China has expressed a strong interest in cleaner coal - based technologies like coal liquefaction and gasification, but the government appears to put official hope in renewable energy, setting a target of 12 % of
its power generation capacity coming from renewables by 2020 — up from a mere 3 % in 2003.
Half of all new
power generation capacity came from renewables that year.
Not exact matches
This outsized
power -
generation capacity provides the Fords an opportunity to grow into new technologies that
come up during their service life.
The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) has announced that the country will enjoy stable
power supply in the
coming weeks as Ghana's electricity
generation capacity now exceeds demand at peak periods.
Transmission upgrades and efficiency measures already are in service, Cuomo said, adding that other
generation resources ready to
come online by 2021 will help generate more than enough electrical
power to replace Indian Point's
capacity.
Consequently with the dramatic decrease in efficiency of fuel burn in the standby fossil fuel generators there is sweet FA practical reduction in CO2 emissions with the introduction of wind and solar
power generation systems particularly when the energy costs of the producing and building the so called renewable energy systems are added to the grossly inefficient running of the ready to go to full
generation capacity in minutes, fossil fuel
powered standby generators which in many cases must be kept running at low or zero
power generation to be able to
come on line in minutes when the so called renewable energy systems fail to produce
power,
By comparison, a net of about 73 GW of fossil fuel
generation came online in 2017 — 121 GW of new coal and gas - fired
power capacity, less 48 GW of gas and coal that were retired.
New solar photovoltaic
capacity drives nearly all of the growth in solar
generation, with increases
coming from both the electric
power sector and end - use sectors such as distributed or customer - sited
generation (i.e., rooftop installations).
For example, a significant portion of India's new installed
power generation capacity will
come from renewable energy sources in order to meet its national target of 15 percent renewable energy by 2020.
According to the International Energy Agency, the world added more renewables - based
power generation capacity in 2015 than all other technologies combined for the first time ever, and this movement is only expected to accelerate over the
coming decades.
New low - carbon
generation — renewables and nuclear — from
capacity coming online in 2015 is expected to exceed the entire growth of global
power demand that year.
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.
However, it does rate highly when it
comes to the amount of solar
power generation capacity installed statewide (third in the nation), as well as the energy cost savings residents and businesses can and are realizing from solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.
It has been almost 30 years since any new
power generation capacity was built in Serbia, but that stretch is
coming to an end as China Machinery and
In Honolulu, Stem is helping Hawaiian Electric improve its
capacity to host solar
power generation, particularly at the beginning and end of the day, often called the «ramp,» when solar
power generation is
coming on at sunrise and when it is diminishing at sunset.
The increase in demand
comes as New Delhi continues to expand its coal - fired
power generation capacity.
They an installed
capacity of nearly 100 % of their average demand which means that on windy days 100 % of their electricity
comes from wind turbines but it also means that all their other
power generation facilites must shut down on windy days or they must export the excess
power.