This new dirty
electricity production capacity will no doubt stick around for a few decades, adding that much more CO2 (and other air pollutants) to the atmosphere.
Nationwide, renewable
electricity production capacity has doubled over recent years, a remarkable achievement.
Not exact matches
There is also the issue of built - in
capacity redundancy both of
production and transportation of the
electricity generated by wind and solar, let alone the thorny question of storage.
Salination reduces soil fertility, while populations keep increasing and reservoirs become silted, so reducing storage
capacity and
electricity production.
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.
I am not convinced that that is true, but in any case intermittent distributed
electricity production from wind and photovoltaics can dramatically reduce the «need» for baseline generation
capacity.
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.
In other words,
electricity reference prices were set to account for the cost of
production, transmission and distribution, but no other costs, such as allowances for building new
capacity.
A new study finds that «off - peak»
electricity production and transmission
capacity could fuel 70 % percent of the U.S. light - duty vehicle fleet, if they were plug - in hybrid electrics.
A new study (Part 1, Part 2) for the Department of Energy finds that «off - peak»
electricity production and transmission
capacity could fuel 70 % percent of the U.S. light - duty vehicle (LDV) fleet, if they were plug - in hybrid electrics.
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.
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.
These investment figures are the net result from combining higher capital costs per unit of
capacity with a one - fifth reduction in
electricity production due to end - use
electricity savings.
As nuclear power generation disappears by 2022,
electricity production from natural gas will play an important transitional role in Germany in order to fill the gap left open from the closing of nuclear
capacity.
A new study for the Department of Energy finds that «off - peak»
electricity production and transmission
capacity could fuel 84 percent of the country's 220 million vehicles if they were plug - in hybrid electrics.
[283] In 2011, Ukraine's Energy Ministry predicted that the installed
capacity of generation from alternative and renewable energy sources would increase to 9 % (about 6 GW) of the total
electricity production in the country.
The report estimated that regulations cutting emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides would lead to the «premature» retirements of coal - fired power plants that can generate 47.8 gigawatts of
electricity, about 15 percent of coal's U.S.
production capacity.
«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.
For the avoidance of doubt, Gross Revenues shall (A) exclude monies received from any source other than the sale of electric energy and
capacity, including, without limitation, any of the following: (i) any federal, state, county or local tax benefits, grants or credits or allowances related to, derived from, or granted to the Wind Energy Project or Grantee, including, but not limited to, investment or
production tax credits, or property or sales tax exemptions, (ii) proceeds from financing activities, sales, assignments, partial assignments, contracts (other than the power purchase agreement) or other dispositions of or related to the Wind Energy Project (such as damages for breach of contract or liquidated damages for delays in project completion or failures in equipment performance), (iii) amounts received as reimbursements or compensation for wheeling costs or other
electricity transmission or delivery costs, and (iv) any proceeds received by Grantee as a result of damage or casualty to the Wind Energy Project, or any portion thereof and (B) include any revenues derived from Grantee's sale of carbon dioxide trading credits, renewable energy credits or certificates, emissions reduction credits, emissions allowances, green tags, tradable renewable credits, or Green - e ® products, any of which are allocated to Grantee, if applicable, through its participation in any voluntary registry, association or market - based exchange.
ENERGY OVERVIEW Proven Oil Reserves (1 / 1 / 02E): 2.9 billion barrels Oil
Production (2002E): 818,000 barrels per day (bbl / d), of which about 763,000 bbl / d was crude oil Oil Consumption (2002E): 483,000 bbl / d Net Oil Exports (2001E): 335,000 bbl / d Natural Gas Reserves (1 / 1 / 02E): 27.5 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) Natural Gas
Production (2000E): 1.32 Tcf Natural Gas Consumption (2000E): 1.17 Tcf Net Natural Gas Exports (2000E): 0.15 Tcf Coal Reserves (2000E): 474 million short tons (Mmst) Coal
Production (2000E): 0.33 Mmst Coal Consumption (2000E): 1.47 Mmst Electric Generation
Capacity (1 / 1 / 00E): 24 gigawatts (GW)
Electricity Generation (2000E): 82.8 billion kilowattthours (bkwh); conventional thermal 52 %, hydroelectricity 41 %, nuclear 7 %
Two days earlier EPA announced final regulations (which I call the Skyrocketing Rates Power Plan or SRPP, but which EPA calls the «Clean Power Plan» or CPP for obvious reasons) requiring states to decrease CO2 emissions from
electricity production and use primarily by increasing the
capacity of non-hydro «remewable» (wind and solar) sources of electric power from 4 percent to 28 percent by 2030.
