Sentences with phrase «electricity demanded at»

They are jointly operated to supply exactly the amount of electricity demanded at any given time.

Response: The voltage on a power grid is held in equilibrium by insuring that the electricity produced equals the electricity demanded at every instant.

Furthermore, close monitoring of Germany's ability to meet electricity demand at peak times should continue in the medium term.

Not exact matches

On concerns about power use, Bakken said his personal electricity bill had risen 5 percent from charging his car at home and fears of surge demand were overblown.

The PSC offered a truly staggering look at the electricity demand that cryptocurrency has created in the region, saying that in some communities cryptocurrency mining requires «thousands of times more electricity than an average residential customer would use» (emphasis PSC).

Toward debtor countries American diplomats work through the World Bank and IMF to demand that debtors raise their interest rates and impose taxes and austerity programs to keep their wages low, sell off their public domain to pay their foreign debts, and deregulate their economy so as to enable foreign investors to privatize local electricity, telephone services and other infrastructure formerly provided at subsidized rates to help these economies grow.

Although the sun is at a similar angle in September and October, electricity demand is still relatively high, leading to lower solar generation shares than seen in March.

The units at NRG's Oswego Steam Station, where the company said 82 people work, operate only on the coldest or hottest days of the year, when there is a peak demand for electricity.

The increase in demand for electricity, reduction in the quantity of water at the Akosombo Dam, irregular gas supply from the West Africa Gas Pipeline Company in Nigeria, irregular maintenance programmes and late procurement of crude oil to power generation plants, have conspired to plunge the country in the current power crisis.

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has announced that the country will enjoy stable power supply in the coming weeks as Ghana's electricity generation capacity now exceeds demand at peak periods.

Mr Okyere said GRIDCo had forecast peak demand to be at 2,523 MW for 2018 based on factors such as VALCO's operation of two potlines, the power supply to Burkina Faso and network expansion and rural electrification programmes for Electricity Company of Ghana and the Northern Electricity Company.

This is the most valuable part of the curve, as electricity prices are highest at the period of highest demand.»

Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power consumption in homes at peak periods of demand, when wholesale electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.

Utilities can substantially reduce their disruption costs, as well as social costs, by continuing to supply at least a small amount of electricity to serve HP demands during outages.

«In the future I see an at - home, disaggregated system, with the home like a brain, with supply and demand of electricity being generated in that home.»

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.

Arias says Torresol can either run the plant until the battery is exhausted, or it can modulate the power of the turbine during darkness so it is at its maximum between 11 and 11.30 pm, when electricity demand — and price — peaks, «so we are able to reach the next day without stopping the turbine».

How it works: Electric vehicles can double as batteries plugged into the grid, saving up power at night when electricity demand is low.

The U.S. Department of Energy estimates that this switch would reduce electricity demand for lighting by 62 percent and avoid the need for at least 133 new power plants.

That's because electricity must be produced at the same second it is consumed and utilities must precisely match supply and demand.

Here was a technology that allowed the company to recycle the vanadium from its soot and flatten out fluctuations in demand for its electricity at the same time.

When demand for electricity dies down at night, power generated by the wind turbines will be used to pump water from the lower reservoir back to the upper reservoir, replenishing it.

So there's this idea of peak demand for water, like we are familiar with peak demand for electricity at certain times and lower demand at certain times where we can level those things out to make the whole system more efficient.

Researchers have increasingly sought alternatives to semiconductor - based electronics over the past decade as the increases in speed and density of microprocessors come at the expense of greater demands on electricity and hotter circuits.

In July last year, in an attempt to reduce demand for elec - tricity, a group of power companies offered the prize to the first company to build a prototype fridge that would use at least 25 per cent less electricity than current standards demand while using no ozone - depleting CFCs.

The infant solar power companies, however, must gain their foothold by taking business away from the incumbent and politically powerful coal, natural gas and nuclear power providers, at a time when overall growth in U.S. electricity demand is still slowed by an underperforming economy.

