Sentences with phrase «electrical generating capacity»

and the kinetic energy:: «This is equivalent to about half the world - wide electrical generating capacity — also an amazing amount of energy being produced!»

US solar power capacity recently surpassed 10 gigawatts as the price of solar panels has fallen some 75 % during the past 5 years... Wind installations have surged past 60 gigawatts and non-hydro renewable energy sources accounted for more than 99 % of all new US electrical generating capacity installed during January.

In other words whereas 52 coal fired power stations would meet the average (scenario 2) demand, they will probably need around 200 GW of wind plus PV plus solar thermal plus biomass - gas - electrical generating capacity, when all energy costs and losses are taken into account.

The result: 192 beams carrying 1000 times more energy than the electrical generating capacity of all of the power plants in the USA.

In Europe, new electrical generating capacity from wind, solar, and other renewables now exceeds that from fossil fuels by a wide margin.

Scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) once worked out that the average hurricane released 200 times the energy overall of the entire electrical generating capacity of the world.

This would double its current electrical generating capacity of 1,200 megawatts from all sources.

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.

Drawing on the latest technologies, including those used by oil and gas companies in drilling and in enhanced oil recovery, the team estimated that enhanced geothermal systems could be used to develop 100,000 megawatts of electrical generating capacity in the United States by 2050, a capacity equal to 250 coal - fired power plants.

In Europe, the addition of electrical generating capacity from renewable energy sources in 2006 exceeded that from conventional sources, making it the first continent to enter the new energy era.

Based on a study from the U.S. Departments of Energy and Agriculture, we estimate that using forest and urban wood waste, as well as some perennial crops such as switchgrass and fast - growing trees on nonagricultural land, the United States could develop more than 40 gigawatts of electrical generating capacity by 2020, roughly four times the current level.

This is equal to 11 percent of U.K. electrical generating capacity.

Washington DC — According to the latest «Energy Infrastructure Update» report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Office of Energy Projects, wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower provided 88.2 % of new installed U.S. electrical generating capacity for the month of May.

Since January 1, 2012, renewable energy sources have accounted for nearly half (47.83 %) of all new installed U.S. electrical generating capacity followed by natural gas (38.34 %) and coal (13.40 %) with oil, waste heat, and «other» accounting for the balance.

Financial incentives for installing such electrical generating capacity in mills have not been sufficient due to the historically low cost of fossil fuels and have often been passed over in favor of systems powered by historically inexpensive fossil fuels.

Despite some moves toward renewable energy, about 60 percent of the country's electrical generating capacity relies on filthy coal burning, and the government appears determined to further develop the nation's coal industry.

This grid will enable Scotland to develop nearly 60,000 megawatts of off - shore wind generating capacity, close to the 85,000 megawatts of current electrical generating capacity for the United Kingdom.

Some new analysis done by Synapse Energy Economics, at the request of NRDC and Riverkeeper, shows that the state of New York could close the aging Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant, without needing to bring additional electrical generating capacity online until 2020, due a surplus of power capacity in the regions surrounding the plant.

A technical and economic analysis conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology estimates that enhanced geothermal systems could provide 10 percent of the nation's overall electrical generating capacity by 2050.

Currently 435 nuclear reactors operate around the world, with an electrical generating capacity of approximately 370 gigawatts (GW), providing about 17 percent of the world's electricity.

12 We're going to need a bigger windmill: A typical hurricane releases some 600 trillion watts of heat energy, equivalent to 200 times the world's total electrical generating capacity.

A typical hurricane releases some 600 trillion watts of heat energy, equivalent to 200 times the world's total electrical generating capacity.

The intense light pulses, with a peak power that briefly exceeds the electrical generating capacity of the entire United States, also sparked fleeting bits of antimatter in their wake.

In 2007 the entire electrical generating capacity of the United States was just a bit more than 1 trillion watts.

Countries around the world are richly endowed with renewable energy, in some cases enough to easily double their current electrical generating capacities.

Not exact matches

Solar power still amounts to less than 1 % of the nation's electrical - generating capacity — coal produces about 40 % — and its proportion will stay in the low single digits until it becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.

Transmission upgrades and efficiency measures already are in service, Cuomo said, adding that other generation resources ready to come online by 2021 will help generate more than enough electrical power to replace Indian Point's capacity.

«Iberian Peninsula's geothermal power can generate current electrical capacity five times over.»

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

A capacity factor measures the amount of electricity actually produced by a generating unit compared to the electrical energy that could have been produced at continuous full power operation.

As a means of producing useful electrical power, wind and solar are very expensive generating technologies because of their low capacity factors and because of their non-dispatchability and intermittency.

By co-incidence, at typical Atlantic hurricane generates wind energy at a rate comparable to global electrical generation capacity.

AIA lists the ambitions set for the building: «1) to create the best possible learning environment by providing exceptional daylighting, views, indoor air quality, and thermal comfort; 2) to make the sustainable design strategies a visible part of the students» education by developing the site as a teaching tool with natural drainage and native and food - producing plants; 3) to inspire and excite the community about the possibilities of sustainable design and in turn generate support and private funding; 4) to reach net - zero electricity use through exceptional efficiency and adding photovoltaic (PV) capacity to meet the remaining electrical demand; and 5) to reach these goals with only a modest cost premium.»

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.