Sentences with phrase «existing generating capacity»

Making the grid compatible with an increasing proportion of wind, and the replacement of existing generating capacity with wind energy is going to cost hundreds of billions.

65 Half the world's existing generating capacity is in the United States and the Philippines.

China can double its existing generating capacity from wind alone.

Much of the existing generating capacity is very old, and, due to high air pollutant emissions and tightening environmental standards, about 30 % will need to be retrofitted with environmental control technology or be replaced in the next decade.

Dr Schiffer argued that nuclear energy is a viable means in diversifying existing generating capacities, while limiting the growth of carbon emissions and securing power supply.

Not exact matches

Synergies will be generated by enlarging storage capacity in Niebüll and by the leverage of existing fermentation capacity from the Epernon facility.

That heightened capacity for awareness acts as an anchor to the present moment in which the judgement and worry generated by past and future rumination do not — can not — exist.

There exists incontrovertible data from studies of the Global Science Report launched by UNESCO Director - General, Dr. Irina Bokova that «records for the first time where and how existing ocean science capacities are empowering society and generating knowledge to conserve ocean resources.»

From the Pacific Northest National Laboratories: - «If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug - in hybrid

Ultimately, «this is a transition LADWP must make to meet existing targets, and this study shows getting all the way to 100 % renewables does not require any more renewable generating capacity,» Fields said.

Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of capacity additions (what electric generating capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations); generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm power prices, energy prices, capacity prices, allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions; fuel consumption for different fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI power grids.

[1] The Clean Energy Standard Act of 2012 defines «clean» electricity as «electricity generated at a facility placed in service after 1991 using renewable energy, qualified renewable biomass, natural gas, hydropower, nuclear power, or qualified waste - to - energy; and electricity generated at a facility placed in service after enactment that uses qualified combined heat and power (CHP), [which] generates electricity with a carbon - intensity lower than 0.82 metric tons per megawatt - hour (the equivalent of new supercritical coal), or [electricity generated] as a result of qualified efficiency improvements or capacity additions at existing nuclear or hydropower facilities -LSB-; or] electricity generated at a facility that captures and stores its carbon dioxide emissions.»

Industry analysts reckon that, at maximum capacity, tidal power could generate 13 gigawatts nationwide, small beer compared with the 35 gigawatts of wind generation that already exists.

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.

RICHLAND, Wash. - If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug - in hybrid electric vehicles.

From this it can be seen that the UK would have to increase its generating capacity by 31 %, or by nearly one - third, in order to replace existing light vehicles with BEVs.

The UNEP report, compiled by Ulf Moslener of the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Germany, found that 44 percent of added electricity generating capacity went into renewables in 2013 — a figure that exceeded 50 percent if direct replacement for existing power stations is excluded.

The added generating capacity roughly equals that of the world's 16 largest existing power producing facilities combined.

At the end of the day, counting as well the EXTRA energy used to manufacture this EXTRA generating capacity, wind farms cause MORE fossil fuels to be consumed than if they did not exist.

Evaluating whether there exists excess generating capacity on electric utility systems, from both physical and economic points of view

-- The term «renewable energy» means energy generated from solar, wind, biomass, landfill gas, ocean (including tidal, wave, current, and thermal), geothermal, municipal solid waste, or new hydroelectric generation capacity achieved from increased efficiency or additions of new capacity at an existing hydroelectric project.

The monthly survey Form EIA - 860M, «Monthly Update to Annual Electric Generator Report» supplements the annual survey form EIA - 860 data with monthly information that monitors the current status of existing and proposed generating units at electric power plants with 1 megawatt or greater of combined nameplate capacity.

The Ontario Government's energy investment priority should be in new gas, nuclear and / or hydroelectric capacity, upgrading existing generating facilities, and in refurbishing transmission grids.

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

We can say that 99.999 % of all the motor vehicles currently operating will be beyond repair and that 99 % of all existing electric power generating capacity will also be beyond repair.