Sentences with phrase «electricity produced during»

For comparison here is the same equation for a coal - fired power plant: Coal power project installed cost: $ 2,500 / kW (High end number — Some coal fired plants are built for $ 1,500 / kW) Typical life of a coal fired plant: 30 years Hours per year: 8,760 Average availability of coal - fired power plant: 88 % Total electricity production during plant life: 231,000 kWh / kW installed Value of electricity produced: $ 16,188 / kW installed Lifetime Cost of fuel = 231,000 x $ 0.006 = $ 1,388 / kW installed Net Value of total electricity produced during plant life: $ 14,800 / kW installed.
To a utility company, electricity produced during the day has a far greater value than electricity produced late at night on a weekend.
Wind turbine project installed cost: $ 2,000 / kW Typical mechanical life of a wind turbine: 20 years Hours per year: 8,760 Average availability of wind power: 24 % Market value of 1 kWh of electricity at production site: $ 0.07 Value of total electricity produced during wind turbine life: 20 x 8,760 x 0.24 x $ 0.07 = $ 2,943 / kW installed As you can see the payback on wind turbine projects is iffy even with no maintenance and operating costs included in the equation.
New Mexico legislators have decided (according to the Albuquerque Journal) to exempt wind generation equipment from NMís gross receipts tax in addition to providing the wind farm owner a $ 0.01 per kWh state income tax credit for the first 400,000,000 kWh of electricity produced during each of the first 10 years, and authority to use of industrial development bonds.
By storing electricity, and allowing the home to use solar electricity produced during the daytime after the sun goes down, batteries allow more home systems to be powered by solar electricity.
Wind energy supplied at 1 am does not have the same value as electricity produced during the daily peak.

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The author has not touched on how much solar and wind electricity was produced in the Huston area during these days.
Also Wednesday, Daigle identified a copy of an electricity puzzle that she said Lisa produced during February 2016.
«In the round - the - clock process we produce hydrogen and electricity during daylight, store hydrogen and oxygen, and then when solar energy is not available we use hydrogen to produce electricity using a turbine - based hydrogen - power cycle,» Tawarmalani said.
So during the day you compress gas, and then at night, you release the gas and the gas turns the turbines and you produce electricity.
Geobacter removes any waste produced during glycerol fermentation to generate electricity.
Afterwards, during the long lunar night, the heat is transferred to a Stirling engine to produce electricity.
Rechargeable batteries are too heavy for the job, so engineers are planning to try a technology that would use current to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen during the day, and then reverse the process at night via fuel cells to produce electricity.
Doctoral student and first author Tim Gehan says that organic solar cells made in this way can be semi-transparent, as well, «so you could replace tinted windows in a skyscraper and have them all producing electricity during the day when it's needed.
When plugged in, the electric vehicles (EVs) at LA AFB produce more than 700 kilowatts of electricity, or enough to power about 140 American households during a hot summer day.
Since the electric motor, which also acts as an electric generator, is attached directly to the crankshaft of the engine, the engine needs to provide as little resistance as possible during deceleration to allow the generator to produce high levels of electricity and charge the batteries.
It uses a brushless electric motor mounted at the rear that produces 74 hp and 96 lb - ft of torque together with a 17.7 - kilowatt - hour lithium - ion battery that is charged via standard - mains electricity and on the run with energy recuperated during periods of trailing throttle and braking.
For electric vehicles like the IONIQ Electric, it took into account the carbon dioxide emissions produced to generate the electricity used during recharging.
The change to the atmosphere during a thunderstorm can create a build - up of static electricity in a dog's coat and can even produce painful shocks.
With the changes to the atmosphere during a thunderstorm, an uncomfortable build - up of static electricity to the dog's coat can produce painful shocks.
Electricity is locally produced by a photovoltaic power station that covers about the 60 % of the annual consumption; heating and AC systems use a heat pump powered by photovoltaic panel, thermal solar panel produce up to 100 % of the hot water used in bathrooms; during winter a pellet (compressed wood) high efficiency heating system can guarantee a comfortable warm temperature in all the houses.
According to this BBC News report, Turkish solar panel company Ser - Gün is producing these solar panels that will provide between five to seven kilowatts of electricity — enough to charge cell phones, laptops and also to power up lights that are useful during the evening and during birthing season.
When it comes to financials, SolarCity's executive team wagers that the combination of existing panels and new storage technologies will produce lower electricity prices — at least during peak demand hours — than power from conventional utilities.
