Sentences with phrase «lower capacity factors»

Under these policies, lots of wind turbines were built, but were run at very low capacity factor.

Using a somewhat low capacity factor of 0.33, this would mean that an average wind turbine would be rated at 3600 watts (3.6 kilowatts) to meet Bryce's statement of the «average» wind turbines.

Moreover, mountaintop wind farms require additional transmission capacity, which will only be used between 25 to 35 percent of the time due to wind powers low capacity factors.

Environmental regulatory requirements may have been the straw that broke a baseload's camel's back — particularly for coal plants — but it appears that most baseload plants were already burdened by the effects of low natural gas prices, eroding customer demand, and lower capacity factors before the incremental burden of new regulations tipped the balance over to retirement.»

In large part, that's because, despite the impressive nameplate capacity, Germany's wind and solar fleet produces electricity at very low capacity factors — about 17 % and 11 % respectively last year.

Fully contracted renewable energy projects have the least transition risk while older, inefficient merchant coal plants are likely to suffer disproportionately from the financial effects of carbon transition such as lower wholesale prices, the cost of carbon credits, lower capacity factors and increased operating or capital costs, according to the report.

It would also need to add 2.7 GW of storage because «distributed solar has a lower capacity factor» and «more storage capacity is necessary,» Synapse reports.

The recent additions of wind capacity led to higher output overall in September and October, despite the lower capacity factors.

Although wind often has lower capacity factors than hydropower, wind generation increased from 3 % to more than 30 % of total renewable generation between 2003 and 2013.

Lower capacity factors and / or fewer plants hits the bottom line of electricity generators and the companies that own them, but less need for transmission and distribution affects many investor - owned utilities, particularly those whose revenues have not be «decoupled» from physical investments.

As a means of producing useful electrical power, wind and solar are very expensive generating technologies because of their low capacity factors and because of their non-dispatchability and intermittency.

When taking the low capacity factor for wind and solar into account, Europeans are paying over $ 29 billion Euros per gigawatt of renewable capacity (rather than the $ 5 billion Euros per gigawatt noted above).

The lower the capacity factor the greater the problems.

Because wind and solar power have a lower capacity factor than nuclear or fossil fuels, their actual contribution will be much lower.)

Intermittent renewable sources like solar and wind tend to have lower capacity factors, as their output varies with the availability of the sun and wind on both a daily and seasonal basis.

It is worth noting that the total solar PV installed in 2011 exceeded the total wind power installed in the same year — although, because of the lower capacity factor of solar, the power generated from this installed wind power will still be considerably greater than from the installed solar PV.

The coal - fired units planned to be retired are smaller and operate at a lower capacity factor than average coal - fired units in the United States.

Baseload generators, like nuclear units, typically have high capacity factors, while peaking generators like natural gas - fired combustion turbines have low capacity factors.

I have adjusted the peak GW of the renewable wedges to take into account the lower capacity factor of solar and wind.

The low capacity factor of German wind turbines makes wind electricity expensive.