Sentences with phrase «nameplate capacity»

The to - be-retired units have an average summer nameplate capacity of 158 MW, considerably smaller than the 261 MW average for other coal - fired units.

Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar 2 nuclear facility in southeastern Tennessee, with a summer nameplate capacity of 1.1 GW, is expected to begin commercial operation in June 2016.

While industry average leak rates (emissions / total nameplate capacity) are 3.8 %, ComEd's 2012 leak rate was 0.55 % for 2012 and 0.25 % for 2013.

Wind has grown from just eight megawatts (MW) of installed nameplate capacity in 1980 to 50,000 MW as of Aug. 2012, and in 2011, wind power represented 45 % of all new generation under consideration by regional interconnection organizations, independent system operators, and utilities.

The monthly survey Form EIA - 860M, «Monthly Update to Annual Electric Generator Report» supplements the annual survey form EIA - 860 data with monthly information that monitors the current status of existing and proposed generating units at electric power plants with 1 megawatt or greater of combined nameplate capacity.

(In the final rule, NGCC capacity factors are determined using net summer capacity, not nameplate capacity.)

Ygrene Energy Fund Sector: Energy Efficiency Nameplate Capacity: N / A Location: Santa Rosa, California

In large part, that's because, despite the impressive nameplate capacity, Germany's wind and solar fleet produces electricity at very low capacity factors — about 17 % and 11 % respectively last year.

The Partnership's average annual SF6 emission rate, the ratio of SF6 emissions relative to total SF6 nameplate capacity (i.e., the total quantity of SF6 contained in electrical equipment), is a benchmark metric by which achievements of the Partnership are tracked.

Energy policy wonks will note that nameplate capacity does not equal actual generation, since wind and solar energy are not continuously available.

SkyPower also has an extensive pipeline of solar projects operating, under construction and at various stages of development representing over 1500 MW of potential nameplate capacity across North America.

The varying nameplate capacities of these projects demonstrate how storage technology makes capacity more flexible and more valuable.

5 New wind power projects contributed roughly 25 % of the new nameplate capacity added to the U.S. electrical grid in 2010, compared to 42 % in 2009, 43 % in 2008, 34 % in 2007, 18 % in 2006, 12 % in 2005, and less than 4 % from 2000 through 2004

Capacity factor is a ratio of the actual output of a power plant over a period of time and its output (if it had operated at full nameplate capacity the entire time).

The survey Form EIA - 860 collects generator - level specific information about existing and planned generators and associated environmental equipment at electric power plants with 1 megawatt or greater of combined nameplate capacity.

Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar 2 nuclear facility in southeastern Tennessee, with a summer nameplate capacity of 1.1 GW, is currently listed as coming online in December 2015.

Description: Northbrook Carolina Hydro is a portfolio of four run - of - the - river hydroelectric assets in North and South Carolina totaling 12.9 megawatts of nameplate capacity.

A large portion of that spare capacity is only theoretical — some plants, because of inadequate investment, can't operate as high as their nameplate capacity suggests.

Business Green reports that DONG Energy has announced it's moving ahead with Hornsea Project One, a project that's slated to be the largest offshore windfarm in the world, and the first with over 1GW of nameplate capacity.

Herman writes: «By the end of the first half of the year, the ISO will have added 3,391 megawatts of nameplate capacity, of which 2,296 megawatts will be natural gas, 565 megawatts will be wind and 530 megawatts will be solar.»

The ISO also said five new grid - scale solar facilities are expected to add nameplate capacity of about 90 MW, and two new wind farms will add about 50 MW of nameplate capacity.

The four IOUs could add a total of 32 GW of nameplate capacity, it found.

Each project has a nameplate capacity of 19.8 MW and the ability to store 7.8 MWh of energy.

But due to the variability of wind, offshore wind farms produce around a third of their nameplate capacity.

But, he added, it would probably qualify at «a much smaller level than its nameplate capacity.»

Indian Point's nameplate capacity is 2,311 MW not 2,000 as described.

Brian Smith, chair of the IEA Wind Executive Committee, states that wind member countries «installed more than 20 gigawatts of new wind capacity» (nameplate capacity).

The fuel cell must have a nameplate capacity of at least 0.5 kW of electricity using an electrochemical process and an electricity - only generation efficiency greater than 30 %.

As part of their commitment to the Partnership, Partners annually report their SF6 emissions and nameplate capacity estimates to EPA (Note: Under EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program, Partners with a total nameplate capacity exceeding 17,820 pounds must report emissions and nameplate capacity under subpart DD - Use of Electric Transmission and Distribution Equipment.)

Not only does this system allow quick, easy and accurate data entry, it also enables the Environmental and Planning Departments to track leak rates, nameplate capacities, bottle inventories and usage, equipment trending, and any other variable it would need to make informed decisions.

Last year, Deutsche Bank and SkyPower signed a major $ 110 million solar energy financing deal that supported the completion of three utility - scale solar projects in Ontario, Canada, with a nameplate capacity of 30 MW.

«The trend of rotors and the swept area of rotors scaling faster than the nameplate capacity of the turbines themselves is an ongoing trend in both US and global markets,» says Ryan Wiser, senior scientist and group leader of the Electricity Markets and Policy Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).

It's disappointing that the nameplate capacity would only be enough for 250 homes — that would be more than 600 homes in Europe.

In the past five years, Minnesota utilities have reported using wind power from wind farms totaling 5,000 megawatts of nameplate capacity to meet the requirements of the state's renewable energy standard.

When most generating facilities operated within a narrow band of expected utilization, say 60 % -80 % of the time, comparing their nameplate capacities like this was satisfactory.

Already the nation's wind leader with over 18 GW of nameplate capacity, a report from the state grid operator last year estimated the addition of between 14.5 GW and 27 GW of solar out to 2031 — all without a state RPS.

Already the nation's wind leader with over 18 GW of nameplate capacity, a report from the state grid operator last year

The pyramid's peak represents actual market deployment of OSW assets, and is determined by a commissioned OSW installation's nameplate capacity and the quantum of electricity delivered by the array (Beiter and Musial 2016).