retail level (probably because electricity has been so cheap in Australia), the demand side effect would be negligible and difficult to spot given the srong secular growth in demand.

«The potential demand for electricity is maybe twice as much as we are producing now,» Chowdhury said in an interview in Dhaka yesterday.

As temperatures plunged below zero and demand for electricity soared, figures reveal that most of the country's 3,000 wind turbines were virtually still, energy experts say.

«Demand for electricity changes through the day.»

In 2012, the continuing SONGS closure put pressure on the electric power grid operator, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), to adjust both generation and transmission in order to meet summer demand for electricity, and in general, continues to change the generation profile in the area.

They represent potential new demand for electricity that could pull power generators out of their quagmire.

The ruling was needed to level the playing field and prevent local electricity prices for existing residential and business customers from skyrocketing due to the soaring local demand for electricity.