Sentences with phrase «electricity generated at»

In fact, the actual electricity generated at nuclear power plants fell 5 percent between 2006 and 2011.

With the most recent deal, approved this month by the Public Service Commission, the utility eventually will be bringing in 404 megawatts of electricity generated at wind farms in Oklahoma and Kansas.

To avert power shortages, Germany currently has to import large amounts of electricity generated at nuclear power plants in France and the Czech Republic.

The expected electricity generated at full capacity is enough to meet the consumption of up to 46,000 average Nevada homes.

Between 2007 and 2015, the amount of electricity generated at coal - fired power plants declined more than 30 percent.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

Electricity generated at Ananthapuramu Solar Park will be sold under a 25 - year PPA to the Solar Energy Corporation of India, at levelized tariff rate of INR 4.79 ($ 0.075) / kWh.

Community solar is an efficient and affordable new model of solar energy that allows participants to buy a fraction of the electricity generated at large off - site solar facilities.

If a reader has the $ / kW (stated), discount rate (assume 8 %), capacity factor (missing) and projected years of operation (stated) one can use my worksheet «A Financial Worksheet for Computing the Cost (US cents / kWh) of Solar Electricity Generated at Grid Connected Photovoltaic (PV) Generating Plants» that was published in the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, August, 2002, Vol.

We need a new vision of the electric generation, transmission and distribution system rather than one that moves electricity generated at remote locations, arriving at the point of end use... with a loss of 67 percent of otherwise valuable thermal energy.

DC electricity generated at a residence is used to operate an inverter, which is designed so as to maintain phase with grid - supplied AC.

That proposal, which is being called Reforming the Energy Vision, or REV, would change how electric utilities operate and allow consumers to sell electricity they generate at home into the wholesale markets.

Only the first 4,000 projects registered in the next three years will qualify: The new tariff for wind, solar, hydro and combined heat and power project sets the rate program participants will receive for the electricity they generate at $ 0.19 ($ 0.26) per kilowatt - hour.

Not exact matches

But the math only works in places with so - called «net metering» laws, which require utilities to buy the electricity rooftop panels generate at prices far above what they pay for centralized power.

Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

Instead, the net metering rate will be set at wholesale prices — even though the utility doesn't have to pay for any of the solar panels» hardware or maintenance, and transmission costs are negligible, since the electricity is being generated close to where it is used.

If I do so, I'm pretty sure I'll also get the Tesla Powerwall battery system to store excess solar power - generated electricity for use at night or whenever conditions are suboptimal.

We typically focus on initiatives and activities that can have the greatest impact given the specific nature of our operations, such as our wind and solar farms to generate electricity and our frustration - free packaging initiatives, but we also have innumerable large and small initiatives underway at any point in time, as we seek to constantly invent across the company.

Their technology enables the sale of surplus renewable energy generated at residential and commercial developments (including multi - unit / multi-tenanted) and at homes and businesses connected to existing electricity distribution networks, or within micro-grids.

The power is generated through rooftop solar panels owned and operated by Singapore's Sun Electric, the first solar company given an electricity retail licence, it was announced at an event held by Sun Electric and Singapore's electricity regulator, the Energy Market Authority (EMA).

At one point this year, global prices for metallurgical coal (used to make steel) tripled, while prices for thermal coal (used to generate electricity) doubled.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

We designed and installed special biomass furnaces at our mills that use a natural by - product of coffee production to generate electricity.

You can also demonstrate flow, pouring, measuring and the turning of water wheels (which later at GCSE then can lead onto generating electricity).

At all of our sanctuaries with nature centers, we generate electricity by using photovoltaic arrays, which harness energy from the sun.

This can be direct income to the Government as the Plant may continue to generate electricity at 4.5 c / kWh while the Government can make additional profit of at least 3.5 c / kwh for the next 15 - 20 years.

It was not about some breakthrough in the negotiations, but about a new initiative to deliver at least 300 gigawatts of electricity - generating capacity to Africa by 2030, all from clean or renewable energy.

And the $ 16.7 million pales next to the $ 495 million from the New York Power Authority — funds literally generated upstate at the Niagara and Fitzpatrick Power projects — that was supposed to go to reduce electricity costs for the few remaining industries upstate, figuratively and literally turning out the lights for thousands of upstate workers and their families.

The installation at the site of the former Town of Ulster landfill is expected to generate 2,360 MWh of clean electricity each year, roughly equivalent to the electricity generated by burning 2 million pounds of coal or 4,000 barrels of oil.

This provides over twice the electricity needed to replace the 2,000 megawatts generated at Indian Point.

It currently estimated that Ghana imports about 185 megawatts of power from Cote d'Ivoire and according to the electricity sector players, Côte d'Ivoire generates thermal power at the cost of 9 cents per kilowatt hour and sells it to Ghana for 11 cents.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed on Wednesday at Governor's office, Ibadan, is targeted at generating 1,000 megawatts of electricity and providing independent power plants across the zones of the state.

«They have banks of flywheels at each station to capture and re-use the electricity generated when their trains come into the station.»

A prototype metal - free flow battery developed by engineer Michael Aziz and colleagues at Harvard University relies on the electrochemistry of naturally abundant, small organic molecules to store electricity generated from renewable, intermittent energy sources.

A plume also carries static electricity — the separation of positive and negative charges — so «these large ash clouds from eruptions like Puyehue - Cordón Caulle can generate their own lightning,» says Erik Klemetti, assistant professor of geosciences at Denison University.

The differences between wind turbine and ceiling fan blades arise from the contrasting design criteria: the wind turbine is intended to capture high - velocity wind to generate electricity efficiently; the ceiling fan needs to move air at low velocity with inexpensive components.

Thanks to a two cents per kilowatt - hour production incentive from the U.S. government, they are being built at a rate that will increase the amount of wind - generated electricity by nearly three gigawatts a year.

Researchers are proposing a new «hydricity» concept aimed at creating a sustainable economy by not only generating electricity with solar energy but also producing and storing hydrogen from superheated water for round - the - clock power production.

Researchers at Harvard, for example, are perfecting an organic flow battery that can store a full day's production of electricity from solar or wind farms, a development that could play a key role in integrating variable electrical generating sources into the grid.

At the same time, nuclear reactors are still the only option for generating electricity on a large scale with no carbon emissions.

Most electricity in the United States is generated at power plants that run on coal and natural gas — fossil fuels that contribute significantly to global warming by emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide.

A new technology might be able to strip the CO2 from power plant emissions, and generate more electricity at the same time

But such reactors still require the same electricity - generating, safety, and waste disposal systems as the hulking light - water reactors presently being built as well as identical rigorous licensing requirements, at least in the U.S. — and that may cost them.

Hyperion hopes to demonstrate its reactor, capable of generating 25 megawatts of electricity, at the Savannah River National Laboratory in South Carolina.

Sutley, for her part, came to the post after a four - year stint as a deputy mayor in Los Angeles, where she also oversaw climate change and energy policy, including restraining emissions from diesel trucks at area ports as well as promoting solar energy by setting a goal of generating 10 percent of the city's electricity from the sun by 2020.

At the Materials Research Society meeting here, two groups reported yesterday that these new electricity - generating materials can produce laser light.

Those cars charge up their batteries with electricity generated when the car brakes and then used that «recycled» energy to power their electric motors, which take over from the vehicle's gasoline engine at low speeds and in stop - and - go traffic.

At latest count, the Letterly substation alone is saving SEPTA up to $ 60,000 per year in electricity bills and generating about $ 200,000 in revenue via the frequency regulation market.

At night the hydrogen and oxygen could be used by a fuel cell to generate electricity.