Sentences with phrase «intermittent nature of power»

November 10th serves as a perfect example of what's happening to electricity customers in Ontario: that day, the government's electricity policy shows we reward huge corporate wind power developers and it also highlights the intermittent nature of power generation from wind — it is out of phase with demand.

Not exact matches

So the biggest hurdle for solar or wind power today isn't necessarily cost; it's the intermittent nature of the sources themselves.

The natural gas plants are necessary partly because of expected load growth, partly because of the intermittent nature of solar power and partly because of the planned retirement of around 3,000 megawatts of generation powered by less efficient coal and oil plants, he said.

On top of that, Bloomberg notes, utilities are shunning renewable energy because of the intermittent nature of solar and wind power generation.

Storage of energy is needed due to the intermittent nature of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power.

Why It Matters: Solar power is not a large part of our nation's energy grid, in part because of its intermittent nature and the challenges involved in storing the energy.

People must close zero CO2 nuclear power plants and build new natural gas power plants that make CO2 in order to make up for the unpredictable and intermittent nature of wind and solar power.

«The intermittent nature of solar and wind energy pose challenges for dependable power supply and grid stability.

Incorporating Ramp Control, Predictive Power Analytics, and short - term, grid - scale battery storage in an integrated wind power systems platform, GE Power & Wind believes it's on the right track when it comes to addressing one of the industry's persisting criticisms: the intermittent nature ofPower Analytics, and short - term, grid - scale battery storage in an integrated wind power systems platform, GE Power & Wind believes it's on the right track when it comes to addressing one of the industry's persisting criticisms: the intermittent nature ofpower systems platform, GE Power & Wind believes it's on the right track when it comes to addressing one of the industry's persisting criticisms: the intermittent nature ofPower & Wind believes it's on the right track when it comes to addressing one of the industry's persisting criticisms: the intermittent nature of wind

One of the first utility - scale wind power systems to incorporate short - term, grid - scale battery storage, the GE Brilliant 1.6 - 100 addresses one of the criticisms (if not the biggest and most frequently cited criticism) of wind energy: its intermittent nature.

According to the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, wind power has «relatively little economic value» and because of its intermittent nature it needs back - up from natural gas, which means more fossil fuel use for power, not less.

As Professor Gordon Hughes, of the University of Edinburgh, has shown, if wind ever does make a significant contribution to energy capacity its intermittent nature would require a wasteful «spinning» back - up of gas - fired power stations, so it would still make no difference to emissions or might make them worse.

The green proposition of electric cars, especially the plug - in variety, is that by promoting the development of electricity generation and energy storage technology development (in the form of energy storage devices such as batteries), electric cars are not only reducing the need for gasoline, but also creates pull factors for the development of grid - connected renewable energy sources such as solar and wind energy by creating new electricity demand and provide energy storage solutions to address the problems of the intermittent nature of solar and wind power.

Earlier editions of Today in Energy discussed the intermittent nature of wind generation (March 22, 2011) and the challenges it poses for electric power system operators (March 25, 2011) as the Nation's wind capacity rapidly increases.

Presently the drive towards renewables has resulted in all but no reduction in CO2 emissions, due to the intermittent nature of renewables, and the need for conventionally powered back up which conventionally powered back up is not used at full capacity.

Since solar and wind power are by their nature intermittent, large quantities of weather - dependent generation require new solutions to maintain grid reliability while keeping costs low.