Sentences with phrase «of electricity load»

Our various electricity generating technologies were designed and constructed to meet electricity demand based on their best operating characteristics for meeting portions of the electricity load duration curve.

-- Always wanting to contribute more, you allow consumers to offset a greater portion of their electricity load by using less space - constrained space such as the parking lot.

New York and New England can increase Demand Response and Active Load Management to cover about 5,770 megawatts of electricity load by 2030.

New England can increase Demand Response and Active Load Management to cover nearly 3,000 megawatts of electricity load by 2030.

Not exact matches

The line is a key choke point for Puerto Rico's power grid, carrying electricity from generators in the south of the island to load centers in the north.

With a peak load of 719 megawatts, we deliver a safe and reliable supply of electricity to over 152,549 customers from the residential, institutional, commercial and industrial sectors, through 2,820 kilometres of overhead and underground cables, spanning 420 square kilometres of service territory.

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

Yes, cloth diapers will usually mean an extra one to three loads of laundry a week, but if everyone were to weigh the extra costs of their electricity, water usage, and detergent, I think they would be pleasantly surprised.

And if a person calculates a raise in electricity because of a couple loads of laundry - that's pretty outlandish considering your washing increases with any new baby.

A statement from the Ministry signed by Kweku Sesah Johnson said: «The Ministry of Power wishes to inform the public that its load - shedding programme, in respect of electricity supply, has been brought to an end.»

The three - paragraph statement signed by Kweku Sersah - Johnson, Head of Public Affairs, for the Power Minister, said» the Ministry of Power wishes to inform the public that its load shedding programme in respect of electricity supply has been brought to an end».

The forum, which was on the theme: «Diversifying Our Generation Sources, Strengthening the Base Load Sources to Support Industrial Growth,» seeks to get a holistic picture of the power situation from the three main actors, the Volta River Authority, GRIDCo and the Electricity Company of Ghana.

Even if renewable energy goes mainstream, INL researchers still believe nuclear will be essential for supporting the electrical grid's base load — that portion of the nation's electricity that must be supplied at a constant rate, in contrast to the variable supplies from the sun and wind.

The latest figures show that on some days of the year the electricity being generated from sun, wind, biomass, water and geothermal production already accounts for more than half of the load required in the country.

The plan is to begin with two rivers, generating up to 5 MW of electricity, and to develop all eight waterways as load increases.

Power is loaded into one large coil a couple of feet in diameter, causing electricity to surge back and forth more than a million times a second.

Caldeira Tweeted «Evaluation of 100 % renewable electricity scenario for the UK finds that meeting the last bits of load get very expensive.

The NuScale Power Module's cost per kWh is competitive with other sources of base load electricity generation, and less than the cost per kWh of large nuclear units.

By lessening the load of electricity costs, these funds can be allocated to more important and vital services such as classroom resources, teaching staff and other educational tools.

Infrastructure improvements completed on the Electrical Load Center at the port will now provide access to electricity in the event of a power outage.

I would preffer not to use the load resistors because that would sort of defeat the purpose of having LED lights (using less electricity).

The lack of an electrical ignition system also reduces the parasitic load on the engine, as the engine does not have to produce the necessary electricity to ignite the fuel.

A significant amount of electricity is required by a spark ignition system, and as engine speeds and loads increase, the ignition system consumes proportionately more electricity, while simultaneously becoming less efficient.

The sole option is a trunk - mounted power take - off system that enables the Mirai to serve as an emergency generator, providing up to 60 kilowatt - hours of electricity from a full load of hydrogen, sufficient to power a small home for up to a week, Toyota says.

Rather than reuse that electricity as drive energy, though, the Mazda3 uses it to power all of the car's auxiliary systems, taking some of the generator load off the engine.

The advantages of a full parallel system allow Sonata Hybrid to generate electricity captured during low engine loads and regenerative braking system to power the electric motor.

Cost is probably under $ 250, it avoids arguments over load on the system for the rest of the house, you could plug it into a Kill - a-Watt and measure exactly how much electricity it's using and pay her for that if you want to make sure you've completely covered the costs... and it would leave her with a backup option if / when the main unit does fail.

