Sentences with phrase «kilowatt turbines»

At issue is the 400 - kilowatt turbine adjacent to the city's sewage treatment plant severely damaged by a lightning strike in February 2017.

A typical 1,500 kilowatt turbine costs about $ 1.5 million to install and about $ 18,000 to $ 30,000 a year to maintain - a bargain in the long haul, according to Jacobson and Masters.

According to the Wind Energy Foundation, a 5 kilowatt turbine with an 18 - foot rotor diameter is the average residential size.

According to the BBC, The base station needs between 1,200 and 1,500 watts and to meet that demand the site will have a six - kilowatt turbine and four solar panels.

They built and have given tours of their eco-friendly home where a 15 - kilowatt turbine atop an 80 - foot tower generates about 80 percent of their electricity; the former demonstration unit, which cost only about $ 10,000, paid for itself in 10 years.

Not exact matches

The turbine, which the Manitowoc Common Council approved on Monday, will generate 20 kilowatts of power, enough to power four or...

The 10 - kilowatt wind turbine was installed in 2010 at an initial cost of around $ 18,000 — the price after federal and Long Island Power Authority grants were factored in.

Presently the company's airborne wind turbine can generate 30 kilowatts, compared to the approximately 600 kW a traditional wind turbine might produce.

This 11,000 kilowatt power station in Bluestone, West Virginia, ran on coal - fired steam turning Westinghouse - Parsons turbines.

Those suburban turbines began turning in earnest on January 20, providing 35 million kilowatt - hours of electricity to Beijing through July, or roughly 300,000 kilowatt - hours a day.

The team has produced a few kilowatts of electricity with initial models and is designing turbines that could generate 250 kilowatts each (similar to some of the early, land - based turbines).

(Most modern wind turbines generate anywhere from 700 kilowatts to 2.5 megawatts each — enough for 200 to 750 typical homes.)

The rise and fall with each wave alternately pressurizes and depressurizes the air at the top, which can drive a turbine; Wavegen in Scotland, partly owned by Siemens, the giant electrical company, recently opened a 100 - kilowatt generator based on this system.

Engineers proposed dotting the island with 15 turbines, each capable of generating 750 kilowatts an hour, to meet all the native electricity needs.

These two turbines are expected to generate more than 120 kilowatts of energy and will be easier for the company to remove when repairs are needed.

The East River site produced nearly 50,000 kilowatt - hours of energy from December 2006 to May 2007, and the testing spot has the potential to support as many as 300 turbines and nearly 10 megawatts of installed capacity.

The reforms, initiated in early 2015, reduced payments to turbine owners by roughly 3 cents per kilowatt - hour across the country's primary wind - energy - producing regions in the north and west of the country.

The Snohomish County Public Utility District's pilot project is small — two turbines with 500 kilowatts of total capacity and an average output of 50 kilowatts — hardly a panacea for all that ails the United States» energy portfolio.

«Advanced gas turbine technology gives customers one of the lowest installed costs per kilowatt,» said Joe Citeno, combustion engineering manager for GE Power.

And the turbine won't soon make up the cost: Two thousand kilowatt - hours is less than one fifth the energy use of a typical American home.

For this reason, I ordered a 1 - kilowatt wind turbine for my house three years ago.

The array design incorporates 30 commercial - class tidal energy turbines, which could generate 1,050 kilowatts of electricity.

Image: Patrick Finnegan via flickr Boulder Wind Power has come up with a turbine design that it says can produce electricity at or below $ 0.04 per kilowatt - hour, allowing it to compete directly with fossil fuel - based power.

Florida Power Group has a portfolio of 2700 kilowatts of wind turbine capacity on 44 wind farms in 15 states, including Washington and Oregon.

Wind turbines and solar collectors of any type actually require a lot more concrete per kilowatt hour delivered because so many of them are needed.

6 foot tall wind turbines are added to the top of Boston's Logan Airport, estimated to produce 100,000 kilowatt - hours of electricity each year, roughly 3 % of current energy use.

Nearly 20 years ago, when it wasn't very popular and nobody knew what a carbon footprint was and nobody talked about global warming, I did put a ten kilowatt wind turbine on the island.

