Sentences with phrase «grid electricity according»

It calculates the investment, operating, and fuel costs to provide enough on - grid, mini-grid, or off - grid electricity according to the MTF.

Not exact matches

According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce ethanol from sugarcane.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

In addition, this year, delayed monsoon rains increased farmers» demand for irrigation - related electricity while reducing the water available for hydroelectricity, which accounts for 20 percent of India's grid, according to Businessweek and Reuters.

As of March, according to USAID figures, Power Africa has helped close deals accounting for 4,100 MW of electricity in places like Rwanda, where East Africa's largest solar array began sending 8.5 MW of electricity to the national grid late last year, boosting the country's electricity generation capacity by 6 percent.

The benefits will include greater grid reliability, integration of solar rooftop generation and plug - in vehicles, reductions in electricity demand, and stronger cybersecurity, according to a new study by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).

According to reports released over the past 6 months, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Southern Company have successfully deployed networks of distributed power flow control devices to relieve stress on the nation's electricity grid.

Under the Solar Community Initiative administered by the World Wildlife Fund and executed by solar firm Geostellar, employees of the four firms can install rooftop solar PV at prices that average 35 percent below the national average for solar and nearly 50 percent less expensive than average grid - delivered electricity, according to WWF and Geostellar.

But conditions don't seem nearly as ripe for approving such investments and infrastructure in more crowded regions, where demand for electricity is highest, according to Matt Wald's latest article on wind and the grid.

Over the last three decades, according to the World Bank, China has achieved universal access to electricity — 600 million people have been lifted out of poverty and connected to the electricity grid.

Bio-SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) delivered via the gas grid offers CO2 lifecycle savings of up to 90 % compared with fossil fuel alternatives, and offer sa more cost - effective solution than electricity for carbon abatement in transport applications, according to a new... Read more →

Bio-SNG (Synthetic Natural Gas) delivered via the gas grid offers CO2 lifecycle savings of up to 90 % compared with fossil fuel alternatives, and offer sa more cost - effective solution than electricity for carbon abatement in transport applications, according to a new feasibility study published by National Grid (UK), the North East Process Industry Cluster (NEPIC) and Centrica.

But these benefits differ depending on how electricity grids in different regions generate their electricity according to a UCS study.

According the Solar Energy Industries Association, net metering is «a billing mechanism that credits solar energy system owners for the electricity they add to the grid».

Twenty power companies including Germany's biggest utilities, EON SE and RWE AG, now get fees for pledging to add or cut electricity within seconds to keep the power system stable, double the number in September, according to data from the nation's four grid operators.

«Units serving this backup role must be on line (connected to the grid and producing electricity) and running below their peak capacity and efficiency, or in a spinning reserve mode (i.e., connected to the grid and synchronized but not putting electricity into the grid),» according to Schleede.

According to Inhabitat, off - grid solar could help make electricity accessible to communities across Myanmar, as traditional alternative power sources like diesel generators are far too expensive for poverty - stricken areas in the country.

According to The Brattle Group, at least half of the total value of this growth would be achievable in wholesale electricity markets, with the remainder accruing at the distribution grid and customer level.

(March 5, 2011) According to the CEO of the UK's electricity grid operator, consumers are going to have to make lifestyle changes to adapt to unreliable wind power.

«Contrary to most people's intuitive experience that winds are variable and electricity demand and supply is stable, the opposite is actually true at the grid operator scale,» according to Goggin's report.

According to local interconnection policies, grid - tied solar installations must be designed so as not to exceed 110 % of the site's historic electricity consumption.

According to the World Bank, 100 % of registered homes in the United States have access to the electricity grid, so it is unusual for a cell tower to be «off - grid,» and thus require a distributed source of energy in order to operate.

Every village in India now has some form of access to electricity whether it be through an on or off - grid solution, according to prime minister Narendra Modi, however, there are still millions of households across India, both urban and rural, without access to electricity.

There are important reasons natural gas is the United States» primary fuel for electricity generation — and will be in the years to come, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): 1) Natural gas is abundantly available — thanks to America's energy renaissance; 2) Natural gas» affordability has made it competitive in the marketplace; and 3) Among all the fuels used for power generation, natural gas is the definition of reliability — uniquely positioned as a fuel to furnish key attributes that ensure the health of the modern electricity grid.

Ten new hard - coal power stations, or 7,985 megawatts, are scheduled to start producing electricity in the next two years, according to information from German grid regulator Bundesnetzagentur and operators.

In 2014, more than 10 % of the electricity used in the grid covering most of Texas came from wind generation, according to the grid's operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).

According to a 2011 report from the International Energy Agency, coal will be responsible for delivering half of the on - grid electricity needed to meet its energy for all scenario.

At that moment, wind supplied almost 29 % of total electricity load, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the grid's operator.

According to the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) that oversee's the power grid in Ontario and balances supply and demand, the final hockey game

The state's overall wind average is significantly lower than these spikes: Last year Texas got 6.2 percent of its electricity from wind, according to Dottie Roark, a spokeswoman for the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the grid serving most of the state.

In fact, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), half of those without electricity today will never be wired to the grid.

According to the U.S. DOE, just 25 % of the electricity goes towards powering the devices when they are on; the rest of the time those devices are drawing energy off the grid even if they aren't doing anything.

Tech details are a bit sketchy but this is what we know so far: According to CBC News, the zoo estimates that its 5,000 animals produce enough manure to power a biogas - to - electricity plant which not only would be able to supply all of the zoo's needs, but sell enough power back to the grid that the entire project would pay for itself within five years.

Across six regions, according to the report, coal provided 55 percent of daily incremental generation, and the study concludes that at least for PJM Interconnection (which manages the electricity grid across 12 Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states as well as DC), «coal provided the most resilient form of generation, due to available reserve capacity and on - site fuel availability, far exceeding all other sources» without which the region «would have experienced shortfalls leading to interconnect - wide blackouts.»

According to the Digest of UK Energy Statistics, nuclear power provided 69,098 gigawatt hours (18 % of total) of electricity to consumers in 2009, whereas there were only 50 megawatts of installed solar PV capacity on the grid in the same year.