Sentences with phrase «electricity demand did»

At the same time, electricity demand did not increase.

Not exact matches

This summer, it's piloting a fuel - cell unit that stores energy chemically but can convert it back into electricity on demand without wearing out, like batteries do.

The African average growth rate predicted by the world bank and IMF is 3 per cent and for Ghana they predict 3.3 per cent, I'm more bullish, I believe that Ghana will grow closer to 4 per cent, maybe between 3.8 and 4 per cent, and we predict that in 2017, Ghana's economy is going to grow by about 6 per cent, and, so, this country is doing well, we have resolved the power crisis, we've been able to match demand to supply and so the electricity crisis that hit us is gradually becoming a thing of the past.

«Unlike electricity, with which we are familiar, we don't have a way of renewably making, storing and accessing heat on demand,» said Grossman.

But Koomey also offers major caveat: The study doesn't consider the potential for electricity demand to rise more than expected should electric vehicles catch on, he notes.

When generators fail, as they did last winter in Texas, controllers lean on «demand - response customers» — large electricity users, like factories, that are paid to be on call, ready to use a little less or even shut everything off at a moment's notice.

What else could be done with A$ 400 million if there really was going to be a demand for another megawatts of electricity?

So «while there is a strong demand for the additional power,» Japan's electricity providers must integrate the new generation in a way that doesn't compromise their ability to deliver reliable power or drive up prices for consumers, he said.

And the power grid could be modernized to use cheaper, greener fuels such as sunlight or wind even on days when the sun doesn't shine bright enough or the wind doesn't blow hard enough to meet electricity demand.

But at the turn of the 20th century, the introduction of electricity and the widespread adoption of capital - intensive technologies boosted the demand for skilled mechanics, technicians, clerks — people who could read manuals and do algebra.

I did agree, but additionally made the point that this is something that will become less and less true over the coming years; in responding you've shifted the argument to electricity generation not being able to keep up with demand.

I am amazed that hundreds of wind turbines and wind turbine farms are being discussed before any serious studies have been done on how electricity demand could be reduced, which in turn of course would reduce the number of wind turbines needed!

Progressive utilities are assisting customers to the extent they can with these systems, because incrementally capitalizing grid tie can be attractive compared to capitalizing monolithic generation plants and because they do not demand an ongoing input of money for the electricity they generate.

But conditions don't seem nearly as ripe for approving such investments and infrastructure in more crowded regions, where demand for electricity is highest, according to Matt Wald's latest article on wind and the grid.

Through appropriate building design, behavioural change and demand management (this does not mean living like a cave - man, just using resources efficiently) and appropriate matching of energy source with demand (i.e using solar radiation, not brown coal fired electricity for water heating), it is possible to eliminate these emissions completely.

Anti-nuclear propagandists later claimed it wasn't their doing but rather lower demand, but electricity demand rose almost as much in the 70s as it had in the 60s.

The real question is does Ontario have significantly much more supply or is way outside the margin of the supply / demand balance versus other electricity markets around the world.

The United States faces a vexing challenge in switching from conventional to clean sources to generate electricity: How do we replace fossil fuel when natural gas costs $ 4 per million BTU and demand for electricity is expected to increase by over 20 % by 2035?

There is evidence that the Midwest is steadily decarbonizing its electricity generation through a combination of new state - level policies (for example, energy efficiency and renewable energy standards) and will continue to do so in response to low natural gas prices, falling prices for renewable electricity (for example, wind and solar), greater market demand for lower - carbon energy from consumers, and new EPA regulations governing new power plants.

Finally, they gave a nod to energy efficiency, which doesn't produce electricity but, by lowering demand, would make it easier to meet the 50 percent goal.

It can be both costly and difficult to meet demand when it's high — such as hot summer afternoons when homeowners and businesses are running their air conditioning on full blast — but not doing so will result in less reliable electricity service for everyone.

They do nt need storage to make baseload obsolete — all they need is to produce more electricity than the demand.

Why do you think it is important for companies to help increase demand for renewable electricity?

In another study focusing on Denmark, Mathiesen et al 2010 found that not only could the country meet 85 % of its electricity demands with renewable sources by 2030 and 100 % by 2050 (63 % from wind, 22 % from biomass, 9 % from solar PV), but the authors also concluded doing so may be economically beneficial:

Depending on market conditions, shale drillers can speed up production or wind it down, just as an electricity supplier does to meet changes in demand.

