Sentences with phrase «electricity on a cloudy day»

These cells don't need direct sunlight to work — they can still generate some electricity on a cloudy day.

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The payoff, he adds, is that 10 - hour storage eliminates the need for a fossil fuel power plant to back up electricity production on cloudy days and at peak usage hours in the evening.

Rechargeable batteries are needed to capture electricity for use on cloudy days.

Due to the unreliability of wind power and solar your electricity will still come from coal and gas power plants when those don't work on windless and cloudy days.

Unfortunately, the albedo effect only lasts for a short time, so your modules will eventually perform as you might expect on cloudy or snowy days, producing electricity — but not as efficiently as you might expect.

Even if those logistics worked out, he said, better solar cells and batteries would be necessary because the state gets over 180 days of cloudy weather, and unless the site is on a ridge at higher elevation, most sites aren't windy enough to generate electricity with turbines.

Natural gas, battery storage and demand response, which cuts air conditioning and lighting use on hot summer days, will help to balance demand for electricity against renewable resources that aren't always available (such as solar on a cloudy day).