Sentences with phrase «energy capacity as»
According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) latest monthly «Energy Infrastructure Update», the US grid added more than 70 times as much renewable energy capacity as natural gas capacity.
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«If it's successful in building the line, Trans - Mountain will be the most significant of the Pacific directed pipelines as it will have 1.7 times the export capacity of Northern Gateway,» says Steven Paget, an energy infrastructure analyst with FirstEnergy Capital.
«If the president wants to make an immediate impact on Venezuela to stop these human rights abuses and restore the situation, he's got the ability to,» Hamm told Bloomberg in an interview in his capacity as head of the Domestic Energy Producers Alliance.
Looking ahead to 2040, China is forecast to capture more than 40 percent of the world EV market, according to a recent report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), as well as nearly 30 percent of total new wind, solar and nuclear capacity additions.
A happy outlook brings surprising benefits to the workplace, such as higher energy levels, fewer sick days, greater productivity and better capacity to deal with stress.
Marathon Petroleum said it would buy rival Andeavor for more than $ 23 billion to form a company that would leapfrog Valero Energy as the largest U.S. refiner by capacity.
As a result, you may see a small increase in refining margins for those refiners with firm shipping capacity on Energy East, along with a decrease in refining margins for in - land refineries in Alberta.
Renewable energy sources such as hydroelectric power comprised 53.6 % of all GW capacity of technologies that were installed during 2015.
Natural gas turbines replaced solar power capacity during the August 21st solar eclipse, highlighting the carbon - light fossil fuel's emerging role as a gateway «green» energy in the coming decades, according to a report by Fortune released before the sun took its proverbial nap.
The country's renewable capacity has more than tripled from 2008 levels as of 2016, and the solar market alone grew 95 % for the year according to the Solar Energy Industries Association.
It will also expand use of natural gas and clean energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and nuclear energy (specific targets include: 200 GW of installed wind capacity and 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020).
The most recent auction of offshore wind capacity was won by Dong Energy AS, bidding a price of # 57.50 per megawatt hour.
But, as the discussion above suggests, if Bill 12 were applied in such a way as to change the rules with respect to the batching of product on the TransMountain pipeline it would be necessary to examine very carefully if this created one of the two forms of prohibited conflict between provincial legislation and the terms of the National Energy Board Act (see the common carrier rules of s 71 (1)-RRB-, and any applicable Board decisions relating to the prorating of capacity on the TransMountain pipeline.
We each have different demands on our lives and on our time and on our energy, we all have differing capacity and needs as writers.
But he is not the only cause, since every «actual entity», in Whitehead's idiom — or, as we might say, every occurrence, occasion, or energy - event — has the capacity to exercise a certain creativity.
I use more than the instructions say because I have a large capacity, energy efficient top load washer and the clothes weren't smelling as clean as they should with the half scoop.
He points to a letter that Cuomo to former chair Audrey Zibelman, in her capacity as CEO of the Department of Public Service, directing her to open a proceeding on getting the state to 50 percent renewable energy by 2030 and providing the nuclear subsidies.
A vocal opponent of the federal government's capacity zones, which could raise utility rates in the Hudson Valley by 20 %, Dr. Murphy sees this as the opportunity to promote and incorporate green energy projects to stabilize our...
June 2007, in response to the energy crisis, a total of 200 megawatts of generation capacity had already been installed through the Emergency Power as well the Mines Reserve Plants of 126 mw and 80 mw capacities respectively
The cost increases from the capacity zone are modest — the Public Service Commission estimated between 5 and 10 percent — and only temporary, as the zone works to incentivize greater local energy production.
They then come up with another bizarre statement, that «government is on trial as well as the markets» when everyone actually knows there is a need for restoring a strong positive role for government which alone was able to bail out the banks and prevent a global economic crash as well as alone having the capacity to deal with soaring energy bills and transport fares, tackle climate change, and counter the bonus greed and tax avoidance of the super-rich.
Another reason Rozzelle gave for NCZ opposition was that it ignores the proposed upgrades to existing transmission lines being advanced by the PSC as described in the Governor's «New York State Energy Highway Blueprint,» which aims to boost the load capacity high enough to meet projected needs upstate and down.
He calculates that storing the output of just his local utility company, Nova Scotia Power, for 24 hours would take the energy storage capacity of every battery made worldwide this year — and then half as much again.
The utility will make up that capacity with three new natural gas units that recently came online, as well as through energy efficiency, new solar investments and slower economic growth.
