Sentences with phrase «nature of electricity supply»

And the nature of electricity supply is undergoing a major transition, from a century - old foundation of dispatchable fossil fuels to ever cheaper variable renewables, with related market reforms underway.

Not exact matches

But the variable nature of wind and solar energy can cause problems with matching supply to demand — problems that would be greatly eased if only we had a really good way of storing electricity on an industrial scale.

He and colleagues at the University of Colorado report in Nature Climate Change that instead of factoring in fossil fuel backup, or yet - to - be-invented methods of storing electricity from wind and solar sources, they took a new look at the simple problems of supply and demand in a nation that tends to be sunny and warm in the south and windy in the north, but not always reliably so in either place.

Firstly, ignoring the discriminatory nature of the arrangement, the Court noted that consumers and suppliers were required to purchase certificates for imports of electricity or had to pay a fine if they failed to do so.