Sentences with phrase «higher electricity demand»

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.

Build new transmission lines to connect areas with strong wind and solar potential to areas of high electricity demand

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

(2) the goal described in paragraph (1) can be met or exceeded by lessening the difference between the periods of lowest and highest electricity demand, with particular focus on reducing the frequency and severity of peak demand periods, using smart grid and demand response technologies, practices, and activities, including --

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).

Essentially, church members volunteered for a program that would let a partner company, Mosaic Power, briefly reduce their electricity consumption through controllers on their water heaters during times of high electricity demand.

Not exact matches

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.

Load shifting — The battery can provide economic benefit to its owner and the grid by charging during low rate periods when demand for electricity is lower and discharging during more expensive rate periods when electricity demand is higher.

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.

When demand for electricity is again high, the system is reversed: The weight of the water forces the air back to the surface, where it collects the stored heat and drives an expander, reproducing approximately 70 per cent of the input electricity and releasing the air back into the environment.

The anaerobic wastewater biogas technologies — which extract methane to generate green electricity or to fuel boilers and other factory equipment — are particularly applicable to food, beverage and agribusiness companies, or any industry that has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

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 %.

This is the most valuable part of the curve, as electricity prices are highest at the period of highest demand.»

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.

The study shows how higher temperatures will raise not just the average annual electricity demand, but more importantly, the peak demand.

When demand is high, the salt's heat turns water into steam to drive a turbine, making electricity.

The way to make renewables more reliable is to store the excess electricity generated during times of plenty (when there are high winds, for instance, or strong sun) and release it later to match the actual demand.

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.

During the day, when demand for electricity is higher, power will be generated by both the wind turbines and water flowing from the upper reservoir to the lower.

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.

Peakers are power plants usually using natural gas, that generally run only when there's a high demand or peak demand for electricity.

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 Hickey.

EIA: High temperatures drove record electricity demand and very high wholesale prices in THigh temperatures drove record electricity demand and very high wholesale prices in Thigh wholesale prices in Texas

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 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.

Demand - side response is one of several measures that can help integrate higher shares of variable renewables, including electricity storage, greater interconnection and more flexible power plants.

The study also demonstrates that a high renewables scenario can meet electricity demand across the country every hour of every day, year - round.

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.

**** ``....2 minutes ago» Wind power generates 140 % of Denmark's electricity demand... http://www.theguardian.com/environ…... Jul 10, 2015... Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs — with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too.»

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.

UK electricity demand varies between lows of around 30 gigawatts (GW) and highs of a little more than 50GW.

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