Sentences with phrase «peak electricity demand»

A power outage affecting 11,000 customers in the Sydney suburbs of Burwood and Strathfield at around the time of peak electricity demand (around 4 pm) was not caused by load - shedding, but would have reduced power demand at a critical time.

What sort of load are we going to be putting on top of existing peak electricity demand and how would we cope with it?

Peak electricity demand has grown nearly 13 % over the past two years as a growing middle class seeks new services, such as air conditioning, which continue to place higher demands on the system.

Energy Commission staff has developed forecasts of electricity and end - user natural gas consumption and peak electricity demand for each major utility planning area within California for the 10 - year period, 2010 - 2020.

The battery will be tested for its ability to provide solar photovoltaic firming, peak electricity demand shaving, ramp rate control, and simulated frequency regulation support.

If successful, SMUD will use this demonstration project as a basis for using similar battery energy storage technologies to reduce the costs of serving peak electricity demand and the integration of more renewable energy.

Its annual Winter Outlook report, published this week, says there will be a 5.1 % buffer between peak electricity demand and the capacity available to meet it.

The buffer between forecast peak electricity demand each winter and the generating capacity available to meet demand.

, published this week, says there will be a 5.1 % buffer between peak electricity demand and the capacity available to meet it.

Nest thermostats are among a growing number of products capable of precooling buildings in advance of peak electricity demand, a strategy that will become commonplace once time - variant pricing pervades.

For 16 Peak Electricity Demand Reduction, projects complying with Passive House automatically achieve this criteria and gain 2 pts

Additionally, in many regions, peak wind (see Figure 4 below) and solar production match up well with peak electricity demand.

In fact, as Mr Joshi showed, south eastern Australia's wind farms were generating about 710MW at the time of the peak electricity demand for the week of the recent January heatwave; much of this was coming from SA's wind farms.

Jon W. Kieran — National Post — September 2, 2016 Ontario set an all - time peak electricity demand of 27,005 megawatts (MW) 10 years ago this summer.

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.

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.

«The probability of very low wind output coinciding with peak electricity demand is slight.»

Add to this an economic rebound, and Texas» grid operator is predicting a 2.7 % increase in peak electricity demand in the summer of 2018 over the previous record, set in August 2016.

On Sunday, peak electricity demand was 9,124 MW, about 13 % less than the all time peak of 10,496 MW in 2009.

«Off - peak charging benefits the service providers by lessening peak electricity demand, but off - peak periods may not align with the availability of low - emission sources of electricity like wind and solar power.

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.

This could save owners money because it can maneuver the charge times around peak electricity demand in your town.

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.

Gross, for his part, estimates that the entire state of California's peak electricity demand could be generated from an eSolar field of 65 square kilometers.

Readers puzzled by his reaction may like to know that, in round numbers, the total UK peak electricity demand is 60GW on behalf of...

Add to this an economic rebound, and Texas» grid operator is predicting a 2.7 % increase in peak electricity demand in the summer of 2018 over the previous record, set in August 2016.

The government aims to increase capacity to 350 MW by 2020, or about 5 percent of projected peak electricity demand, up from less than 1 percent now, according to EMA.

That can be a bigger factor than meeting daily peak electricity demand, especially given the flexibility of the New England fleet.

Those batteries can lower peak electricity demand on the power grid by 25 %, the companies said.

Not exact matches

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.

That means that a customer's peak demand during the month would be multiplied by $ 14 and added to the electricity bill, which currently just calculates a customer's usage.

Building the additional electricity generating capacity needed to meet peak heat demand is simply unaffordable.

The UK's reliance on gas for heat, and the seasonal peaks and troughs in demand, mean gas can not be easily replaced by electricity, however this is current Government strategy.

The units at NRG's Oswego Steam Station, where the company said 82 people work, operate only on the coldest or hottest days of the year, when there is a peak demand for electricity.

The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has announced that the country will enjoy stable power supply in the coming weeks as Ghana's electricity generation capacity now exceeds demand at peak periods.

Mr Okyere said GRIDCo had forecast peak demand to be at 2,523 MW for 2018 based on factors such as VALCO's operation of two potlines, the power supply to Burkina Faso and network expansion and rural electrification programmes for Electricity Company of Ghana and the Northern Electricity Company.

The switches could be programmed to shut off when power demands on the grid (and hence electricity prices) peaked.

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.

«We plan on expanding this on our own,» explained Randall, because the university is interested in saving money by cutting higher electricity prices charged during peak demand times.

«Our peak demand [for electricity] is later in the evening, once solar production is trailing off,» Lockwood says.

Arias says Torresol can either run the plant until the battery is exhausted, or it can modulate the power of the turbine during darkness so it is at its maximum between 11 and 11.30 pm, when electricity demand — and price — peaks, «so we are able to reach the next day without stopping the turbine».

The study shows how higher temperatures will raise not just the average annual electricity demand, but more importantly, the peak demand.

A cold front moved through West Texas, and the winds died in the evening just as electricity demand was peaking.

So there's this idea of peak demand for water, like we are familiar with peak demand for electricity at certain times and lower demand at certain times where we can level those things out to make the whole system more efficient.

As it stands, eSolar expects to generate five megawatts of electricity with its refurbished 1940s - vintage General Electric steam turbines roughly 25 percent of the time, which coincides generally with peak demand for electricity, Tyner says.

The added value means that at peak demands, CSP can help lower electricity bills.

Should there be an excessive peak in electricity demand, grid operators can select which areas of the country will have power cut off.

At the same time, old, inefficient «peaker» units — so - called because they run no more than 77 hours a year when electricity demand in the state is at its highest — will be shut down or replaced by newer natural gas — fired turbines.

Peakers are power plants usually using natural gas, that generally run only when there's a high demand or peak demand for electricity.

He notes that unlike electricity from many other renewable sources, power from the batteries could be held back and used at times of peak demand.