Sentences with phrase «peak load demand»

A chart calculator, along with calculating the power factor and electric power consumption of commercial customers, determines the peak load demand in order to verify the application of the appropriate rates.

Richter said his biggest disagreement with Lovins was in energy storage and the need to meet peak load demands versus base load demands — neither solar nor wind can meet energy demand all hours of the day.

Not exact matches

Powerpack systems support applications including peak shaving, load shifting and demand response for commercial customers while offering renewable firming and a variety of grid services at utility scales.

The Arizona project was called out due to its load shifting nature — allowing for solar power to be used during the early evening peak demand period.

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.

Together the five utilities serve roughly half of Japan's geographic area, including the largest island prefectures, and have peak demand load of roughly 50,000 megawatts.

Since they were presumably going to operate as base load as opposed to peaker power, it's likely they were intending to sign long term contracts so that their incremental addition to the demand for coal would be absorbed not by creating an additional demand on the spot market but by identifying a fixed source with a standing order and putting a few American miners to work on a full - time basis.

(note there is some energy demand management that is is / has been already used to reduce the need for peak power supply; I don't know offhand how much there is and what it would look like if this were simply reshifted to reduce the need for backup power supply, which would be like peaking and load - following plants now.

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.

In June I heard a report about a new EU - wide study done in the UK that showed clearly that by combining all forms of renewables: wind all over Europe, solar in North Africa, hydo, hydro storage, solar thermal, and demand management, you could meet a slowly growing EU load with almost no natural gas for peaking plants to help level the load.

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.

The firm noted in analysis this month that demand response capability totals approximately 6 % of PJM's total system peak load.

«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 the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) Summer Loads & Resource Assessment, CAISO noted that the generation supply was expected to be adequate in order to meet peak electrical demand requirements in spite of drought - related concerns, in part because of recent renewable and natural gas capacity additions.

As long as solar is a relatively small part of the mix, it actually helps level the load curve, because demand is so much higher during the day than at night, and particularly if you have a lot of nuclear in the mix, solar will reduce the need for peaking generation.

Actual peak reduction: The actual reduction in annual peak load (measured in kilowatts) achieved by customers that participate in a utility demand - side management (DSM) program.

It reflects the changes in the demand for electricity resulting from a utility DSM program that is in effect at the same time the utility experiences its annual peak load, as opposed to the installed peak load reduction capability (i.e., potential peak reduction).

Protect energy retailers from energy price peaks by facilitating access to stored energy and interruptible loads through automatically discharging energy or removing demand, to reduce costs during peak price hours.

(Sec. 144) Requires: (1) each load - serving entity or state to determine and publish peak demand reduction goals for any load - serving entity that has an applicable baseline in excess of 250 megawatts; (2) the Secretary to develop a system and rules for measurement and verification of demand reductions; (3) such goals to provide that such entities will reduce or mitigate peak demand by a minimum percentage amount from the applicable baseline to a lower peak demand during 2012 and 2015; (4) such goals to provide that the minimum percentage reductions established as peak demand reduction goals shall be the maximum reductions that are realistically achievable with an aggressive effort to deploy Smart Grid and peak demand reduction technologies and methods; and (5) each load - serving entity to prepare a peak demand reduction plan that demonstrates its ability to meet applicable goals.

Time - of - use Costs: Significant differences between peak and off - peak usage rates or high demand charges mean increasing both solar and battery storage capacity facilitates load - shifting.

(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»).

(B) load - serving entities will reduce or mitigate peak demand by a minimum percentage greater amount from the applicable baseline to a lower peak demand during calendar year 2015; and

(6) The term «peak demand reduction plan» means a plan developed by or for a load - serving entity that it will implement to meet its peak demand reduction goals.

--(1) Peak demand reduction goals may be established for an individual load - serving entity, or, at the determination of a State, tribal, or regional entity, by that State, tribal, or regional entity for a larger region that shares a common system peak demand and for which peak demand reduction measures would offer regional benePeak demand reduction goals may be established for an individual load - serving entity, or, at the determination of a State, tribal, or regional entity, by that State, tribal, or regional entity for a larger region that shares a common system peak demand and for which peak demand reduction measures would offer regional benepeak demand and for which peak demand reduction measures would offer regional benepeak demand reduction measures would offer regional benefit.

