Sentences with phrase «generating capacity from»

In late June 2008, President Mwai Kibaki announced a plan to install some 1,700 megawatts of new geothermal capacity within 10 years — 13 times greater than the current capacity and one - and - a-half times greater than the country's total electricity generating capacity from all sources.
Renewables made up just over half of total net additions to electric generating capacity from all sources in 2012.»
Capacity transaction: The acquisition of a specified quantity of generating capacity from another utility for a specified period of time.
About 147 gigawatts (GW) of capacity was added in 2015, roughly equivalent to Africa's generating capacity from all sources.
In Europe, new electrical generating capacity from wind, solar, and other renewables now exceeds that from fossil fuels by a wide margin.
For example, on the evening of 2013/05/31 600MW of generating capacity from AGL's Torrens Island power station was lost and at the same time 200MW was lost from Origin Energy's Osborne plant, both in South Australia.
For example, these organizations are not sufficiently candid about: * The high costs of wind energy; * The added costs of wind energy due to its need for backup generating capacity from traditional energy sources because of the intermittence, variability and unpredictability of wind energy; * The absence of transmission capacity in remote areas where windmills might otherwise be acceptable; * The extent to which wind developers» costs are being shifted to taxpayers and electric customers and hidden in their tax and electric bills; * Scenic impairment and other adverse environmental, health and safety impacts.
It was designed as a coal - fired plant, with a generating capacity from four units of more than 1,500 MW.
China can double its existing generating capacity from wind alone.
The Australian Wind Energy Association has pledged to increase the country's wind power generating capacity from 72 MW in 2001, to 5,000 MW by 2010.
An American Solar Energy Society (ASES) study concluded that the sun - rich southwestern United States — after excluding its less promising areas — has a potential solar power generating capacity of 7,000 gigawatts of electricity, roughly seven times current U.S. generating capacity from all sources.
In Europe, the addition of electrical generating capacity from renewable energy sources in 2006 exceeded that from conventional sources, making it the first continent to enter the new energy era.
On top of this, China plans to build 80,000 MW of pumped storage hydropower generating capacity from 2011 to 2015, up from a previous goal of 50,000 MW.
«Resource calculations show that just seven states in the U.S. Southwest could provide more than 7 million MW of solar generating capacity — roughly 10 times the total U.S. generating capacity from all sources today,» according to a report from the Center for American Progress and Worldwide Institute.
Estimates from the World Energy Council indicate that worldwide, wave energy has the potential to grow to a massive 10,000 gigawatts, more than double the world's electricity - generating capacity from all sources today.
We're making our government's largest ever investment in renewable energy — an investment aimed at doubling the generating capacity from wind and other renewable resources in three years.
The distillers say that with gas turbines, they could increase their generating capacity from the present 200 megawatts to 3000 megawatts within 15 years.
The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

