Sentences with phrase «of highest electricity demand»

Monthly data allow users to see seasonal patterns, such as periods of nuclear refueling outages in the shoulder seasons (spring and fall) and increased operation of peaking generators during the periods of highest electricity demand in the summer months (driven primarily by air conditioning use).

A lot of the systems design that people are looking at — like Christopher Clack — even if you can get the renewables up to 80 percent, then you have a piece there probably natural gas «peakers» [power plants that run in periods of high electricity demand], at least based on current technology, are way cheaper than any [energy] storage.

Build new transmission lines to connect areas with strong wind and solar potential to areas of high electricity demand

Essentially, church members volunteered for a program that would let a partner company, Mosaic Power, briefly reduce their electricity consumption through controllers on their water heaters during times of high electricity demand.

Not exact matches

The International Energy Agency, a Paris - based think tank, said in its annual review of long - term megatrends in global energy that soaring electricity demand around the world will ensure that CO2 levels keep rising unless ambitions are ratcheted much higher.

The others were the explosive growth of renewable energy sources, especially solar photo - voltaic energy; China's increasing prioritization of cleaner energy; and the huge long - term rise in global electricity demand, reflecting higher living standards in the emerging world — notably in the shape of demand for air conditioning.

When demand for electricity is again high, the system is reversed: The weight of the water forces the air back to the surface, where it collects the stored heat and drives an expander, reproducing approximately 70 per cent of the input electricity and releasing the air back into the environment.

The anaerobic wastewater biogas technologies — which extract methane to generate green electricity or to fuel boilers and other factory equipment — are particularly applicable to food, beverage and agribusiness companies, or any industry that has a biological waste stream or wastewater with high organic carbon or COD (chemical oxygen demand) of natural origin that can be broken down into biogas by anaerobic bacteria.

This is the most valuable part of the curve, as electricity prices are highest at the period of highest demand.»

Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power consumption in homes at peak periods of demand, when wholesale electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.

The way to make renewables more reliable is to store the excess electricity generated during times of plenty (when there are high winds, for instance, or strong sun) and release it later to match the actual demand.

For example, on a hot summer evening when electricity is in high demand for air - conditioning, the system could drop the amount of power going to an individual car from 3.3 kilowatts to just 1.2 kW or even less, explains Paul Pebbles, GM's global manager of Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid Services.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

They are popular during the peak electricity demand hours of between 4 pm and 8 pm (when carbon emissions due to generation on UK National Grid are highest), but watching is particularly popular in the late hours before bedtime.

In its statement, Peabody reiterated its belief that advanced clean coal technology «is the bridge to a low - emissions future for a world experiencing rising electricity demand to satisfy urbanization and offer a higher quality of life.»

«For the first time, we were able to apply data at a high enough resolution to be relevant,» said ORNL's Melissa Allen, co-author of «Impacts of Climate Change on Sub-regional Electricity Demand and Distribution in the Southern United States,» published in Nature Energy.

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

The demand for electricity, however, is much higher in the eastern part of the country.

It is one of the few hydro - power stations in Australia to include pumped hydro in which water is pumped from the lower Jounama Pondage to the upper Talbingo Reservoir when electricity is plentiful and cheap, so that it can flow back down through the turbines to generate more electricity at times of higher demand.

However, in the spirit of Chairman Smith's request, this report analyzes the Clean Power Plan in the context of the AEO2015 High Economic Growth and High Oil and Gas Resource cases as well as the Reference case in order to examine indicators of the proposed rule's impacts on energy markets under varying assumptions regarding economic growth, electricity demand, and fuel prices.

I was struck reading that paper by this note from the introduction» Note that if we relax our assumption that each state's capacity match its annual demand, and instead allow states with especially good solar or wind resources to have enough capacity to supply larger regions, then the average levelized cost of electricity will be lower than we estimate because of the higher average capacity factors in states with the best WWS resources»

Demand - side response is one of several measures that can help integrate higher shares of variable renewables, including electricity storage, greater interconnection and more flexible power plants.

The study also demonstrates that a high renewables scenario can meet electricity demand across the country every hour of every day, year - round.

SONGS played an important role in the electricity generation profile of the region as a result of its high output and location in the electric demand center of Southern California.

**** ``....2 minutes ago» Wind power generates 140 % of Denmark's electricity demand... http://www.theguardian.com/environ…... Jul 10, 2015... Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs — with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too.»

UK electricity demand varies between lows of around 30 gigawatts (GW) and highs of a little more than 50GW.

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

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

The report argues that, even if electricity demand were to grow at around 1 to 1.5 per cent per annum between 2010 and 2020 and fossil fuel prices were to remain relatively high, the share of renewables in UK electricity sales is only expected to increase to around 10.25 per cent by 2015.

