Sentences with phrase «of electricity capacity»

The company also says that its technology has a 40 percent higher capacity factor and can quickly scale up to gigawatts of electricity capacity by arranging the systems in an array.

John, You are correct that we need to have 50 % of electricity CAPACITY able to supply at peak demand times.

In fact, if we incorporate the «best available demand technology» in our building designs, which is roughly equivalent to meeting the targets set in Section 433 of EISA 2007 (the 2030 Challenge targets), we can eliminate the need for 178 Gigawatts of electricity capacity, or about 356 large (500 megawatt) power plants.

Just one megawatt of electricity capacity has the capability of generating power for up to 1,000 homes.

However, the good news is that 2015 was the first year ever recorded where renewable energy sources surpassed coal to become the world's largest source of electricity capacity.

Not exact matches

According to Statoil the 67 turbines each have a capacity of 6 megawatts, and together can supply 410,000 homes with electricity.

Ecomagination's decade - long manufacturing of energy - efficient technologies like these — along with the acquisition of Alstom's power division last year — has now made GE responsible for about one - third of the world's electricity capacity, making its commitment to clean energy a critical step for the future.

But that capacity is only used 30 % to 40 % of the time, meaning gas generates only a quarter of the electricity actually used.

Last year, new photovoltaic panels installed in the U.S. had the capacity to generate up to 4.2 gigawatts of electricity, about as much as four nuclear reactors.

While Alberta has promised to end coal - fired electricity by 2030, and is building 5,000 megawatts of renewable energy capacity, it will also allow some of those coal units to convert to using inefficient fracked natural gas.

Renewable Properties has a rapidly growing pipeline of utility solar projects located throughout the U.S. and plans to bring approximately 75 MW DC of solar capacity online in 2018, which is enough electricity to power nearly 12,657 homes a year.

In addition, electricity capacity margins — the amount of unused power capacity — have declined, increasing the vulnerability of America's electric grid in the event of a disruption.

The government aims to increase capacity to 350 MW by 2020, or about 5 percent of projected peak electricity demand, up from less than 1 percent now, according to EMA.

These improvements have led to an installed wind capacity of 74,821 MW in the United States, enough electricity to power nearly 20 million average U.S. homes every year.

The Tetra Pak TR / G7, which has a capacity of 6500 gable top packages per hour, delivers significant environmental benefits compared with equivalent machines in the market, with for example electricity consumption cut by a third.

Russ» team is charged with the design of the advanced fuel assemblies and reactor cores for the power stations that provide about 7 % of U.S. electricity capacity and more internationally.

Hydropower a decade ago was the leading source of power, contributing more than half of the country's electricity generation capacity — which perhaps explains why the cost of buying power is now high following the reversal in the country's power generation capacity.

The need of fuel for power has risen in recent times as the country's electricity generation mix has tilted more to thermal power, which this year is expected to account for about 70 percent of the total power generation capacity of the country.

It was not about some breakthrough in the negotiations, but about a new initiative to deliver at least 300 gigawatts of electricity - generating capacity to Africa by 2030, all from clean or renewable energy.

The plant, which opened in the 1970s and employs about 1,000 workers, has a capacity of up to 2,000 megawatts — about 25 % of the electricity used in New York City and Westchester County, according to Entergy.

The latter has set itself against the development of any new nuclear capacity, but trying to work out how far that will dictate the future of electricity generation draws us into a complex area of the current devolution settlement.

It was US $ 40 under the original deal but we have negotiated it down to US $ 32... the capacity charge whether they produce electricity or not... under the old deal it was 6.275 cents, under the new one which they had already signed we have negotiated it downwards to 5.095 which is a reduction of over 20 percent and then the subsequent 10 years that we have given them I goes down to 4.0».

The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) says it has upgraded its power transmission lines in Bauchi and environs to raise the bulk electricity capacity...

But while the Town of East Hampton's policy goal of serving 100 percent of its electricity needs from renewable sources by 2020 is commendable, «the details have not allowed us to move forward with the kind of operational capacities we need.»

