Sentences with phrase «electricity production at»

After all, the 10 RGGI states are connected to a national grid for power that can allow, for example, cheaper, dirtier power from coal - fired power plants in Ohio to substitute for reduced electricity production at a coal plant in New York State.

To narrow the gap with PV panels, which make up 95 percent of the solar market, the U.S. - based Solar Energy Industries Association says CSP needs to reduce hardware costs and to twin its output with an energy storage element that will allow electricity production at night.

While total output from low carbon technologies, such as hydro, wind, solar, biomass, geothermal, and nuclear power, has continued to grow, their share of global primary energy supply has remained relatively constant; fossil fuels have maintained their dominance and carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) has yet to be applied to electricity production at scale.

In the six major economies assessed individually, carbon dioxide emissions per unit of electricity production falls by about 40 % between 2010 and 2030 and renewable electricity becomes the dominant source of electricity production at about 36 % of the electricity mix.

After all, the 10 RGGI states are connected to a national grid for power that can allow, for example, cheaper, dirtier power from coal - fired power plants in Ohio to substitute for reduced electricity production at a coal plant in New York State.

Also, the French believe that Frau Merkel played politics and an anti-French card by moving to halt electricity production at seven NUCLEAR POWER plants, thus making the French look bad as well as having the impact of driving up electricity prices.

Not exact matches

The largest state in the country is also the most uninhabited, meaning that its total annual electricity production is among the lowest, at 5,137 gigawatt hours.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

Or we could give ourselves permission to engage in the violence of electricity production by saying (in the manner of Reinhold Niebuhr) that the kingdom that Christ's life makes visible is an «impossible possibility» which stands at the edge of history as its judge rather than being the truth about history.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

We designed and installed special biomass furnaces at our mills that use a natural by - product of coffee production to generate electricity.

About 3000 tones went to food charities, while the rest was used for things like commercial composting, fertiliser, electricity production and animal feed for farmers and even at zoos.

Electricity production (including from coal) is the leading cause of green house gases right now, and the best estimate I can find about cement production puts it at about 5 % of the total man - made causes.

Thanks to a two cents per kilowatt - hour production incentive from the U.S. government, they are being built at a rate that will increase the amount of wind - generated electricity by nearly three gigawatts a year.

Researchers are proposing a new «hydricity» concept aimed at creating a sustainable economy by not only generating electricity with solar energy but also producing and storing hydrogen from superheated water for round - the - clock power production.

Researchers at Harvard, for example, are perfecting an organic flow battery that can store a full day's production of electricity from solar or wind farms, a development that could play a key role in integrating variable electrical generating sources into the grid.

Next the scientists looked at the energetic cost of curtailment — the practice of shutting down solar panels and wind turbines to reduce the production of surplus electricity on the grid.

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.

Electricity consumption continues to grow rapidly, reaching a growth rate of 7.2 % in the first three quarters of 2013, while electricity production for the same period greElectricity consumption continues to grow rapidly, reaching a growth rate of 7.2 % in the first three quarters of 2013, while electricity production for the same period greelectricity production for the same period grew at 6.8 %.

Of course, the sun doesn't always shine and, at present, the eSolar design has limited capacity to store energy — either as heat or electricity — nor does it supplement production by burning natural gas as some other existing concentrating solar power plants do.

The first - of - a-kind EPR at Finland's Olkiluoto plant has been under construction since 2005 and has seen several revisions to its start - up date, with grid connection now scheduled to take place in December and the start of regular electricity production in May next year.

Researchers at the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, with partners from the automotive industry (Audi, VW) and the petroleum industry (Shell, OMV) have launched the $ 1.46 - million OTTO - R project for the production of gasoline from «green» methanol produced from CO2, water and renewable electricity.

Well the first fruit of their new joint venture is an EV Concept that is being showcased at the 2012 Beijing Auto Show these days, a vehicle which previews an upcoming production model which runs on just electricity.

At one I ran an experiment by decimating my own solar panels, oxygen production and greenhouses, leaving my colony massively in the red for electricity, oxygen and food.

The report, published Wednesday by 70 Canadian academics, looked at Canada's potential to shift its electricity production to renewable sources and cut its emissions.

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.

At the time, California burned significant quantities of oil for electricity production, not just for transportation.

