Sentences with phrase «high electricity demand in»

When there is very high electricity demand in the United States, getting enough power to meet the need is very expensive.

Monthly data allow users to see seasonal patterns, such as periods of nuclear refueling outages in the shoulder seasons (spring and fall) and increased operation of peaking generators during the periods of highest electricity demand in the summer months (driven primarily by air conditioning use).

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The International Energy Agency, a Paris - based think tank, said in its annual review of long - term megatrends in global energy that soaring electricity demand around the world will ensure that CO2 levels keep rising unless ambitions are ratcheted much higher.

The others were the explosive growth of renewable energy sources, especially solar photo - voltaic energy; China's increasing prioritization of cleaner energy; and the huge long - term rise in global electricity demand, reflecting higher living standards in the emerging world — notably in the shape of demand for air conditioning.

Although the sun is at a similar angle in September and October, electricity demand is still relatively high, leading to lower solar generation shares than seen in March.

Investment in energy - efficient practices including insulating wine tanks, installing an on - demand Gylycol system, replacing air compressors with on - demand VFD units, new more efficient pond aerators, and retrofitting high - efficient replacement lights in the winery resulting in electricity use decreasing by about 22 %.

Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power consumption in homes at peak periods of demand, when wholesale electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.

«The reduction in demand that has to occur has to be driven by price signals — a much higher cost for electricity,» James said.

«We plan on expanding this on our own,» explained Randall, because the university is interested in saving money by cutting higher electricity prices charged during peak demand times.

Supercapacitors have a much higher energy density than batteries, meaning they can charge and discharge extremely quickly; this is useful to meet quick spikes in electricity demand on the rail system.

Prices for high - grade silicon (that can generate electricity from sunlight) shot up in 2004 in response to growing demand, reaching as high as $ 500 per kilogram (2.2 pounds) this year.

Excess electricity from the wind farms can be stored in the batteries and fed into the system later, when wind is low and demand is high.

For example, on a hot summer evening when electricity is in high demand for air - conditioning, the system could drop the amount of power going to an individual car from 3.3 kilowatts to just 1.2 kW or even less, explains Paul Pebbles, GM's global manager of Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid Services.

At the same time, old, inefficient «peaker» units — so - called because they run no more than 77 hours a year when electricity demand in the state is at its highest — will be shut down or replaced by newer natural gas — fired turbines.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

They are popular during the peak electricity demand hours of between 4 pm and 8 pm (when carbon emissions due to generation on UK National Grid are highest), but watching is particularly popular in the late hours before bedtime.

In its statement, Peabody reiterated its belief that advanced clean coal technology «is the bridge to a low - emissions future for a world experiencing rising electricity demand to satisfy urbanization and offer a higher quality of life.»

«For the first time, we were able to apply data at a high enough resolution to be relevant,» said ORNL's Melissa Allen, co-author of «Impacts of Climate Change on Sub-regional Electricity Demand and Distribution in the Southern United States,» published in Nature Energy.

«In the glasshouse we currently use high pressure sodium vapor lamps and these are quite expensive in terms of the electricity demand,» says HickeIn the glasshouse we currently use high pressure sodium vapor lamps and these are quite expensive in terms of the electricity demand,» says Hickein terms of the electricity demand,» says Hickey.

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A lot of the systems design that people are looking at — like Christopher Clack — even if you can get the renewables up to 80 percent, then you have a piece there probably natural gas «peakers» [power plants that run in periods of high electricity demand], at least based on current technology, are way cheaper than any [energy] storage.

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.

In the High Economic Growth case, electricity demand, fossil - fired generation, and resulting CO2 emissions are all higher, while the reverse is true in the Low Economic Growth casIn the High Economic Growth case, electricity demand, fossil - fired generation, and resulting CO2 emissions are all higher, while the reverse is true in the Low Economic Growth casin the Low Economic Growth case.

The demand for electricity, however, is much higher in the eastern part of the country.

It is one of the few hydro - power stations in Australia to include pumped hydro in which water is pumped from the lower Jounama Pondage to the upper Talbingo Reservoir when electricity is plentiful and cheap, so that it can flow back down through the turbines to generate more electricity at times of higher demand.

During the summer when electricity demand in California is 50 percent higher than in the winter, less curtailments are needed.

However, in the spirit of Chairman Smith's request, this report analyzes the Clean Power Plan in the context of the AEO2015 High Economic Growth and High Oil and Gas Resource cases as well as the Reference case in order to examine indicators of the proposed rule's impacts on energy markets under varying assumptions regarding economic growth, electricity demand, and fuel prices.

