Sentences with phrase «much wind capacity»

Depending on how much wind capacity is in a region, a slight change in the rated capacity value for wind can mean a large change in future capacity requirements.

This much wind capacity will produce about as much electricity as 30 nuclear plants, and that will be a bit less than 5 % of the country's electricity.

Not exact matches

China's wind overload: In most parts of the world there is probably not enough wind power capacity, but in northwestern China, there is too much.

That much money would buy about 300 megawatts of wind turbine capacity.

Because of those limitations, Lewis said the United States remains a world leader in wind energy because capacity factors and utilization rates are much higher on average for U.S. wind turbines than for Chinese turbines.

China solidified its standing as the world's wind energy behemoth in 2015, adding almost as much wind power capacity in one year as the total installed capacity of the three largest U.S. wind - producing states: Texas, Iowa and California.

This increase in capacity, coupled with high winds across much of northern Britain over the next few days, have prompted experts to predict the wind power record could be broken several times over the course of this week.

In South Dakota, a wind - rich, sparsely populated state, development has begun on a vast 5,050 - megawatt wind farm (1 megawatt of wind capacity supplies 300 U.S. homes) that when completed will produce nearly five times as much electricity as the 810,000 people living in the state need.

Though small by today's standards — the wind turbine's blades were less than one third the length of those installed offshore by Deepwater Wind — the 200 kilowatt - capacity turbine produced as much as 11 percent of the island's energy needs during off - peak winter monwind turbine's blades were less than one third the length of those installed offshore by Deepwater Wind — the 200 kilowatt - capacity turbine produced as much as 11 percent of the island's energy needs during off - peak winter monWind — the 200 kilowatt - capacity turbine produced as much as 11 percent of the island's energy needs during off - peak winter months.

Capacity Credit is a probabalistic estimate of how much capacity wind can be relied upon to deliver at the times of peakCapacity Credit is a probabalistic estimate of how much capacity wind can be relied upon to deliver at the times of peakcapacity wind can be relied upon to deliver at the times of peak demand.

Cumulative global offshore wind capacity is now over 11,800 MW and it is on track to reach as much as 47,000 MW by 2020,

Cumulative global offshore wind capacity is now over 11,800 MW and it is on track to reach as much as 47,000 MW by 2020, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

In fact, China installed almost three times as much wind than the EU and now has 145GW total capacity to the EU's 142GW.

It is premature to speculate on how much of each we will build and what capacity may be for future wind turbines or solar arrays,» said Cindy Hecht, a spokesperson at DTE Energy.

Our projections are much closer to actual renewable energy development than those from IEA because we have monitored global and national renewable energy market development and production capacities carefully since the mid 90s, and discuss possible growth rates with the solar and wind industries.

While much of the new capacity will be taken by solar power, wind energy will also benefit.

That accounts for 3 percent of wind energy here, which might not seem like much, but over half that capacity has been built in just the last three years.

Capacity factors for wind turbines in Oregon and Washington vary much more by month than for wind turbines in California.

Now a study shows that grid connection issues and high - wind problems mean that China's wind capacity is lower than developers anticipated and the real cost of wind power is as much as twice the expected cost.

So from 2016 it expects a surge in investment — it estimates some 8,500 MW of wind capacity will be needed, although it does not attempt to predict how much or solar might be built to meet the RET.

The wind project shown here delivers a mind - numbingly small amount of power - only 0.001 % of its capacity - and not much in the way of those fabulous «green» jobs, unless dressing up like a cow is part of the brilliant green career plan.

Germany, which already has three times as much wind power as any other EU country, installed 44 % of Europe's new wind capacity last year.

Last year, more than twice as much money was put into new capacity for renewables such as solar and wind power than into new power stations burning fossil fuels, according to a new analysis by the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

On a bitterly cold day, with demand close to maximum, at the time of writing we have just gone a full 24 hours where the UK's wind turbines have provided barely one twentieth of their notional capacity, their output never once rising to as much as even a tenth of their capacity throughout the day and thus contributing nothing but uncertainty to the nation's supplies.

According to the Ontario Auditor General's Report 2011 The power - generating capacity of current wind and solar technology is much lower than other energy sources.

Thus, consultants Ernst and Young note that, in 2005/2006, the UK's ROC system cost consumers 3.2 pence / kilowatt hour, whereas in 2006 the German Feed - In Tariff only cost consumers 2.6 / p / kWh — despite having a much bigger wind capacity in areas with generally much less wind than in the UK.

Much of the expected growth in China's offshore wind build - out, which has the potential to reach total grid - connected capacity of 5GW by 2020, is mapped out to take place off Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Fujian provinces.

