Sentences with phrase «more electricity demand»

There are efforts underway now to shift more electricity demand to times when renewables are most abundant, build more energy storage and local distributed resources to reduce congestion, make the grid more resilient, and reduce the need to rely on natural gas peaker plants, especially ones in disadvantaged communities.

Occurrences of wind - related negative real - time electricity prices have similarly declined as the CREZ transmission expansions have allowed wind power to flow to more electricity demand areas in the state.

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Plattsburgh residents had seen their electric bills surge as rising total demand forced the purchase of more expensive, non-hydropower electricity.

The IEA said demand for cooling will add more to global electricity demand than the spread of electric vehicles.

The PSC offered a truly staggering look at the electricity demand that cryptocurrency has created in the region, saying that in some communities cryptocurrency mining requires «thousands of times more electricity than an average residential customer would use» (emphasis PSC).

Load shifting — The battery can provide economic benefit to its owner and the grid by charging during low rate periods when demand for electricity is lower and discharging during more expensive rate periods when electricity demand is higher.

Responding to tight market conditions and the growing demand from automotive electrification and stationary grid storage of electricity, the price of cobalt has continued its ascent from US$ 10 / lb in early 2016 to more than US$ 40 / lb today.

And if there is more demand than supply, Powerpeers meets the excess demand with electricity from other sustainable sources.

Perhaps we can come to terms with the exploitations of the past, but should we complacently stand aside as the sacred mountain of the Navajos is strip - mined and the ecology of their region destroyed in order to produce more electricity to meet the insatiable demands of us Californians?

Investment in energy - efficient practices including insulating wine tanks, installing an on - demand Gylycol system, replacing air compressors with on - demand VFD units, new more efficient pond aerators, and retrofitting high - efficient replacement lights in the winery resulting in electricity use decreasing by about 22 %.

More than US$ 1.18 billion is needed this year to buy fuel required to fire thermal power plants in order for the country to meet its electricity demands, Ghana's energy outlook report has said.

The African average growth rate predicted by the world bank and IMF is 3 per cent and for Ghana they predict 3.3 per cent, I'm more bullish, I believe that Ghana will grow closer to 4 per cent, maybe between 3.8 and 4 per cent, and we predict that in 2017, Ghana's economy is going to grow by about 6 per cent, and, so, this country is doing well, we have resolved the power crisis, we've been able to match demand to supply and so the electricity crisis that hit us is gradually becoming a thing of the past.

They've explored the idea, spurred by growing demand for electricity in Westchester and New York City, for more than 30 months.

More than 33 gigawatts of coal - fired electricity generation will be retired over the next couple decades, EIA said, pushing up demand for natural gas.

The spread of urban centers increases the demand for electricity, more than 75 percent of which in China is generated from coal - fired power plants.

As more wind energy is added to the grid, power companies have to match increasingly variable electricity supplies to intermittent demand.

But Koomey also offers major caveat: The study doesn't consider the potential for electricity demand to rise more than expected should electric vehicles catch on, he notes.

The study shows how higher temperatures will raise not just the average annual electricity demand, but more importantly, the peak demand.

Researchers last week delivered a petition with more than 82,000 signatures to congressional leaders in Brasília, demanding the reversal of deep budget cuts that have left research institutions struggling to pay even basic water and electricity bills.

The way to make renewables more reliable is to store the excess electricity generated during times of plenty (when there are high winds, for instance, or strong sun) and release it later to match the actual demand.

So there's this idea of peak demand for water, like we are familiar with peak demand for electricity at certain times and lower demand at certain times where we can level those things out to make the whole system more efficient.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

The M.I.T. report predicts that even if the world's fleet of more than 400 nuclear power plants grew to be 4,000 such plants that then operated for a century, the cost of the electricity from those facilities would rise by a mere 1 percent as a result of the increased demand for uranium.

At the same time, old, inefficient «peaker» units — so - called because they run no more than 77 hours a year when electricity demand in the state is at its highest — will be shut down or replaced by newer natural gas — fired turbines.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

Greenpeace estimated that cloud computing worldwide demanded 662 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity in 2007, more power than consumed by the entire country of India, or of Germany.