Many more RE100 members are going further and faster in their transition to 100 % renewable electricity, realizing the business benefits of doing so and helping to grow demand for clean energy.

To your knowledge, does California have enough regulatory authority to demand PG&E replace Diablo Canyon only with the renewables and with energy conservation measures; and further, to directly and explicitly prevent PG&E from placing greater reliance on natural gas for servicing California's electricity demand?

The most direct method may be to shift away from the tried and true method of economic dispatch (satisfying electricity demand with the generators that can do it at lowest cost) and adopting a new method of environmental dispatch.

The Free Market at work: If solar PV panel prices fall (now being projected) to $.50 / watt and it makes sense for Do It Yourselfers like me to erect solar $ 1 / watt PV on, say, 100 million roofs and backyards — which WILL make a serious dent in electricity demand — then hey, let the games begin.

Does California have enough regulatory authority to demand PG&E replace Diablo Canyon only with the renewables and with energy conservation measures; and further, to directly and explicitly prevent PG&E from placing greater reliance on natural gas for servicing California's electricity demand?

If the supply of electricity doesn't keep pace with demand, brownouts or blackouts will result.

Last month, the California Independent System Operator quietly announced that it could face a record - breaking need for curtailments — paying, or forcing, generators to stop pumping electricity into a transmission grid that just doesn't have the demand for it at the time.

And I've done posts on the generation mix and additional transmission requirements to meet the National Electricity Market's (NEMs) demand profile in a given year.

It doesn't track demand by end user — «All we do is get a schedule in that says to deliver 100 megawatts of electricity to four hours to a particular substation.»

Similarly, on the demand — or customer — side, the idea is that Californians, buildings, appliances and electric vehicles create an intricate, synergetic web that can be made more efficient and flexible with customer education and empowerment, customer - focused energy pricing policies and demand - response programs (which allows customers to voluntarily reduce peak electricity use in response to a signal from their electric utilities and receive a payment for doing so).

Growth in the power sector is due to increased demand for electricity, but natural gas's share does not increase as coal and renewable energy also compete for the power sector market.

Parker Gallant and Scott Luft have both looked at the report from the Independent Electricity System Operator or IESO, and found that not only was demand at an all - time low that month (the lowest since the IESO began keeping records) but also that curtailed wind power (power we pay the wind power developers for, but do not accept on the grid because it isn't needed) was at an all - time high.

That could mean that electricity demand in most U.S. regions will peak in the winter — not during the summer as it does now — if no efforts actively manage loads.

That precisely regulated, always on electricity at your wall outlet doesn't exist in nature, we make it, on demand, in our power plants.

And renewables capacity additions have nothing to do with meeting actual electricity demand, Jim D.

Electricity grids collapse if supply does not exactly balance demand at all times.

Solar can't produce electricity at night, but as we've seen in Germany and Australia it doesn't take a lot of solar capacity to start pushing down electricty prices during the day and that is very bad for the economics of nuclear power as it's a high capital cost, low fuel cost source of energy and reducing output during periods of low demand doesn't do much to reduce costs.

o How do you think the increasing future demand for electricity can be satisfied?

The U.S. Energy Information Administration's (EIA) reference case scenario, illustrates that the demand for new electricity generating capacity doesn't reach 2013 levels until about 2025.

«Zero - Carbon Buildings» do not reduce peak demand on the national electricity grid, building energy efficiency does.

The demand for financial resources to finance solutions is huge - $ 2,100 billion for power generation in developing countries alone in the next 30 years, and that to do little more than keep pace with population growth, leaving far too many still without electricity.

A part of the problem of the pseudo-random variability of supply and demand could be overcome by introducing Supply Dependent Load, which is discussed in my Sustainable Electricity page and hydropower could also be used to balance generation and consumption (as is done very effectively with wind power in Denmark balanced by hydropower from Norway).

However, emissions associated with the company's electricity and heating & cooling demands (Scope 2) do not fall within this category.

CPG offers an interesting bonus as well: electricity generated from the sun or the wind often gets wasted as demand does not meet the supply.

They're interested in ameliorating climate change IF it doesn't impact their electric bill significantly, IF electricity is fully available on demand 24/7, IF it doesn't disrupt in any significant manner their present lifestyle, etc..