Sentences with phrase «of peak energy demand»

This will allow the college to utilize stored solar power during emergencies and times of peak energy demand.

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«The energy market is changing more rapidly than we could have imagined, and it's changing because the costs of competitive fuels are coming down,» says Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, who predicts global demand for gasoline and diesel fuel will peak as early as a decade from now and «certainly» by 2030.

It has concluded that oil demand is likely to peak sometime between the late 2020s and the late 2040s because of an epic shift underway in the energy industry: a transition from petroleum to electricity.

The acceptance of the notion that global oil demand will peak within a generation is mind - blowing given that, just a decade ago, the chatter in the energy world was about a coming peak in oil supply.

On the Hawaiian island of Kauai, a Tesla solar farm accounts for a fifth of the island's peak energy demand.

The International Energy Agency, which says that global oil demand could peak around 2020 if governments adopted particularly green policies, predicts that even if it happened, oil still would account for 23 % of total global energy in 2040, down from 32 % inEnergy Agency, which says that global oil demand could peak around 2020 if governments adopted particularly green policies, predicts that even if it happened, oil still would account for 23 % of total global energy in 2040, down from 32 % inenergy in 2040, down from 32 % in 2016.

According to the International Energy Agency, better use of existing heating technology around the world could save up to 25 % of peak heating energy demand byEnergy Agency, better use of existing heating technology around the world could save up to 25 % of peak heating energy demand byenergy demand by 2050.

An offshore wind farm at the center of a LIPA plan to address spiking electric demand on the South Fork will produce excess energy when it's needed least, and fall short of a sharply expanding summer peak load, a recent analysis found.

The Department of Citywide Administrative Services, which manages properties and resources for city agencies, received $ 9.3 million for cutting back on energy use during peak demand hours last summer.

Currently, the energy needed to meet peaks in demand is stored in the form of natural gas and coal.

Solar energy storage reduces peak grid demand by 8 to 32 percent and the magnitude of solar power injections to the grid by 5 to 42 percent.

Because of that, California's energy companies are actually willing to pay consumers not to use energy during peak energy demand.

Sensors on the powerline monitor and gather data about local system activity and are fed back to our control centre for analysis and planning of Nova Scotia's future energy needs... As we add more renewable energy to the grid, batteries can provide the utility with more flexibility to reliably address peak electricity demand with stored energy.

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.

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As we (globally) are confronted with AGW, we are facing energy security issues, including world - wide peak oil production with increasing demand, which sets the value of a drum of oil.

OhmConnect is a free service that acts somewhat like a virtual power plant, except that instead of generating energy, it works with the user's devices to reduce demand at times when electricity consumption is at a peak, which can help utilities to avoid having to bring a «peaker plant» online to cover the extra demand.

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.

Energy Commission staff will present their analysis of recent loads in the Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) areas of the California Independent System Operator (California ISO) territory, and their updated forecasts of 2010 peak demand for those areas.

«Load serving entities, in partnership with their customers (often under state programs), can manage their wholesale consumption, lower their forecast demand requirements and actively manage their consumption of energy at the peaks to lower their capacity obligations,» PJM said in a white paper sketching its approach to demand response in the wake of the court activities.

In explaining the value of BrightSource Energy's concentrating solar power (CSP) plants with thermal energy storage (TES) capability, the company's Vice President for Government Affairs and Communications Joe Desmond described a 2006 California «heat storm» during which «the California ISO reached its all - time maximum demand» and had «about 3,000 megawatts of wind available,» but «the amount of wind delivering electricity into the system when it hit its peak demand was 1 percent.&Energy's concentrating solar power (CSP) plants with thermal energy storage (TES) capability, the company's Vice President for Government Affairs and Communications Joe Desmond described a 2006 California «heat storm» during which «the California ISO reached its all - time maximum demand» and had «about 3,000 megawatts of wind available,» but «the amount of wind delivering electricity into the system when it hit its peak demand was 1 percent.&energy storage (TES) capability, the company's Vice President for Government Affairs and Communications Joe Desmond described a 2006 California «heat storm» during which «the California ISO reached its all - time maximum demand» and had «about 3,000 megawatts of wind available,» but «the amount of wind delivering electricity into the system when it hit its peak demand was 1 percent.»

EPA also set basic criteria to highlight on the ENERGY STAR product finder products capable of supporting demand response; this «connected» functionality allows products to reduce their electricity usage during peak periods and shift charging to non-peak times.

In addition, Energy Commission staff requests comments on the staff's proposed forecast of 2010 peak demand.

The logic is this will save utilities money by keeping dirty gas - fired power plants offline during peak energy demand times because it is expensive to fire them up daily for just a few hours of additional energy.

Those batteries could be stitched together to store energy for peak demand periods, a secondary market that could bring down the initial cost of plug - in vehicles.

Instead of investing in repowering the in - basin plants and relying on natural gas peakers to balance the system, LADWP would need to learn to use energy efficiency, demand response and battery energy storage.

