Sentences with phrase «load growth»

Some of this projected load growth through 2050 will be customer supplied, but in most cases, utilities will supply capacity to ensure reliability.

Just as load growth expectations are shifting, utilities expressed a desire for regulatory models that rely less on power demand to deliver revenues.

The entire 86 - page survey report is here to download, and also contains important insight into utility load growth expectations, state regulatory models and the sector's most pressing concerns.

The company has reduced carbon emissions by 27 percent over the past decade and it has a «plan to meet future load growth with conservation, renewable energy, natural gas and market purchases,» Connett noted.

Public Resources Code section 25324 requires the Energy Commission (Commission), as part of the Energy Report, to develop and adopt a Strategic Plan for electricity transmission that identifies and recommends actions needed to ensure reliability, relieve congestion, and meet future load growth in electricity load and generation.

The ERCOT system has seen load growth as well, but unlike PJM, this was due to population and industrial demand growth in Texas.

While the vast majority of utilities still make money predominantly in the traditional way — rate basing capital investments and earning a return — stagnant load growth, DER proliferation and regulatory pressures are encouraging them to look at new revenue streams.

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.

«Assuming marginal load growth as the economy grows,» he said, «and taking out all the once - through cools, except the nuclear units, you have approximately 4,600 megawatts of ramping resources that you need by 2020.»

The analysis is the first to combine detailed models of the U.S. electric system and transportation sector with sophisticated atmospheric air quality models — accounting for the future evolution of both sectors in technological advances, electricity load growth and capacity expansion.

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Customer growth also remains positive across the company's regions, supporting a base level of retail load growth in Duke Energy's large electric business.

Full reliance on DG for expected U.S. load growth would avoid $ 326 billion in capital by 2020, reduce incremental power costs by $ 53 billion, NOx by 58 percent, and SO2 by 94 percent.

Even after accounting for expected fuel - switching and other load growth in the non-electric sectors, total natural gas use in these scenarios is expected to fall by 20 percent, relative to 2015.

Take away load growth, renewables will have to displace existing generation.»

With efficient electrification — opportunities for electrification that lower cost, lower energy use, and reduce air emissions and water use — the study projects cumulative load growth of 24 % to 52 % by 2050.

«By comparison, annual load growth from 1990 — 2000 was 2.7 %, dropping to 0.82 %, on average from 2000 — 2010,» the report notes.

We have attempted to frame the consequences of meeting energy load growth with conventional central generation or deploying decentralized generation that recycles waste energy.

* Meeting global load growth with decentralized energy can save $ 5 trillion of capital, lower the cost of incremental power by 35 - 40 percent, and reduce CO2 emissions by 50 percent versus the IEA central generation dominated reference case.

Our colleagues built a model to determine the best way to satisfy projected load growth for any nation over the next two decades.9 The model incorporates relevant factors for central and distributed electric generation technologies, including projected improvements in cost, efficiency, and availability of each technology.

«We're using up our freeboard in our system as we see load growth, whether it be cryptocurrency or even what we're seeing with tourism, housing, apartments and things of that nature.»

Since the 2008 recession, however, utility load growth has slowed or begun to decline in many parts of the U.S., squeezing utility finances and pushing them to identify new business model opportunities.

Expansion and modernization would enhance reliability and security, accommodate changes in load growth and electricity demand, and enable the deployment of energy efficiency and supply technologies, especially intermittent wind and solar energy.

Traditionally, when presented with a constraint on the system relating to reliability, load growth or the introduction of intermittent generation, a utility had one option: build new infrastructure, such as new substations, power plants or transmission lines.

Although the future surely includes some mix of central and decentralized generation, the model calculates the extreme cases of meeting all load growth with central generation, or meeting all growth with decentralized generation.

If this load growth materializes it could help utilities return more money to shareholders and reduce the urgency of business model reforms.

Load growth, too, will soar.

But with load growth stagnant and more customers generating some or all of their own power, that luxury may be gone.

Close examination of past power industry options and choices suggests that load growth can be met with just over half the fossil fuel and pollution associated with conventional central generation.