Sentences with phrase «of electricity demand»

As others have observed, wind can fill a very large fraction of the electricity demand in most areas.

As part of this, the Irish government plans to meet 40 % of electricity demand with renewable sources by the end of the decade.

The Scottish government has pledged to get the equivalent of 100 per cent of electricity demand from renewable sources by 2020.

Power plants are all interconnected in a grid that supplies exactly the amount of electricity demanded moment by moment.

Soon in the summer months there will be little difference between day and night in terms of electricity demand.

The actual levels of generation from each fuel will depend on the prices of each fuel and overall levels of electricity demand.

They are jointly operated to supply exactly the amount of electricity demanded at any given time.

Management of electricity demand must also become more efficient, for example through the implementation of smart grids.

However, meeting 100 percent of electricity demand with only solar and wind energy would require storing several weeks» worth of electricity to compensate for the natural variability of these two resources, the researchers said.

The bottom lines for Canada are that 35 per cent wind penetration is achievable (we're at five per cent of electricity demand today), system reliability issues can be addressed, new wind facilities will ensure significant electricity production cost savings while reducing emissions, and the cost of supportive inter-provincial transmission investments can be recovered quickly.

At this workshop, the Committee expects the staff and load serving entities (LSEs) to present their 10 - year forecasts of electricity demand and consumption, and, where appropriate, natural gas end - use consumption, including discussion of the methods, data, and assumptions used to develop those forecasts.

Cooling accounts for fully 40 percent of the electricity demand of a typical U.S. building.

The company's SWIFT wind turbine is also aimed at helping businesses «offset those peak loads [of electricity demand], generate on - site renewable energy, and demonstrate their commitment to renewable energy.»

«Our main conclusion is that geophysically - forced variability in wind and solar generation means that the amount of electricity demand satisfied using wind and solar resources is fairly linear up to about 80 % of annually averaged electricity demand, but that beyond this level of penetration the amount of added wind and solar generation capacity or the amount of electricity storage needed would rise sharply.»

Much, much energy can be generated NOW, with fairly simple technology, from sunlight, especially for peaking purposes and also for large volumes of electricity demand that correspond, in timing, to the daytime.

Steve, you don't need storage, you need transmission, between distributed demand and supply, and pumped storage hydro a huge chunk of electricity demand can be supplied by renewables.

Second, to make it work, price differences have to be quite large, considering the relatively low price - elasticity of electricity demand.

Despite the higher portion of electricity demand met with solar, Germany still enjoys a healthy lead in volume.

UK wind power shattered records last week, spinning out 22 per cent of electricity demand for a day.

If you have ever wondered how much of the electricity demand in the U.S. could be supplied by rooftop solar, a new study has the answer.

Due to heavy rains, Costa Rica has been able to meet the bulk of its electricity demands with hydropower, with the remainder coming from wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy.

On the same day Denmark produced 101 % of its electricity demand from its wind turbines, even leaving a small amount for export.

With the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, the WEM access module was linked to a geospacial model of electricity demand and resources for sub-Saharan Africa to determine the least - cost evolution of electrification in the New Policies Scenario and to deliver universal electricity access.

Natural gas plants are the most commonly used to manage the scarcity of RES electricity supply and the uncertainty of electricity demand.

Secondly, modellers of electricity demand consider both net and gross demand in their forecasts.

The United States could reliably meet about 80 percent of its electricity demand with solar and wind power generation, according to scientists at the University of California, Irvine; the California Institute of Technology; and the Carnegie Institution for Science.

Commentary: The clean energy transition requires action on electricity demand Over 15 % of electricity demand today could be used as a source of flexibility to help integrate variable renewables such as wind and solar PV 10 January 2018

Coal - fired power plants are expensive to start up and shut down, and are therefore best suited to meeting «baseload demand» — that is, the base level of electricity demand that never goes away.

Forecasts of electricity demand are essential for analyses of utility regulation and planning.

«In the glasshouse we currently use high pressure sodium vapor lamps and these are quite expensive in terms of the electricity demand,» says Hickey.

Calgary, Alberta, November 3, 2016 — The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) applauds the Alberta Government's announcement today that it will legislate its renewable energy target and initiate a process in November to procure the first 400 MW of the 5,000 MW of new renewable energy it will be seeking to ensure electricity from renewable energy meets 30 per cent of electricity demand in the province by 2030.

A new study co-authored by Steven Davis, associate professor of Earth system science, shows that the U.S. can meet 80 percent of its electricity demand with renewable solar and wind resources.

LADWP accounts for 10 percent of the electricity demand in California.

A previous NREL report, «Land - use Requirements and the Per - capita Solar Footprint for Photovoltaic Generation in the United States,» had estimated that if solar energy was to meet 100 % of all electricity demand in the United States, it would take up 0.6 % of the total area in the United States.

Gary Cook adds, «The aggregate energy footprint of the cloud would already rank fifth among countries in terms of electricity demand and is expected to triple or quadruple in the very near future.»

This procurement represents the first step towards fulfilling Alberta's target of renewable energy meeting 30 percent of electricity demand in the province by 2030.

Still, it would leave 50 percent of electricity demand to be covered by some combination of other low - carbon sources: hydro, nuclear, biomass, geothermal, and coal or gas with carbon sequestration.

It says up to 18 % of electricity demand could be replaced by self - produced solar power in these markets, at the expense of centralised generation.

In another study focusing on Denmark, Mathiesen et al 2010 found that not only could the country meet 85 % of its electricity demands with renewable sources by 2030 and 100 % by 2050 (63 % from wind, 22 % from biomass, 9 % from solar PV), but the authors also concluded doing so may be economically beneficial:

Even as soon as 2020, up to 43GW of unsubsidised solar could be installed in Germany, Italy and Spain, replacing up to 9 per cent of electricity demand.

Such a statement is in contrast to the many studies have shown that in states with low penetrations of solar like Connecticut — where the resource meets around 1 % of electricity demand — rooftop solar is a net benefit to all utility customers.

Homes and commercial buildings account for 74 percent of electricity demand in the United States, making them a critical part of any plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

For the first, resource availability, Bloom notes that you could meet the current 4,000 terra - watt hours of annual electricity demand in the United States with solar on only 0.6 % of U.S. land, and meet 35 % of electricity demand with wind turbines on 1.5 % of U.S. land.

Between Friday and Sunday wind power accounted for an average of 28 percent of all electricity demand in Spain.