Sentences with phrase «diesel generators»

The aim is to replace diesel generators with remote area power supplies using solar or wind energy.

We have many villages up there still relying on diesel generators running 24 hours a day to provide energy.

The step also improves air quality and reduces noise pollution from diesel generators.

Usually, these mobile bases use diesel generators to power their operation.

Backup diesel generators lost their fuel tanks and died.

Because of this, each island has to generate their own power and the cheapest (and most common way) to do this is through the use of diesel generators.

• The plant's six emergency diesel generators were located in the same plant area, and thus vulnerable to a «common mode» failure.

But their economics would really shine for isolated towns whose lack of access to central power grids has forced them to rely on dirty and costly - to - run diesel generators.

If people have access to electricity in these locations, it is often via expensive and polluting diesel generators.

The company spent more than $ 100,000 to rent a pair of portable diesel generators.

Solar batteries still cost more than a standard diesel generator, but they can provide backup power without producing greenhouse gas emissions.

Currently, those refrigerated units are powered by large diesel generators.

As the grid becomes more unreliable and expensive the shopping centres will install diesel generators then batteries, if not already there, to ensure reliable supply.

Otherwise, portable diesel generators transported to the site should have enabled pumping to resume.

That's one reason diesel generators are the most cost - effective to operate and maintain over long periods of time.

There are thousands of small islands and remote communities that have relied on diesel generators alone, quite happily for many decades.

The good news is that installing rooftop PV in rural areas is cheaper than building a central power plant and grid, and electricity from PV is now cheaper than that from diesel generators.

The earthquake and tsunami knocked out outside power to the reactor complex and the tidal wave also disabled backup diesel generators, whose fuel tanks were swept away.

The island previously relied entirely on diesel generators to power the island.

Take Nicaragua, where aid agencies have encouraged residents of isolated rural communities to use costly diesel generators for electricity.

Solar - powered micro-grids can provide very basic energy access, and they are gaining traction, especially where they replace costly diesel generators in remote regions.

When deployed, it's claimed that the AWT requires minimal maintenance and will displace expensive fuel used to power diesel generators at remote industrial, military, and village sites.

In lower - income countries, micro wind turbines can help expand access to electricity, giving people a way to light their homes or cook their evening meals, which can avoid emissions from dirty diesel generators or kerosene lamps.

The team's plan is to gradually replace diesel generators with groups of energy - generating buoys.

Mr Reddaway goes on to estimate that to go off the grid a 10kW solar system together with about 65kWh of battery storage would be required at a total cost of about $ 55,000; this apparently does not include a back - up diesel generator which would also be needed.

He added that the microgrid also «eliminates the stranded costs of traditional diesel generators while offering a healthy return on investment through optimizing renewable solar generation.»

Vestas arch-rival Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) put skin in the hybrid game early too, launching an off - grid project in the Galapagos Islands using a trio of 800kW wind turbines backed up with diesel generator sets in 2008.

The capacity market has been criticised for enabling older coal power stations to stay on the system and for incentivising the use of polluting smaller diesel generators embedded on the distribution networks, which have not needed to pay system access charges and have, therefore, underbid larger plant.

Ko Ngai has 24 - hour electricity provided by diesel generators, but some resorts partially or completely shut down power during the daytime.

Victorian consumers could foot the bill for a summer energy plan using diesel generators as a stopgap during periods of peak demand.

(Compare the size and cost of a 100 kw diesel generator with that of a 100 kw windmill or solar collector.)

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Using a combination of wind power and battery storage, combined with backup diesel generators which will eventually be fueled by algae - based biofuels, the island is looking to completely sever its ties with fossil fuels for electricity.

It will not consume any fossil fuels — there is no natural gas piped to the site nor are there permanent diesel generators being used to provide power.

Governor Cuomo announced that the State has adopted regulations that will improve air quality by limiting emissions from existing diesel generators and natural gas - fired engines.

The power for cooling was then supplied by 12 onsite diesel generators in non-waterproofed buildings.

Undercover parking and a backup 35 kva diesel Generator is installed in case of power failure.

Electricity shortages have been mitigated for the most part using expensive diesel generators.

Utilising renewable energy instead of traditional diesel generators on islands and in remote areas would bring «substantial socio - economic benefits», according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

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The 24 - foot Endeavor Green Electric Hybrid can run all day on an electric charge that costs only 11 cents and generates no emissions, kicking into a small diesel generator only if the boat's eight batteries run dry.

According to Inhabitat, off - grid solar could help make electricity accessible to communities across Myanmar, as traditional alternative power sources like diesel generators are far too expensive for poverty - stricken areas in the country.

The company has maintained diesel generators to handle intermittent power outages and has installed backup satellite communications to support plant operations.

Watlow ® recently introduced its new ECO-HEAT ® exhaust gas heating system that functions as an internal load bank in medium stationary and mobile diesel generator applications.

«What appears to have happened [in Fukushima] is that after the first failure of the first cooling system, as a result of the power cuts from the grid, the back - up diesel generators began to work and began to operate but they were then hit by the tsunami and therefore back - up operators failed to work and it took the staff on site some time to re-establish and improvise cooling which they of course did with the pumping of sea water.»

So he says he budgets an extra $ 40,000 to $ 50,000 each year to fuel a 200 - kilowatt diesel generator, and paid for $ 20,000 worth of solar panels, inverters and batteries that keep one of his servers running.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.