Sentences with phrase «electric demand»

The percentages reflect the assessment of the capacity value of wind at the time of peak electric demand (often late afternoon in the summertime).

With warmer summer weather and increased electric demand for air conditioning, demand will increase, requiring increased output from both coal - and natural gas - fired generators.

Also, total electric demand will grow more rapidly as dwindling oil supplies cause a big shift toward electrically powered equipment of all kinds.

This technical evolution is occurring at the same time that overall electric demand growth has been stagnant for several years and rising infrastructure requirements are putting upward pressure on the price of delivered electricity.

The evening hours electric demand should be provided from generators run on landfill methane and electricity generated by tidal energy.

Now, for some subset of that load, it's actually going to switch; renewable generation is going to drive electric demand.

No one expects wind and solar to entirely replace coal and gas generation without widespread deployment of energy storage, as well as means to manage and shift electric demand.

Rates are higher during the afternoon when electric demand is at its «peak» across all utility customers.

The light blue bars show how much of the total capacity the planners are willing to count on at the time of peak electric demand.

(The good news is that coal power was curtailed even more drastically, as expansion of electric demand slowed due to slower economic growth and energy efficiency improvements.)

New Spanish Wind Power Record: Wind Supplies 43 % of Spanish Electric Demand Spanish Wind Power Supplies 50 % of Demand Last Sunday Morning - # 1 Electricity Source in November

Likewise in Nicaragua, non-hydro renewables met 41 % of the nation's electricity needs (with wind providing roughly half of this), and Ireland, Portugal and Spain all met 19 % or more of annual electric demand with wind, on relatively isolated grids.

An offshore wind farm at the center of a LIPA plan to address spiking electric demand on the South Fork will produce excess energy when it's needed least, and fall short of a sharply expanding summer peak load, a recent analysis found.

EPA proposes to award extra emission allowances and emission rate credits to states that increase renewable electric generation and / or reduce electric demand in the two - year window before the start of the CPP compliance period (originally scheduled for 2022 - 2030).

In addition to the ongoing impact of low prices, bankruptcies and mine closures, year - end coal stockpiles at electric plants were the highest in 25 years, according to the Energy Information Administration, as the warmest winter on record for the U.S. was leading to lower than normal electric demand.

There is anecdotal evidence of «pent up» Focus Electric demand (yeah ok a few people on forums indicating that they are waiting for their 2015 Focus Electric to be built).

Currently, Spain has 16,000 MW of installed wind capacity, or 10 % of its total annualized electric demand, and plans to expand renewable generation to 40,000 MW over the next twelve years.

This chart highlights an autumn period in New England that does not, for example, display the additional electric demand for air conditioners (or heaters).

Environmentalists, meanwhile, say other industry - supported analyses failed to take into account the potential of electric demand reductions.

The supplying States have their own population increases, electric demand increases, silly CO2 and other emission regulations, and so on.

If electric demand remains relatively constant, as it has for the last decade, that would mean solar would be supplying more in the order of 15 - 16 % of all electricity around 2021 - 2022.

The Iowa Stored Energy Park has been proposed to store air in an underground geologic structure during time periods of low customer electric demand and high wind.

It became clear in the 1965 Northeast blackout, when a failure in Ontario blacked out New York City 11 minutes later, that growing electric demand had made regional issues important.

BOSTON, Sept 28 (Reuters)-- The densely populated U.S. East Coast could meet close to half its current electric demand by relying on offshore wind turbines, a study by an ocean conservation group found.

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The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) today announced that a total of $ 15.5 million in funding is available for energy storage projects that can support renewable energy technologies, save customers money, and ease peak electric demand burdens on the power grid.

Like most electric generators, nuclear reactor operators typically schedule maintenance in the spring and the fall to help ensure that the reactors are available to meet peak electric demand in the summer and winter.

Coal stockpile levels typically decline during summer and winter months as power plants burn through stocks to meet seasonal peak electric demand for cooling and heating load, respectively.

The corresponding battery storage unit will be used at times of high electric demand and during emergencies or power outages to support the college's designated emergency shelter for the campus and community at the college's Elting Gymnasium.

Planting trees provides more shade and cools the air, helping to lower energy costs and reduce peak electric demand.

The shutdown proposed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation, described in a document posted on its website, would occur from May 10 to Aug. 10, during the highest period of electric demand.

First they make daily forecasts of the next day's electric demand and supply down to every five minutes.

Another is electric demand.

It remains to be seen how long that will be a problem, as the ability of solar to meet Texas» electric demand — peak and otherwise — is just beginning.

SONGS played an important role in the electricity generation profile of the region as a result of its high output and location in the electric demand center of Southern California.

And so even with the decline in electric demand, it may be that 2017 will be remembered as the year when on a national scale solar and wind began to clearly dig into the market share of all forms of fossil fuel - fired generation.

For instance, if you have a fleet of electric vehicles and you have some flexibility in the time of the day you charge them, or you have a building that needs to be cooled but you can do some pre-cooling, you have windows of time for electric demand that can be aligned with renewable generation.

The traditional model has been that electric load (electric demand) drives electric generation... your factory turns on, and you have to turn on a fossil - fuel burning power plant.

Today's story describes how electric power system planners treat wind generators, recognizing that the wind necessary to achieve a turbine's full generating capacity may not be available at the time of peak electric demand.

If electric rates for homes varied by the time of day based on relative levels of demand then people and companies would shift more of their electric demand toward the late night even before significant numbers of hybrid vehicles hit the market.

The negative West Hub prices (see graph above) reflect the region's local oversupply of wind power compared to its electric demand and the inability to move the excess wind power to other areas with more demand.

Last year Denmark met 56 % of its electric demand with renewables, with wind alone providing 42 %.

The 1.5 - megawatt solar farm will be built on a 10 - acre site, and will produce enough energy to supply up to 30 % of the island's electric demand.

However, this has yet to be borne out over a full year, as during 2016 wind and solar met a combined total of 7.6 % of electric demand, and all renewables together met 15 % of demand.