Sentences with phrase «electricity generating capacity»

In late June 2008, President Mwai Kibaki announced a plan to install some 1,700 megawatts of new geothermal capacity within 10 years — 13 times greater than the current capacity and one - and - a-half times greater than the country's total electricity generating capacity from all sources.

This accounted for only 3.4 % of Ontario's electricity generating capacity, but represented 20 % of the total commodity cost of electricity in the province.

Fifteen gigawatts of electricity generating capacity is scheduled for closure by the end of 2016.

There would; probably be a need for sufficient biomass - electricity generating capacity to meet almost all demand apart from hydro and geothermal.

With a fifth of the UK's electricity generating capacity expiring in the next decade, we have a golden opportunity to replace it with something better.

2 Small - scale solar photovoltaic systems are electricity generators with less than one megawatt of electricity generating capacity that are usually at or near the location where the electricity is consumed.

Includes utility - scale electricity generation, which is electricity generation from power plants with at least one megawatt (or 1,000 kilowatts) of total electricity generating capacity.

The 9,600 megawatts of wind installed in the European Union (EU) in 2011 accounted for more than 20 percent of the bloc's new electricity generating capacity.

France imports most of it's crude oil consumption and has vast idle off - peak nuclear electricity generating capacity.

Additionally, the electricity generating capacity of the state will be almost entirely replaced and then doubled, and all with near zero - emission technology.

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.

Canada has the cleanest, most renewable electricity generation system in the G7, and the fourth largest renewable electricity generating capacity in the world.

Critically, the use of flexible base resources would allow the total amount of electricity generating capacity to be «right sized» to demand.

An historical summary of installed electricity generating capacity in Turkey is shown in Table 9.

The chart below shows total electricity generating capacity in China.

As a result, California today has a large amount of excess electricity generating capacity without being able to know if much of it will be available from day to day and week to week.

Coal currently provides nearly 60 percent of India's of total installed electricity generating capacity of 330GW, but the government projects it will decline substantially as solar power ramps up.

The UK has enough electricity generating capacity to cover demand throughout the cold winter months, according to National Grid.

Kenya's also betting big on wind, with Africa's largest wind farm (310 MW) set to provide another 20 percent of the country's installed electricity generating capacity.

More new wind electricity generating capacity was added in 2012 than any other generation technology, including natural gas — a record 13,100 megawatts.

In a detailed study, APERC concluded that excess electricity generating capacity could be efficiently shared between the three countries.

So, unless you can provide figures showing that hydro generating capacity as a proportion of total electricity generating capacity is growing faster now than ever before, I still say the claim of «unprecedented boom in hydropower dam construction is underway» is BS.

The installed generating capacity of solar panels (4,000,000 MW) needed to meet the NEM's demand, if only one day of energy storage is available, is equal to the world's total electricity generating capacity (4,000,000 MW).

We're looking to replace 673,516 kW of CO2 - emitting electricity generating capacity with non CO2 emitting capacity.

In 2016, Philippines announced its ambitious plan to construct over 150 micro plants with an increasing electricity generating capacity approximately by 50 MW.

Consequently, there are now 17 nuclear power stations around the earthquake - prone Japanese archipelago, comprising 54 nuclear reactors that provide 30 percent of Japan's total electricity generating capacity.

(For reference, the total U.S. electricity generating capacity in 2012 was just 1,063 gigawatts.)

According to Wind Power in Europe, wind energy was not only the leading source of new electricity generation in 2014 (representing 44 per cent of new installed capacity), it has been the largest source of new electricity generating capacity in Europe over the last 15 years.

The UNEP report, compiled by Ulf Moslener of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Germany, found that 44 percent of added electricity generating capacity went into renewables in 2013 — a figure that exceeded 50 percent if direct replacement for existing power stations is excluded.

The net result is that renewables now account for 24 % of the world's electricity generating capacity.

Nonetheless, the global explosion in solar power is a major reason why almost half of all new electricity generating capacity coming on stream last year was from renewables.

PV module electricity generating capacity increases with the number of cells in the module or in the surface area of the module.

Peabody states that «the Company currently has no electricity generating capacity in place.

China plans to raise its total installed nuclear power generating capacity to 70 GW by 2020 and to raise the proportion of China's nuclear power to 5 % of the total installed electricity generating capacity by 2020.

The IPCC press release states «Of the around 300 Gigawatts (GW) of new electricity generating capacity added globally between 2008 and 2009, 140 GW came from renewable energy.»

PV Magazine reports that NREL's new analysis of the technical potential of solar photovoltaics and concentrating solar power in the US places the total amount that can be installed just under 200,000 GW, capable of generating just under 400,000 Terawatt - hours annually — hugely exceeding the electricity generating capacity of the US for 2010 of 4,125 TWh.

The first, recently highlighted by the American Wind Energy Association, involves where the U.S. is adding new electricity generating capacity.

Building the additional electricity generating capacity needed to meet peak heat demand is simply unaffordable.

Not exact matches

But that capacity is only used 30 % to 40 % of the time, meaning gas generates only a quarter of the electricity actually used.

Last year, new photovoltaic panels installed in the U.S. had the capacity to generate up to 4.2 gigawatts of electricity, about as much as four nuclear reactors.

The only reason Ontario hasn't seen serious electricity shortages (or had to rely on expensive non-base generating capacity) over the last few years is because Ontario's economy was conveniently crippled by a recession.

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.

There is also the issue of built - in capacity redundancy both of production and transportation of the electricity generated by wind and solar, let alone the thorny question of storage.

«These cities are test cases» Georgetown owns the utility that controls electricity distribution, but the city doesn't have any generating capacity — it retired its last plant in 1945.

THE world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

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.

The world added more solar capacity in 2017 than all new coal, gas and nuclear electricity - generating plants combined.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates at least 500 gigawatts of electricity - generating capacity could be harvested this way — or 1.5 times more than the entire U.S. fleet of coal - fired power plants.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

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