The temperature at the turbine's front blades is 1,500 C, and its waste heat is extracted by a downstream heat exchanger to power a steam turbine and
generate additional electricity.
[1] An NGCC plant first uses a gas combustion turbine to generate electricity, then uses the waste heat to make steam to
generate additional electricity in a steam turbine.
Sandia scientists find the optimal way to mop up surplus solar flux on CSP towers Excess solar flux could be harnessed and used to
generate additional electricity at a tower CSP plant, by cladding part of the tower containing the receiver with photovoltaic (PV) panels, according to Sandia scientist Cliff Ho.
In Hong Kong, as in much of the rest of the world right now, a debate is raging about how best to
generate the additional electricity that is needed to power economic growth and development.
The new school will generate 10 per cent of its energy requirements using a biomass wood pellet burning boiler to provide heating, and a photovoltaic array to
generate additional electricity to the grid.
Hydroelectric plants, for instance, often draw on reservoirs to
generate additional electricity at peak times, and then pump some of the water back uphill in off - peak periods.
Not exact matches
Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian
electricity needs are
generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and
additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.
The surplus
electricity is sold back to the grid,
generating additional revenues.
This can be direct income to the Government as the Plant may continue to
generate electricity at 4.5 c / kWh while the Government can make
additional profit of at least 3.5 c / kwh for the next 15 - 20 years.
Building the
additional electricity generating capacity needed to meet peak heat demand is simply unaffordable.
Gas from the project is expected to help
generate 1,100 MW of
additional electricity and once on stream, it will produce enough gas to increase the country's
electricity supply by 50 percent.
«Instead, because the turbines extract energy from the wind,
additional turbines will each
generate less and less
electricity,» Mechem said.
We have
generated small amounts of
electricity just by getting the fabric damp — without the need for any
additional circuits or components.
The petrol engine's high - voltage starter - generator can similarly
generate additional reserves of
electricity, thereby ensuring that sufficient energy is on tap at all times.
The gasoline engine's high - voltage starter - generator can similarly
generate additional reserves of
electricity, thereby ensuring that sufficient energy is on tap at all times for the electric drive system in the new BMW i8 Coupé and first - ever BMW i8 Roadster.
The gasoline engine's high - voltage starter - generator can similarly
generate additional reserves of
electricity, thereby ensuring that sufficient energy is on tap at all times for the electric drive system in the new BMW i8 Coupe and first - ever BMW i8 Roadster.
We traveled from Brussels to Copenhagen powered entirely by renewable energy (
additional renewably -
generated electricity equal to that consumed by the journey) was purchased and fed into the German national grid.
This concept could also be extended to include a small charge on
electricity usage, known as a «wires fee» that could
generate additional funds for research and development of advanced power generation, storage, transmission, and demand response technologies.
There are other approaches that make used of the kinetics / inertia to
generate electricity when the wheels are in motion without introducing
additional loading or being a drag.
One aspect of this is the capacity to
generate additional revenue by selling
electricity into the frequency regulation segments of regional grid power markets.
If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to
generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of
electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to
generate all the
additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.
Of course, wind energy offers
additional benefits that are not currently reflected in our incentive structure, including the ability to
generate electricity without producing carbon dioxide or consuming water.
This
additional analysis will also include the effects of proposed changes to the LCFS, such as potential revisions to the calculation of ILUC (indirect land use change) values, options for refineries to
generate credits via a refinery credit provisions, provisions for
electricity credits for off - road applications, and a cost containment provision, which may affect the volumes and types of fuels needed for compliance.
With US coal plants
generating about 2 billion Gigawatt hours annually, the expenditure of an
additional $ 40 billion would raise the cost of
electricity by about two cents per kilowatt hour.
[5] This suggests that society would be willing to spend at an
additional $ 40 billion (i.e., 24,000 annual deaths x 14 years lost x $ 129,000 per year lost) for alternative ways of
generating electricity that did not produce deadly pollution.
Electric power system planners forecast the demand for
electricity at the time of the peak, and then identify existing and potential
generating resources needed to satisfy that demand, plus enough
additional resources to provide a comfortable reserve margin.
The capital cost of building a nuclear power station is high, but the marginal cost of
generating additional off - peak
electricity is very low.
As risk consultant Edgar Gaertner has pointed out, Europeans are compelled to pay 20 cents per kWh of offshore wind
electricity generated, plus an
additional 5 cents per kWh for transmission, regardless of whether the
electricity is needed at the moment it is
generated.
Now, with Solar24, homeowners can use every hour of solar
electricity they
generate, saving money on heating as well as
electricity bills, and so boost the financial returns of a solar system by up to an
additional 10 %.
Coal, which until recently
generated half of the United States»
electricity, costs an
additional 0.09 euros per kWh, due to the enormous burden it places on the public health sector and the environment.
Their study added the hidden costs of wind which included the cost of fossil fuel power as back - up when the wind is dormant, the
additional cost of transmission that frequently occurs with wind farms due to the inaccessibility of the best wind resources, the cost of wind's favorable tax benefits in «accelerated depreciation,» and a shorter estimated life of a wind turbine of 20 years to the per - kilowatt - hour cost of
generating electricity from wind power that includes capital costs and operating costs, as determined by EIA and the Department of Energy.
That is, the country would need to
generate an
additional 207 billion kWh of zero - carbon
electricity in 2020, or 38 % of Germany's projected 2020
electricity demand.
The fixing of a maximum price in the case at hand, by limiting the ability of
electricity providers to pass on the extra costs to final users, means that the supply obligation must be complied with by means of the
electricity providers» own financial resources; by contrast, the national legislation at issue in Association Vent de Colère, by enabling the
electricity distributors to cash in a tax imposed on the consumers, guaranteed that the
additional costs resulting from an obligation to purchase wind -
generated electricity would be offset.