With the exception of demonstration and proof - of - concept experiments, few «1950s - era plant» were built for base - load electricity production.

Since it can not be stored (hybrid cars loading during the night may help) much of the present generated electricity gets lost.

In this application, the truck will essentially be under a heavy load and using the electric motors to brake the entire way down to the lower elevation, which is expected to generate a surplus of 10 kWh of electricity with each roundtrip it takes.

I think, to spur its development, we need electricity pricing that encourages investment in load - shifting, a guaranteed return for delivering a megawatt - hour at peak demand for more than it costs at the time of peak excess supply.

A 2 MW wind turbine in a windy onshore location can produce an amount of electricity equivalent to 2500 - 3000 full load hours per year.

This regenerative braking feature isn't meant to, or able to, fully recharge the vehicle's battery in most cases, but for a big electric vehicle that travels downhill while fully loaded, using the electric motors as brakes and generating electricity, and then travels back up again when empty, it can produce a surprising amount of electricity.

The draft promotes renewable energy by requiring retail electricity suppliers to meet a certain percentage of their load with electricity generated from renewable resources, like wind, biomass, solar, and geothermal... [They] begin at 6 % in 2012 and gradually rises to 25 % in 2025.

The reason the goal can not be met is that with a large amount of highly variable electricity from wind and solar, large - scale load following can only be done with natural gas.

We have existing infrastructure for large - scale electricity transport, much of which is unused most of the day due to the need to handle short - term peak loads.

But until we get to those stages, improved energy storage schemes such as hydrogen, could be used to run other sources of electricity, such as nuclear and clean coal plants, as base - load (24 hours a day) rather than cyce to respond to demand requirements.

General Motors announced today that it would power its Ohio and Indiana plants entirely with wind energy, meaning that renewable energy will 20 % of the automaker's global electricity load.

Today, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government, which had promised a «rethink» of Japan's post-Fukushima pledge to close all of the country's nuclear power plants, released a draft of a new energy plan which calls nuclear power an «important baseload electricity source» for the country, though it's vague on how big of a role nuclear will play in the country's energy load in the future.

According to Moriarty, a module with 200MWh storage capacity would use the equivalent of 400 tonnes of silicon, «capable of charging at up to 40MW» and could supply 10MW of base load electricity plus heating for more than eight hours.

Today the South Australian government destroyed the smoke stack of the Playford B Plant, one more part of what's left of the cheapest base - load electricity generators in the state.

The issue is particularly sensitive in the fastest - growing nations, with the biggest increase happening in hot countries like India — where the share of AC in peak electricity load could reach 45 % in 2050, up from 10 % today without action.

Ancillary services: Services that ensure reliability and support the transmission of electricity from generation sites to customer loads.

On part loaded condition the marginal cost of electricity from diesel generator could be higher than 20 Rs / kWh (US$ 0.31), but due to the lack of policy certainty and delays in decisionmaking, we are yet to achieve goals set up for «Greening the Islands».

Aggregator: Any marketer, broker, public agency, city, county, or special district that combines the loads of multiple end - use customers in negotiating the purchase of electricity, the transmission of electricity, and other related services for these customers.

Base load plant: A plant, usually housing high - efficiency steam - electric units, which is normally operated to take all or part of the minimum load of a system, and which consequently produces electricity at an essentially constant rate and runs continuously.

And even though the state's residential home electricity consumption ranks among the lowest (due in part to those high prices and generally lower air conditioning needs in summer and the use of gas and oil for heating loads in the winter rather than electricity), the average monthly electric bill in 2016 was just over $ 142 per month, third highest in the nation.

There are other approaches that make used of the kinetics / inertia to generate electricity when the wheels are in motion without introducing additional loading or being a drag.

Based on IEA modelling of electricity consumption profiles by end - use, this potential represents the sum of all loads than can be shifted for every hour of the year.

In the case of a grid with 80 % renewables, the generation capacity needs to be six times larger than the peak load, while the excess electricity would be equal to 60 % of the EU's current annual electricity consumption.