Sentences with phrase «double wind capacity»

This year China has become the world's largest manufacturer of solar panels and wind turbines, doubling its wind capacity since 2005.

Not exact matches

Solar power might be an undeniable part of our future — the industry created double the amount of jobs as coal did last year and accounts for nearly 40 % of new electric capacity added to the grid, more than wind or even natural gas — but SolarCity itself isn't.

There are also plans afoot to build a 1.4 GW capacity line under the Pyrenees between Spain — with a highly developed wind and solar power industry — and France that will double the power capacity between the two countries.

If and when wind and solar capacity double their outputs from current levels, base - load plants, which have to run constantly to ensure grid stability, will start to suffer financially as well and risk becoming uneconomical.

ERCOT's installed wind capacity has nearly doubled since 2010, leaping from 9,400 megawatts seven years ago to 18,589 MW today.

Germany's offshore wind capacity more than doubled last year as investors warm up to the technology, helping Europe's largest economy in its ambitious push into renewable power

Since 2008, production capacity of both photovoltaic (PV) modules used to assemble solar panels and wind turbines has doubled annually.

We're making our government's largest ever investment in renewable energy — an investment aimed at doubling the generating capacity from wind and other renewable resources in three years.

With factories under construction, the US will double its capacity to manufacture wind turbines in about the next 18 months.

Installations of solar cells are doubling every two years, and the annual growth in wind generating capacity is not far behind.

In August 2016, a new renewable energy mandate was passed and signed into law, requiring 1,600 MW of capacity from wind, more than double the capacity of Pilgrim (685 MW).

The Collgar Wind Farm, which started generating power in May 2011 and became fully operational in October 2011 doubled WA's installed wind power capacity (see the graph at Operating WA wind farWind Farm, which started generating power in May 2011 and became fully operational in October 2011 doubled WA's installed wind power capacity (see the graph at Operating WA wind farwind power capacity (see the graph at Operating WA wind farwind farms).

In the reference case, the utility would double its renewables capacity by 2030 by adding 4 GW of solar capacity, 500 MW of wind capacity and 450 MW of storage capacity.

On average throughout the year, and depending on location, modern wind farms produce 10 - 45 % of their rated maximum power capacity, roughly double the annual capacity factor of the average solar PV installation (5 - 30 %).

In 2010, Chinese CO2 emissions jumped by 10 % to 9.0 billion tonnes, even though China has doubled its installed wind and solar power capacity for the sixth successive year.

RenewEconomy While the large - scale solar market continues to wow, a new report has forecast a near doubling of the world's installed wind power capacity in the next five years, citing new policy pushes in China and India — and a «roaring back» to form from Australia.

Over the long term the learning rate of wind is around 7 % per doubling of global capacity.

And soon Oregon will nearly double its wind generating capacity with a 900 - megawatt wind farm in the wind - rich Columbia River Gorge.

In Pakistan, wind power capacity doubled to 100 megawatts in 2013 and will double again when two 50 - megawatt projects go online in 2014.

The final 90 megawatts of Ethiopia's 120 - megawatt Ashegoda Wind Farm went into operation, more than doubling the country's wind capacity to 170 megawaWind Farm went into operation, more than doubling the country's wind capacity to 170 megawawind capacity to 170 megawatts.

In order to raise the share of wind and sun from 15 % to 30 %, capacities must be doubled.

From 2016 to 2032 as Ontario phases out nuclear capacity to make room for wind and solar, CO2 emissions will double (2013 LTEP data).

According to the authors of the 2012 Wind Technologies Market Report (PDF), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists Ryan Wiser and Mark Bolinger, wind's installed capacity in the U.S. grew by more than 13 gigawatts last year, double the amount from the year before and the largest new source of power that went up last yWind Technologies Market Report (PDF), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists Ryan Wiser and Mark Bolinger, wind's installed capacity in the U.S. grew by more than 13 gigawatts last year, double the amount from the year before and the largest new source of power that went up last ywind's installed capacity in the U.S. grew by more than 13 gigawatts last year, double the amount from the year before and the largest new source of power that went up last year.

By 2015, China plans to quadruple its installed wind power capacity between 2010 and 2015, and then nearly double it again by 2020.

Sales of solar cells are doubling every two years, and the annual growth in wind generating capacity is not far behind.

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A huge hydro - wind hybrid power station will double Morocco's entire installed hydropower capacity — and be a world's first.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 20Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 ApriCapacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 Apricapacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 20wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 20Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 20Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

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.

Latin America's overall wind capacity more than doubled to 1,200 megawatts in 2009.

Several wind farms will be developed with Forestalia in Spain, for a total of 1.5 GW, which would more than double GE's wind installed capacity in the country.

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While mouthing a desire for conversation with the «unwilling hosts», Wynne is set to add more than 3000 MW of «transmission connected» wind capacity in the next 18 months; double the amount existing when she became Premier.

Global wind installed capacity has almost doubled every three years since 2001 at a CAGR of 24.8 percent during 2001 to 2012.

Ontario's plan to double its wind energy capacity will make a bad situation worse, according to a report published by the Council for Clean and Reliable Energy.

China can double its existing generating capacity from wind alone.

Germany more than doubled its wind power capacity in 2014.

While the NEM is shielded from this effect somewhat by its hydro capacity, system control in the SWIS has predicted an almost doubling of the LFAS requirement to accommodate new wind farms — particularly Colgar.

Global wind power capacity is projected to at least double between 2011 and 2016, as mature players build on a sizable base and as more countries enter the market.

This means that the currently installed wind generation capacity could roughly be doubled.

Kevin McKinney wrote: «During the Obama administration, US wind capacity has doubled, solar has increased by a factor of 6, the relevant loan guarantee program has a current default rate of 2.6 % — and the public square thinks it was a $ 90 billion boondoggle with «half the companies out of business».»

During the Obama administration, US wind capacity has doubled, solar has increased by a factor of 6, the relevant loan guarantee program has a current default rate of 2.6 % — and the public square thinks it was a $ 90 billion boondoggle with «half the companies out of business.»

On the other side, wind power, which use to more than double solar's new installed capacity each year before 2011, has been slowing down in Europe, the U.S. and China, in good part because of lack of clarity on energy policy.

Worldwide, solar and wind continue to be the fastest growing sources of new energy, both are growing at record - smashing double - digit rates every year, both set records for new generation capacity added in 2009.

China has been doubling its wind power capacity every year for the past five years.

Simply doubling the usable life of a lithium battery would be enough to start shifting battery storage of wind power into the break - even territory (increasing capacity and the ability to sustain larger drains would also help).

An earlier EWEA Tradewind study found that, for the 2020 medium scenario (200 GW, 12 % wind penetration), aggregating wind energy production from multiple countries strongly increased the capacity credit, the amount of capacity that can be relied on to meet peak demand, almost doubled it to 14 %, which they say corresponds to approximately 27 GW of firm power in the system.

But since «the wider the countries are geographically distributed, the higher the resulting capacity credit» if Europe is calculated as one wind energy production system and wind energy is distributed across many countries according to individual load profiles, the capacity credit almost doubles to a level of 14 %, which it says corresponds to approximately 27 GW of firm power in the system.