Sentences with phrase «meet peak power»

Apple explained in December that older batteries in some iPhone models, including the iPhone 6, 6S, and 7, can no longer meet peak power needs when they're old or used.

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.

This will require large investments in new power plants to meet peak power demand at night, which can not be met with solar PV technology.

There is precedent here: South Australia's brown coal - powered Playford power plant, the dirtiest in the country, is now used only for meeting peak power needs.

Not exact matches

By avoiding an unnecessary overbuild of power generation to meet peak demand, this kind of optimization can also help reduce costs.

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.

The new system is also designed to allow a PHEV to use its battery as an energy storage device, enabling the car to hold electrical energy in the battery while the grid has surplus power (during off - peak hours, for example) and contribute its surplus energy back to the grid when the latter needs more power to meet peak demand, Su says.

Two of the biggest problems confronting most «green» power generating schemes are that the most abundant renewable sources tend to be far from population centres and that there is as yet no practical means of storing the generated power to meet peak demand.

Another of Lomborgs persistent conceptual confusions relates to his proposition that grid - connected wind power needs to be sized to meet the peak demand.

Straight - line acceleration is where the Lancer loses out, with only 143 horsepower on tap for states like California where it must meet PZEV emissions requirements (peak power is 152 for the non-PZEV Lancer).

To meet their high power and energy requirements, the electrical subsystem includes its own 48 ‑ volt lithium - ion battery mounted beneath the luggage compartment with a nominal energy content of 470 watt - hours and peak output of up to 13 kilowatts.

sunny summer days when air conditioning usage peaks — which means that we don't need to have as many big power plants to meet that peak demand.

For example, if nuclear is providing 20 % of electric generation, it can be run at steady baseline, maximizing fuel efficiency, while all the other variable demand can be met with solar and wind based power that has been fed into storage systems during the peak periods.

It will also decrease its energy use by 33 percent and meet 35 percent of it's peak power needs with renewable energy resources.

We will have to continue the arguments about how to meet our need for power in the face of peak oil and global warming.

The power will be delivered from SolarReserve's 150 MW (135 MW net) Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Aurora project in Port Augusta that will have eight hours of solar energy storage daily to deliver into the late afternoon and evening hours to meet South Australia's peak electricity demand perpower will be delivered from SolarReserve's 150 MW (135 MW net) Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Aurora project in Port Augusta that will have eight hours of solar energy storage daily to deliver into the late afternoon and evening hours to meet South Australia's peak electricity demand perPower (CSP) Aurora project in Port Augusta that will have eight hours of solar energy storage daily to deliver into the late afternoon and evening hours to meet South Australia's peak electricity demand periods.

Climate - driven changes in air conditioning can have an out - sized impact on the electric power sector, forcing utilities to build additional capacity to meet even higher peak demand when temperatures rise.

Zero - carbon alternatives to the UK's predominantly gas - fired UK heating infrastructure would, therefore, need to be able to meet peak demand some five or six times higher than peak power demand.

«Solar not only meets this peak need at a lower per kilowatt - hour cost, but also without the harmful emissions from running a power plant on standby (or fracking its fuel out of the ground),» he writes.

It allows renewable sources such as wind and solar power to operate at full capacity during peak generation periods by storing excess energy until it is needed to meet later demand.

Power Grids have trouble meeting peak demands and keeping up when they have unexpected outages or unexpected lack of delivery from renewable.

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 %).

China is aggressively embracing energy efficiency, expanding clean energy, and shuttering the dirtiest power plants to meet its planned 2020 (or sooner) peak in coal use.

They can be used to meet summertime power peaks, the biggest problem the grid now faces.

With Norned, stored hydro power in Norwegian dams is released to the Netherlands to meet Dutch daytime peak energy demand.

«Peaking power» is energy needed to meet higher demand that occurs at particular times of day or weather conditions: such as late afternoon or high summer.

Hydroelectric power is also cheap, clean, and good for both baseload and meeting peak demand, but limited by available natural sources.

Energy storage projects in the UK are increasing at a significant rate as costs continue to fall and grid operators explore new ways to meet peak demand and integrate renewable sources into the nation's power mix.

Again, it has been argued and is still argued that IWT's are inefficient energy producers that can never meet peak demands for power.

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.

Some of these plants, often nuclear plants, are kept running continuously to meet «baseload» demand i.e. the minimum level of demand, while other plants are kept ready to ramp up to full power to meet the daily peaks in demand.

To ensure that supply always meets demand, a renewable power grid needs an oversized power generation and transmission capacity of up to ten times the peak demand.

Solar advocates were popping corks when a New Year's Eve ruling by an administrative law judge in Minnesota said that distributed solar arrays were a more cost - effective resource than natural gas to meet Xcel Energy's peak power needs.

While geothermal and biomass resources can provide baseload power, resources like wind, hydro, and solar are intermittent and not always available to meet system needs during peak hours.

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.

Output from Britain's power plants would not be enough to meet peak demand if there was «low wind» — meaning the -LSB-...]

For the smaller islands especially, which currently depend on diesel - powered generators, a major downturn in wind power generation or a peak in demand that isn't being met by those sources could be a disaster for the grid.

An earlier EWEA Tradewind study found that, for the 2020 medium scenario (200 GW, 12 % wind penetration), aggregating wind energy production from multiple countries strongly increased the capacity credit, the amount of capacity that can be relied on to meet peak demand, almost doubled it to 14 %, which they say corresponds to approximately 27 GW of firm power in the system.

The report emphasizes the fact that fossil and nuclear power played a critical role in meeting peak demand during the cold snap.

UK wind farms have a theoretical maximum capacity of more than 13,000 megawatts, but produced less than 400 megawatts of power for much of the peak demand period — meeting less than one per cent of the UK's electricity needs, published data suggests.

Instead it's meant to avoid hardware issues related to peak power demands, which older batteries can struggle to meet.