Sentences with phrase «from power grid operator»

Renewable energy accounted for 103.6 percent of mainland electricity consumption last month, the report by the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association and the Sustainable Earth System Association said citing data from power grid operator REN.

Not exact matches

The Energy Department plan drew criticism from natural gas producers, grid operators and others who argued it would undermine competition in wholesale power markets.

Firms mining bitcoin have also taken to moving to remote locations, not registering a company and engaging in the mildly illegal activity of purchasing electricity directly from power producers rather than grid operators.

«What appears to have happened [in Fukushima] is that after the first failure of the first cooling system, as a result of the power cuts from the grid, the back - up diesel generators began to work and began to operate but they were then hit by the tsunami and therefore back - up operators failed to work and it took the staff on site some time to re-establish and improvise cooling which they of course did with the pumping of sea water.»

New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), New York State's grid operator, confirmed that, in 2021, when Indian Point closes, other power sources coupled with energy efficiency improvements are already set to take up virtually all the slack resulting from the plant's shutdown.

Distribution grid operators can use these figures to protect their power grids from long - term damage and sudden outages.

While investment in China's power grid has risen substantially, the country still has some of the world's highest curtailment rates for renewable energy, meaning thousands of turbines are taken offline, even under optimum wind conditions, because grid operators lack the knowledge and skills to integrate the clean energy with other sources, including baseload power from coal plants.

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

In May 2012, at the German Energy Agency's (DENA's) behest, the nation's four grid operators (TSOs)-- 50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT TSO, and TransnetBW — drew up a joint network development plan identifying necessary expansions to help transmit power from the North and Baltic Sea, where many offshore wind parks are being planned and built, to industrialized areas in southern and western Germany.

Many other countries also have requirements that grid operators priorities the dispatch of power from renewable sources, even if it is more expensive than coal - fired baseload plants.

BEIJING (Reuters)- A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

And a February report by Midwest grid operators estimated it would cost as much as to $ 80 billion to build transmission lines to carry wind power generated in the Midwest — which could help boost the country's wind power share from less than 1 percent today to 20 percent by 2030 — to where it's needed (see Wind Growth Could Cost Eastern U.S. $ 80B in Transmission Lines).

While the system operators urgently tried to get a second unit warmed up, the frequency of grid power fell from its normal 60 hertz (Hz) to 58 Hz.

Twenty power companies including Germany's biggest utilities, EON SE and RWE AG, now get fees for pledging to add or cut electricity within seconds to keep the power system stable, double the number in September, according to data from the nation's four grid operators.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rightly voted to terminate the rulemaking, instead requesting information from grid operators and the public about how to address the undervaluation of coal and nuclear power generation in electricity markets.

ABB has won an order worth more than $ 30 million from Norway's transmission system operator Statnett for two substations that will strengthen grid reliability and boost power supplies

From time to time, the imbalance between too little demand and too much uncontrollable supply in Ontario's electricity system becomes so precarious that grid operators in Michigan and New York can actually compel Ontario to pay them to take it the power.

In other words, from the grid operator's point of view, solar energy doesn't look like a power plant at all (those are controllable, or «dispatchable,» in the jargon), it looks like a reduction in demand.

Ten new hard - coal power stations, or 7,985 megawatts, are scheduled to start producing electricity in the next two years, according to information from German grid regulator Bundesnetzagentur and operators.

While renewables advocates often think of negative pricing as manna from heaven, it actually means that system operators are desperately trying to shed excess generation when unneeded surges of wind or solar power are threatening to crash the grid.

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

... The Market for Electricity is Rigged... The preferential dispatch system used by many RTO / ISO grid operators favors wind and solar to the exclusion of critical baseload power from fossil fuel and nuclear power plants.

The need for investment in the grid is evident from the increasing number of grid interventions to balance intermittent power supply from renewable energy installations, which cost grid operator TenneT, for example, nearly 1 billion euros in 2017, he writes.