Sentences with phrase «grid capacity»

F1's maximum grid capacity is for 26 cars, something it hasn't had since the beginning of 1995.

In particular, planning for energy storage can help utilities defer expensive circuit upgrades and increase grid capacity to incorporate new renewable generators.

That will involve advancements in battery chemistry, software capability, charging infrastructure and electrical grid capacity.

By siphoning capital out of the area, and often out of the country where they are installed and, by hogging existing grid capacity they preclude the development of other more labour intensive renewable energy generation technologies such as bio-mass and anaerobic digestion fuelled systems.

(There is a rule of thumb that no power plant in a country should have a capacity that exceeds 10 % of that country's total grid capacity.)

If individual European countries would disregard national concerns about security of supply, and backup balancing capacity would be optimally distributed throughout the continent, the necessary grid capacity extensions can be limited to about triple the existing European high - voltage grid.

By the mid 1990's it had become well known that vertically - integrated utilities — the owners of most of the transmission lines in the U.S. — were stifling competition and letting excess grid capacity go unused.

China will continue its position as the world's largest installer of clean solar energy over the next five years as they address their very real mandates of reducing severe air pollution and upgrading electricity grid capacity to service their economy.

This requires models that are able to consider the power grid capacity and topology including their changes over time.

By promoting the smart grid as well as appliances with smart grid capacity, it is expected that peak energy demands will be lessened and consumers will be made more aware of the energy demands of their household appliances.

In Illinois and Minnesota, efforts are underway to come up with a localized value of solar that would take into account local grid capacity.

Experts reckon that when wind power provides a significant portion of the electricity supply (with «significant» defined as about 10 percent of grid capacity), some form of energy storage will be essential to keeping the grid stable.

The IEA finds that off - grid capacity in these regions will almost triple by 2022 to more than 3,000 MW.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

«So it is not true when you hear that the grid capacity is not more than 5,000 MW.

Availability, at this point, has much to do with a customer's location and that location's friendliness to EVs in terms of infrastructure, grid capacity, and other factors.

Wind may be close to competitive with coal in some areas, except it can't supply more than 20 % of grid capacity, except it doesn't come with a cost - effective storage solution, except it requires building new underutilized transmission capacity, except some people think the windmills are ugly or kill birds etc... You need to not only compete on price, but also figure out how to get rid of all those «excepts» that make coal still seem viable.

A far better near - term choice is wind power, but both wind and solar begin to have another problem at scales at or above that which Clinton is discussing: Since solar panels and wind turbines can't currently work at full capacity 24 hours a day, they require huge advances in energy storage and grid capacity, as well.

For a European grid with a share of 60 % renewable power (an optimal mix of wind and solar), grid capacity would need to be increased at least sevenfold.

For a European power grid with a share of 100 % renewables, grid capacity would need to be up to twelve times larger than it is today.

If there's a bottleneck for community solar on the horizon, it's substation and grid capacity.

Over the forecast period, off - grid capacity in these regions will almost triple — reaching over 3 000 MW in 2022 — from industrial applications, solar home systems (SHSs), and mini-grids driven by government electrification programmes, and private sector investments.