Sentences with phrase «on natural gas backup»
Wind and solar are intermittent sources that rely on natural gas backup facilities, typically operating very inefficiently.
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Most households look to backup generators that run on either natural gas or propane.
Unlike traditional backup generators that run on diesel fuel, these natural gas turbines offer a more efficient solution and, more importantly, ensure the utility avoids building a new power plant.
(And don't forget that until some unforeseen breakthrough in battery technology occurs, natural gas must remain on call as a backup for intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar for generating electricity.)
Many natural gas - fueled power plants do not have a backup fuel source (typically oil) on site.
We need to figure out how to storage that energy so that we don't need to keep natural gas power plants spinning as backup in case there's an unforeseen change in wind power output, or to pick up the slack on days when there's simply no wind.