Sentences with phrase «less generating capacity»

I don't think the salts are being considered for months of storage either, just daily storage at the same site as the generation unit so less generating capacity is requires and baseload or dispatchable power can be provided.

The U.S. solar industry installed 30 percent less generating capacity in 2017 than in 2016 — 4.6 gigawatts less capacity.

Not exact matches

Solar power still amounts to less than 1 % of the nation's electrical - generating capacity — coal produces about 40 % — and its proportion will stay in the low single digits until it becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.

Here then is a second and less obvious explanation for America's capacity to generate a civil religion — the opportunity and inclination of its government agencies to use religious symbols.

«We are a small country of only 20 million people, and the funding levels and private philanthropy in Australia aren't as robust as in the United States,» says Boyd, «but we have demonstrated the capacity to generate excellent results on less funding.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

[3] Small power plants are defined as having an electric generating capacity less than 300 MW.

Holger Gassner, head of markets and political affairs at RWE Innogy GmbH, estimates that in 2050, a 10 - day span when wind farms generate less than 10 % of capacity would require 313 times the current pumped storage capacity to bridge the «calm.»

But because nuclear plants operate at a 90 % and higher capacity factor while offshore wind at 40 %, the electricity generated from the new wind will be less than Pilgrim's.

In 2016, Germany generated less electricity from the sun even after installing more solar panels, and generated just one percent more electricity from wind despite having increased wind capacity by 11 % (ref.

If a wind turbine costs $ 1,254 / kW and has a 30 % capacity factor, it will generate power for about 2.4 cents / kWh — not counting future generation as less valuable.

Wind - generating capacity worldwide, growing at over 30 percent per year, has jumped from less than 5,000 megawatts in 1995 to 39,000 megawatts in 2003, an increase of nearly eight fold.

«Sub-Saharan Africa has a total of about 80 gigawatts of installed (electricity generating) capacity, which is less than Spain,» he said.

An American Solar Energy Society (ASES) study concluded that the sun - rich southwestern United States — after excluding its less promising areas — has a potential solar power generating capacity of 7,000 gigawatts of electricity, roughly seven times current U.S. generating capacity from all sources.

About 60 percent of Ontario's current generation capacity is already accounted for by low - emission hydro or nuclear - generated electricity, with the balance provided by natural - gas generation and to a lesser extent by renewables.

Wind energy (1 quad) has shown rapid growth, with electricity - generating capacity increasing from less than 2.5 GW in 2000 to over 43 GW today.

[3] Each state has interim targets it must meet beginning in 2020, and the EPA proposed that states use a combination of four «building blocks» to achieve the emissions reductions: (1) improving the efficiency (heat rate) of existing coal - fired power plants; (2) switching from coal - fired power by increasing the use and capacity factor, or efficiency, of natural - gas combined - cycle power plants; (3) using less carbon - intensive generating power, such as renewable energy or nuclear power; and (4) increasing demand - side energy - efficiency measures.

2 Small - scale solar photovoltaic systems are electricity generators with less than one megawatt of electricity generating capacity that are usually at or near the location where the electricity is consumed.

One can buy 5 watts of solar generating capacity for a lot less than a hundred bucks.

Germany added a whopping 10 percent more wind capacity and 2.5 percent more solar capacity between 2015 and 2016 and yet generated just one percent more electricity from wind — and one percent less electricity from solar.