Though small by today's standards — the wind turbine's blades were less than one third the length of those installed offshore by Deepwater Wind — the 200 kilowatt - capacity turbine produced as much as 11 percent of the island's energy needs during off - peak winter months.

A typical home would require one or more small wind turbines with a 5 kilowatt (kW) generating capacity to meet all of its electricity needs.

In April 2003, Macalester College installed a 10 kilowatt BWC Excel wind turbine — the first of its size in the City of St. Paul and one of the first on any college campus, which provides an educational opportunity for students, staff and faculty learn about wind energy, wind patterns, geography and the practicality of wind turbines in urban areas.

Most estimates of wind turbine life - cycle global warming emissions are between 0.02 and 0.04 pounds of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt - hour.

Measuring the size of a ceiling fan and priced a little more than the latest Apple iPhone, this wind turbine can generate three to five kilowatt hours of electricity daily — enough...

As there are 4000 square meters to an acre, this would mean that an «average» wind turbine would be able to produce, on average, 4800 watts (4.8 kilowatts) per acre.

As the cost of producing electricity from solar panels and wind turbines continues to decline, every dollar invested today yields an additional 25 to 75 percent return in kilowatts, compared to five years ago.

Also, since the lonely little 33 - foot high Midlands primary school wind turbine only generated 209 kilowatt - hours of electricity in its first year, the Thanet Wind Farm, consisting of one hundred 3 MW wind turbines, will be useless too.

She calculated a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) obtained from a PA Consulting assessment of project costs for «a combination of plants that have been developed across the U.S.,» a turbine life cycle of twenty years, and a variety of developers» expenses, including a $ 2,000 - per - kilowatt capital cost, O&M expenses, a 38 percent capacity factor and estimated returns.

«Since the 1980s, though, the direct cost of energy from large wind turbines has dropped to three to four cents per kilowatt - hour, comparable with that from new pulverized coal power plants.

Interchangeably called «small wind» and «residential wind,» the category covers tower - and roof - mounted turbines with the capacity to generate anywhere below 100 kilowatts of energy.

In fact, it is quite alarming to me, because I have interviewed people who live near wind turbines that you in Australia would probably consider to be quite small and solitary — wind turbines that are 100 kilowatts, even — and they are experiencing health problems, even people living near a 10 - kilowatt wind turbine.

note 9; «Spanish Wind Power Industry Attacks New Rules,» Reuters, 2 February 2007; «EWEA Aims for 22 % of Europe's Electricity by 2030,» Wind Directions (November / December 2006), p. 34; a 1 - megawatt wind turbine operating 36 percent of the time generates 3.15 million kilowatt - hours and the average U.S. home consumes 10,000 kilowatt - hours per year; average energy consumption per U.S. home from DOE, EIA, Regional Energy Profile — U.S. Household Electricity Report (Washington, DC: July 2005); capacity factor from NREL, op.

A 2 - megawatt wind turbine operating 36 percent of the time generates 6.3 million kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; capacity factor from NREL, op.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

They estimate a network of turbines in northern China operating at 20 % capacity could satisfy China's electricity needs at roughly US 7.6 cents per kilowatt - hour.

Currently, the price per kilowatt of small - scale wind is much higher than that of utility - scale turbines, and payback periods can be long, in part because they are installed individually.

The turbine is 10.5 feet high and is rated at 3.2 kilowatts of power.

Owned and operated by the non-profit Alaska Village Electric Cooperative, these three turbines produce about 525,000 kilowatt - hours per year.

In June 2013, the United States at last joined the offshore wind club when a 20 - kilowatt (0.02 - megawatt) floating wind turbine anchored off the coast of Maine first sent electricity to the state's power grid.

Based on these numbers, the companies apparently are assuming that: * Each turbine will have a rated capacity of about 660 kilowatts.

* The large number of 660 kV wind turbines operating at the ambitious capacity factor of 35 % that would be required to provide an equivalent number of kilowatt - hours of electricity (ignoring the intermittent availability of wind energy); specifically:

Kilowatt - hours produced by wind turbines CAN NOT be assumed displace the emissions associated with an equal number of kWh from fossil - fueled generating units.