ENERGY OVERVIEW Energy Minister: Ernesto Martens Rebolledo Head of PEMEX: Raul Munoz Leos Proven Oil Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 12.6 billion barrels (see Reserves and
Production) Oil
Production (2002E): 3.6 million barrels per day (bbl / d), of which 3.18 million bbl / d was crude Oil Consumption (2002E): 1.93 million bbl / d Net Oil Exports (2002E): 1.68 million bbl / d Crude Oil Refining
Capacity (1 / 1 / 03E): 1.7 million bbl / d Natural Gas Reserves (1 / 1 / 03E): 8.8 trillion cubic feet (Tcf)(see Reserves and
Production) Natural Gas
Production (2000E): 1.33 Tcf Natural Gas Consumption (2000E): 1.38 Tcf Recoverable Coal Reserves (2000E): 1.3 billion short tons Coal
Production (2000E): 10.86 million short tons Coal Consumption (2000E): 13.41 million short tons Net Coal Imports (2000E): 2.55 million short tons Electric Generation
Capacity (2000E): 38.9 million kilowatts Net
Electricity Generation (2000E): 194.37 billion kilowatthours (bkwh); 74 % thermal, 18 % hydro, 5 % nuclear, 3 % other Net
Electricity Consumption (2000E): 182.8 bkwh Net
Electricity Imports (2000E): 2.07 bkwh
BIOFUELS (XLS PDF U.S. Highlights) World Annual Fuel Ethanol
Production, 1975 - 2009 U.S. Annual Fuel Ethanol
Production, 1978 - 2009 World Annual Biodiesel
Production, 1991 - 2009 U.S. Annual Biodiesel
Production, 2000 - 2009 NATURAL GAS (XLS PDF) World Natural Gas Consumption, 1965 - 2008 U.S. Natural Gas Consumption, 1965 - 2008 Natural Gas Consumption in China, 1965 - 2008 OIL (XLS PDF) World Oil
Production, 1950 - 2008 World's 20 Largest Oil Discoveries U.S. Oil Consumption, 1965 - 2008 Oil Consumption in China, 1965 - 2008 COAL (XLS PDF) Coal Consumption in Selected Countries and the World, 1980 - 2008 NUCLEAR (XLS PDF) World Cumulative Installed Nuclear
Electricity - Generating
Capacity, 1970 - 2008 ENERGY PROFILES BY REGION World Energy Profile (XLS PDF) United States Energy Profile (XLS PDF) China Energy Profile (XLS PDF Highlights) Top of Page
California could continue to utilize fossil fuel for
electricity production if we capture the resulting emissions and pump them underground, and the state has many decades of underground storage
capacity for carbon dioxide.
Had conventional Gas Fired technology had been used, the full ~ 31GW generating
capacity would have provided non-intermittent and wholly dispatchable
electricity production generated as and when needed.
One of the challenges we face is the huge variability in demand for
electricity by season, time of day and other factors, and the need to have
production capacity «reserves» to accommodate spikes in demand quickly.
In addition to using ERCOT data instead of EIA, the «headline» «number was nameplate
capacity, not total
electricity production.
«The solar industry is poised for a rapid decline in costs that will make it a mainstream power option in the next few years, according to a new assessment by the Worldwatch Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Prometheus Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Global
production of solar photovoltaic (PV) cells, which turn sunlight directly into
electricity, has risen sixfold since 2000 and grew 41 percent in 2006 alone... This growth, while dramatic, has been constrained by a shortage of manufacturing
capacity for purified polysilicon, the same material that goes into semiconductor chips.
Federal
production tax credits and grants for
electricity from certain renewable sources as well as State - level renewable portfolio standards have encouraged both
capacity additions and increased generation from wind and other renewable sources.
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), Crude Oil
Production, electronic database, at tonto.eia.doe.gov, updated 28 July 2008; American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), «Installed U.S. Wind Power
Capacity Surged 45 % in 2007: American Wind Energy Association Market Report,» press release (Washington, DC: 17 January 2008); AWEA, U.S. Wind Energy Projects, electronic database, at www.awea.org/projects, updated 31 March 2009; future capacity calculated from Emerging Energy Research (EER), «US Wind Markets Surge to New Heights,» press release (Cambridge, MA: 14 August 2008); coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; residential consumption calculated using «Residential Sector Energy Consumption Estimates, 2005,» in DOE, EIA, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2005 Status Report (Washington, DC: 2007), with capacity factor from DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Golden, CO: August 2006); population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 Februa
Capacity Surged 45 % in 2007: American Wind Energy Association Market Report,» press release (Washington, DC: 17 January 2008); AWEA, U.S. Wind Energy Projects, electronic database, at www.awea.org/projects, updated 31 March 2009; future
capacity calculated from Emerging Energy Research (EER), «US Wind Markets Surge to New Heights,» press release (Cambridge, MA: 14 August 2008); coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; residential consumption calculated using «Residential Sector Energy Consumption Estimates, 2005,» in DOE, EIA, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2005 Status Report (Washington, DC: 2007), with capacity factor from DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Golden, CO: August 2006); population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 Februa
capacity calculated from Emerging Energy Research (EER), «US Wind Markets Surge to New Heights,» press release (Cambridge, MA: 14 August 2008); coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt
capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; residential consumption calculated using «Residential Sector Energy Consumption Estimates, 2005,» in DOE, EIA, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2005 Status Report (Washington, DC: 2007), with capacity factor from DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Golden, CO: August 2006); population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 Februa
capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of
electricity per year; residential consumption calculated using «Residential Sector Energy Consumption Estimates, 2005,» in DOE, EIA, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2005 Status Report (Washington, DC: 2007), with
capacity factor from DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Golden, CO: August 2006); population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 Februa
capacity factor from DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Golden, CO: August 2006); population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.