Sentences with phrase «of grid capacity»

Wind can not provide more than 20 % of grid capacity without instability.

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.

Not exact matches

That includes the cost of labor, panels — which will be imported until local production capacity is up to speed — and an unprecedented network of batteries that will be able to store this energy for measured distribution over the Saudi grid.

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.

Solar power might be an undeniable part of our future — the industry created double the amount of jobs as coal did last year and accounts for nearly 40 % of new electric capacity added to the grid, more than wind or even natural gas — but SolarCity itself isn't.

F1's maximum grid capacity is for 26 cars, something it hasn't had since the beginning of 1995.

This happened largely because a special capacity zone was established by the Independent System Operator to encourage additional generation in this part of the grid.

«We'll need renewables, new nuclear, fossil fuels with CCS, and the cables to hook them all up to the grid as a large slice of our current generating capacity shuts down.»

The Arkwright Summit Wind Farm will connect to the grid in the Town of Pomfret and will have an installed capacity of 78.4 megawatts, enough to power about 33,000 average homes with clean energy each year.

A study earlier this year by German company Energynautics commissioned by Greenpeace found that grid upgrades totaling up to 140 GW of capacity would be necessary across the European Union and eastern and northern Europe to cope with the vast increase planned in renewable energy.

Germany added 344 MW of solar power in May, taking the total to 33,877 MW, or 19 percent of installed capacity, according to the nation's grid regulator.

According to the cardinal rules of designing and operating power grids, the system should always have enough spare capacity to sustain the loss of any single element, even one as big as the Southwest Powerlink.

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.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

They see a market in servicing large electric utilities that want to incrementally expand their generation capacity, developing countries that can not afford or make good use of traditional reactors, and off - grid and hard - to - power sites.

However, if the same number of vehicles were all charging at 5 p.m. on a beefier, 240 - volt / 30 - amp circuit, the grid would need 160 additional gigawatts of capacity, requiring the construction of 160 new power plants.

Additionally, installation of electrolyzer systems on electrical grids for power - to - gas applications, which integrate renewable energy, grid services and energy storage will require large - capacity, cost - effective hydrogen storage.

For researchers like Smirnova who need high - performance computers with an extremely high processing speed, massive storage capacity, and an ability to transfer large amounts of data, grid fits the bill perfectly.

Forget gigabyte; grid technology ventures into the realm of petabyte (1015) storage capacity.

In fairness, the details of how one calculates back - up capacity requirements for wind generators in power grids of various compositions are quite complicated.

Its scalding 480 - degree - Fahrenheit (250 - degree - Celsius) steam drives a turbine generating a peak capacity of 11 megawatts (MW) of electricity for the national grid.

Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.

EU's grid connected cumulative capacity in 2014 reached 129 GW, meeting 8 % of European electricity demand, equivalent to the combined annual consumption of Belgium, the Netherlands, Greece and Ireland.

For example, the researchers found that in a high - wind scenario in the Southern Africa Power Pool, strategic siting and grid interconnections would reduce the need for conventional generation capacity by 9.5 percent, resulting in cost savings of 6 to 20 percent, depending on the technology that was avoided.

Consumers in the first 80 megawatts of newly installed capacity will receive 95 percent of the retail rate of electricity for surplus power sent back to the grid.

What this means for onshore wind is we expect 31GW of cumulative capacity to be connected to the grid by 2040.

«As wind and solar capacity climbs, the returns of usable power diminish because of increasing curtailment during surges that the grid can not absorb.

This means it covers the direct cost of low - carbon subsidies, energy efficiency and carbon taxes, as well as indirect costs due to strengthening grids, backing up intermittent renewables, compensating conventional generation for lost revenue through the capacity market and savings due to the merit - order effect, which pushes down wholesale electricity prices.

Alomost no developed country will require additional grid generation or distribution capacity to serve a full fleet of smart charged EVs charged mostly overnight.

I do know that India's grid - connected PV capacity grew from 18 Megawatts in 2010 to nearly 3 Gigawatts in 2011, with another GW due to come online in 2012, while India is already exceeding the goals of its national plan to install 20 GW of solar power within ten years.

And say for now, don't consider the possibility that power carring capacity of the grid may need to be upgradded, or new transmission power lines may need to be built.

643 SecularA said,» when 100 percent of new electricity generation capacity added to the USA's electric grid is wind and solar.»

Given that thousands of megawatts of wind and solar generating capacity are being connected to the grid already, it is obviously not an unsolved problem.

Can we build for example a non-intermittent solar infrastructure with heated salt storage and sufficient grid capacity without pricing power beyond the means of ordinary citizens and businesses?

Now, some readers will think this is far - fetched, but I think that in the not - too - distant future the day will come when 100 percent of new electricity generation capacity added to the USA's electric grid is wind and solar.

[D] espite additions of substantial wind, solar, and nuclear capacity, when properly adjusted for capacity factor (the amount of annual energy produced per unit of capacity) to reflect production capability, the amount of new coal energy added to the China grid last year exceeded new solar energy by 17 times, new wind energy by more than 4 times, and even new hydro by more than 3 times.

While such off - grid expansion will remain a small share of capacity total, it can have significant socio - economic impact by helping to bridge the electrification gap.

While the DOE's reasoning for linking fuel stores to grid resiliency has been widely criticized for its vagueness and gaps in logic, its idea for a solution is clear: «full cost recovery» for those power plants now playing by the rules of the energy and capacity markets run by interstate grid operators serving about three - quarters of the country.

Non-hydro renewables have not managed to do so to date in any large electricity grid, (hydro can not help; its capacity growth is limited so it will decrease its share of global electricity generation over future decades).

Machine learning approaches could exploit the available observational data and our capacity to generate a computational ground truth in supercolumns to find empirical relations between closure parameters and the statistics of flow variables resolved on the grid scale.

These «loop flows» have been blamed for congestion of cross-border transmission capacity and, worse, pose threats to the network security conditions of Germany's neighbors, the affected countries» grid operators said in a March 2012 report.

This affects 11 natural gas plants providing 12,000 megawatts of capacity on the ISO grid.

Centrica has revealed plans to build a single 100MW battery energy storage system in Ireland for delivery by 2022 to take advantage of capacity market and grid services opportunities currently under development.

In addition to the wind farm, I believe that Neoen proposes a grid - scale battery with a power capacity of 20 megawatts and energy storage of 34 megawatt - hours.

However, increased capacity refers to the number of installations, where energy could potentially come from, it doesn't directly correlate with the amount of energy introduced to the grid or energy produced.

By necessity, conventional firm capacity generators: nuclear, biomass, natural gas, hydropower, etc. will remain the primary suppliers of electricity to the New England grid well into the future.

They are intended to maximise the energy output from the Hywind turbines by mitigating peaks and troughs in production, storing surpluses at times when the grid is at or near full capacity and unable to accept further injections of electricity.

Reposting this big news from Solar Love: Herman Trabish of Greentech Media has happened across a pretty interesting find — 97 % of new electricity generation capacity in line to be added to the California grid in the second half (2H) of 2012...

Iran's wind build - out will be a result of an «improving financing environment» with market growth post-2020, while in Jordan the nation's Green Corridor Project will spur growth of «more wind power capacity in 2018 than any other country in the Middle East», according to MAKE, with Green Corridor Project II underpinning the long - term outlook with the construction of necessary grid infrastructure for the expansion.

In particular, if challenges in China around the cost of renewable subsidies and grid integration are addressed, its solar PV could reach a total of 320GW by 2022, equivalent to the total capacity of all power in Japan.