Sentences with phrase «has a capacity factor»

While the average U.S. nuclear plant in 1980 had a capacity factor of less than 60 percent, today's average is over 90 percent.

The facility is expected to have a capacity factor of 24 %.

Alternatively it would require 18,500 new 2 MW wind turbines, having a capacity factor of 34 % (the same as the CF for existing units).

Each of these industrial solar parks occupy fifty acres and have a capacity factor of one megawatt — or enough electricity for 1200 «average» homes.

They didn't tell me whether the cost - per - kWh for wind was max theoretical or has capacity factored in.

By contrast, conventional power plants tend to have a capacity factor of 40 to 80 percent.

PV in Germany has a capacity factor of what?

That this is quite false is shown by the average South Eastern Australian wind farm having a capacity factor of 35 %.

And let's say PV has a capacity factor of only 15 %.

And, again, this is baseload power, and your typical coal plant has a capacity factor that is some 2 to 3 times larger than that of wind.

The Haliade - X, according to GE, will have a capacity factor of 63 percent.

Not exact matches

Actual results, including with respect to our targets and prospects, could differ materially due to a number of factors, including the risk that we may not obtain sufficient orders to achieve our targeted revenues; price competition in key markets; the risk that we or our channel partners are not able to develop and expand customer bases and accurately anticipate demand from end customers, which can result in increased inventory and reduced orders as we experience wide fluctuations in supply and demand; the risk that our commercial Lighting Products results will continue to suffer if new issues arise regarding issues related to product quality for this business; the risk that we may experience production difficulties that preclude us from shipping sufficient quantities to meet customer orders or that result in higher production costs and lower margins; our ability to lower costs; the risk that our results will suffer if we are unable to balance fluctuations in customer demand and capacity, including bringing on additional capacity on a timely basis to meet customer demand; the risk that longer manufacturing lead times may cause customers to fulfill their orders with a competitor's products instead; the risk that the economic and political uncertainty caused by the proposed tariffs by the United States on Chinese goods, and any corresponding Chinese tariffs in response, may negatively impact demand for our products; product mix; risks associated with the ramp - up of production of our new products, and our entry into new business channels different from those in which we have historically operated; the risk that customers do not maintain their favorable perception of our brand and products, resulting in lower demand for our products; the risk that our products fail to perform or fail to meet customer requirements or expectations, resulting in significant additional costs, including costs associated with warranty returns or the potential recall of our products; ongoing uncertainty in global economic conditions, infrastructure development or customer demand that could negatively affect product demand, collectability of receivables and other related matters as consumers and businesses may defer purchases or payments, or default on payments; risks resulting from the concentration of our business among few customers, including the risk that customers may reduce or cancel orders or fail to honor purchase commitments; the risk that we are not able to enter into acceptable contractual arrangements with the significant customers of the acquired Infineon RF Power business or otherwise not fully realize anticipated benefits of the transaction; the risk that retail customers may alter promotional pricing, increase promotion of a competitor's products over our products or reduce their inventory levels, all of which could negatively affect product demand; the risk that our investments may experience periods of significant stock price volatility causing us to recognize fair value losses on our investment; the risk posed by managing an increasingly complex supply chain that has the ability to supply a sufficient quantity of raw materials, subsystems and finished products with the required specifications and quality; the risk we may be required to record a significant charge to earnings if our goodwill or amortizable assets become impaired; risks relating to confidential information theft or misuse, including through cyber-attacks or cyber intrusion; our ability to complete development and commercialization of products under development, such as our pipeline of Wolfspeed products, improved LED chips, LED components, and LED lighting products risks related to our multi-year warranty periods for LED lighting products; risks associated with acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures or investments generally; the rapid development of new technology and competing products that may impair demand or render our products obsolete; the potential lack of customer acceptance for our products; risks associated with ongoing litigation; and other factors discussed in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended June 25, 2017, and subsequent reports filed with the SEC.

Estimating the CABB requires breaking down the budget balance into two components: the «structural balance» we would observe if the economy was operating at capacity and the cyclical factor.

