Sentences with phrase «plants on standby»

«Solar not only meets this peak need at a lower per kilowatt - hour cost, but also without the harmful emissions from running a power plant on standby (or fracking its fuel out of the ground),» he writes.

So, even in their own reality, they're the bad apples for, climate (windmills apparently change local climate and global climate is just statistics of local climate, but besides every windmill needs a 1:1 existence of coal, gas or nuclear power plant on standby).

Not exact matches

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To avoid blackouts governments and / or consumers are forced to fund diesel, gas or coal plants to remain on standby or as spinning reserves until needed.

Either you didn't understand the question or you are really believing that 48.8 GW of conventional power plant capacity was on standby, ready to jump in in case the wind and solar output suddenly would drop to 0 GW.

Question: how many fossil fuel power plants do you think are running on standby at any time in Germany?

Natural gas would provide the second - level of load - balancing with Victoria's aging brown coal - fired power plants remaining on standby to handle high seasonal loads.

It also means you don't save that much in terms of carbon dioxide emissions, which is supposed to be the whole point, because you've got fossil fuel plants all fired up but only running at half - throttle or on «hot» standby.

It's possible, for instance, that coal plants announcing the intention to close next spring might be persuaded to stay open — or at least remain on standby — if they receive government support.

Wind / solar are limited to a small percentage of the total, due to the inherent lack of reliability — and, when you calculate in the CO2 from the required gas - fired standby plants for the 75 - 80 % of the time they are idle, there is very little net reduction in CO2 and essentially no impact on global warming.

This means that fossil fuel plants have to burn fuel on standby in case the wind suddenly drops.

Since the dirty reliable power must remain on standby to backup the new unpredictable wind power, there is virtually no reduction in the use of dirty power plants or the dirty fuel they burn.