Sentences with phrase «gigawatt hours of»

The power plant will generate an estimated 495 gigawatt hours of electricity per year which will power about 90,000 households.

The Climate Change Scoping Plan has a target of adding 4,000 megawatts of combined heat and power capacity to displace 30,000 gigawatt hours of demand, thus reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 6.7 million metric tons of carbon by 2020.

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.

As part of the C40 network, Paris has committed to reducing CO2 emissions in municipal buildings, in part by undertaking deep renovations of 600 public schools to save 65 gigawatt hours of electricity per year.

According to estimates, these air pollutants cause one death per 10 gigawatt hours of carbon dioxide.

NYSERDA's 2014 study, Street Lighting in New York State: Opportunities and Challenges, found that if street lights statewide were changed to LEDs, an estimated $ 97 million and 524 gigawatt hours of electricity would be saved annually, the equivalent of powering 74,000 homes.

The introduction of the carbon tax, along with Australia's target of generating 41,000 gigawatt hours of renewable energy a year by 2020, up from 21,000 in 2013, has helped increase renewable energy use and reduce the country's heavy reliance on coal, Dargaville says.

According to the Energy Commission, which is expected to launch its pocket - sized energy market data today, the country this year requires a total of at least 16,700 gigawatt hours of electricity in order to expand the economy by between 4 to 4.5 percent.

The new agreement will also allow Ontario to keep up to 500 gigawatt hours of power behind Quebec's dams in what is called a «pump storage» system, which will permit the province to reduce its surplus generation.

The research concludes  that taken together, fossil - fueled facilities are about 17 times more dangerous per gigawatt hour of electricity produced to birds than wind and nuclear power stations.

Not exact matches

This chart shows the major sectors of the power - generation portfolio of the US in gigawatt hours generated annually: note the dynamic between coal (black line) and natural gas (red line).

Oregon - based solar installation firm called Elemental Energy calculated that a wall with 10 - foot - high solar paneling would generate approximately 7.28 gigawatt - hours (GWh) of electricity each day.

Thanks to a two cents per kilowatt - hour production incentive from the U.S. government, they are being built at a rate that will increase the amount of wind - generated electricity by nearly three gigawatts a year.

The extra electricity, which can increase by as much as a gigawatt — or the output of a large nuclear power plant — in under an hour, must be quickly sold to other utilities or in many cases it is wasted.

Even if we fail to find the miracles that allow us to make and then transport hundreds of gigawatts of power over 3,000 miles at pennies per kilowatt - hour, and even if we can never find photovoltaics that are as cheap as dirt, the enterprise of trying to do it will push our science and our engineering so far forward that we'll generate a cornucopia of unexpected new technologies that will be the basis of vast new industries.

In California, where renewable energy makes up 20 percent of retail electricity sales, an overproduction of solar and wind during the middle of the day forced the state to dump 19 gigawatt - hours of prepurchased renewable energy last year.

Enterprising Stanford students crunched the numbers on how much energy it takes to play all that pop and came up with a figure of 1.18 gigawatt - hours.

All of the electricity is exported to offset the 53 gigawatt - hours of energy Samsø uses for transportation.

The world's first commercial plant in Landau, Germany, was commissioned in 2007 and already produces 22 gigawatt - hours of electricity per year.

In the past decade, the amount of electricity generated from renewables worldwide almost doubled, according to the International Energy Agency, and by 2006 they accounted for 2.3 per cent of the 19 million gigawatt - hours of electrical energy the world produced.

«A 46 - megawatt commercial design will incorporate 16 of these towers, two of which we have at Sierra» as well as more than 200,000 mirrors capable of generating at least 90 gigawatt - hours of electricity per year.

Entries poured in for the # 10 million ($ 17 million) Saltire Prize, to be awarded by the government of Scotland for wave or tidal energy technology that can produce a continuous output of 100 gigawatt - hours for two years.

For electrification to lower emissions, Kennedy says that a region needs to produce its electricity at a rate below his threshold: approximately 600 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per gigawatt hour (GWh).

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.

Robbed of allowances to produce the considerable remaining gigawatt - hours awarded by the Schröder government, RWE head Jürgen Grossmann called the phase - out decision a gross breach of property rights.

