Sentences with phrase «projected electricity demand»

A slow rate of projected electricity demand growth limits the amount of new generating capacity that is needed.

This meant approximately 4 % of the projected electricity demand for 2013.

Not exact matches

The government aims to increase capacity to 350 MW by 2020, or about 5 percent of projected peak electricity demand, up from less than 1 percent now, according to EMA.

The campaign for new nuclear projects has run into depressed electricity demand due to the recession and the prospect of competition from low - priced natural gas from shale deposits.

Sometimes Project DIVA Future Tone demands multiple buttons are pressed and / or held down at the exact same time, and for whatever reason the game relays this information by creating a shrinking box made of electricity that quickly encapsulates the required buttons.

In the lower 48 states, the potential from wind power is 16 times more than total electricity demand in the United States, the researchers suggested — significantly greater than a 2008 Department of Energy study that projected wind could supply a fifth of all electricity in the country by 2030.

Eventually, shifts in electricity demand and the utility's business model, along with the sustained court challenges, killed the project.

The power will be delivered from SolarReserve's 150 MW (135 MW net) Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) Aurora project in Port Augusta that will have eight hours of solar energy storage daily to deliver into the late afternoon and evening hours to meet South Australia's peak electricity demand periods.

Electricity demand is also projected to rise nearly 30 percent from 2012 to 2050 — increasing from 4,054 to 5,222 Terrawatt - hours.

Peru's overall demand for electricity is projected to increase an average of 4 percent each year between 2002 and 2030.23 Continued glacier retreat could create critical conditions between 2015 and 2025, affecting water supplies needed for 60 percent of the population and for hydroelectricity generation.20, 10,22

In addition to the installations, the RFP will seek out proposals for long - distance transmission lines to carry wind power from onshore and offshore wind projects to population centers in Massachusetts and Connecticut, which account for 70 percent of the region's electricity demand.

The Free Market at work: If solar PV panel prices fall (now being projected) to $.50 / watt and it makes sense for Do It Yourselfers like me to erect solar $ 1 / watt PV on, say, 100 million roofs and backyards — which WILL make a serious dent in electricity demand — then hey, let the games begin.

Power surplus in Ontario: in my presentation I had suggested that more wind power projects were not necessary, especially not for a form of power generation that is intermittent, produced out - of - phase with demand and is expensive, causing Ontario electricity rates to rise.

The project has reduced household energy consumption by up to 15.2 % and office building consumption by up to 22.8 % through demand response (DR) testing during peak times of electricity usage.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision, following Fukushima, to abandon nuclear development was possible because early offshore wind projects developed under a stable, long - term federal feed - in tariff program proved the engineering practicality, and because Germany's comprehensive RAVE research program proved both the North Sea's resource potential and the wind industry's technology are ready to join other renewables in meeting German electricity demand.

Projects awarded in Window 3 have a new tariff system: a base price of R1.65 / kWh payable for 12 hours every day and a 270 % premium on the base price payable for electricity dispatched during the 5 peak demand hours.

According to India's draft national electricity plan, no new coal - fired stations will be required during 2017 — 22, with current capacity and projected renewables capacity sufficient to meet demand growth.

And they are projecting that you look out 10 years from now and it's basically going to be about the same electricity demand in the state that we have right now, but with a much higher percentage of solar, bit higher percentage of wind.

For 16 Peak Electricity Demand Reduction, projects complying with Passive House automatically achieve this criteria and gain 2 pts

A promising development is that last year the Federation of Electric Power Companies, the industry association representing the 10 largest electricity generators in Japan and 19 suppliers, agreed to limit their emissions by 35 percent by 2030, which is a voluntary but significant reduction and may increase demand for JCM project credits.

The project has been plagued by billions of dollars in cost overruns, stagnant demand for electricity, competition from cheap natural gas plants and renewables, and the bankruptcy of Westinghouse Electric, the lead contractor and the designer of the AP1000 reactor that was supposed to be the foundation of a smarter, cheaper generation of nuclear power plants.

Thibeault explained that «IESO (Independent Electricity System Operator) had advised that Ontario had a robust supply of electricity over the coming decade to meet projected demElectricity System Operator) had advised that Ontario had a robust supply of electricity over the coming decade to meet projected demelectricity over the coming decade to meet projected demand.»

Many recent transmission investments, as well as proposed transmission projects, focus on delivering electricity generated from wind power to load centers where there is strong electricity demand.

Michigan utility regulators have examined how to compensate customers for solar projects backed by battery storage and create incentives to reduce electricity use when demand is highest.

If successful, SMUD will use this demonstration project as a basis for using similar battery energy storage technologies to reduce the costs of serving peak electricity demand and the integration of more renewable energy.

By investing in OSW projects, coastal states can potentially circumvent a perennial dilemma: how to cost - effectively construct new onshore electricity transmission infrastructure to serve growing demand in densely populated urban areas and sprawling suburbs.

Project developer Deepwater Wind says that the Block Island Wind Farm will generate enough electricity to power 5,000 homes on the island and to meet around 90 percent of its total electricity demand.

Global technology research company Technavio last year suggested that the growing demand for electricity storage could fuel a similar boom worldwide for lithium - ion batteries, projecting that the segment could surpass 3,130 MW by 2020.

The European Wind Energy Association expects the region's offshore generating capacity to reach 150,000 megawatts by 2030 — covering 14 percent of projected EU electricity demand.

The $ 6 billion project is in the early stages of construction by Duke Energy and Dominion Power and was expected to primarily serve power plants in North Carolina and Virginia, though electricity demand is expected to remain flat for many years.

In submissions to the ongoing RET review, Origin, Energy Australia, and other fossil fuel electricity generators advocated the RET, now fixed at 20 % of the 2020 demand projected in 2009, be reduced to 20 % of the updated 2020 demand projection.

That is, the country would need to generate an additional 207 billion kWh of zero - carbon electricity in 2020, or 38 % of Germany's projected 2020 electricity demand.

Nest also announced a number of «coming soon» features, including integration with the Beep Dial that will turn down the music if the Nest Project goes off; a tie - in with Zuli Smartplugs that will help your Nest thermostat know which room you're in and what you want the temperature there to be; and the ChargePoint Home EV charging station, which will communicate with the Nest thermostat so that it can inform you when energy is in high demand and electricity is the most expensive.

The pipeline for bitcoin mining projects is so robust there could be a doubling in demand for power, which would require more electricity infrastructure in the region, the WSJ story indicates.