Sentences with phrase «power grid capacity»

This requires models that are able to consider the power grid capacity and topology including their changes over time.

Not exact matches

In addition, electricity capacity margins — the amount of unused power capacity — have declined, increasing the vulnerability of America's electric grid in the event of a disruption.

Solar power might be an undeniable part of our future — the industry created double the amount of jobs as coal did last year and accounts for nearly 40 % of new electric capacity added to the grid, more than wind or even natural gas — but SolarCity itself isn't.

Solar ranked third behind wind and gas power capacity in 2015, with over two gigawatts being added to the grid across several states.

This project development allocates capacity for Hai Long 2 to connect to Taiwan» grid in 2024 and advances the project's ability to execute a 20 - year power contract under Taiwan» FIT regime...

Together with our partners, we work to add new generation capacity, connect homes, hospitals and businesses to the electricity grid and deliver power to communities who live beyond the national grid,» remarked Mr. Hendrix.

Currently the maximum power that could be produced by each device is four or five MW, but it will be possible, over time, to expand capacity so that the wave hub could feed no less than 50 MW into the national grid.

The Arkwright Summit Wind Farm will connect to the grid in the Town of Pomfret and will have an installed capacity of 78.4 megawatts, enough to power about 33,000 average homes with clean energy each year.

Germany added 344 MW of solar power in May, taking the total to 33,877 MW, or 19 percent of installed capacity, according to the nation's grid regulator.

According to the cardinal rules of designing and operating power grids, the system should always have enough spare capacity to sustain the loss of any single element, even one as big as the Southwest Powerlink.

As of March, according to USAID figures, Power Africa has helped close deals accounting for 4,100 MW of electricity in places like Rwanda, where East Africa's largest solar array began sending 8.5 MW of electricity to the national grid late last year, boosting the country's electricity generation capacity by 6 percent.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

They see a market in servicing large electric utilities that want to incrementally expand their generation capacity, developing countries that can not afford or make good use of traditional reactors, and off - grid and hard - to - power sites.

Experts reckon that when wind power provides a significant portion of the electricity supply (with «significant» defined as about 10 percent of grid capacity), some form of energy storage will be essential to keeping the grid stable.

However, if the same number of vehicles were all charging at 5 p.m. on a beefier, 240 - volt / 30 - amp circuit, the grid would need 160 additional gigawatts of capacity, requiring the construction of 160 new power plants.

Additionally, installation of electrolyzer systems on electrical grids for power - to - gas applications, which integrate renewable energy, grid services and energy storage will require large - capacity, cost - effective hydrogen storage.

In fairness, the details of how one calculates back - up capacity requirements for wind generators in power grids of various compositions are quite complicated.

Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.

For example, the researchers found that in a high - wind scenario in the Southern Africa Power Pool, strategic siting and grid interconnections would reduce the need for conventional generation capacity by 9.5 percent, resulting in cost savings of 6 to 20 percent, depending on the technology that was avoided.

Consumers in the first 80 megawatts of newly installed capacity will receive 95 percent of the retail rate of electricity for surplus power sent back to the grid.

Therefore, power generators and grid operators need back - up capacity that can fill the generation gap that results when these intermittent sources are unavailable and that also can be scaled back when intermittent sources are generating power.

«As wind and solar capacity climbs, the returns of usable power diminish because of increasing curtailment during surges that the grid can not absorb.

C) theyll have to build more power stations to cope with the surges, and a friend who works for national grid recently told me they wouldnt have capacity for it and hes concerned about it!

Dimensions: Length 4,950 mm Width 1,990 mm Height 1,401 mm Energy supply: Lithium - ion battery with 9.4 kWh capacity and plug - in charging system compatible with electrical power grid.

Efforts are ongoing to improve capacity for generating power locally using renewable resources and addressing waste disposal challenges through composting — both potentially cost - saving as well as environmentally responsible, especially in Katmai's far off - the - grid Alaska setting.

I do know that India's grid - connected PV capacity grew from 18 Megawatts in 2010 to nearly 3 Gigawatts in 2011, with another GW due to come online in 2012, while India is already exceeding the goals of its national plan to install 20 GW of solar power within ten years.

And say for now, don't consider the possibility that power carring capacity of the grid may need to be upgradded, or new transmission power lines may need to be built.