If all the wind projects currently proposed in New England were built, we could generate more than 5,700 gigawatt - hours (GWh) of electricity each year without producing CO2.

Australia has set a target of bringing 45,000 gigawatt - hours of renewable electricity generation online by 2020.

During this time, Ivanpah has continued to increase production as part of its planned multi-year ramp up, most recently achieving a record single - day output of more than four gigawatt - hours gross on April 17, 2015.

The calculation was achieved by adding together the equivalent gigawatt hours heat and electricity generated under this theoretical scenario, and dividing it by the output of a large nuclear power station.

After annual average growth of about 50 percent for five years, the U.S. electricity industry installed a total of 1 gigawatt - hour of new storage capacity between 2013 and 2017, according to the firm GTM Research.

Likewise, for the electricity grid, if storage gets cheap enough, its potential market could expand from 1 gigawatt - hour to dozens or even hundreds of gigawatt - hours.

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.

Overall the California Energy Commission found that the requirement would be cost - effective in every climate zone, by eliminating the need for 323 gigawatt - hours of electricity, and thus eliminating 114,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions — in the first year alone.

From the article:... It's a 32 - megawatt - hour lithium - ion energy storage project in a region with a potential 4.5 gigawatts of wind.

Nike's latest PPA with Avangrid Renewables is a wind contract for 86 megawatts of wind power at the Karankawa Wind Farm in Texas — which is scheduled for completion by mid-2019 — producing roughly 3,500 Gigawatt hours (GWh) of renewable electricity over the term of the contract.

The plants will produce a total of up to 20 gigawatt hours (GWh) per year, which corresponds to around nine percent of METRO Deutschland's total electricity requirements.

80 Bcf of natural gas is equivalent to 24 terawatt - hours of energy or the same energy that 1,000 gigawatts of electric generation capacity — roughly the size of the current US electric grid — would produce over a 24 - hour period.

Average support in the auction of 1.6 gigawatt (GW) capacity surged to 4.66 cents per kilowatt hour (ct / kWh) after it stood at 0.44 ct / kWh in the first auction in 2017, a result that surprised many observers at the time.

Additionally «nuclear maneuvers» (reductions), of 897 gigawatt hours added about $ 60 million during surplus baseload periods, caused mainly by (unreliable) intermittent power generation from wind.

Power generation from U.S. non-utility small - scale solar installations, as a group, jumped more than 30 percent this year through February, to more than 3,400 gigawatt - hours, compared to a year earlier, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

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.

The Proposal claims it will replace the 17,660 gigawatt - hours of low - carbon electricity produced by Diablo Canyon with an equal amount of low - carbon electricity, but the details of the Proposal make clear that will not happen.

But if it kept Diablo open and did not build any new renewables, it could reduce natural - gas generation by 25 percent to 18,000 gigawatt - hours — with a reduction of 2.4 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.

That's it: 4,000 gigawatt - hours per year of (mostly) energy efficiency and (maybe) renewable power to replace 17,660 gigawatt - hours from Diablo Canyon.

Deeply decarbonized electricity systems, with emissions of 50 metric tons of CO2 per gigawatt - hour of electricity produced, would cut carbon by 90 % or more.

By 2015, Brazil Pellet plans to reach 520,000 tons a year of pellet production, an amount that would produce 2,420 gigawatt - hours annually.

GE has 28 years of experience in 7F gas turbine technology with more than 50 million hours of fleet operating data and 150 gigawatts of installed across approximately 900 units at 350 sites globally.

Furthermore, the Sierra SunTower was said to deliver up to 8.5 GWh (GigaWatt - hour) of electricity in official California Renewables Portfolio Standard (RPS) documentation when the actual initial estimated nameplate capacity is almost half that at 4270 MWh (4.270 GWh).

Between July and September 2015 — the only period for which researchers could get overlapping water and energy data — they found that the water conservation measures resulted in a savings of 460 gigawatt hours (GWh).

German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity — equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity — through the midday hours of Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank has said... Norbert Allnoch, director of the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry in Muenster, said the 22 gigawatts of solar power fed into the national grid on Saturday met nearly 50 % of the nation's midday electricity needs.