There are a range of factors that affect the flows of goods and services across international borders, but the sustained outflow of funds from some emerging economies witnessed in recent years may have as much to do with the limited intermediation capacity of the local financial systems as with the scarcity of profitable domestic investment opportunities.

Although the Chief Justice acknowledged that this argument had some merit, the more determinative factor — and the key difference between the statutory immunity provisions relied upon by the ERCB and Alberta Environment — was that the immunity clause with respect to the former explicitly contemplated the regulator as an entity («the Board or a member of the Board...») whereas the immunity provisions under the Water Act and the EPEA did not (referring only to «persons» in various capacities; see paras 62 — 71).

In considering where Canada and China might further develop their military relationship, a key factor has to be the nature and capacity of Canada's military establishment.

In contrast, export volumes decreased over this period, despite strong global demand, as capacity and infrastructure constraints and supply disruptions restricted growth; such supply - side factors have hampered exports for a number of years, with resource export volumes now lower than during 2000 (see the chapter entitled «Australia's Resource Exports — Recent Trends and Prospects» in this Statement).

For much of the 1990s, the fact that the economy had a good deal of excess capacity has also operated to make these factors more powerful in controlling inflation.

Whitehead's method, in part, is to analyze these occasions of subjective experience in order to find factors capable of being generalized into principles applicable to all actual entities: «In describing the capacities, realized or unrealized, of an actual occasion, we have... tacitly taken human experience as an example upon which to found the generalized description required for metaphysics» (PR 172).

Countries that have been divided the way Germany and Korea have are of special interest to political analysts, since such key factors as religion, cultural history, geography, ethnicity and technological capacity are relatively constant in both regimes.

To be a good historian according to our present standards, one must have the capacity to see the interplay of human and physical factors that caused important events to take place, and if the history is to be widely read the historian must have a clear and vivid literary style.

Creativity - characterization has a role, power, or explanatory capacity only insofar as it functions as factor to be discovered in an analysis of actual entities.

I suppose that would depend on their other factors like their capacity for rational thought and desire to use it.

«Quality has evolved as we've better understood ingredient functionality — how that factors with manufacturing capacity,» he said.

Another key factor is the capacity for that package to actually be manufactured using the materials you require and to have it successfully work on your filling lines.

Among the overall concerns are proposals the Assembly Democrats say would place new caps on impairment limits, a reducing of what's considered the normal range of motion for extremities, adding earning capacity as a factor in determining the extent in which an injured worker suffered a loss, and limiting what evidence claimants can present to the board.

And Assemblymember Karim Camara, Chairman of the Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus, said «One of the greatest determining factors in ensuring that a child has the high quality education they deserve is the capacity of the teacher in the classroom.

An ornithologist at the University of Rhode Island who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.

An ornithologist who studies the physiological changes that birds undergo to migrate has found that the capacity of a bird's gut to change with environmental conditions is a primary limiting factor in their ability to adapt to the rapidly changing climate.

Several unplanned outages had reduced its power output, and its load factor - the ratio of actual output to its maximum capacity - fell to its lowest level of 56 percent in 2009, Britain's National Archives show.

Renner's statement can be illustrated by the Bitcoin boom: it is not computing capacity itself, but the exorbitant energy use — which produces a huge amount of heat — and the associated costs that have become the deciding factors for the future of the cryptocurrency.

A number of studies have identifed factors, suchs as prostaglandin E2, that have the capacity to subvert the immunity of the cancer patients.

The capacity for genetic adaption is, however, not enough to guarantee success, Geerts adds: «Climate change may have an impact on other factors as well.

Moreover, «physical fitness is a factor that can be modified through physical exercise, and combining exercises that improve the aerobic capacity and the motor ability would be an effective approach to stimulate brain development and academic performance in overweight / obese children.»

Recently, skeletal muscle has been recognized as an endocrine tissue with the capacity to secrete cytokines and growth factors, known as myokines, which can act on distant tissues.

