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«The leadership shown by Alberta's government to replace two - thirds of existing coal - fired electricity generation capacity with renewable energy will greatly help the province in achieving its ambitious climate change objectives,» adds Hornung.

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Together with our partners, we work to add new generation capacity, connect homes, hospitals and businesses to the electricity grid and deliver power to communities who live beyond the national grid,» remarked Mr. Hendrix.

Build before Memory Runs Out Although individual consumer actions can help, major changes in carbon output will likely require better electricity - generation technologies, retiring much of the coal - fired capacity and replacing it with the most cost - effective combination of modern reactors, renewables and even clean coal.

Alberta is phasing out all pollution from coal - fired electricity generation (6,300 MW) by 2030 and renewable energy — mostly wind — will replace two thirds of it with renewable energy; expected to drive development of at least 4,000 MW of new wind energy capacity.

And the state's entire electricity - generation capacity would have to be doubled, while simultaneously being replaced with emissions - free generation.

When combined with thermal storage capacity of several hours of full - capacity generation, CSP plants can continue to produce electricity even when clouds block the sun, or after sundown or in early morning when power demand steps up.

Lastly, in a grid with 100 % renewable power production, the generation capacity would need to be ten times larger than the peak load, and excess electricity would surpass the EU annual electricity consumption.

In the case of a grid with 80 % renewables, the generation capacity needs to be six times larger than the peak load, while the excess electricity would be equal to 60 % of the EU's current annual electricity consumption.

Utility - scale solar energy projects (defined for the Solar PEIS as facilities with a generation capacity of 20 MW or greater) generate electricity that is distributed to consumers through the electric power transmission grid.

In addition, Section 211, of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109 - 58) provides that the Secretary of the Interior should, within 10 years of enactment of the Act,»... seek to have approved non-hydropower renewable energy projects located on the public lands with a generation capacity of at least 10,000 megawatts of electricity».

«Outside the OECD, coal generation in China, the centre of global coal demand, decreased in 2015 due to a reduction in electricity demand, coupled with an increased generation from hydro and nuclear.1 Despite the decrease in generation in 2015, 52 GW of coal - fired generation capacity was added in China in 2015, and roughly 150 GW is currently under construction.

The last plant built, SEGS IX, with a electricity generation capacity of 92 megawatts (MW), began operation in 1990.

-- In addition to the policy under paragraph (1), it is the policy of the United States that regional electric grid planning to meet these objectives should result from an open, inclusive and transparent process, taking into account all significant demand - side and supply - side options, including energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy and zero - carbon electricity generation technologies, smart - grid technologies and practices, demand response, electricity storage, voltage regulation technologies, high capacity conductors with at least 25 percent greater efficiency than traditional ACSR (aluminum stranded conductors steel reinforced) conductors, superconductor technologies, underground transmission technologies, and new conventional electric transmission capacity and corridors.

More wind energy has been built in Canada between 2006 and 2017 than any other form of electricity generation, with installed capacity growing by an average of 15 per cent per year between 2012 and 2017.

Albania is trying to increase its thermal generation capacity to cope with increased demand for electricity in the country, which has long depended almost solely on hydro plants for power generation.

In fact, thanks to the existing grid's excess capacity at night, it should be possible to support up to 30 percent of the nation's vehicles equipped with plug - in batteries of 20 - mile range and not have to expand electricity - generation.

And while Iowa is a distant second, with 3,700 megawatts of total wind capacity, at least 17 percent of its electricity generation comes from wind.

(Sec. 211) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Interior should, before the end of the 10 - year period beginning on enactment of this Act, seek to have approved non-hydropower renewable energy projects located on the public lands with a generation capacity of at least 10,000 megawatts of electricity.

IEEFA finds India's wind and solar energy costs have fallen 50 % to as low as $ 38 per megawatt hour (MWh) over the past two years, with renewable energy bids in new auctions costing 20 % less than the cost of wholesale electricity from existing Indian coal generation, and 30 - 50 % less than the required cost to justify new imported coal or liquefied natural gas capacity.

The small contribution of electricity Comparison of Estimated Electricity Output from Planned «Wind Farms» with Actual 1999 Output from Some of Reliant Energy and TXUís Newer, Existing Generating Plants * Company & Generating Plant Generating Units Capacity In MW ** Fuel Unit Type Generation (kWh) # TXU - FPL Wind Farm 242 160.0 Wind Wind Turbine 500,000,000 Reliant Wind Farm 160 208.0 Wind Wind Turbine 455,520,000 to 637,728,000 *electricity Comparison of Estimated Electricity Output from Planned «Wind Farms» with Actual 1999 Output from Some of Reliant Energy and TXUís Newer, Existing Generating Plants * Company & Generating Plant Generating Units Capacity In MW ** Fuel Unit Type Generation (kWh) # TXU - FPL Wind Farm 242 160.0 Wind Wind Turbine 500,000,000 Reliant Wind Farm 160 208.0 Wind Wind Turbine 455,520,000 to 637,728,000 *Electricity Output from Planned «Wind Farms» with Actual 1999 Output from Some of Reliant Energy and TXUís Newer, Existing Generating Plants * Company & Generating Plant Generating Units Capacity In MW ** Fuel Unit Type Generation (kWh) # TXU - FPL Wind Farm 242 160.0 Wind Wind Turbine 500,000,000 Reliant Wind Farm 160 208.0 Wind Wind Turbine 455,520,000 to 637,728,000 *** Reliant?

As far as I can see, the subsidy still focus on the installation / capacity of generation, rather being linked with actual electricity generation.

On May 26th, in sunny weather, Germany's 22GW of PV solar - generation capacity supplied 50 % of the country's electricity, and around the world PV looks like it may become a major energy option in the years ahead, accelerating past 50GW of grid - linked capacity, with price parity with conventional sources not far away.

About 60 percent of Ontario's current generation capacity is already accounted for by low - emission hydro or nuclear - generated electricity, with the balance provided by natural - gas generation and to a lesser extent by renewables.

But he wholly fails to explain what the implications of the variability problem is (the need for overbuild of generation capacity and expensive / unfeasible large - scale energy storage), nor whether, if an effort is made to deal practically with these problems in real national electricity grids, the «increasingly cheaper» renewables will ever become cheap enough (when all relevant real - world factors are considered) and reliable enough (without natural gas «backup»), to actually substitute for and displace fossil fuels (or nuclear) at the scale required.

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.

According to the authors, the U.S.'s spare nighttime electricity capacity could power a large fleet of PHEVs; since they require about 10 hours of nightly charging, Joe Sullivan of the Argonne National Laboratory, one of the authors, nighttime electricity could allow PHEVs to replace up to 34 % of today's light - duty fleet - and only consume 13 % of the fuel used nationally for electricity generation in the process.Michael Kintner - Meyer of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - in a separate study - found that 43 % of the fleet could be replaced by PHEVs with existing nighttime capacity.

The Indian government's Eleventh Five - Year Plan includes a renewable energy target of 10 percent of total power generation capacity, with 4 percent to 5 percent of the final electricity mix to be achieved by 2012.

Advisor to the International Finance Corporation who is advising the Industrial Development Corporation in the development of the two grid - connected solar photovoltaic electricity generation plants with a capacity of approximately 50 MW each;