-- In addition to the policy under paragraph (1), it is the policy of the United States that regional electric grid planning to meet these objectives should result from an open, inclusive and transparent process, taking into account all significant demand - side and supply - side options, including energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy and zero - carbon electricity generation technologies, smart - grid technologies and practices, demand response, electricity storage, voltage regulation technologies, high capacity conductors with at least 25 percent greater efficiency than traditional ACSR (aluminum stranded conductors steel reinforced) conductors, superconductor technologies, underground transmission technologies, and new conventional electric transmission capacity and corridors.

On hot summer afternoons, inefficient and expensive generators are turned on to satisfy the additional demand; they may run for only a few dozen hours in a year, but the cost of building and maintaining them means that the cost of that peak electricity is very high.

NEW DELHI: In a bid to highlight the role of corporate leadership on renewables in developing a cleaner economy, The Climate Group has hosted a RE100 high - level roundtable event, «Scaling Corporate Renewable Electricity Demand In India».

http://www.scidev.net/global/energy/news/green-energy-developing-world-renewable-energy.html Developing countries that already have a high share of renewable energy in their power mix are unlikely to grow this share further due to skyrocketing demand for cheap electricity, a report warns.

The electric vehicle market is one of the most rapidly changing and fastest - growing high - tech sectors in the global economy, representing the beginnings of a demand - side opportunity like no other: intelligent, interactive electricity demand.

Through the process of integrating landfill methane with other solutions, the total addressable market for electricity generation technologies was adjusted to account for reduced demand resulting from the growth of more energy - efficient technologies, [8] as well as increased electrification from other solutions like electric vehicles and high - speed rail.

High amount of distributed solar drove down electricity demand, and New England customers ended up using more electricity from the grid while sleeping than in the middle of the day.

Energy use in the sector results from end ‐ user demand for higher ‐ quality energy carriers such as electricity, but also the relatively low average global efficiency of energy conversion and delivery processes.

While coal - to - gas switching played a major role in reducing emissions in previous years, last year the drop was the result of higher renewables - based electricity generation and a decline in electricity demand.

And they are projecting that you look out 10 years from now and it's basically going to be about the same electricity demand in the state that we have right now, but with a much higher percentage of solar, bit higher percentage of wind.

Grid operators predict that in ten years, we'll have «about the same electricity demand in the state that we have right now, but with a much higher percentage of solar, bit higher percentage of wind.

During extreme heat events, nighttime temperatures in the region's big cities are generally several degrees higher28 than surrounding regions, leading to increased heat - related death among those less able to recover from the heat of the day.36 Since the hottest days in the Northeast are often associated with high concentrations of ground - level ozone and other pollutants, 37 the combination of heat stress and poor air quality can pose a major health risk to vulnerable groups: young children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions including asthma.29 Vulnerability is further increased as key infrastructure, including electricity for potentially life - saving air conditioning, is more likely to fail precisely when it is most needed — when demand exceeds available supply.

(2) the goal described in paragraph (1) can be met or exceeded by lessening the difference between the periods of lowest and highest electricity demand, with particular focus on reducing the frequency and severity of peak demand periods, using smart grid and demand response technologies, practices, and activities, including --

This decrease in electricity demand is driven by three main factors: (a) general shifts in population and the economy, (b) increased deployment of distributed solar, and (c) increased deployment of energy efficiency measures, such as high - efficiency appliances, insulation, and LED lightbulbs.

At the same time, we face a daunting partisan environment in Congress for legislation of any type, as well as the added challenge of responding to higher prices for fuels and electricity that are being occasioned both by the energy demand created by global economic recovery and by instability in North Africa and the Middle East.

This means Queensland wind farms will produce most of their electricity at these times, which coincide with high network demand.

One question that would remain to be addressed in the future is that of very high rates of solar power on the grid, and how PG&E and the California grid (Cal ISO) would manage the peaks and valleys of electricity production and demand.

The abundance of diverse renewable energy resources, growing demand for power, macroeconomic stability, and historically high electricity prices continue to position Mexico as one of the most attractive destinations for investments in renewable power generation.

The trend of decreasing coal generation can be attributed to both falling natural gas prices and stagnant demand for electricity, but it can also be partially attributed to the increasing role of solar and wind generation: March 2016 set records for both the highest amount of monthly wind generation ever measured and the highest amount of monthly utility - scale solar generation ever measured.

«This is almost a mirror image of wind production patterns: wind is highest in the spring and fall, when electricity needs are lowest, and lowest in summer when electricity demand peaks,» the report notes.

The electricity from the coal - fired power plant will be utilized during the high peak demand periods of the summer season to ensure security of supply at a reasonable cost.