For instance, if the customer is billed under Time of Use rates, in order to understand how much a solar installation will reduce their utility bill, it is essential to understand how much energy they consume during peak demand times when energy is more expensive, and how those usage patterns intersect with the amount of energy their solar array is likely to be producing at different times.

I think using as much of other energy as possible for baseload and exporting NG (build capacity for emergencies and for peaking demand, but operate below capacity and sell much of it abroad) would be ideal.

The Space Heating Energy Demand is not to exceed 15 kWh per square meter of net living space (treated floor area) per year or 10 W per square meter peak dDemand is not to exceed 15 kWh per square meter of net living space (treated floor area) per year or 10 W per square meter peak demanddemand.

We wouldn't be able to close any current power plants as were running at close to capacity and can't count on wind energy to be readily available, i.e. during peak power demands of low wind energy seasons.

The power will be delivered from SolarReserve's 150 MW (135 MW net) Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Aurora project in Port Augusta that will have eight hours of solar energy storage daily to deliver into the late afternoon and evening hours to meet South Australia's peak electricity demand periods.

For a power grid based on 100 % solar and wind power, with no energy storage and assuming interconnection at the national European level only, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants needs to be just as large as peak electricity demand.

-LSB-...] and by the way, Obama's pipe - dream energy economy is exactly that: At each of the four highest peak demand points of 2010, wind output was extremely low at 4.72 %, -LSB-...]

«This is radically anti-consumer and, ironically, at odds with the grid modernization recommendations of the CES that want to explore integrating smart meters, efficiency and demand response, storage, solar, and other customer - sited resources for numerous grid benefits, including peak - demand management,» said Bill Dornbos, advocacy director and senior attorney for the regional environmental group Acadia Center, which in December spearheaded a statement of principles by energy and environmental activists.

The Texas A&M Energy Institute's Wind Energy Center will lead the Texas Offshore Wind Farm Innovation team as part of the Gulf Offshore Wind (GoWind) Project, which will be the most innovative wind farm built to date and will generate power at peak demand and a high capacity factor.

Since the electrical grid has existed, so has the need for stored forms of energy that can be drawn on to meet times of peak demand and regulate frequency.

Optimizing energy usage allows us to reduce demand on the grid strategically, ultimately reducing the peak level of demand when the grid is most strained and expensive to run.

As John Farrell, from the Institute of Energy Self Reliance, writes in a blog on the same subject, even rooftop solar is meeting peak demand in the state of Colorado, at less than half the cost of peaking gas plant.

On certain days non-hydro renewable energy has been peaking at more than 50 % of system demand and an increasing amount of solar is being curtailed on California's grid.

In contrast, heat energy demand ranges from lows of 25GW in summer to peaks of 300 - 350GW in winter.

The goal of these virtual power plants is to collectively reduce customers» energy demand at peak hours and provide renewable energy supplies in targeted areas.

The basic premise of demand response — utilities charge large energy users a lower rate year - round in exchange for powering down during peak hours — has existed for decades.

(B) Megawatts subject to the ability of a load - serving entity to call on demand response programs, smart appliances, smart electricity or energy storage devices, distributed generation resources on the entity's customers» premises, or other measures directly capable of actively, controllably, reliably, and dynamically reducing peak demand («dynamic peak management control»).

Additionally, the ISO did not consider the potential deployment of energy storage technologies in the coming years that could further integrate renewable energy and address peak demand.

By linking together networks of energy - efficient buildings, solar installations, and batteries, a growing number of companies in the U.S. and Europe are helping utilities reduce energy demand at peak hours and supply targeted areas with renewably generated electricity.

-- Nothing in this section diminishes or supersedes any authority of a State or political subdivision of a State to adopt or enforce any law or regulation respecting peak demand management, demand response, distributed energy storage, use of distributed generation, or the regulation of load - serving entities.

The project has reduced household energy consumption by up to 15.2 % and office building consumption by up to 22.8 % through demand response (DR) testing during peak times of electricity usage.

It has now been reported that the cost of renewable energy plus battery storage is now comparable to, or actually cheaper than, the cost of the previously most economical form of the «peaking» power needed to compensate for sudden changes in electric grid demand or generation — natural gas.

Wave energy has many important advantages over other energy sources, including the increase it gains in power over winter, when electricity demand peaks; low environmental costs; and the ability of satellites to predict waves two days in advance.

But as I recently wrote in the Energy Transition blog, almost no one in Germany speaks of energy density; the Germans simply install systems and know that the real limit is not theoretical, but practical (see «peak demand parity «Energy Transition blog, almost no one in Germany speaks of energy density; the Germans simply install systems and know that the real limit is not theoretical, but practical (see «peak demand parity «energy density; the Germans simply install systems and know that the real limit is not theoretical, but practical (see «peak demand parity «-RRB-.