Not exact matches

The capacity to generate ideas, aside from being more prevalent than you'd think, is easy to verify.
«But measures of domestically generated inflation remain contained and inflation is likely to fall back sharply next year as the influence of the factors temporarily raising inflation diminishes and downward pressure from unemployment and spare capacity persists.
The central bank upped its estimate for potential growth — how fast an economy at full capacity can expand without generating too much inflation — to 1.8 per cent over the next two years from a projection of 1.6 per cent in the January report.
And yet, it still only generates around one third of its overall capacity from renewables.
Synergies will be generated by enlarging storage capacity in Niebüll and by the leverage of existing fermentation capacity from the Epernon facility.
The club wants to quit its Goodison Park home to move the short distance up the road, in order to increase capacity and operate from a modern stadium that would generate more revenue.
It was not about some breakthrough in the negotiations, but about a new initiative to deliver at least 300 gigawatts of electricity - generating capacity to Africa by 2030, all from clean or renewable energy.
Targets for nuclear power range from 35 % of generating capacity down to zero — a total nuclear phaseout — although those close to the deliberations believe the government will settle on 15 % when it finalizes the policy this summer.
The government has set a target for installed solar power generating capacity to reach 15 gigawatts by 2015 and wind power capacity to hit 100 GW, China National Radio reported, citing an announcement from the National Energy Administration.
Several groups of fish have evolved the capacity to generate electrical pulses from specialised «electric organs», derived from either muscle tissue or nerve tissue.
Enabled by the media — from phones to blogs to podcasts — we have gained the capacity to generate feedback, and as a result our ideas are exchanged more organically, rapidly, unpredictably, and — most important — uncontrollably than ever before.
Up until now, efforts in generating a vaccine against TB have been mainly focused on T cells (cells from the adaptive arm of our immune response with memory capacity), with very disappointing outcomes in both pre-clinical as well as clinical trials.
The EU however still leads in cumulative capacity and its 129 GW onshore and offshore wind installations, allowed six countries — Denmark, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Romania and Germany — to generate between 10 and 40 % of their electricity from wind.
Fast EDL and slow soleus muscles from all mouse strains were dissected and transferred to oxygenated Ringer's solution for assessment of isometric force — generating capacity ex vivo.
«(ii) 4 megawatts in capacity, in the case of a facility that is placed in service after the date of enactment of this section and generates electricity from a renewable energy resource other than by means of combustion.
Human pluripotent stem cells derived from embryos (human Embryonic Stem Cells or hESCs) or generated by direct reprogramming of somatic cells (human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells or hiPSCs) can proliferate almost indefinitely in vitro while maintaining the capacity to differentiate into a broad diversity of cell types.
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.»
Clark & Mayer demonstrated that graphics must be present next to the text mentioned, as distance generates increased cognitive load, to the already knowledge - limited capacity of active memory, with the direct consequence of dissuading the learner from active learning.
Capacity builders trust troubled school districts to reform themselves from within, not noticing that it is typically new organizations that in other sectors generate breakthrough improvements.
Depending on its configuration, the single - stage supercharged four - cylinder engine generates 85 or 100 kW (115 or 136 hp) of power from a cubic capacity of 1598 cc and delivers 280 or 320 Nm of torque.
Benefiting from the know - how Mitsubishi Motors has accumulated in the motorsport arena the new manual gearbox features a greater torque capacity to handle the higher torque generated by the new turbocharged engine without growing in size.
For the market launch of the new drive generation, MINI is presenting a three - cylinder combustion engine that generates an output of 100 kW / 134 bhp from a cubic capacity of 1.5 liters and a 141 kW / 189 bhp variant of the newly developed four - cylinder combustion engine that has a cubic capacity of 2.0 liters.
It can be charged from any domestic power socket and has sufficient capacity to enable the car to travel up to 30 kilometres (19 miles) solely on electric power, generating zero local emissions in the process.
Later, she built a doubling, tripling and, even, quadrupling shadow effect into these works by using a single continuous piece of wire to generate nested shapes, in which the outer surface of one form became the inner surface of the next, with each shape arising, she noted, «from the capacity of the technique and the way in which they grow».
Also, things are the way they are — setting aside the politics (for recieving nations) and psychological costs (for those moving), it would make sense to some extent for people to move toward places set up for efficient wealth generation rather than to spread the wealth among the people whereever they are, so it wouldn't make sense to try to wipe the slate clean of the advantages gained from history let along geography, although the later does bring up the issue of climate change refugees, and some wealth generating capacity is spread out (land), and of course some clean energy resources are rather abundant in the developing world or parts thereof, and energy needs differ geographically even for the same lifestyle — see above... this whole paragraph should reference itself....
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 hyFrom 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 hyfrom oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug - in hybrid
Truth is, the CO2 commitment from new generating capacity in the poorest countries will be small, even if they build mostly coal.
Guest post: Roger Andrews Renewable energy, particularly wind and solar, continues to set records for electicity generation and installed capacity in many parts of the world, and as shown in Figure 1 wind and solar growth in recent years has indeed been quite spectacular (the data used to construct this and following Figures are from the 2014 BP Statistical Review of World Energy): Figure 1: Electricity Generated from Solar and Wind, 1965 - 2013 But Figure 1 doesn't tell the whole story because solar and wind are only two of the four main sources of renewable energy.
Out of its total 35,843 MW of electric generating capacity in 2005 (3.36 % of the U.S. total), AEP gets 69.0 % from coal, 22.2 % from natural gas, 6.4 % from nuclear, and 2.3 % from hydroelectricity.
It received bids from both domestic and international wind development firms to build a staggering 78,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity.
The IPCC press release states «Of the around 300 Gigawatts (GW) of new electricity generating capacity added globally between 2008 and 2009, 140 GW came from renewable energy.»
But because nuclear plants operate at a 90 % and higher capacity factor while offshore wind at 40 %, the electricity generated from the new wind will be less than Pilgrim's.
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