I was struck reading that paper by this note from the introduction» Note that if we relax our assumption that each state's capacity match its annual demand, and instead allow states with especially good solar or wind resources to have enough capacity to supply larger regions, then the average levelized cost of electricity will be lower than we estimate because of the higher average capacity factors in states with the best WWS resources»

Elektroprivreda Srbije (EPS), the Serbian state company which has a monopoly on electricity production, says the new plant, to be in operation by 2020, will meet the highest environmental standards and is necessary to satisfy ever - rising domestic energy demand.

The system produces more than enough electricity to power Ad Astra's labs on a daily basis, and excess electricity is stored on ICE's power grid for later use in experiments with high demand.

SONGS played an important role in the electricity generation profile of the region as a result of its high output and location in the electric demand center of Southern California.

Electricity markets are undergoing massive transformation, as the push for low - carbon power generation shifts the industry towards high investment in renewables and other new technologies even as demand stagnates or declines in many countries.

It can be both costly and difficult to meet demand when it's high — such as hot summer afternoons when homeowners and businesses are running their air conditioning on full blast — but not doing so will result in less reliable electricity service for everyone.

Despite the higher portion of electricity demand met with solar, Germany still enjoys a healthy lead in volume.

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

«What's important to keep in mind when talking about solar and electricity prices is that solar energy production tends to align very well with the highest energy demand on a utility's system.

The report argues that, even if electricity demand were to grow at around 1 to 1.5 per cent per annum between 2010 and 2020 and fossil fuel prices were to remain relatively high, the share of renewables in UK electricity sales is only expected to increase to around 10.25 per cent by 2015.

-- In addition to the policy under paragraph (1), it is the policy of the United States that regional electric grid planning to meet these objectives should result from an open, inclusive and transparent process, taking into account all significant demand - side and supply - side options, including energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy and zero - carbon electricity generation technologies, smart - grid technologies and practices, demand response, electricity storage, voltage regulation technologies, high capacity conductors with at least 25 percent greater efficiency than traditional ACSR (aluminum stranded conductors steel reinforced) conductors, superconductor technologies, underground transmission technologies, and new conventional electric transmission capacity and corridors.

On hot summer afternoons, inefficient and expensive generators are turned on to satisfy the additional demand; they may run for only a few dozen hours in a year, but the cost of building and maintaining them means that the cost of that peak electricity is very high.

Higher electricity prices, real - time pricing, and new efficiency standards can reduce growth in electricity demand.

California's wind resources and generator output tends to peak during the summer at a time when electricity demand in the state is also relatively high.

New research suggests that although global warming will lower demand in some places in winter, in high summer on the hottest days the demand for air conditioning could at times be so great that the electricity supply grid would not cope.

NEW DELHI: In a bid to highlight the role of corporate leadership on renewables in developing a cleaner economy, The Climate Group has hosted a RE100 high - level roundtable event, «Scaling Corporate Renewable Electricity Demand In India»In a bid to highlight the role of corporate leadership on renewables in developing a cleaner economy, The Climate Group has hosted a RE100 high - level roundtable event, «Scaling Corporate Renewable Electricity Demand In India»in developing a cleaner economy, The Climate Group has hosted a RE100 high - level roundtable event, «Scaling Corporate Renewable Electricity Demand In India»In India».

http://www.scidev.net/global/energy/news/green-energy-developing-world-renewable-energy.html Developing countries that already have a high share of renewable energy in their power mix are unlikely to grow this share further due to skyrocketing demand for cheap electricity, a report warns.

The electric vehicle market is one of the most rapidly changing and fastest - growing high - tech sectors in the global economy, representing the beginnings of a demand - side opportunity like no other: intelligent, interactive electricity demand.

Earlier this year, Tesla opened a massive energy storage facility in Ontario, California that was designed to reduce the need for «peaker plants,» or pricey electricity generators that only run when demand is particularly high.

High amount of distributed solar drove down electricity demand, and New England customers ended up using more electricity from the grid while sleeping than in the middle of the day.

The high winds and low temperatures resulted in a substantial increase in consumer demand for energy, putting the electricity system, in particular, under major additional pressure.

Energy use in the sector results from end ‐ user demand for higher ‐ quality energy carriers such as electricity, but also the relatively low average global efficiency of energy conversion and delivery processes.

While coal - to - gas switching played a major role in reducing emissions in previous years, last year the drop was the result of higher renewables - based electricity generation and a decline in electricity demand.