The added value means that at peak demands, CSP can help lower electricity bills.

At the same time, old, inefficient «peaker» units — so - called because they run no more than 77 hours a year when electricity demand in the state is at its highest — will be shut down or replaced by newer natural gas — fired turbineAt the same time, old, inefficient «peaker» units — so - called because they run no more than 77 hours a year when electricity demand in the state is at its highest — will be shut down or replaced by newer natural gas — fired turbineat its highest — will be shut down or replaced by newer natural gas — fired turbines.

He notes that unlike electricity from many other renewable sources, power from the batteries could be held back and used at times of peak demand.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

During the 494th Brookhaven Lecture, Matthew Eisaman explained solar cells» important role in meeting the world's energy demands, the U.S. Department of Energy's SunShot Initiative to reduce the cost of solar cell - generated electricity by 2020, and solar cell research at Brookhaven Lab.

It looks at where and when electricity will be generated by wind, solar and other plants, and at the demand from large users such as supermarkets.

«For the first time, we were able to apply data at a high enough resolution to be relevant,» said ORNL's Melissa Allen, co-author of «Impacts of Climate Change on Sub-regional Electricity Demand and Distribution in the Southern United States,» published in Nature Energy.

The ESBWR planned for North Anna Power Station would generate 1,520 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 375,000 homes at peak demand.

Sometimes Project DIVA Future Tone demands multiple buttons are pressed and / or held down at the exact same time, and for whatever reason the game relays this information by creating a shrinking box made of electricity that quickly encapsulates the required buttons.

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.

Electricity generated by regenerative braking may be fed back into the traction power supply; either offset against other electrical demand on the network at that instant, used for head end power loads, or stored in lineside storage systems for later use.

Although it will not be available on the US models at the time of launch, the Brake Energy Regeneration feature ensures that the output coming from the engine is converted primarily into drive power, with electricity being generated for the on - board network only when the engine's drive power is not in demand; for example, when the car is rolling freely in overrun (engine braking) or during application of the brakes.

It can move the car entirely on battery power at modest acceleration during an initial launch from a stop or at other times under low torque demand and when slowing the car by regenerating electricity back into the 1.3 - kWh lithium - ion battery.

A lot of the systems design that people are looking at — like Christopher Clack — even if you can get the renewables up to 80 percent, then you have a piece there probably natural gas «peakers» [power plants that run in periods of high electricity demand], at least based on current technology, are way cheaper than any [energy] storage.

The task of simply substituting for fossil fuels on a 1:1 energy replacement basis will be much too difficult, e.g. not enough roof area for solar panels at current electricity demand, but delivering a set of services that require lower energy makes a solar building practical.

With average electricity demand rising annually at 1.5 % -2 % and peak demand rising at around double that rate in some sections of the country (and remember that majority of the generating and T&D capacity is dedicated to meeting peak demand for a few hours each year)... we need to approach the electricity issue not only by considering the generating side of the equation but careful consideration of the rest of the pieces as well.

I think, to spur its development, we need electricity pricing that encourages investment in load - shifting, a guaranteed return for delivering a megawatt - hour at peak demand for more than it costs at the time of peak excess supply.

As for the notion that you need to put up wind turbines at a greater height to capture the increased wind speeds, Dabiri notes that wind speeds at lower altitudes are sufficient to supply several times the world's electricity demand.

OhmConnect is a free service that acts somewhat like a virtual power plant, except that instead of generating energy, it works with the user's devices to reduce demand at times when electricity consumption is at a peak, which can help utilities to avoid having to bring a «peaker plant» online to cover the extra demand.

«In the frigid opening days of 2009, Britain's electricity demand peaked at 59 gigawatts (GW).

Leaving aside the Indian government's stated determination to end coal imports in the next few years (at least for the large public sector), what's happening to actual demand for coal - fired electricity.

At the same time, electricity demand did not increase.

The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.

At the same time the shift in fuels for electricity generation began lowering the carbon intensity of electricity in the region, demand for electricity in the Northeast became stagnant or started declining.