Sentences with phrase «fired thermal capacity»
«The only thing we have that will work fast right now is natural gas - fired thermal capacity,» Hertel explained.
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California installed 354 megawatts of solar thermal — generating capacity nearly 20 years ago, but with cheap fossil - fuel - fired electricity, investments in solar thermal power dried up.
If we assume that each meter provides 0.7 thermal kilowatts of power, then we are looking at a world solar thermal capacity by 2020 of 1,100 thermal gigawatts, the equivalent of 690 coal - fired power plants.
In other words whereas 52 coal fired power stations would meet the average (scenario 2) demand, they will probably need around 200 GW of wind plus PV plus solar thermal plus biomass - gas - electrical generating capacity, when all energy costs and losses are taken into account.