State renewable portfolio standards require utilities to bring new renewable capacity onto their grids no matter how much it depresses markets, and renewable subsidies further erode electricity prices, especially in Midwestern states where subsidized wind farms bid very low — even negative — prices for their power.

No matter how much solar and wind energy we produce, without grid storage we would need to maintain all of our peak capacity.

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

Wind capacity has also grown substantially over the past six years (and much more so in the years before that), but wind generation grew at a faster pace, partly because transmission constraints that previously prevented wind generators from operating at their maximum capability were gradually removed through a state - directed transmission expansion progWind capacity has also grown substantially over the past six years (and much more so in the years before that), but wind generation grew at a faster pace, partly because transmission constraints that previously prevented wind generators from operating at their maximum capability were gradually removed through a state - directed transmission expansion progwind generation grew at a faster pace, partly because transmission constraints that previously prevented wind generators from operating at their maximum capability were gradually removed through a state - directed transmission expansion progwind generators from operating at their maximum capability were gradually removed through a state - directed transmission expansion program.

Trade association reports estimate that there were more than 7,000 MW of wind projects under construction in Texas at the end of 2013; however, exactly how much of that capacity will actually be completed and by when remains to be seen.

The much lower power - generating capabilities of renewables due to their intermittent output (the Sun has to shine and the wind must blow) has meant that reliable backup capacity — fossil fuels or nuclear — must remain on the grid.

In Esperance, WA for example, small, old, out - dated turbines have been replaced with bigger, newer ones; the capacity of the new wind farms (5600 kW) is much greater than the old one (360 kW).

Second, meeting the UK Government's targets for wind generation will require a much higher level of wind capacity — and, thus, capital nvestment — than current projections imply.

One of the big challenges here is that wind and solar power plants have a much lower «capacity factor» than plants that run on fuel.

SA here (Australia), Iowa (US) and Denmark (EU) are about 20 % wind, so presently we can not be sure how much more will integrate.The NEMMCO grid covers a wide area includes 8.5 GW hydro and about 8GW NG peak, so we should expect todays 1.3 GW wind capacity could grow to at least 8 - 10GW.

Meanwhile, wind capacity is being added globally in the gigawatt range and coal plants — outside of China, pretty much — are facing greater resistance in being built.

I often point to the Ontario Power Schedule to show how things work out where a large system strongly promotes wind, though the problem there seems to be more that there is not much that should be expected from wind in general, even though the «nameplate» capacity is significant.

It appears to me that the elephant is Coal, at 3 times the size of third - running Wind, which itself is handicapped by a much lower capacity factor of another factor of 4 or so.

The report measures investment in terms of how much wind energy capacity was built and connected to the national electric grid.

If tomorrow we suddenly replaced 30GW of existing coal fired power -LRB-(20GWav) with 60GW wind (20GWav) but retained the present 15GW NG and 8GW hydro (1,5 GW av) how much additional pumped storage capacity and how large total storage would be required?

@John Newlands 16April 7.49 am Dollar costing is a proxy for material inputs Not really, 3kW of wind capacity has a similar cost to 1kW of nuclear, but uses much more steel and concrete but a lot less highly skilled labor and capital intensive manufacturing.

Wind power's effective capacity is much less than 30 - 40 % claimed by the wind indusWind power's effective capacity is much less than 30 - 40 % claimed by the wind induswind industry.

Such a large wind resource in such a sparsely developed and populated region could give China an advantage in exploiting this potential capacity compared to other top wind nations — Germany, the US, Spain and India round out the top five — who, apart from the US, have much higher population densities and more NIMBY-esque battles around the siting of large wind projects.

China World's 5th Largest in Wind Power It may come as a surprise, considering the how much comes out about China's environmental woes, but China has the fifth largest installed wind capacity in the world: just over 6 gigawaWind Power It may come as a surprise, considering the how much comes out about China's environmental woes, but China has the fifth largest installed wind capacity in the world: just over 6 gigawawind capacity in the world: just over 6 gigawatts.

That depends on the «capacity credit» of wind — how much of the wind plant capacity can be relied on statistically to meet peak demand.

According to Flassbeck, the former Director of Macroeconomics and Development at the UNCTAD in Geneva and a former State Secretary of Finance, a recent period of extremely low solar and wind power generation shows that Germany will never be able to rely on renewable energy, regardless of how much new capacity will be built.

Over a period of time, usually a year, the actual production is averaged out to what is called the «capacity factor», which, is necessarily much less than the the nameplate capacity, since that is attained only in wind speeds from about 30 to 55 mph.

Such a concept may make sense if you are trying to minimise the cost, averaged over a year, of providing backup capacity, but this particular consumer is much more concerned with avoiding power cuts in cold winters, so a Firm wind capacity of zero should be assumed.