-- 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.

On an average summer day during peak demand, solar can serve between 30 to 40 percent of load on California's grid.

Ohms law can not be ignored and this loses 18Gw by heat on our peak demand load of 60Gw.

They then matched the response to temperature for both total daily demand and daily peak load, and played with 20 climate models to allow for a range of scenarios.

With utilities and grid operators increasingly concerned about meeting big peak demand ramps in metropolitan load centers, rooftop solar's potential coincident electricity supply has become more valuable.

«Accordingly, as we concluded in D.P.U. 10 - 54, at 229 - 230, the Cape Wind facility will produce far greater benefits in terms of its: (1) contribution to narrowing the projected gap between supply and demand of renewable resources; (2) contribution to compliance with GWSA emission reductions requirements; (3) contribution to fuel diversity; (4) price suppression effects; (5) ability to act as a hedge against future fuel price increases and volatility; (6) contribution to system reliability; and (7) ability to moderate system peak load.

-- Nothing in this section diminishes any authority of a State or political subdivision of a State to adopt or enforce any law (including regulations) that increases electricity grid efficiency, smart grid and distributed generation deployment, dynamic peak management control, demand response and distributed storage, or the regulation of load - serving entities.

That could mean that electricity demand in most U.S. regions will peak in the winter — not during the summer as it does now — if no efforts actively manage loads.

The bill offers the CPUC and the CEC the option of setting «targets or requirements for energy technology that minimizes the percent of load met by fossil fuels during net - load peak energy demand and maximizes the use of low - carbon technologies.»

The report specifically mentioned Opower's behavioral demand response product, which allows utilities to target peak load reductions without the need to install hardware.

The peak load time period is intentionally variable and built around the hour of each day that has the highest peak demand, Zingale said.

The CPUC would be required to increase the percentage of electricity output delivered by clean resources by 5 % in 2020 and by 6 % «every third year thereafter until December 31, 2029, or until 40 % of demand during the peak load time period is supplied by clean peak resources,» the bill reads.

In the new system, rather than having «always - on» baseload (e.g. nuclear) plants, and then following any extra load with peaking plants (usually gas), in the new system, variable loads and variable supply (from renewables) are balanced via a smart grid with demand - side measures, load peak shaving / delay, energy storage, and backup sources.

Reducing household electricity consumption through demand side management: the role of home appliance scheduling and peak load reduction.

«An aggregated fleet of vehicles or chargers can act as a [demand response] resource, shifting load in response to price signals or operational needs; for example, vehicle charging could be shifted to the middle of the day to absorb high levels of solar generation and shifted away from evening hours when solar generation disappears and system net load peaks.»

«This form of renewable energy is a long way from being able to be a base - load supplier of power when it is needed most at peak demand.»

What's especially unfortunate is that the sun tends to go down just before the evening peak of demand, which means net load goes from very low to very high, very quickly (13,000 MW in three hours, in the CAISO example), and then down low again.

The duck curve shows a major drop in electric load in midday when solar hits its peak, swamping the grid at a period of low demand and potentially pushing net load below the point where older baseload plants can ramp down to compensate.

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.

A couple of problems with Manual J: 1: It assumes ALL loads are present at times of peak demand.

Interestingly, PJM Interconnection said that Thursday's peak load was met and demand response was not needed.

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

Researchers developed smart grid technology that determines the optimal operation for smart loads and utility devices based upon consumer preferences and geography that will enable grid operators a way to manage demand on peak days.

An approach being researched by the content delivery network provider helps reduce the grid - connected load during peak demand periods, when electricity is most expensive.

This is a «Demand Response» program similar to those that control water heaters or air conditioning when loads are really high, to shave off the peaks.

To follow the variable demand the power producers use a variety of «building blocks» from steady running constant load units (Nuclear, Hydroelectric) to slow load - following power plants (Gas & Coal boilers) to rapid start high demand units (Combined Cycle Gas Units) to peaking units (Gas & Diesel generators).