Sentences with phrase «electric generating capacity»

Renewables made up just over half of total net additions to electric generating capacity from all sources in 2012.»

Out of its total 28,019 MW of electric generating capacity in 2005 (2.63 % of the U.S. total), Progress Energy produced 39.2 % from natural gas, 28.3 % from coal, 15.9 % from oil, 15.7 % from nuclear, and 0.8 % from hydroelectricity.

AWEA reveled in the fact that wind was the largest source of new electric generating capacity in 2015, representing 41 % percent of all new electric power placed in service for the year.

World electrical demand doubles, requiring construction of nearly 5,000 gigawatts of new generating capacity, equivalent to adding six times current United States electric generating capacity.

Growth in wind - powered electric generating capacity slowed in 2010, increasing by 11 % from 2009 after increasing 40 % on an average annual basis from 2005 - 2009.

The fact is that over the last five years, wind power has added more new electric generating capacity in the USA than coal and nuclear combined — in spite of the fact that both coal and nuclear have enjoyed large, and permanent public subsidies, while subsidies for wind have been small, short - term and therefore unreliable.

Over the past few years, wind, solar, and natural gas have made up nearly all new electric generating capacity in the U.S. And earlier this year, wind energy surpassed conventional hydropower to become the country's largest renewable resource, with enough installed to power 25 million homes.

At least two critics have challenged the authorsí use of new coal - fired electric generating capacity as a basis for comparing their estimate of the cost of new wind energy - based generation.

Installed electric generating capacity in the Caribbean exceeds 17 gigawatts (GW).

Worldwide, nuclear power generation actually declined in 2008 while wind electric generating capacity increased by 27,000 megawatts, enough to supply 8 million American homes.

As a result, the Southern California area will be short of electric generating capacity.

As of 2010, 54 % of U.S. electric generating capacity already have FGDs installed.

The research and investments have led to sharply higher electric generating capacity and reduced cost to a point where renewable energy is nearly competitive with natural gas, said Jesse Jenkins, director of energy and climate policy at the Breakthrough Institute.

Out of its total 11,159 megawatts (MW) of U.S. electric generating capacity in 2005 (1.05 % of the U.S. total), E.ON produces 74.8 % from coal, 22.8 % from natural gas, 1.4 % from oil, and 1.0 % from hydroelectricity.

Subsidiary E.ON Energie is one of Germany's top two power companies (running neck and neck with RWE), with some 12 million electricity, natural gas, and water customers in Central Europe; the unit also has about 28,200 MW of electric generating capacity and serves energy customers throughout continental Europe.

Utility companies retired nearly 18,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity in 2015, about 80 percent of which was conventional coal - fired power plants, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said this week.

Industry Overview MENR has planned for a very large increase in electric generating capacity over the next twenty years.

This would account for 45 % of total additions and exceed capacity additions from any other fuel source, including natural gas, which was the leading fuel source for electric generating capacity additions in 2010 and 2011.

For the first time ever, solar ranked as the No. 1 source of new electric generating capacity, accounting for 39 percent of new capacity additions in 2016.

EIA expects nearly 32 gigawatts (GW) of new electric generating capacity will come online in the United States in 2018, more than in any year over the past decade.

Planned coal - fired capacity additions from a number of countries in and around the Middle East will add 41 gigawatts (GW) of new electric generating capacity over the next decade, based on announced projects and projects currently in the permitting process.

Nearly 18 gigawatts (GW) of electric generating capacity was retired in 2015, a relatively high amount compared with recent years.

(1) sufficient electric generating capacity using clean energy technologies to meet the energy needs of the United States;

Out of its total 13,041 MW of electric generating capacity in 2005 (1.22 % of the U.S. total), DTE Energy produces 61.3 % from coal, 16.4 % from natural gas, 11.7 % from oil, 9.3 % from nuclear, and 0.2 % from biomass.

Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of capacity additions (what electric generating capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations); generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm power prices, energy prices, capacity prices, allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions; fuel consumption for different fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI power grids.

At the end of 2010, hydro represented 24 of the 25 oldest operating power facilities in the United States and 72 % of all electric generating capacity more than 60 years old.

The Electricity Market Module (EMM) builds and dispatches electric generating capacity in twenty - two distinct geographic regions, as shown in Figure 1 and described in Table 1.18

Question 4: what would be the atmospheric CO2 consequences of an Apollo - like project to replace 25 % of America's fossil fuel powered electric generating capacity by PV power in 10 years?

Both China's electric generating capacity and its electricity generation doubled between 2005 and 2011.

Overall, utility - scale solar systems make up about 1.1 % of the total U.S. electric generating capacity, while distributed generation PV systems provide another 0.8 %.

The U.S. wind energy industry installed a record 13,124 megawatts (MW) of electric generating capacity in 2012, which brings the total wind power in the U.S. to 60,007 MW.

[3] Small power plants are defined as having an electric generating capacity less than 300 MW.

Out of its total 35,843 MW of electric generating capacity in 2005 (3.36 % of the U.S. total), AEP gets 69.0 % from coal, 22.2 % from natural gas, 6.4 % from nuclear, and 2.3 % from hydroelectricity.

Through December 2015, CSP made up 8 % of total U.S. solar electric generating capacity, while utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) made up 53 %, and distributed solar PV made up 38 %.

Over the past decade, world wind electric generating capacity grew at nearly 30 percent per year, its increase driven by its many attractive features and by public policies supporting its expansion.

This is the biggest problem with replacing Indian Point's electric generating capacity.

And in just the first nine months of 2015, solar accounted for 31 percent of all new electric generating capacity.

Not exact matches

The Company's portfolio of assets includes approximately 24,300 megawatt (MW) of generating capacity; 6,500 miles of electric transmission lines; 57,300 miles of electric distribution lines; 12,200 miles of natural gas transmission, gathering and storage pipeline, and 22,000 miles of gas distribution pipeline, exclusive of service lines.

The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.

Several groups of fish have evolved the capacity to generate electrical pulses from specialised «electric organs», derived from either muscle tissue or nerve tissue.

The offshore wind power potential in the U.S. is huge, totalling more than 4,000 gigawatts if fully developed — about four times today's total U.S. electric power generating capacity and enough electricity to power about 800 million homes, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

«(ii) include at least 2 electric generating units, each with a nameplate generating capacity of 250 megawatts or greater, that capture, inject, and sequester carbon dioxide into geologic formations other than oil and gas fields; and

Operating nuclear power reactors have a generating capacity of more than 380,000 megawatts of electric power.

It can be charged from any domestic power socket and has sufficient capacity to enable the car to travel up to 30 kilometres (19 miles) solely on electric power, generating zero local emissions in the process.

From the Pacific Northest National Laboratories: - «If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug - in hybrid

Utility - scale solar energy projects (defined for the Solar PEIS as facilities with a generation capacity of 20 MW or greater) generate electricity that is distributed to consumers through the electric power transmission grid.

To help track monthly generator activity, EIA has started publishing a monthly updated preliminary inventory of all major generating units in the United States (essentially all generators located at power plants with a total plant capacity of 1 MW or greater) as a supplement to the annually updated inventory in the EIA - 860 Annual Electric Generator Report.

The North American power pricing team takes a coast - to - coast look at the US electric power landscape, including forecast demand, generating capacity and prices for ERCOT, Cal - ISO and the PJM Interconnection.

Uprate: An increase in available electric generating unit power capacity due to a system or equipment modification.

-- This subsection shall apply only to projects at the first 6 gigawatts of electric generating units, measured in cumulative generating capacity of such units, that receive allowances under this section.