Sentences with phrase «per gigawatt hour»

The research concludes  that taken together, fossil - fueled facilities are about 17 times more dangerous per gigawatt hour of electricity produced to birds than wind and nuclear power stations.

For electrification to lower emissions, Kennedy says that a region needs to produce its electricity at a rate below his threshold: approximately 600 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per gigawatt hour (GWh).

Not exact matches

Thanks to a two cents per kilowatt - hour production incentive from the U.S. government, they are being built at a rate that will increase the amount of wind - generated electricity by nearly three gigawatts a year.

Even if we fail to find the miracles that allow us to make and then transport hundreds of gigawatts of power over 3,000 miles at pennies per kilowatt - hour, and even if we can never find photovoltaics that are as cheap as dirt, the enterprise of trying to do it will push our science and our engineering so far forward that we'll generate a cornucopia of unexpected new technologies that will be the basis of vast new industries.

The world's first commercial plant in Landau, Germany, was commissioned in 2007 and already produces 22 gigawatt - hours of electricity per year.

In the past decade, the amount of electricity generated from renewables worldwide almost doubled, according to the International Energy Agency, and by 2006 they accounted for 2.3 per cent of the 19 million gigawatt - hours of electrical energy the world produced.

«A 46 - megawatt commercial design will incorporate 16 of these towers, two of which we have at Sierra» as well as more than 200,000 mirrors capable of generating at least 90 gigawatt - hours of electricity per year.

Small single - axis PV systems require on average 2.9 acres per annual gigawatt - hour — or 3.8 acres when considering all unused area that falls inside the project boundary.

Concentrating solar power plants require on average 2.7 acres for solar collectors and other equipment per annual gigawatt - hour; 3.5 acres for all land enclosed within the project boundary.

A large fixed tilt photovoltaic (PV) plant that generates 1 gigawatt - hour per year requires, on average, 2.8 acres for the solar panels.

According to estimates, these air pollutants cause one death per 10 gigawatt hours of carbon dioxide.

As part of the C40 network, Paris has committed to reducing CO2 emissions in municipal buildings, in part by undertaking deep renovations of 600 public schools to save 65 gigawatt hours of electricity per year.

The plants will produce a total of up to 20 gigawatt hours (GWh) per year, which corresponds to around nine percent of METRO Deutschland's total electricity requirements.

Average support in the auction of 1.6 gigawatt (GW) capacity surged to 4.66 cents per kilowatt hour (ct / kWh) after it stood at 0.44 ct / kWh in the first auction in 2017, a result that surprised many observers at the time.

With US coal plants generating about 2 billion Gigawatt hours annually, the expenditure of an additional $ 40 billion would raise the cost of electricity by about two cents per kilowatt hour.

That's it: 4,000 gigawatt - hours per year of (mostly) energy efficiency and (maybe) renewable power to replace 17,660 gigawatt - hours from Diablo Canyon.

Deeply decarbonized electricity systems, with emissions of 50 metric tons of CO2 per gigawatt - hour of electricity produced, would cut carbon by 90 % or more.

If actual experience does not matter, if you ignore the tallied deaths per gigawatt - hour and ignore all other dangers, is there anything that could possibly change your mind?

The power plant will generate an estimated 495 gigawatt hours of electricity per year which will power about 90,000 households.

So, in the Snowtown example: the Snowtown Wind Farm in South Australia generates about 360 gigawatt - hours per year (360 GWh = 0.36 TWh).

Between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. on February 2, 2011, power demand in Texas reached an all - time winter high of 56.3 gigawatts (versus a more typical 30 gig to 40 gig) and wholesale power prices reached a (temporarily raised) cap of $ 3,000 per megawatt hour.

Russia has 20 gigawatts of excess power capacity, with consumer electricity prices as low as 80 kopeks (1.3 cents) per kilowatt hour, which is less than in China, RMC said in the presentation.