Sentences with phrase «demand peaks experienced»
Thus, OSW generation could help offset the exceptionally high demand peaks experienced around 6:00 p.m. during summer months, which require grid operators to dispatch costly (and often inefficient) generation assets.
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Although 220 volt electricity and standard three - point plugs are provided, during peak season the electricity supply can not match Tofo's demand and periodic power cuts are experienced.
It reflects the changes in the demand for electricity resulting from a utility DSM program that is in effect at the same time the utility experiences its annual peak load, as opposed to the installed peak load reduction capability (i.e., potential peak reduction).
Victoria experienced supply failures in February 2000 when a heat wave swept across south eastern Australia, causing extremely high peak demand at a time when an industrial dispute had reduced available capacity by 20 % and two generating plants were unexpectedly out of service.
During a heatwave in North America on 22 July, when grid operators were experiencing record demand peaks and prices had shot up to 10 times the 2011 average — US$ 530 / MWh — EnerNOC provided over 1,200 MW of demand response across several U.S. states and Ontario, effectively delivering «negawatts» into the system.
That's right, even the biggest, elite, previously bulletproof firms are experiencing the effect of a maturity curve that peaked in 2007 and has now settled into what in every other previous category in business history has been a permanent, if slow, decline (or if you're optimistic, flattening) in demand.