Concerns over climate change have encouraged governments and consumers to demand that electricity is decarbonised — which means no more burning of coal and gas wherever possible.

Argonne researchers are working to create new, more powerful technology for long - distance transmission of renewable electricity, to balance rural supply and urban demand, and to integrate wind - and solar - generated electricity into the grid.

Using V2G - technology, peak demand on the electricity grid can be better balanced, by allowing electric vehicles to not just take power from the grid, but... Read more →

Electricity companies will always have demand for their products, where as telecommunications companies have a little more elastic demand.

Sensors on the powerline monitor and gather data about local system activity and are fed back to our control centre for analysis and planning of Nova Scotia's future energy needs... As we add more renewable energy to the grid, batteries can provide the utility with more flexibility to reliably address peak electricity demand with stored energy.

And as people get richer, they still tend to accumulate more stuff, demand more living space, and use more electricity.

In the lower 48 states, the potential from wind power is 16 times more than total electricity demand in the United States, the researchers suggested — significantly greater than a 2008 Department of Energy study that projected wind could supply a fifth of all electricity in the country by 2030.

But conditions don't seem nearly as ripe for approving such investments and infrastructure in more crowded regions, where demand for electricity is highest, according to Matt Wald's latest article on wind and the grid.

I think, to spur its development, we need electricity pricing that encourages investment in load - shifting, a guaranteed return for delivering a megawatt - hour at peak demand for more than it costs at the time of peak excess supply.

We end up with an endless stream of electricity sufficient to power the world's growing energy demand, with no need for any more fossil fuels.

The real question is does Ontario have significantly much more supply or is way outside the margin of the supply / demand balance versus other electricity markets around the world.

While generators used more natural gas for electricity generation, overall CO2 emissions from natural gas were down because of lower gas heating demand this winter when temperatures were significantly above the historical average for the season.

More significantly, as the 115th member of RE100, the company joins a group which now generates demand for over 153TWh of renewable electricity annually — more than it takes to power PolMore significantly, as the 115th member of RE100, the company joins a group which now generates demand for over 153TWh of renewable electricity annually — more than it takes to power Polmore than it takes to power Poland.

It is one of the few hydro - power stations in Australia to include pumped hydro in which water is pumped from the lower Jounama Pondage to the upper Talbingo Reservoir when electricity is plentiful and cheap, so that it can flow back down through the turbines to generate more electricity at times of higher demand.

Combining more - efficient lights and appliances with a smart grid that uses time - of - day pricing, peak demand sensors, and the many other technologies described in this chapter shows a huge potential for reducing both overall electricity use and peak demand.

It's another acknowledgement of the tough operating environment for nuclear facilities as gas - fired and renewable energy sources continue to grab more power generation market share in an era of lower electricity costs and slowing demand for electricity.

Canada now has 11,898 MW of installed wind generation capacity, enough to supply six percent of Canada's electricity demand and meet the annual electricity needs of more than three million homes.

According to Pentland, increasing demand is unlikely to be the cause of rising electricity rates, due to the simple fact that «many if not most utilities are selling less — not more — electricity than they used to sell.»

However, electricity demand has fallen instead of risen, leaving the 41,000 GWh target more likely to represent 27 per cent.

For CanWEA and the wind energy sector, the challenge will be to get the message across that our industry is ready to meet the demand for more clean, reliable and cost - competitive renewable power, without compromising the needs of the electricity grid.

Designed to supply consistent and reliable renewable electricity that can help meet power demand in Australia, Kennedy Phase I can also shape a path forward for how Australia and other countries can integrate more renewable energy into their energy mix and address grid stability challenges that have been a traditional restraint to greater uptake of renewable energy.

The opening sentence: «While the potential of wind and solar energy is more than sufficient to supply the electricity demand of industrial societies, these resources are only available intermittently.»

The demand - side response potential in industry and large commercial buildings can be more accessible, as energy management systems optimize decisions to consume electricity or offer demand - side response services to the market.

In a little more than a decade, South Korea could have offshore wind capacity of 13 GW if ambitious plans laid out in its latest plan for electricity supply and demand come to fruition.