Sentences with phrase «potential generating capacity»

DESERTEC Foundation, «12 Companies Plan Establishment of a Desertec Industrial Initiative,» press release (Munich: 13 July 2009); potential generating capacity estimated by author, based on Initiative's stated goal of meeting a substantial portion of the producer countries» electricity needs and 15 percent of Europe's electricity needs by 2050, using IEA, op.

The potential generating capacity was calculated from the total offshore area within 50 nautical miles of shore, in areas where average annual wind speeds are at least 7 meters per second (approx. 16 mph) at a height of 90 meters, assuming 5 MW of wind turbines could be placed in every square km.

Canada's Bay of Fundy, for example, has a potential generating capacity of more than 4,000 megawatts.

Not exact matches

And third, investment adds to our stock of capital and increases the level of «potential output» or productive capacity — the level of output our economy can produce sustainably without generating inflationary or disinflationary pressures.

The central bank upped its estimate for potential growth — how fast an economy at full capacity can expand without generating too much inflation — to 1.8 per cent over the next two years from a projection of 1.6 per cent in the January report.

Growth at this pace has exceeded the rate of growth of the economy's productive potential, generating declining unemployment and rising levels of capacity utilisation, and is likely to have contributed to the upstream price pressures described above.

The offshore wind power potential in the U.S. is huge, totalling more than 4,000 gigawatts if fully developed — about four times today's total U.S. electric power generating capacity and enough electricity to power about 800 million homes, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Kansas is rated as the state with the 3rd best wind power potential in the U.S. Kansas currently has 364 megawatts (MW) of utility - connected power, equivalent to about 1/2 of the generating capacity of one of the proposed coal - fired plants.

PV Magazine reports that NREL's new analysis of the technical potential of solar photovoltaics and concentrating solar power in the US places the total amount that can be installed just under 200,000 GW, capable of generating just under 400,000 Terawatt - hours annually — hugely exceeding the electricity generating capacity of the US for 2010 of 4,125 TWh.

Tobin claims that NGS will increase reliability and «secure the grid,» but does not recognize the potential of high capacity factor concentrated solar thermal projects, like Arizona's Solana concentrated solar plant, or the innovative potential of batteries, wind - solar combinations and other means to generate electricity after the sun sets.

Scottish Finance and Sustainable Growth Secretary John Swinney said: «With around a quarter of Europe's potential tidal energy resource and a tenth of the wave capacity, Scotland's seas have unrivalled potential to generate green energy, create new, low carbon jobs, and bring billions of pounds of investment to Scotland.»

After the solar site evaluation, you should have a much clearer idea about the potential for solar power at your home or business, and find out what your options are in terms of both generating capacity and the cost of the solar system, and can move forward with determining how to best finance your solar array.

Estimates from the World Energy Council indicate that worldwide, wave energy has the potential to grow to a massive 10,000 gigawatts, more than double the world's electricity - generating capacity from all sources today.

For example, Florida has the third - highest solar generating capacity potential in the country, but is hampered by poor solar energy policies prohibiting citizens from purchasing electricity from third - party suppliers that are not utilities.

The capacity factor (the percent of maximum generation potential actually generated) of the best sites for wind turbines is about 40 %, and the average capacity of all the wind turbines used to generate utility power in the United States was 25 % in 2007.

Capacity vs Generation: Capacity is the potential for generation of energy measured in watts (or kilowatts, etc), whereas generation is the actual energy amount generated measured in watt - hours (or kilowatt - hours, etc).

As impressive as these figures are for Europe's two largest economies, what is really astounding is that each country has enough potential wind generating capacity to be 100 percent wind - powered.

An American Solar Energy Society (ASES) study concluded that the sun - rich southwestern United States — after excluding its less promising areas — has a potential solar power generating capacity of 7,000 gigawatts of electricity, roughly seven times current U.S. generating capacity from all sources.

It also overlooked the enormous potential of wind power, which is likely to add more to U.S. generating capacity over the next 20 years than coal.

EPRI's Bob Graham and SCE's Ed Kjaer countered by saying that it will take millions of plug - in hybrids on the road before we'd see any potential increase in pollution, largely because electric hybrids would be charged at night using spare electric utility generating capacity.

Compare 661 GW CSP potential with California's present total generating capacity of 58 GW, from all types of energy sources.

The good news: Israel has the potential to generate significant amounts of wind power (one speaker, the CEO of a company that sells wind turbines, estimated an enormous potential capacity of up to 2,500 megawatts).