The federal production tax credit (PTC), which offers wind energy developers 2.2 cents for every kilowatt - hour of electricity produced from grid - tied projects, was a key case in point at the conference.

Distributed generation facilities like those at the Regional Food Bank, involving electricity production close to end users of power, will be an essential element to success in meeting the State's goals, including reducing statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent, from 1990 levels.

Population data from U.S. Bureau of the Census, State & County Quickfacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 31 August 2007; Anders Rydaker, «Biomass for Electricity & Heat Production,» presentation at Bioenergy North America 2007, Chicago, IL, 16 April 2007.

For instance, in Europe, the practical wind energy potential for electricity production on - and off - shore is estimated to be at least 30,000 TWh per year, or ten times the annual electricity demand.

University of Texas at El Paso chemistry professor Russell Chianelli has devised a process to bump up the production of methane gas to levels that would make economic sense for electricity production.

Most solar panel manufacturers offer a 25 - year power production warranty guaranteeing that their solar panels will continue to generate electricity at a certain capacity for the warranty's duration.

In the U.S., Congress voted at the end of last year to extend the renewable electricity production tax credit (PTC), the U.S. market's main incentive mechanism, and to phase it out by the end of 2019.

The most popular electric car, the Nissan Leaf, over a 90,000 - mile lifetime will emit 31 metric tons of CO2, based on emissions from its production, its electricity consumption at average U.S. fuel mix and its ultimate scrapping.

note 1; Anders Rydaker, «Biomass for Electricity & Heat Production,» presentation at Bioenergy North America 2007, Chicago, IL, 16 April 2007.

Each year, the plant supplies about 33,000 GWh of clean electricity, at up to half the cost of electricity from conventional production.

But the utility shut down the carbon capture equipment in 2011 because it could not sell the carbon dioxide or recover the extra cost from its electricity customers, and the equipment consumed so much energy that, at full scale, the project would have sharply cut electricity production.

We assume a solar panel life span of 30 years, a decline in panel production of 0.5 % per year, inverter replacements at years 10 and 20, and retail electricity rates increasing 2.18 % per year (National average utility bill increase of 2.18 % based on EIA data for the last reported 20 years, nationally (1997 - 2017).

I think, until people know that there is a deadline, it will hard to ask society to make the sacrifices that are apparently nessacry to get at the core issues of transportation and electricity production.

This is a very important incentive because it gives you credit for your solar electricity generated during the day that is beyond the needs of your house and allows you to use that credit to meet your power needs when your solar energy production is insufficient to meet your needs (such as at night).

When demand for electricity and heating were at their highest, wind and solar production were at their lowest

This guarantee forces Ontario to purchase electricity at a fixed price, regardless of the demand and lower production costs associated with the technological evolution of the sector.

Based on the design specifications and the conditions at the site, Aurora's performance simulation engine estimates the system would produce 2,218 kWh of electricity over the course of the year, and provided a monthly breakdown of that production:

At the same time, new energy storage devices like Tesla's Powerwall and Powerpack batteries — which can be used to store electricity when solar panels aren't generating energy — are starting to change the way we think about the timing of electricity production altogether.

The developers of Boulfruich Windfarm near Dunbeath have evidently complained that plans by Caithness Power to build four larger wind turbines less than a mile away at Latheronwheel will cut their electricity production by a quarter — and have lodged an official objection to the new site.

«Off peak» solar would require the addition of storage batteries while nocturnal winds would need to cooperate with the production schedule to avoid at least supplemental nuke / fossil sources of electricity.

«The ability to monitor the system arms the client with the knowledge of peak production times for electricity and therefore appliances can be timed to come on at these times, optimising performance,» explains Energywise director Berth Sheehy.

While we can expect that PV will likely be cheaper in the future, solar updraft towers could provide an economically - viable alternative to «PV + energy storage» for peak load (as solar updraft towers can store thermal energy in the ground for night electricity production to greatly reduce intermittency at minimal additional cost).

Success with ammonia means we will have developed and commercialized, at scale, with viable economics, infrastructure and supply chains, the following new technologies: CCS, SSAS, methane cracking, conventional and high temperature electrolysis and thermochemical water splitting for hydrogen production, nuclear heat sources and small modular reactors, and solar heat sources and renewable electricity of sufficient reliability to be integrated into high volume must - run industrial processes.