Sentences with word «gigawatt»

But Seth Darling at Argonne says the United States won't be likely to see hundreds of gigawatts of solar running at grid parity until 2025, at the earliest.

According to Habib Dagher, director of the University of Maine's Advanced Structures and Composites Center, which is developing offshore wind technology, within 50 miles of Maine's coast there is a potential capacity for 156 gigawatts in wind capacity, which could significantly reduce carbon emissions.

Australia's renewable energy certificate scheme requires electricity retailers to sell a certain number of annual gigawatt hours of renewable energy, increasing on a growing trajectory.

Governor Andrew Cuomo soon committed $ 750 million to fund the project, on the condition it would generate 1,460 manufacturing jobs and $ 5 billion in ongoing area investments, and Musk and the Rives targeted an annual production capacity greater than one gigawatt by mid-2016.

Taking into account that wind turbines produce electricity only about a third of the time, that's roughly the equivalent of building one standard one - gigawatt nuclear power plant a year.

Google has ponied up close to $ 2 billion in more than 20 clean energy projects, and has committed to buy another 1 gigawatt worth of clean energy from various farms.

Just last year, ten reactors — eight in China, one in South Korea, and an experimental fast reactor in Russia — connected to the grid with 9.4 gigawatts total capacity, the most since 1990.

The leading solar trade group predicted that the tariffs could cut forecasted solar installations this year by nearly 20 percent, to 9 gigawatts from 11...

There are several more gigawatts of solar power capacity on the way.

Given that the BLM is already backlogged with applications to build solar projects on its land, Olbeter didn't see a short - term boost to solar power developers if the proposal was passed into law (see The Rush for Gigawatts in the Desert Explodes).

Solar's potential shone through with a multibillion - dollar pact between SkyPower - IGD and the Egyptian government to add 3 gigawatts over the next four years.

At least 10, more likely 20 gigawatts [of fossil capacity] need to be built in the coming 10 years.»

Combining onshore and offshore wind, hydro and innovative technologies, GE Renewable Energy has installed more than 400 + gigawatts capacity globally to make the world work better and cleaner.

The project will generate skilled offshore wind construction and operations jobs, positioning New Jersey's workforce to build gigawatts of wind projects off New Jersey's coast and up - and - down the Atlantic coast.

The 50 GW of planned coal could push national coal capacity factors as low as 50 %, just as gigawatts of cheap renewables come online, meaning unless new plants replace retiring capacity they could come online as stranded assets.

This bill aims to promote first - time energy access for 50 million people and install 20 additional gigawatts of electricity in sub-Saharan Africa by 2020.

So we had new records of installed power capacity in 2016 with 161 Gigawatts added, which represents an increase of around 9 percent relative to 2015.

Now BrightSource Energy, a VC - funded CSP firm with gigawatts of PPAs in its pipeline, has launched a power tower CSP system that includes two - tank molten - salt storage.

«Further, to dictate how 2,000 annual gigawatt hours are to be brought online, eight years in advance, and seems premature.»

Collectively, co-ops have more than 870 megawatts of installed and planned solar capacity, he said, with multiple gigawatts expected by 2020, he said.

From Earth orbit, each featherweight spacecraft would be boosted toward Alpha Centauri at 20 percent light - speed by a minutes - long pulse from a ground - based, 100 - gigawatt laser array.

These inefficient selective oxidation processes also waste many gigawatts of energy.

ESTIF estimates that the European Union has a long - term potential of developing 1,200 thermal gigawatts of solar water and space heating, which means that the sun could meet most of Europe's low - temperature heating needs.

If the new price point's not incentive enough, beginning on December 10th, Cole's «Gigawatt Blades» Super Power, will become available for FREE on PlayStation Network.

We need gigawatts of solar over the next few decades, so let's set some serious long - term goals for this Authority, and give it the tools to achieve them.

It's unlikely that any private blockchain will try to protect records using gigawatts of computing power — it's time consuming and expensive.»

In another record, renewables such as wind, solar, biomass, and hydro also generated about 18.7 gigawatts combined.

Solar is now the fastest - growing source of new energy, with 86 gigawatts expected to be installed worldwide this year.

The joint venture, by affiliates of GLP and Brookfield, intends to install 300 megawatts of rooftop solar projects over the next three years, with a broader one - gigawatt development pipeline, equivalent to the annual power consumption of approximately 750,000 households.

The offshore wind power potential in the U.S. is huge, totalling more than 4,000 gigawatts if fully developed — about four times today's total U.S. electric power generating capacity and enough electricity to power about 800 million homes, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Hoffert et al (1998)[the paper is here] provided what still is the clearest framework for establishing the huge magnitude of the energy technology challenge to meeting a growing energy commitment — a challenge measured in terawatts not gigawatts.

To nail down the last angle, researchers studied electron antineutrinos produced by the six 2.9 - gigawatt reactors at the site.

It proposes to use the $ 100 million to learn whether it's possible to use a 100 - gigawatt light beam and light sails to propel some 1,000 ultra-lightweight nanocraft to 20 % of light speed.

We need gigawatt days, not megawatt hours if these renewables are to be a big part of the energy supply and pressurized caves [compressed air storage] are not going to give it to us.

Each new 1 gigawatt line (operating for about as much of the year as existing lines) could bring 1.5 million metric tons of reductions.

Regulators are considering a proposal by DTE Energy Co. to build a 1.1 - gigawatt gas plant about 50 miles northeast of Detroit.

Even half a wedge is huge â $» some 350 Gigawatts baseload power (~ 2.8 billion Megawatt - hours a year) or 160 billion gallons of gasoline.

During that period, India will add an additional 70 gigawatts through more than 46 plants.

2019 is expected to be the most painful year for the utility - scale sector, with a 1.6 - gigawatt decline in installations compared to GTM Research's original forecast.

Musk said one utility company is already interested in a 250 - gigawatt installation of Powerpack systems alone.

On a call with shareholders in February 2015, Lyndon delayed the timeline: The factory, he indicated, would now be built and ready for equipment by early 2016 (while that one - gigawatt production target wouldn't be reached until the first quarter of 2017).

Serena is, among other things, an unfortunate addition to the rollcall of European directors coming a cropper when given American gigawatts to play with.

According to S. Massoud Amin, an electrical and computer engineer at the University of Minnesota, the United States now invests just $ 4.6 million per gigawatt annually in high - voltage transmission, compared with a $ 16.5 million investment in England, $ 12.3 million in Spain, and $ 22 million in New Zealand.

He sees wave power eventually providing some 20 percent of the United Kingdom's electricity needs, backing up the variability of the burgeoning wind power industry, which is set to rise to some 33 gigawatts within a decade.

Running all those magnets isn't cheap: Los Alamos uses a 1.43 gigawatt generator and five 64 - megawatt power supplies.