Can we build for example a non-intermittent solar infrastructure with heated salt storage and sufficient grid capacity without pricing power beyond the means of ordinary citizens and businesses?

While the DOE's reasoning for linking fuel stores to grid resiliency has been widely criticized for its vagueness and gaps in logic, its idea for a solution is clear: «full cost recovery» for those power plants now playing by the rules of the energy and capacity markets run by interstate grid operators serving about three - quarters of the country.

A far better near - term choice is wind power, but both wind and solar begin to have another problem at scales at or above that which Clinton is discussing: Since solar panels and wind turbines can't currently work at full capacity 24 hours a day, they require huge advances in energy storage and grid capacity, as well.

In addition to the wind farm, I believe that Neoen proposes a grid - scale battery with a power capacity of 20 megawatts and energy storage of 34 megawatt - hours.

Iran's wind build - out will be a result of an «improving financing environment» with market growth post-2020, while in Jordan the nation's Green Corridor Project will spur growth of «more wind power capacity in 2018 than any other country in the Middle East», according to MAKE, with Green Corridor Project II underpinning the long - term outlook with the construction of necessary grid infrastructure for the expansion.

In particular, if challenges in China around the cost of renewable subsidies and grid integration are addressed, its solar PV could reach a total of 320GW by 2022, equivalent to the total capacity of all power in Japan.

The former head of the southern German state of Baden - Württemberg has cautioned that Germany is pushing energy sector reforms too fast, pointing out that investments in solar and wind power don't match the speed of grid extension and storage capacity.

Herman Trabish of Greentech Media has happened across a pretty interesting find — 97 % of new electricity generation capacity in line to be added to the California grid in the second half (2H) of 2012 is from solar power projects.

We also heard that the Capacity Market, Britain's mechanism for ensuring security of consumer power supplies in winter months is «rapidly becoming outdated», according to one panellist, while the question of grid connection capacity, in terms of cost and access, remains a hoCapacity Market, Britain's mechanism for ensuring security of consumer power supplies in winter months is «rapidly becoming outdated», according to one panellist, while the question of grid connection capacity, in terms of cost and access, remains a hocapacity, in terms of cost and access, remains a hot topic.

For a European grid with a share of 60 % renewable power (an optimal mix of wind and solar), grid capacity would need to be increased at least sevenfold.

For a European power grid with a share of 100 % renewables, grid capacity would need to be up to twelve times larger than it is today.

Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of capacity additions (what electric generating capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations); generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm power prices, energy prices, capacity prices, allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions; fuel consumption for different fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI power grids.

Lastly, in a grid with 100 % renewable power production, the generation capacity would need to be ten times larger than the peak load, and excess electricity would surpass the EU annual electricity consumption.

If we could manage to adjust all energy demand to variable solar and wind resources, there would no need for energy storage, grid extensions, balancing capacity or overbuilding renewable power plants.

One - third of China's installed wind power capacity is not well connected to the grid, Xinhua said, citing industry experts.

Kris says:... renewable energy would ideally be used only when it's available... If we could manage to adjust all energy demand to variable solar and wind resources, there would be no need for grid extensions, balancing capacity or overbuilding renewable power plants.

With a share of 100 % renewable energy sources and 12 times the current grid capacity, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants can be reduced to 15 % of the total annual electricity consumption, which represents the maximum possible benefit of transmission for Europe.

In China, a boom in wind - power plants thanks to government subsidies has resulted in a large amount of wind capacity that is not always properly connected to the grid.

If we could manage to adjust all energy demand to variable solar and wind resources, there would be no need for grid extensions, balancing capacity or overbuilding renewable power plants.

But China's experience shows that wind capacity can't grow in isolation but requires substantial investment in the power grid.

To cover the total loss of power when the wind drops or blows too hard, every wind farm needs a conventional back - up power station (commonly gas - fired) with capacity of twice the design capacity of the wind farm to even out the sudden fluctuations in the electricity grid.

For a power grid based on 100 % solar and wind power, with no energy storage and assuming interconnection at the national European level only, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants needs to be just as large as peak electricity demand.

One aspect of this is the capacity to generate additional revenue by selling electricity into the frequency regulation segments of regional grid power markets.