Key among NDC's 2016 manifesto promises in the sector includes increasing the stock of power generation assets, developing more sustainable power sources, encouraging energy conservation, increasing generation capacity in excess of 5,000 MW by 2021 and achieving universal access to electricity by 2025.

If better use could be made of solar energy, with less need for storage capacity, residents» electricity bills would be reduced considerably.

There is also the issue of built - in capacity redundancy both of production and transportation of the electricity generated by wind and solar, let alone the thorny question of storage.

The glut of cheap gas and tightening regulations on air pollutants have prompted the planned closure of 175 coal - fired power plants by 2016, representing 8.5 percent of all coal - fueled electricity capacity in the country.

Praise for a «level of predictability» Market projections from SEIA and partner GTM Research indicate the U.S. solar market will add roughly 72 gigawatts of new capacity between 2016 and 2020, pushing the country's net solar capacity to more than 100 GW, or roughly 3.5 percent of all electricity produced in the United States.

As of March, according to USAID figures, Power Africa has helped close deals accounting for 4,100 MW of electricity in places like Rwanda, where East Africa's largest solar array began sending 8.5 MW of electricity to the national grid late last year, boosting the country's electricity generation capacity by 6 percent.

India intends to quadruple its electricity generation by 2032, from its present capacity of 145 gigawatts.

This is good for the utility because it can reduce the amount of electricity generation and delivery capacity required.

Small reactors would have a maximum capacity of 300 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power more than 200,000 U.S. homes for a year.

Already, FERC is rewriting the rules for new transmission lines, potentially making it easier to permit new electricity - carrying capacity — and, as a result, unleashing the development of more renewable resources.

Already, however, wind is the largest share of new installed electricity generation capacity in the U.S. and E.U., according to the Global Wind Energy Council.

That compares with an expected 4 percent annual growth in thermal power capacity, half that seen between 2005 and 2011, said Liu Xiangdong, director of planning statistics of the China Electricity Council.

The potential is huge: 4,500 gigawatts (4,500 billion watts) of electricity per year for every 1.08 billion square feet (100 million square meters) of the steel coated in the dye, Worsley estimates, or more than 260 times the installed capacity of all U.S. wind farms.

The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.

Other studies have estimated that there was by 2015 enough renewable energy capacity to meet nearly 24 percent of global electricity demand.

These, Warshay notes, are particularly popular outside the U.S., «where energy usage is significantly lower than here,» as the outsize electricity demands by American users would generally overtax the capacities of the first round of home - size heat and power models being marketed in Asia and Europe.

Experts reckon that when wind power provides a significant portion of the electricity supply (with «significant» defined as about 10 percent of grid capacity), some form of energy storage will be essential to keeping the grid stable.

It plans to increase its manufacturing capacity at its plant in Katsuragi, Japan, to produce enough cells to make 160 megawatts of electricity by October — and to bring its total annual output to enough cells to produce 1,000 megawatts by 2010 by building another factory in Sakai, Japan.

Crunching the numbers, they concluded that a global network of land - based turbines could make 40 times more electricity than the world currently consumes — even if they only operated at 20 percent of their capacity.

The U.S. Geological Survey estimates at least 500 gigawatts of electricity - generating capacity could be harvested this way — or 1.5 times more than the entire U.S. fleet of coal - fired power plants.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

Of course, the sun doesn't always shine and, at present, the eSolar design has limited capacity to store energy — either as heat or electricity — nor does it supplement production by burning natural gas as some other existing concentrating solar power plants do.

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And the efficiency with which a field generates electricity can be improved in the future by moving to higher temperature operation, he adds; the current design employs steam at 440 degrees Celsius and 63 kilograms per square centimeter of pressure at peak capacity.

If two - thirds of Fortune 100 companies want to buy electricity generated by off - site renewable energy sources this year, why hasn't more capacity been built?

This is more than ten times the UK's current electricity storage capacity, enabling the use of significantly more wind and solar energy.