Sentences with phrase «much wind power capacity»

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.