According to Obama, the United States currently produces as much electricity from solar power as the nation did during all of 2008.
Most solar systems produce more electricity than is needed during the day.
[A] s a result of basic supply - and - demand dynamics, solar capacity systematically reduces electricity prices during the very hours when solar generators produce the most electricity.
The Daily Telegraph Reports that a Norwegian wind company was paid # 1.2 million to not produce electricity during a period of high winds.
Solar thermal power systems may also have a thermal energy storage system component that allows the solar collector system to heat an energy storage system during the day, and the heat from the storage system is used to produce electricity in the evening or during cloudy weather.
If your solar array produced enough electricity, your bill could theoretically reach zero because excess solar electricity exported to the grid during the day could cover your power usage at night when solar is not producing.
The Crescent Dunes and Ivanpah Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) plants use mirrors to focus the sun's rays onto a heat exchanger at the top of a 600 - foot - tall tower during the day to heat a fluid that is used, either directly or indirectly, to produce steam to drive a turbine generator that produces electricity.
Finally, there is the very unstable electricity output: nuclear reactors are fairly often being serviced, especially since most of them are quite old now, and no electricity is produced during these service periods.
«Gross Revenues» means the total monies received by Grantee from a utility company or other power purchaser (provided, however, that if electricity is sold to a subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, then, and only then, the gross receipts from the sale of electricity under such contract shall be calculated using a sale of not less than the arithmetical average of the prices quoted by market sources of information, which information may be based upon the price paid by any purchaser or purchasers, including Grantee or any subsidiary or affiliate of Grantee, for electricity produced in the Iowa region of the Midwest Independent System Operator («MISO») from operation of wind turbines during the calendar year immediate!y preceding the year in which such electricity production from the Wind Energy Project occurs, taking into account the aggregate terms associated with such transaction) derived from the sale of electric energy and capacity produced and sold from the WTG's installed on the Premises, net of proportional energy losses associated with the power collection system or utility interconnection.
That means overproduction of power during daylight hours, as the country's ample solar energy floods onto the grid along with electricity produced by power plants.
Your solar panels will produce more electricity during the long days of summer than they will in the winter months.
A more resilient energy infrastructure: Because CHP systems produce power on site, they eliminate the need for transmission lines to get that electricity from the power plant to the customer and can keep the lights, heating and cooling on during a storm.
Solar can't produce electricity at night, but as we've seen in Germany and Australia it doesn't take a lot of solar capacity to start pushing down electricty prices during the day and that is very bad for the economics of nuclear power as it's a high capital cost, low fuel cost source of energy and reducing output during periods of low demand doesn't do much to reduce costs.
This is true, but per average kilowatt of output, solar is much better at meeting demand than nuclear as it is load following, producing electricity during the day when demand is higher, while nuclear output is as constant as possible and is not dispatchable.
Nuclear power produces electricity during the day, so solar competes with it.
According to the most recent (2008) World Energy Outlook, published by the International Energy Agency, Denmark's installed wind capacity is 3.1 GW, during the year these turbines produced 6.1 TWh of electricity.
It could potential be used in electric vehicles in combination with a regular lithium - ion battery to more efficiently capture the short bursts of electricity produced by regenerative braking, and to provide more instant - power during hard acceleration.
In California in particular, this creates a situation where there is way more electricity being produced by renewables than can actually be used during the day; but there is still a requirement for peaker power plants to generate power needed at the peak evening times when people come home and crank up the air conditioning.
Because the fuel is stored for later use after it's produced, it could be produced during off - peak periods overnight, which would lower the cost and allow the province to tap into its considerable electricity surplus.
You can install solar panels just about anywhere and they produce the most electricity during peak hours.
For countries such as the U.S. and Germany, which today produce more than half of their electricity from coal, or China and India, where a large majority of the electricity is generated from coal, it is difficult to see how cost - effective and politically viable emission reductions can be achieved during the next several decades without at least some continued use of coal....
As far as we know, coal power plants are not shut down during the night (unlikes some natural gas plants) and so not using the electricity they produce is almost polluting for nothing.
Homeowners or businesses can then use the stored energy during times of peak demand and at night when the solar panels aren't producing electricity.
Because we are producing more electricity than we need, and because the wind turbines in Ontario produce most of their power during off - peak hours — when we don't need it all.
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