Sentences with phrase «installed capacity targets»

We've already seen in the Chinese wind industry how the dogmatic pursuit of installed capacity targets came at the expense of actual generation as many wind farms were left unconnected to the grid (see a previous post on the wind industry).

Not exact matches

China alone has a target of building 49 gigawatts of new capacity between now and 2020, Agence France - Presse reports, roughly equalling the world's current installed solar capacity.

It will also expand use of natural gas and clean energy sources such as hydro, wind, geothermal and nuclear energy (specific targets include: 200 GW of installed wind capacity and 100 GW of installed solar capacity by 2020).

The government has set a target for installed solar power generating capacity to reach 15 gigawatts by 2015 and wind power capacity to hit 100 GW, China National Radio reported, citing an announcement from the National Energy Administration.

The International Solar Alliance has set a target of having at least 3 terawatts — or 3,000 gigawatts (GW)-- of additional solar power capacity by 2030, up from the current installed capacity of 71 GW.

A draft report on an Energy Department workshop on solar power's future last year said that preliminary analysis suggests that if solar power could hit a $ 1 per watt target for installed systems by 2020, one - third of the current cost, total U.S. solar generating capacity could rise to 5 percent of the nation's total.

For example, a significant portion of India's new installed power generation capacity will come from renewable energy sources in order to meet its national target of 15 percent renewable energy by 2020.

Adding up the provincial targets, and accounting for capacity already installed in provinces not mentioned, the 13th FYP target came out considerably higher.

Brazil's solar association has said that it expects it will reach 2 gigawatts (GW) worth of cumulative solar PV capacity installed by the end of this year, having already hit the 1.1 GW mark and with enough projects in construction this year to hit the target.

In the past China has set multiple» 5 year plans» for installing wind capacity, met each target early, and then set a new, more aggressive target.

India's 2027 renewable energy target requires 57 % of installed capacity to come from non-thermal energy, necessitating 21 - 22 GW annual renewable installations.

With 130 megawatts installed in 2012 alone, China has quickly amassed the world's third largest offshore capacity figure; the country's near - term offshore targets are 5,000 megawatts by 2015 and 30,000 by 2020.

India has set out some of the world's most ambitious renewable energy policies, including a target to ramp up solar installed capacity to 100 GW by 2022.

The UK already leads the world in the amount of offshore wind installed, and has set an ambitious target of adding a further 18GW to its capacity by 2020.

SaskPower's wind energy target is part of a broader plan to have renewable energy sources represent 50 percent of installed electricity generation capacity in Saskatchewan within 15 years.

To put 260 MW into perspective, the national target for all types of solar power (including non-photvoltaic solar such as concentrated solar power applications) for 2010 is 300 MW (to total installed capacity at the end of 2007 was 100 MW).

Finally, the plan calls for 100 megawatts of installed renewable energy capacity on federally subsidized housing by 2020 and a 20 percent renewable procurement target for federal buildings by that date.

Notwithstanding that and the lack of any subsidy or targets, 6 % of Alberta's installed generating capacity is wind — the highest of any province.

For solar, the target for installed capacity will be 2 GW by 2011 and 20 GW by 2020 (previous target was 1.8 GW by 2020); for wind, the new target will be 35 GW by 2011 and 150 GW by 2020 (previous target 30 GW by 2020); and for nuclear, the new targets will be 12 GW by 2011 and 86 GW by 2020 (previous target was 40 GW by 2020).

This more than quadruples the solar targets India set last fall, and will increase the country's installed solar capacity by a factor of nearly forty.

That's not trivial, but even if it's achieved it won't be any more than solar PV (2020 target of 150 GW, installing about 15 GW per year) even allowing for higher capacity factors and less than wind (250 GW by 2020, up to 400 by 2030).

New wind capacity has been installed so rapidly in the last few years, it looked increasingly likely that Germany would overshoot its target of 40 - 45 percent of total power consumption coming from renewables by 2025.