Sentences with phrase «peak electricity needs»

PJM's reliability requirement is based on projected peak electricity needs, plus some extra, just in case.

The APERC argued that since Russia's peak electricity needs occur in winter for heating, and Japan and South Korea's peak energy needs occur in summer for air conditioning, Russian hydropower could flow south in summer and Japan and South Korean nuclear power could flow north in winter.

Not exact matches

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

The payoff, he adds, is that 10 - hour storage eliminates the need for a fossil fuel power plant to back up electricity production on cloudy days and at peak usage hours in the evening.

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.

With average electricity demand rising annually at 1.5 % -2 % and peak demand rising at around double that rate in some sections of the country (and remember that majority of the generating and T&D capacity is dedicated to meeting peak demand for a few hours each year)... we need to approach the electricity issue not only by considering the generating side of the equation but careful consideration of the rest of the pieces as well.

I think, to spur its development, we need electricity pricing that encourages investment in load - shifting, a guaranteed return for delivering a megawatt - hour at peak demand for more than it costs at the time of peak excess supply.

We have existing infrastructure for large - scale electricity transport, much of which is unused most of the day due to the need to handle short - term peak loads.

And hot weather can make water supplies too warm for cooling, forcing power plants to reduce their electricity production when it's needed most (hot days are also peak electricity usage days).

«Microgrids have several advantages for the electricity grid; for example, they can provide electricity during peak - usage hours and therefore forestall the need for expensive upgrades in central generation, transmission, and distribution systems.

It meant at peak times that India needed 6,000 megawatts less electricity to satisfy demand than if ordinary bulbs had been used.

Lastly, in a grid with 100 % renewable power production, the generation capacity would need to be ten times larger than the peak load, and excess electricity would surpass the EU annual electricity consumption.

U.S. coal peaked a few years ago in terms of BTU (heat value) per pound — meaning that we need to burn more coal for the same amount of heat / electricity.

In the case of a grid with 80 % renewables, the generation capacity needs to be six times larger than the peak load, while the excess electricity would be equal to 60 % of the EU's current annual electricity consumption.

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.

Each spring, PJM holds an auction to make sure enough electricity will be available for peak needs

If customers were forced to pay the actual price at the time they use electricity, they would be motivated to shift some of their usage to lower - price hours, which would reduce the need for some expensive peaking capacity.

We won't need new power plants, since we have enough off - peak electricity to recharge as many retrofits as we can build.

But the U.S. needs a diversified fuel mix portfolio on all of its electricity generation resources to meet base load, intermediate load, and peaking loads.

Earlier this year, Tesla opened a massive energy storage facility in Ontario, California that was designed to reduce the need for «peaker plants,» or pricey electricity generators that only run when demand is particularly high.

and it can be used to store electricity generated off peak to reduce the amount of overcapacity needed and make all those intermittent alternative sources more economical.

With a smart grid, motorists could profitably sell electricity back to the grid when needed during peak demand.

We are going to need, for example, as we move away from old coal - based systems to a fully renewable systems we will need, in many locations, to have natural gas come in to provide backup or provide peaking power for occasions when variable electricity and power from renewables isn't available.

Each year, PJM holds an auction to make sure enough electricity generation will be available three years in the future to meet projected peak needs plus a margin of safety for the electric grid in Ohio and all or part of a dozen other states, plus the District of Columbia.

«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.

Ultimately a plug on a hydrogen FCV could allow the vehicle to sell back hydrogen produced electricity for peak power needs or provide valuable voltage regulation services through the battery to further benefit the California electric grid.

«Off peak» solar would require the addition of storage batteries while nocturnal winds would need to cooperate with the production schedule to avoid at least supplemental nuke / fossil sources of electricity.

Electric power system planners forecast the demand for electricity at the time of the peak, and then identify existing and potential generating resources needed to satisfy that demand, plus enough additional resources to provide a comfortable reserve margin.

If electricity was dynamically priced, price fluctuations would be arbitraged by those market participants who could shift their demand or supply at least cost; among other things, this would remove the need for expensive peak - load plants and make solar and wind energy much more practical.

Hence, this implies that the greater the electricity consumption peaks, the larger the capacity for generation from natural gas plants must be and, consequently, the longer and larger the capacity needed on stand - by status.»

Passive House levels of insulation are what's needed to shave peak gas and electricity demand.

On the residential side, Finkel expressed a need to reward rooftop solar and energy storage owners for shifting electricity usage to off - peak times.

John, You are correct that we need to have 50 % of electricity CAPACITY able to supply at peak demand times.

Tyler Hamilton at Clean Break thinks that the «momentum is on the side of battery technology and the infrastructure to support it needs to be extended and upgraded, instead of created from scratch» and «millions of «smart» electric cars plugged into the grid can offer an extremely valuable way of managing electricity supply and demand and smoothing out peaks.»

In California in particular, this creates a situation where there is way more electricity being produced by renewables than can actually be used during the day; but there is still a requirement for peaker power plants to generate power needed at the peak evening times when people come home and crank up the air conditioning.

Tom Raftery of GreenMonk writes that during a follow - up conversation with Luke Clemente, general manager of Metering and Sensing Systems for GE's Digital Energy business, Clement stated that one of the most important issues that needs to hit mainstream awareness is the cost in generating electricity at peak times.

There are efforts underway now to shift more electricity demand to times when renewables are most abundant, build more energy storage and local distributed resources to reduce congestion, make the grid more resilient, and reduce the need to rely on natural gas peaker plants, especially ones in disadvantaged communities.

Instead of a single or other simple (e.g. night and day) tariff, dynamic pricing and more complex tariff structures are expected to be introduced to allow «demand response», in other words, to allow customers to buy electricity at constantly changing prices, thereby cutting demand at peak times, and thus, resulting in a lower need for peak capacity as well as better integration of renewable energy sources.

Last week's events in Texas help illustrate that building an ever - expanding fleet of gas - fired peaking plants may not solve all our electricity needs.

SB 338 requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and all other locally owned utilities to start planning to meet their net - load peak energy and reliability needs with alternatives to fossil - fuel generating plants, while also providing the electricity at the lowest cost to consumers.

Because we are producing more electricity than we need, and because the wind turbines in Ontario produce most of their power during off - peak hours — when we don't need it all.

UK wind farms have a theoretical maximum capacity of more than 13,000 megawatts, but produced less than 400 megawatts of power for much of the peak demand period — meeting less than one per cent of the UK's electricity needs, published data suggests.