Sentences with phrase «percent capacity factor on»
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Gas - shift ERCs represent a credit, on a pro-rata basis, to all NGCCs for the incremental generation needed to get all units generating to a 75 percent capacity factor, versus the 2012 baseline.
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On average, the capacity factor of solar ranges anywhere from 10 to just over 30 percent.
On the mainland, the capacity factors range from 18.4 percent for Tennessee to 43.7 percent for Nebraska — the latter state is in the U.S. interior where the best wind speeds are located as can be seen by the map.
Though 216 gigawatts of renewable capacity was on - line in Europe through 2014, the output effectiveness was measured at only 38 gigawatts, yielding an effective capacity factor of only 18 percent, which compares to 87 percent for natural gas - fired capacity.
«A PV panel might have a 21 percent capacity factor,» Desmond went on.
(EIA info on US capacity factors here; nuclear is highest, producing around 90 percent of the time, while solar PV is lowest, at around 20 percent.)
Despite the location of many turbines on the windy North Sea, German wind turbines operated at a capacity factor (actual output vs. rated output) of only 17 percent in 2012.