Sentences with phrase «existing electricity grids»

By providing backup and firming capacity, the expansion of gas - fired power plants can accelerate the integration of intermittent power into existing electricity grids.

One of the many avenues currently being examined is how best to integrate intermittent renewable energy sources into existing electricity grids while still guaranteeing a reliable and steady supply.

So, many people are coming together to create a parallel track to the false hope of building polluting power plants and extending the existing electricity grid infrastructure to the poor.

Not exact matches

Under existing VOS program designs, solar customers continue to purchase all of their electricity from the grid at the utility's retail rate and receive credit for the solar electricity exported to the grid at the approved VOS rate.

-- Energy technologies that exist or are under development could greatly increase energy efficiency in residences and businesses, reduce dependence on oil, accelerate the provision of energy services to the world's poor, increase the reliability and resilience of electricity grids, and shrink the impacts of energy supply on climate and other environmental values.

The foundation holds 99.4 percent of all the coins that will ever exist — the rest will be mined by the public — and they are now giving them out to anyone who can prove they have added solar electricity to the grid.

While algae - powered fuel cells are unlikely to generate enough electricity to power a grid system, they may be particularly useful in areas such as rural Africa, where sunlight is in abundance but there is no existing electric grid system.

Off - grid solar is already providing electricity to communities in rural Africa, India, the Caribbean and elsewhere who will never get access to grid power from nuclear or any other form of large, centralized generation, because the resources to build either the grids or the giant power plants do not exist, nor do those communities have the wealth to purchase grid power.

Converting an existing fossil fuel grid completely to renewable electricity is calculated to cost between 1 — 2 % of a countries gdp, if spread over 20 years.

Self - contained, small islands of electric generation, storage and distribution inside the existing grid — microgrids — could be the next big thing in electricity.

This shift, combined with the other transformations in the energy ecosystem require new ways of thinking about the electricity system and power generation that can be supported by the existing grid infrastructure.

The existing commercial biomass power generating industry in the United States, which consists of approximately 1,700 MW (megawatts) of operating capacity actively supplying power to the grid, produces about 0.5 % of the U.S. electricity supply.

Most have vested interests in existing sources of electricity generation and transmission capabilities that stand to be compromised if the AWC makes vast new sources of wind power available to the onshore grid.

Wind farms have the life of a parasite because they freeload themselves onto existing grids paid by conventional efficient energy, need subsidies and drain electricity from the grid when it is too cold.

In fact, thanks to the existing grid's excess capacity at night, it should be possible to support up to 30 percent of the nation's vehicles equipped with plug - in batteries of 20 - mile range and not have to expand electricity - generation.

The researchers have also studied the challenges linked to how renewable energy can be integrated into existing and future energy systems including electricity grids and likely cost benefits from these developments.

On the micro level, lithium - ion batteries have been attached to individual wind farms to better even out their electricity load contribution to existing, dumb grids.

But if existing combustion power plants could be adapted to use metal powder instead of coal or other fossil fuels, then much of the existing power generating infrastructure could be used, and power generation could continue to be in the same places it is now, using the same grid as is currently supplying electricity.

They also decided that existing and small new renewable energy installations should keep their right to get priority over other, polluting energy sources on European electricity grids.

«We're supporting projects that will integrate existing and new renewable energy generation, storage, distribution and management technologies within the electricity grid,» said Lisa Neville, acting minister for energy, environment and climate change.

«As we transform, as we invest in renewables, as we invest in smart grid, as we invest in retiring existing plants and building new plants, the price of electricity is going to go up.»

Like the proposed U.S. national grid, the Europe - wide grid would use high - voltage direct - current lines that transmit electricity far more efficiently than existing lines do.

Since the vast wind turbine arrays produce a scant amount of power, at times when it is not in demand, or too much of it so that the existing grid can not accommodate it causing some of the wind plants to shut down and dump the electricity produced, there must be some other overriding reason for the increasing proliferation of «wind farms» both on - shore and off - shore.

The German report estimates that it will cost $ 1.1 bn to link Germany's existing wind farms to the national grid if it is to meet its target of producing 20 % of its electricity from renewable sources by 2015.

These sources can piggyback on existing infrastructure, pumping electricity into power grids (though their intermittent power production requires managers to adjust their load - balancing techniques).