Sentences with phrase «percent operating efficiency»

«In our experience,» Macaskill said, «a properly monitored wind farm will always improve availability and will achieve 100 percent operating efficiency.»

Not exact matches

The litigation cost of $ 1 billion contributed to an operating loss of $ 1.3 billion in the third quarter and increased the efficiency ratio to a worse - than - expected 65.5 percent.

A rooftop array of solar panels measuring 30 meters square, operating at 50 percent efficiency, also could supply the necessary electricity.

In tests, batteries with both chemicals added operated at 99 percent efficiency after more than 300 charge - discharge cycles, compared to significantly decreased efficiency after 150 cycles for batteries treated with lithium nitrate alone, said Fiona (Weiyang) Li, a postdoctoral researcher in Cui's lab and first author of the paper.

They state in their publication that their single particle engine can generate power of 10 - 22 watts and operates at 0.3 percent efficiency.

By comparison, today's simple cycle power plants (gas turbine generator only) operate with efficiencies ranging between 33 and 44 percent depending on the size and model.

Photovoltaic cells, which absorb photons from sunlight and convert them to electricity, operate with only 20 percent efficiency.

Unlike a conventional compressor which can only operate at 100 - percent and must be switched on and off frequently to conserve fuel when the cooling load is relatively low, the VDC can vary its output based on the cooling needs, resulting in greater efficiency, reduced drag on the engine and smoother climate - control performance.

The IMA system's greater power and the battery's 35 percent increase in efficiency allow the Civic Hybrid to operate more frequently on the electric motor's power alone in certain low - speed cruising situations.

However, depending on the location geothermal heat pumps can reduce energy consumption (operating cost) and correspondingly, emissions by more than 20 percent compared to high - efficiency outside air heat pumps.

According to a report, concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) systems utilizing lenses and curved mirrors to focus sunlight onto small solar cells are operating at 40 percent efficiency.

In operating the technology that captures carbon, the power plant gobbles up about 20 to 30 percent more energy, so efficiency is typically lost.

California is operating under statewide mandates to reach 50 percent renewable energy, a doubled rate of energy efficiency, and 40 percent carbon reductions by 2030.

For the commercial solar market, Boviet is introducing its new 355W 72 - cell Monocrystalline PERC module, that is designed to operate at up to 18.3 percent efficiency.

Considering that America has 22.1 percent of the world's proven coal reserves, the greatest of any country and enough to last for 381 years at current consumption rates, it is a tragedy that the U.S. can no longer build new, clean, coal - fired power stations to replace its aging fleet of coal plants.Supercritical power plants operate at very high temperatures and pressures, resulting in significantly greater efficiencies than older technologies.

If the gas water heater is more than 10 years old, it probably operates at less than 50 percent efficiency, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).