Closing the older nuclear plants is not an option for many EU countries, which are facing an energy capacity crunch as other types of plant are being closed or mothballed because they can't cover their operating costs, or to meet stricter environmental regulation.
As we age, the energy - generating capacity of our cells» mitochondria slowly decreases.
The higher energy capacity of this miniature thin - film fuel cell battery «will lead to further new classes of personal electronics, such as autonomous sensors and communication devices that are not currently possible with existing battery technologies,» Morse asserts.
These, Warshay notes, are particularly popular outside the U.S., «where energy usage is significantly lower than here,» as the outsize electricity demands by American users would generally overtax the capacities of the first round of home - size heat and power models being marketed in Asia and Europe.
As data traffic grows exponentially, new approaches are required to increasing the capacity of such systems and reducing their energy consumption at the same time.
Ramesh feels that «there has been huge drop in public confidence in nuclear energy,» and as a consequence setting up large nuclear energy parks of 10,000 MW capacity, as has been planned, needs a «relook.»
The East River site produced nearly 50,000 kilowatt - hours of energy from December 2006 to May 2007, and the testing spot has the potential to support as many as 300 turbines and nearly 10 megawatts of installed capacity.
«One estimate predicts as much as 1,000 (megawatts) of potential installed capacity for the state,» whose State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) chipped in $ 3 million toward the East River project.
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.
China solidified its standing as the world's wind energy behemoth in 2015, adding almost as much wind power capacity in one year as the total installed capacity of the three largest U.S. wind - producing states: Texas, Iowa and California.
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.
China Energy News, a state - run newspaper, cited a policymaker Monday as saying that China will complete the construction of approved coal - to - natural - gas plants but will not approve new projects until 2020, aiming to keep its coal - based synthetic natural gas production capacity to 15 billion cubic meters at the end of the decade.
Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»
To build the tool, the team collated data on the installed capacity and price of several current energy storage technologies over time to see how costs fall as installed capacity increases.
«Once it cracks it has no more capacity to absorb energy,» just as a piece of chalk snaps under pressure whereas a tree branch bends.
The authors say that as energy storage density improves — and with their work it is now approaching the capacity of lithium batteries — applications for the new technology include such possibilities as solar pads that collect energy from the sun by day, then store it for heating food, living spaces, clothing or blankets at night.
It also takes into account other crucial properties, such as heat capacity and enthalpy (a system's energy determined by its temperature, pressure and composition).
In contrast, energy absorption capacity of an equivalent steel plate reduces dramatically as the velocity of the projectile increases, resulting in the projectile passing through it without further obvious resistance.
He said LIG can easily be turned into a supercapacitor, which combines the fast - charging, power - storing capacity of a capacitor with the higher energy - delivering capability, though not yet as high as in a battery.
So this research has set out «to analyse the capacity new materials have to absorb solar energy as well as to seek appropriate strategies to move from the lab to actual operations,» pointed out Ikerne Etxebarria, a researcher of the UPV / EHU and IK4 - Ikerlan.
By contrast, in solid - electrode batteries, such as those commonly found in cars and mobile devices, the power conversion hardware and energy capacity are packaged together in one unit and can not be decoupled.
December 8, 2017 India's steel industry, like America's, is dominated by electric - based processes November 20, 2017 Link between growth in economic activity and electricity use is changing around the world November 16, 2017 Growth in global energy - related carbon dioxide emissions expected to slow November 8, 2017 EIA forecasts growth in world nuclear electricity capacity, led by non-OECD countries October 25, 2017 China leads the growth in projected global natural gas consumption October 10, 2017 Buildings energy consumption in India is expected to increase faster than in other regions October 4, 2017 Global gas - to - liquids growth is dominated by two projects in South Africa and Uzbekistan September 27, 2017 Chinese coal - fired electricity generation expected to flatten as mix shifts to renewables September 19, 2017 Beyond China and India, energy consumption in non-OECD Asia continues to grow September 14, 2017 EIA projects 28 % increase in world energy use by 2040
Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies such as concentrated solar power, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 GW capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.
Global estimates for 2020 show a projected 400 to 600 additional gigawatts of PV capacity as the costs of PV energy are expected to drop by almost 10 percent per year.
According to the global wind market statistics by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) there was a 44 % increase in the annual market as 51,473 MW of new wind generating capacity was added globally.
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are contributing key components for the project, known as LCLS - II, that will greatly increase the power and capacity of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), a free - electron X-ray laser at the DOE's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif..