Sentences with phrase «larger wind capacity»

Note that Texas has the largest wind capacity in the nation at over 15.6 gigawatts, followed by California with 6 gigawatts, and Iowa with 5.7 gigawatts.

But with 26,000 total megawatts installed, Germany still commands Europe's largest wind capacity.

Not exact matches

China has greatly expanded its coal - burning capacity in the past decade, but it has also recently become the world's largest generator of solar and wind energy.

The unique morphology of the cotton aerogels allows for a larger absorption capacity, while the compressible nature enables the material to expand faster to exert pressure on the wound,» added Assoc Prof Duong.

Already, however, wind is the largest share of new installed electricity generation capacity in the U.S. and E.U., according to the Global Wind Energy Counwind is the largest share of new installed electricity generation capacity in the U.S. and E.U., according to the Global Wind Energy CounWind Energy Council.

Germany's offshore wind capacity more than doubled last year as investors warm up to the technology, helping Europe's largest economy in its ambitious push into renewable power

At about 45,000 megawatts, Germany's wind - power capacity is the third largest in the world, behind China's and the United States».

China solidified its standing as the world's wind energy behemoth in 2015, adding almost as much wind power capacity in one year as the total installed capacity of the three largest U.S. wind - producing states: Texas, Iowa and California.

At the end of 2009, the capacity of Texas wind turbines, reaching to the horizons of farm and prairie land, totaled 9,410 megawatts, well more than the combined total of the next three largest wind - power states, Iowa, California and Washington.

HI - STORM FW (FW stands for flood and wind resistant) is a high capacity vertical ventilated cask used to store large capacity MPCs of both PWR and BWR genre.

Although somewhat newer to the wind industry market than some of the other global players, India has the 5th largest installed wind power capacity in the world.

We're making our government's largest ever investment in renewable energy — an investment aimed at doubling the generating capacity from wind and other renewable resources in three years.

If the capacity of the links was greatly increased mainland Australia could feed large amounts of solar power into the Tasmania when it was plentiful, and Tasmania's hydro power could be conserved for the times when wind and solar were less plentiful on the mainland.

That places China as the largest with regards to installed wind power capacity.

The project has a capacity close to 200 megawatts — roughly 30 megawatts less than the largest project proposed for West Lincoln by Niagara Region Wind Corp..

The United States is easily the 2nd largest in installed wind capacity and, as of the end of 2014, had 84 % of the total wind capacity in North America.

It was the first large - capacity floating wind turbine to be put in use.

Although somewhat newer to the wind industry market than some of the other global players, India has the 5th largest installed wind power capacity in the world.

As such, the Floating Wind Joint Industry Project focuses on unique challenges for large - scale floating wind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology innovatiWind Joint Industry Project focuses on unique challenges for large - scale floating wind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology innovatiwind farms, based on requirements for projects in the hundreds of megawatts to gigawatt capacity, deploying larger next - generation turbines and a range of technology innovations.

Additionally, Germany has the 3rd largest installed wind power capacity in the world.

The policies of the Howard Government stopped these resources from being developed (none of the wind farms built before 2008 were large, and the total installed capacity in February 2008 was around 130MW.

Alberta added no new wind capacity last year, but remains Canada's third largest wind market with 1,479 MW.

OPIC is rapidly increasing its focus on renewable energy in Africa: Its 2014 agreement to provide financing and insurance to support construction of the310 - megawatt Lake Turkana wind power plant in northern Kenya, is the largest renewable power plant it has committed to date in Africa, and has a projected capacity of almost triple the total capacity of renewable energy projects OPIC committed in the prior three years.

Quebec added three projects totalling 249 MW of capacity in 2016, ending the year with 3,510 MW of wind energy on its grid and maintaining its position as the second largest wind energy market in Canada.

«With technological advancements in solar power and large turbines in wind energy, the country should strive for 50 per cent generation capacity from renewable sources by 2030,» Goyal said while addressing the Congress.

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»

In China, a boom in wind - power plants thanks to government subsidies has resulted in a large amount of wind capacity that is not always properly connected to the grid.

For a power grid based on 100 % solar and wind power, with no energy storage and assuming interconnection at the national European level only, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants needs to be just as large as peak electricity demand.

Although solar had the largest share in terms of capacity, of the $ 6 billion devoted to the round, only around 38 % of the budget — $ 2.32 billion — was assigned to solar, while another 46 % — $ 2.76 billion — went to wind power projects, with the remaining amount being left to the other aforementioned renewable energy sources.

Additions of wind capacity are expected to be slightly lower than in 2015, when 8.1 GW of wind made up by far the largest portion of 2015 capacity additions.

More than half of the country's new power generation capacity installed between now and 2040 is renewables - based, tapping Mexico's large wind and solar resources.

Geuda Springs, Kan., August 9, 2017 — EDF Renewables (EDF RE) is proud of U.S. leadership in wind power — America's largest source of renewable energy capacity supporting over 100,000 U.S. jobs across all 50 states.

Over the course of the year, Europe lost its title as the largest wind power continent, installing 28.2 % of 2009's global capacity, down from a figure of 51 % three years previous.

As in most of previous recent rounds, solar had the largest share accounting for around 57.3 % of all assigned capacity, followed by onshore wind, which had a 34.1 % share thanks to a total of 1,137.8 MW of allocated power.

Wind energy has been the largest source of new electricity generation in Canada over the last five years and Canada's installed wind energy capacity has grown by an average 23 per cent a year over that perWind energy has been the largest source of new electricity generation in Canada over the last five years and Canada's installed wind energy capacity has grown by an average 23 per cent a year over that perwind energy capacity has grown by an average 23 per cent a year over that period.

RenewEconomy While the large - scale solar market continues to wow, a new report has forecast a near doubling of the world's installed wind power capacity in the next five years, citing new policy pushes in China and India — and a «roaring back» to form from Australia.

General Electric ranks number one in U.S. wind turbine sales and is actually one of the largest suppliers of wind turbines in the world, boasting more than 11,600 wind turbine installations that comprise more than 18,000 megawatts of capacity.

China is the world's largest consumer of coal, but it also has more wind and solar generation capacity than any other country in the world.

The United Kingdom has approved plans for the world's largest offshore wind farm: up to 300 turbines with a capacity of up to 1.8 gigawatts in the North Sea.

Renewable technology has greatly expanded across the continent, with wind power overtaking coal as Europe's second - largest form of power capacity in 2016 — though coal is still used to meet more of the continent's electricity demand.

The Globalist Germany has the world's third - largest installed wind power capacity as of the end of 2016, according to the Global Wind Energy Counwind power capacity as of the end of 2016, according to the Global Wind Energy CounWind Energy Council.

With manufacturing facilities in India, the United States (Minnesota) and now China, Suzlon has rapidly climbed its way to fifth largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world, by installed capacity, despite the fact that the Indian company wasn't even in the top 10 as recently as 2002.

A similar trend is evident in the United States, where wind energy was the largest source of new electricity generation in 2014 and represented 28 per cent of all new electricity generation capacity additions in the United States between 2010 - 2014 — second only to natural gas.

Spain's large amount of excess capacity also helps to protect system reliability; it has 86 GW of generation, including 15 GW of wind, to serve a maximum load of 45 GW.

New improved larger units (over 6 MW) installed on higher grounds and higher support structures, in excellent winds areas will soon reach 66 % of name plate capacity.

Of all the large - scale electricity capacity installed this year, nearly two - thirds will come from solar and wind power alone, the agency said.

Large direct drive wind mills (over 3 MW) equipped with effective de-icing units, located in excellent wind places «way north of the border» already produce over 50 % of their name plate capacity.

Based on announced projects, WindEurope predicts the country will eventually become the fourth - largest offshore wind generator with at least 4.3 GW of capacity coming online by 2030.

According to Wind Power in Europe, wind energy was not only the leading source of new electricity generation in 2014 (representing 44 per cent of new installed capacity), it has been the largest source of new electricity generating capacity in Europe over the last 15 yeWind Power in Europe, wind energy was not only the leading source of new electricity generation in 2014 (representing 44 per cent of new installed capacity), it has been the largest source of new electricity generating capacity in Europe over the last 15 yewind energy was not only the leading source of new electricity generation in 2014 (representing 44 per cent of new installed capacity), it has been the largest source of new electricity generating capacity in Europe over the last 15 years.

In the U.S.'s largest wind area, Texas, there is 6 GW of wind capacity but only 0.5 GW of hydroelectric capacity (with no ability to store electricity).