Sentences with phrase «electricity grid capacity»

China will continue its position as the world's largest installer of clean solar energy over the next five years as they address their very real mandates of reducing severe air pollution and upgrading electricity grid capacity to service their economy.

Not exact matches

BRUSSELS / COPENHAGEN, March 19 - EU antitrust authorities are investigating whether limits placed by German grid operator TenneT on cross-border electricity capacity with Denmark breaches EU antitrust rules.

BRUSSELS / COPENHAGEN, March 19 (Reuters)- EU antitrust authorities are investigating whether limits placed by German grid operator TenneT on cross-border electricity capacity with Denmark breaches EU antitrust rules.

In addition, electricity capacity margins — the amount of unused power capacity — have declined, increasing the vulnerability of America's electric grid in the event of a disruption.

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.

As of March, according to USAID figures, Power Africa has helped close deals accounting for 4,100 MW of electricity in places like Rwanda, where East Africa's largest solar array began sending 8.5 MW of electricity to the national grid late last year, boosting the country's electricity generation capacity by 6 percent.

Surplus energy can be stored for later use, but today's electrical grid has little storage capacity, so other measures are used to balance electricity supply and demand.

Experts reckon that when wind power provides a significant portion of the electricity supply (with «significant» defined as about 10 percent of grid capacity), some form of energy storage will be essential to keeping the grid stable.

That added capacity will strain the electricity grid, and even violent crime could rise.

Its scalding 480 - degree - Fahrenheit (250 - degree - Celsius) steam drives a turbine generating a peak capacity of 11 megawatts (MW) of electricity for the national grid.

EU's grid connected cumulative capacity in 2014 reached 129 GW, meeting 8 % of European electricity demand, equivalent to the combined annual consumption of Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece and Ireland.

Consumers in the first 80 megawatts of newly installed capacity will receive 95 percent of the retail rate of electricity for surplus power sent back to the grid.

High - capacity, long - life batteries; fuel cells; the high - efficiency «smart» electricity grid; clean coal and other technologies can help improve the environment, increase efficiency and conserve energy.

This means it covers the direct cost of low - carbon subsidies, energy efficiency and carbon taxes, as well as indirect costs due to strengthening grids, backing up intermittent renewables, compensating conventional generation for lost revenue through the capacity market and savings due to the merit - order effect, which pushes down wholesale electricity prices.

643 SecularA said,» when 100 percent of new electricity generation capacity added to the USA's electric grid is wind and solar.»

Now, some readers will think this is far - fetched, but I think that in the not - too - distant future the day will come when 100 percent of new electricity generation capacity added to the USA's electric grid is wind and solar.

Non-hydro renewables have not managed to do so to date in any large electricity grid, (hydro can not help; its capacity growth is limited so it will decrease its share of global electricity generation over future decades).

Because these generators must ramp up and down to balance the electricity grid, they are working at less than full capacity.

By necessity, conventional firm capacity generators: nuclear, biomass, natural gas, hydropower, etc. will remain the primary suppliers of electricity to the New England grid well into the future.

They are intended to maximise the energy output from the Hywind turbines by mitigating peaks and troughs in production, storing surpluses at times when the grid is at or near full capacity and unable to accept further injections of electricity.

Reposting this big news from Solar Love: Herman Trabish of Greentech Media has happened across a pretty interesting find — 97 % of new electricity generation capacity in line to be added to the California grid in the second half (2H) of 2012...

Building new transmission capacity doesn't necessarily mean that more renewable electricity will be integrated into the grid.

Tobin claims that NGS will increase reliability and «secure the grid,» but does not recognize the potential of high capacity factor concentrated solar thermal projects, like Arizona's Solana concentrated solar plant, or the innovative potential of batteries, wind - solar combinations and other means to generate electricity after the sun sets.

Herman Trabish of Greentech Media has happened across a pretty interesting find — 97 % of new electricity generation capacity in line to be added to the California grid in the second half (2H) of 2012 is from solar power projects.

Thanet therefore cost a whopping # 8.6 billion per GW of effective capacity — nearly a # billion more than Hinkley point, but supplying the grid with electricity at three times the market value, netting its operators more than # 75 million in subsidies per year.

This post is framed around «limitations,» but as I said above, if wind and solar both reach global grid penetrations equal to their capacity factors, that would make VRE cumulatively around half of all global electricity.

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.

With a share of 100 % renewable energy sources and 12 times the current grid capacity, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants can be reduced to 15 % of the total annual electricity consumption, which represents the maximum possible benefit of transmission for Europe.

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.

To cover the total loss of power when the wind drops or blows too hard, every wind farm needs a conventional back - up power station (commonly gas - fired) with capacity of twice the design capacity of the wind farm to even out the sudden fluctuations in the electricity grid.

For a power grid based on 100 % solar and wind power, with no energy storage and assuming interconnection at the national European level only, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants needs to be just as large as peak electricity demand.

One aspect of this is the capacity to generate additional revenue by selling electricity into the frequency regulation segments of regional grid power markets.

EIA collects electric capacity data in MWAC, the type of electricity used in homes and on the grid, and which is produced by non-PV generators.

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.

That's over ten times greater than the capacity of Australia's electricity grid 8.

EIA collects electric capacity data in alternating - current megawatts (MWAC), the type of electricity used in homes and on the grid.

-- 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.

The existing commercial biomass power generating industry in the United States, which consists of approximately 1,700 MW (megawatts) of operating capacity actively supplying power to the grid, produces about 0.5 % of the U.S. electricity supply.

The regulator said the volume of electricity the grid is forced to buy will be determined by technical criteria such as transmission capacity and end - user demand in regions where capacity has been idled.

However, as the team points out, it's important to look beyond the installed capacity and examine how much electricity is fed into the electric grid to displace conventional, polluting power sources.

As significant is that in April 2016, as part of the nation's first auction for grid connections, Germany's federal agency for electricity and gas, Bundesnetzagentur, selected three offshore projects by DONG Energy and one by German utility EnBW — a combined capacity of 1,490 MW — for zero - subsidy bids.

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«Units serving this backup role must be on line (connected to the grid and producing electricity) and running below their peak capacity and efficiency, or in a spinning reserve mode (i.e., connected to the grid and synchronized but not putting electricity into the grid),» according to Schleede.

The development of India's grid - connected electricity generation capacity since Independence in 1947.

Moving to the highly efficient gas - electric hybrids with a plug - in capacity, combined with the construction of thousands of wind farms across the country, feeding electricity into a national grid, will give us the energy security that has eluded us for decades.

India's rapid economic growth will increase significantly the electricity demand during the next decades, therefore India needs to make massive investments in order to expand its current installed capacity and to improve the stability of its electric grid.

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.

Queensland, like the rest of Australia, needs to reorient its electricity grid and generation capacity toward the Outback and away from the coast.