Sentences with phrase «plant capacity»

It would essentially replace a market - driven process for new power plant capacity and site decisions with a centralized state process.

While utilization rises in the summer, the average natural gas plant capacity factor remains below 70 percent in the summer months of 2015.

$ 200 + million / yr profit by doubling plant capacities.

Solar made up over a half of the added power plant capacity during the first quarter of 2016.

This abundance and affordability is why natural gas accounts for more than half of all recent power plant capacity additions.

But we know from available 2013 data that global average plant capacity factors were much lower at 59 % and 38 % respectively thereby making the plants less competitive than had been thought.

That depends on the «capacity credit» of wind — how much of the wind plant capacity can be relied on statistically to meet peak demand.

Renewable energy continues to dominate new power plant capacity and distributed generation has contributed an increasingly large share.

S&P Global Platts editors on how coal plant capacity in NWE is set to fall at least 30 % to under 54 GW by 2025, and who benefits most from capacity mechanisms.

Oliver Zipse: «Maximum utilisation of plant capacity is a priority for us.

The chart shows needed & unneeded coal capacity (GW) in 2020 based on existing plants as of 2016 and under construction under different coal plant capacity factors and power generation growth rates.

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The company is also going ahead with its plans of doubling the Noida plant capacity at an investment of Rs 5,000 crore, announced last year, despite the smartphone segment expanding at «a rate of low double digits», he said.

Each power plant is geolocated and entries contain information on plant capacity, generation, ownership, and fuel type.

For one, natural gas is beating out coal as the most economically viable fossil fuel for power generation in North America, and renewables — even when coupled with demand side management tools (e.g. battery storage, load response)-- are getting effective enough to compete against coal for new power plant capacity around the world.

The next challenge will be to see what happens when the twin bioreactor system is boosted to pilot plant capacity.

When production starts up in the fall of next year, Toyota anticipates it will build roughly 140,000 Corollas per year, well short of estimated plant capacity.

While these developments are to be celebrated, there remains a sobering reality: they still leave a lot of headroom for China to expand its coal power plant capacity between now and 2030, even though its coal fleet is already more than twice the size of the US coal fleet.

To help track monthly generator activity, EIA has started publishing a monthly updated preliminary inventory of all major generating units in the United States (essentially all generators located at power plants with a total plant capacity of 1 MW or greater) as a supplement to the annually updated inventory in the EIA - 860 Annual Electric Generator Report.

Geothermal plant capacity and utilization, for both power generation and direct heat supply, is increasing, although the pace of growth in power generation has slowed compared to the past, while that of direct heat uses has accelerated.

The NERC report also assumes only 11 GW to 12 GW of new power plant capacity annually, but the U.S. grid has added 30 GW of new capacity yearly since 2000, Moore wrote.

Even excluding little used combustion turbines, the combined cycle plant capacity factor is in the high 40 % range, comparable to hydroelectric plants and new wind projects, Goggin said.

The study finds that the N - R HESs modeled could provide operational flexibility to participate in energy management at the utility scale by dynamically optimizing the use of excess plant capacity.

By 2020 falling utilization rates under a 2 ˚C scenario finds plant capacity factors for coal and gas drop to an average of 42 % for coal and 31 % for gas, thereby leading to an increase in costs of US$ 8 / MWh for gas plants and US$ 21 / MWh for coal.

Inventec, which manufactures Apple AirPods, reportedly has landed the deal to build the intelligent speakers, and has begun expanding plant capacity to handle the demand.

Responsible for Installing and terminating copper within the inside plant capacity, ensuring established timelines and work order schedules were on time, whilst performing troubleshooting as required

There my duties consist of constraint management and plant capacity planning.

It was the biggest quarter ever for solar, which supplied one - third of over 7.3 gigawatts of new power plant capacity added to the grid.

The U.S. experienced relatively sluggish gains in total new power plant capacity in 2017, when compared to 2016, but it also saw another, more positive outcome: a notable surge in distributed solar.

Porsche CEO Matthias Muller had said that the putting the baby Panamera EV into production is a «difficult decision» given that the company took a huge step in entering the compact luxury segment (with the Macan), which involved developing the Macan and doubling plant capacity.

At present, the company's Greater Noida plant capacity is limited to a 10,000 cars a month, which may result in exceptionally long waiting periods for customers.

More coal plant capacity was shuttered in the first 45 days of 2018 than in the entire first three years of the Obama administration, according to Sierra Club and Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.

According to the Operating Performance Rankings industry report in the Nov. / Dec. 2008 issue of Electric Light & Power, coal - fired power plant capacity factors range from 72 percent to 93 percent, combined cycle from 41 percent to 86 percent and nuclear from 90 percent to 96 percent.

Even though we plan to add over 60 billion square feet of new buildings to our building stock (a 23.3 % increase) over the next two decades, and renovate as much or more, Building Sector operational energy consumption — which accounts for 75.7 % of electricity use — will be low enough to prevent the need for any new power plant capacity in the U.S.

Think of it another way, in the last 7 year cycle FCA had an average FCF of $ 36 million a year, and now FCA is expanding into different rail cars types and the refurbishment / rebuilt market, more gigawatts of coal fired power plant capacity will begin construction in 09 then was build in the last 7 years and FCA has $ 162 million in cash from the 05 IPO.

Looking ahead, Suiza Dairy plans for growth, including extension of its plant capacity and improvement in its production processes, Rodriguez says.

Autoline Daily cites «mainly falling sales in China,» though spending the equivalent of $ 4.7 billion on new plant capacity and vehicles (namely the all - important XE) certainly had an effect.

Starting this year, the company has increased its plant capacity to further strengthen its foothold in the Indian market.

And until 2015, most of Germany's new - build conventional power plant capacity will be coal - based, analysts say, pointing at a project pipeline of 8 GW of new coal - fired capacity compared with 1 GW of new gas - fired installations.

«How great this need for conventional power plant capacity actually is depends on a number of variables,» says the Economics Ministry, adding that «it is... very difficult to put a figure on the power plant capacity needed.»

Along with Senate Bill 437, this bill replaces the current market - driven process for new power plant capacity and site decision with a more centralized process inspired by Obama - era regulations expected to be repealed in 2017.

Most of these requirements take the form of a «renewable portfolio standard» (RPS) adopted by 26 states and the District of Columbia or «alternative energy portfolio standard» (AEPS) adopted by three states, which requires a certain percentage of a utility's power plant capacity or generation to come from renewable or alternative energy sources by a given date.

Renewable energy continues to grow substantially in the U.S. and in 2014 it remains a large portion of new power plant capacity — 30 % or more through the first three quarters.