Sentences with phrase «meet peak load»

Richter said his biggest disagreement with Lovins was in energy storage and the need to meet peak load demands versus base load demands — neither solar nor wind can meet energy demand all hours of the day.

It is «the resource you would build if you need something that just provides capacity [and] the ability to meet peak loads.»

If an Electric Utility built a nuclear power plant to meet this peaking load, the capacity factor of the nuclear plant would be very low (25 %).

What «Planning Engineer» never mentions is that there is not a Utility on the face of this Planet that would build a nuclear unit to meet its peaking load requirement (i.e., concept of capacity factors and costs per kWh).

Not exact matches

Large price spikes immediately before and after mid-day periods when both utility - scale and distributed solar generation reaches its peak level suggest a need for dispatchable generation sources to help cover ramping periods, when the need for power from the grid to meet load is rapidly changing.

In June I heard a report about a new EU - wide study done in the UK that showed clearly that by combining all forms of renewables: wind all over Europe, solar in North Africa, hydo, hydro storage, solar thermal, and demand management, you could meet a slowly growing EU load with almost no natural gas for peaking plants to help level the load.

I'm not arguing that storage isn't very helpful, or necessary to meet some needs, but solar energy can do a whole lot more than «shaving peak loads», and the whole notion of how we think of «base» and «peaking» should be rethought, or at least (to the degree we use the notion) we should understand it's ultimate sources and limits.

In the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) Summer Loads & Resource Assessment, CAISO noted that the generation supply was expected to be adequate in order to meet peak electrical demand requirements in spite of drought - related concerns, in part because of recent renewable and natural gas capacity additions.

(Sec. 144) Requires: (1) each load - serving entity or state to determine and publish peak demand reduction goals for any load - serving entity that has an applicable baseline in excess of 250 megawatts; (2) the Secretary to develop a system and rules for measurement and verification of demand reductions; (3) such goals to provide that such entities will reduce or mitigate peak demand by a minimum percentage amount from the applicable baseline to a lower peak demand during 2012 and 2015; (4) such goals to provide that the minimum percentage reductions established as peak demand reduction goals shall be the maximum reductions that are realistically achievable with an aggressive effort to deploy Smart Grid and peak demand reduction technologies and methods; and (5) each load - serving entity to prepare a peak demand reduction plan that demonstrates its ability to meet applicable goals.

(6) The term «peak demand reduction plan» means a plan developed by or for a load - serving entity that it will implement to meet its peak demand reduction goals.

But the U.S. needs a diversified fuel mix portfolio on all of its electricity generation resources to meet base load, intermediate load, and peaking loads.

With utilities and grid operators increasingly concerned about meeting big peak demand ramps in metropolitan load centers, rooftop solar's potential coincident electricity supply has become more valuable.

They also require to meet a certain peak load.

The Net Load Peak Energy Bill would require the CPUC and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to work with CAISO to set up, by the end of 2019, «policies or procedures» through which LSEs meet «net peak load» energy and reliability needs «while minimizing the use of fossil fuels and utilizing low - carbon technologies and electrical grid management strategies.&raLoad Peak Energy Bill would require the CPUC and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to work with CAISO to set up, by the end of 2019, «policies or procedures» through which LSEs meet «net peak load» energy and reliability needs «while minimizing the use of fossil fuels and utilizing low - carbon technologies and electrical grid management strategies.&raPeak Energy Bill would require the CPUC and the California Energy Commission (CEC) to work with CAISO to set up, by the end of 2019, «policies or procedures» through which LSEs meet «net peak load» energy and reliability needs «while minimizing the use of fossil fuels and utilizing low - carbon technologies and electrical grid management strategies.&rapeak load» energy and reliability needs «while minimizing the use of fossil fuels and utilizing low - carbon technologies and electrical grid management strategies.&raload» energy and reliability needs «while minimizing the use of fossil fuels and utilizing low - carbon technologies and electrical grid management strategies.»

The bill offers the CPUC and the CEC the option of setting «targets or requirements for energy technology that minimizes the percent of load met by fossil fuels during net - load peak energy demand and maximizes the use of low - carbon technologies.»

On Sept. 9 the parties announced they had agreed on a 20 - year power purchase agreement under which KIUC will pay SolarCity 14.5 cents / kWh for power needed meet its evening peak load.

Owing to their lower capital costs but higher fuel costs, natural gas technologies, including combined - cycle and turbine plants, were designed to meet intermediate and peak electrical load.

Interestingly, PJM Interconnection said that Thursday's peak load was met and demand response was not needed.

A zero net energy building merges highly energy - efficient building construction, state - of - the - art appliances and lighting systems, and high performance windows to reduce a building's load and peak requirements and can include on - site solar water heating and renewable energy, such as solar photovoltaic, to meet remaining energy needs.

While the need for nuclear power is absolutely critical in meeting our base load requirements (and reducing CO2 emissions, and reducing fuel risk by having a diversified generation portfolio of power plants)-- peaking load and generation options to meet this load (which solar currently fits into) is important also.

The fuel cell powers the electric motors and charges the batteries, and the batteries help to meet the peak power demands - such as when accelerating under load.

SB 338 requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and all other locally owned utilities to start planning to meet their net - load peak energy and reliability needs with alternatives to fossil - fuel generating plants, while also providing the electricity at the lowest cost to consumers.