Sentences with phrase «generated peak wind»
On October 12, 1979, Typhoon Tip generated peak wind speeds of 300 kilometers per hour.
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«For the size of equipment, a modern wind turbine — typically 250 feet across, blade tip to blade tip — can generate a megawatt and a half to 2 megawatts at peak output,» he says.
It will store energy generated at a big wind farm and deliver power during peak hours in South Australia.
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Wind - generated electricity can not, by its nature, replace or displace these «base load» or «peak load» generators.
But because of wind's variable nature, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the grid, only includes 8.7 percent of wind generation in estimating available power at peak conditions, even though it frequently generates a much greater amount.
The Texas A&M Energy Institute's Wind Energy Center will lead the Texas Offshore Wind Farm Innovation team as part of the Gulf Offshore Wind (GoWind) Project, which will be the most innovative wind farm built to date and will generate power at peak demand and a high capacity facWind Energy Center will lead the Texas Offshore Wind Farm Innovation team as part of the Gulf Offshore Wind (GoWind) Project, which will be the most innovative wind farm built to date and will generate power at peak demand and a high capacity facWind Farm Innovation team as part of the Gulf Offshore Wind (GoWind) Project, which will be the most innovative wind farm built to date and will generate power at peak demand and a high capacity facWind (GoWind) Project, which will be the most innovative wind farm built to date and will generate power at peak demand and a high capacity facwind farm built to date and will generate power at peak demand and a high capacity factor.
In fact, as Mr Joshi showed, south eastern Australia's wind farms were generating about 710MW at the time of the peak electricity demand for the week of the recent January heatwave; much of this was coming from SA's wind farms.
Even more exciting, recharging batteries with off - peak wind - generated electricity would cost the equivalent of less than $ 1 per gallon of gasoline.
Furthermore, he added, Cape Wind - generated electricity is available at peak demand periods and, even at the PPA rate, often beats the peak period spot market rate.
You can see from this chart created by a team of scholars including Environmental Progress Senior Science Advisor, James Hansen, and published last year in the journal Science, that the decades of peak nuclear deployment generate two to ten times more electricity than did peak decades of solar and wind deployment.
First, by reliably delivering clean energy — backed up with energy storage — during the times when the grid needs it most, Revolution Wind will help to defer the need to construct costly new peaking generating facilities and controversial transmission lines.
Today's story describes how electric power system planners treat wind generators, recognizing that the wind necessary to achieve a turbine's full generating capacity may not be available at the time of peak electric demand.
Jiminy Peak, built a 1.5 - megawatt wind turbine that reaches 386 feet into the air, making it the first mountain resort in North America to install a wind turbine to generate power.
The excess power or off - peak power generated by wind generators or solar arrays may then be used at a later time for load balancing in the energy grid.
Unless CSP becomes a lot cheaper I see most electricity generated by wind with possibly some nuclear and NG and hydro providing peak demand (as it does now).
To use the additional wind power generated in high wind periods (40GW - 20GW off - peak demand) would need 20GW pumping capacity, however it would be acceptable to shed a small amount of output above 35GW, so 15GW pumping capacity or 13GW additional pumping capacity.
Energy storage can save power generated from clean energy systems such as solar, wind and combined heat and power (CHP) for later use, enabling buildings to reduce their reliance on the power grid during peak demand periods when electricity rates are the highest.