Thus, hNPCctx have the capacity to secrete endogenous growth factors of known importance for the maintenance and survival of retinal neurons, as well as the ability to constitutively express transgenes encoding selected neurotrophins.

They tease apart the influences of age and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors on these cells, whose regenerative capacity has made them the target of much investigation.

As to the participation of New Member countries in the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), a general consensus has been established in Item 4 of Article 4 of the Statutes of the International Human Frontier Science Program Organization (HFSPO), as follows: «On the basis of the principle that the opportunity to become a Management Supporting Party (MSP) be open to all interested countries, the Board of Trustees (BOT) decides on the acceptance of new Management Supporting Parties after considering such factors as: 1) the country's scientific capacity in basic research in the research areas of the Program; and 2) the degree of support for the Program.»

This has a negative impact on health, as studies show that low aerobic capacity is a major risk factor for premature death.

The negative effects seem to lie in the capacity of some foods / nutrients to stimulate proliferative pathways that in turn stimulate development of acne — suspect foods include those with a high glycaemic load and milk.11, 43, 44 Other evidence comes from several studies reporting that the prevalence of acne varies significantly between different populations and is substantially lower in non-Westernized populations that follow traditional diets, 45 a common factor among these traditional diets being a low glycaemic load.46 Various studies have provided evidence that high - glycaemic - load diets are implicated in the aetiology of acne through their capacity to stimulate insulin, androgen bioavailability and insulin - like growth factor - 1 (IGF - 1) activity, whereas the beneficial effects of low - glycaemic - load diets, apart from weight and blood glucose levels, also include improved skin quality.44 The clinical and experimental evidence does in fact suggest ways in which insulin can increase androgen production and affect via induction of steroidogenic enzymes, 47 the secretion by the pituitary gland of gonadotropin - releasing hormone and the production of sex hormone - binding globulin.48 Insulin is also able to reduce serum levels of IGF - binding protein - 1 increasing the effect of IGF - 1.49 These insulin - mediated actions can therefore influence diverse factors that underlie the development of acne such as:

Pulse starches generally have a higher content of amylose compared with cereal and tuber starches; this factor plus their associated high capacity for retrogradation may reduce the starch digestion rate, rendering them either slowly digestible and / or resistant to digestion.

To that list, we must add two critical factors that matter a lot: creating more responsive school governance structures; and expanding teachers» capacity to have more professional discretion over their own practice.

These individuals may have the intellectual capacity to do well in school, but due to a variety of factors, fail to pass exams or do well in coursework.

Whether lack of media infrastructure, lack of government support for independent media; each factor has had the capacity to bring about unintended negative consequences (or in some cases very intended) and increase violent conflict.

[vi] If one were doing a rigorous cost - benefit analysis of retention, one would want to take into account a variety of other factors, including the extent of excess capacity (i.e., open seats) in schools currently, the additional costs (if any) of hiring new teachers and / or expanding building space, etc..

Research on effective schools has identified several key factors that contribute to district and school capacity to improve instructional practice and student performance.

One of the protective factors highlighted in resilience theory is that if a young person has at least one caring adult who knows them, has high expectations for them, communicates a sense of belonging, recognizes their strengths, and gives them opportunities to be themselves, express themselves and their strengths, this builds resilience and the capacity to face challenges with self - awareness and confidence.

While the SUV is said to be under consideration, Hyundai hasn't made a decision on whether such a vehicle will come to fruition due to several factors including the brand's lack of presence in the luxury SUV segment, production capacity, and uncertainty over fuel prices.

A minivan would, too, but quite a few things set the Flex apart from a minivan, such as third - row seating that's slightly more comfortable for adults than some minivans, the fact that it doesn't look like a minivan (which isn't really a factor for me but is for some people), and available all - wheel drive, which allows for the Flex's biggest advantage to my family: its impressive 4500 - pound towing capacity.

Whilst we have the capacity to create such a car we must factor in longevity, reliability and means testing for world market; this all takes considerable time.»