Sentences with phrase «reducing generation costs»
It seems to me that we are already making progress reducing generation costs using windmills and solar panels (Nanosolar).
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By avoiding an unnecessary overbuild of power generation to meet peak demand, this kind of optimization can also help reduce costs.
Their commitment to their client is focused on immediate revenue generation, brand protection, sales intelligence and a reduced cost of sales.
We have built a scalable platform that allows us to provide faster business insights at lower costs, develop and introduce new products quickly and leverage economies of scale to reduce costs and enable next - generation hosting architecture.
Digitize assets to launch new markets and reduce operational costs with next - generation blockchain technology.
And just think if we can get kids to eat healthy and reduce obesity in the next generation, the outcome it will have on Healthcare costs...
Apart from reducing cost of operations, the project, which is being executed by a Belgian contractor, Jan De Nul (JDN), will also improve the revenue generation capacity of the GPHA and create employment in the Sekondi - Takoradi Metropolis.
Speaking on Eyewitness News, Mr. Obagmey stated that though the plant will not transform Ghana's power generation systems, it will stabilize power production and help reduce cost significantly.
He argued that the amendment is needed to spur adoption of distributed sources that increase grid reliability while reducing costs by cutting the need for new baseload power generation.
But, in fact, it can reduce the total cost of electricity generation, the new study finds.
«This new generation of integrated device design makes it possible for centrifugation - free sorting of different blood components, which can drastically reduce the cost and processing time involved with liquid biopsy assays.»
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.
Advancing next - generation battery and energy storage technologies for electric and hybrid cars and the electrical grid are critical to help reduce America's reliance on foreign oil and lower energy costs for U.S. consumers.
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Aug. 3, 2017 — In order to reduce the cost of next - generation polymer electrolyte fuel cells for vehicles, researchers have been developing alternatives to the prohibitively expensive platinum and platinum - group metal (PGM) catalysts currently used in fuel cell electrodes.
Our grandparents generation had victory gardens to help contribute to the food supply, and doing this today can help improve health and reduce food costs!
Those initiatives include; Let's Get Digital, a scheme to help schools get the most out of technology and incorporating groundbreaking projects with Microsoft and Google; DigiSafe, a centre of excellence for online safety; CyberProtect, founded to protect schools from security threats; SuperCloud which is about helping schools save money through the cost effective harnessing of next generation cloud technologies; SmartBuy, a commitment from LGfL to use its economies of scale to purchase technology and software for schools at a vastly reduced price saving schools money and allowing access to technology that might otherwise be out of financial reach; and Bridge the Divide which is about tackling inequality and supporting those most in need.
While reducing the deficit is important, it should not come at the cost of investment into the future of younger generations.
Other schools, such as the high - performing Brooklyn Generation High School in New York City, reduce costs by staggering teacher schedules.
Utilizing concepts such as first - and second - generation crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED), Safe Havens experts can help reduce the cost of new facility construction and major renovation projects while helping our clients design and build more attractive, easy to supervise, secure and maintain schools while dramatically enhancing school climate.
Ford is striving to improve the fuel efficiency and reducing the cost of the hybrid system with each new generation of transaxles.
The about - face, which makes a mockery of some of the German carmaker's earlier advertising campaigns, has been driven by the need to reduce production costs, as well as provide competitive packaging for a new generation of small cars.
Using ultracapacitor energy storage to further reduce life cycle costs, this next - generation hybrid bus has achieved Ultra Low Emission Bus certification with 37 % lower greenhouse gas... Read more →
The group's application of new technologies and publishing on demand reduced the cost of publishing a book to a fraction of what it had been for previous generations; authors now have the ability to publish a book in as little as six weeks and print as few as a single copy.
Aerbook Maker radically reduces the cost and complexity of building next generation, graphical eBooks and true native apps, for multiple formats and devices.
The money received from the VA Funding Fee is used to offset the few loans that go into default, and further reduces the cost to taxpayers, ensuring the VA Home Loan program continues for future generations.
I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.
It seems to me that instead of putting efforts into restricting coal use in the third world, the efforts would be better spent on methods to encourage R&D to reduce the cost of cleaner energy generation to be competitive with coal.
Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low - cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.
Northern Ireland's Queens University Belfast (QUB) has found that battery - based energy storage can provide inertial response for system reliability much more efficiently, at a lower cost and with substantially reduced emissions than thermal generation.
And as the English have done and as the Chinese and the Indians and etc will still do, they will use coal, lots of coal plus gas and oil for power generation until some capitalist somewhere with a very good idea on how to reduce costs and still make a fortune comes along and devises / discovers or restructures an old technology or a new power generation technology that is more efficient, lower cost, more profitable, just as reliable as fossil fueled, those coal, oil and gas generators
The ACEEE report shows that we're making real progress in capturing cost - effective energy efficiencies, which helps reduce power bills for ratepayers and the need for more costly and less sustainable forms of energy generation.»
Again you didn't quote what you are referring to, nor explain how it is relevant to the discussion about what is the least cost and fastest way to reduce global GHG emissions from electricity generation.
Since that time, major technological advances have reduced the cost of thermal - power generation, while the cost of developing more remote hydroelectric sites has increased.
A low - cost emissions - free source of electricity generation, wind energy will be essential if the province is to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent in 2050 as clean electricity will be needed to substitute for fossil fuels in transportation, industries and buildings.
The chamber argues that the costs for companies to comply with the new regulations, along with higher energy prices and lost jobs, will reduce productivity, particularly in the southern Atlantic states, because of the «need to replace large portions of coal generation.»
On subseasonal timescales, probabilistic predictions of wind, solar and hydropower generation can help stabilize energy costs and supply by improving scheduling and trading, maintenance scheduling, reducing curtailments and imbalance penalties, improving decisions about reserve energy sources, maximizing grid integration, and planning capacity commitments.
«We expect over the next couple of years [it] will really reduce the cost to a point that it is the lowest cost form of renewable generation in this country.»
The results demonstrate that wind energy is cost competitive with all other generation sources and provides excellent value for Albertans as the province moves to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout the economy.
The new system is expected to reduce costs, because companies will compete to provide utility - scale generation.
Aren't there better, more cost effective ways of reducing particulate emissions that don't require the shutting down of 40 - 50 percent of our current generation.
You mention that replacing new coal - fired electrical generation capacity with nuclear fission is a no - cost approach to reducing CO2 emissions.
With upfront funding from NativeEnergy reducing turbine costs to an acceptable level, these turbines help farmers reduce their long - term electricity costs and help stabilize the electric grid with distributed, small - scale power generation.
These technologies have all been commercially demonstrated and are critical to optimizing use of the existing grid, 1 which will better enable renewable generation to meet demand and reduce customer costs.
That also includes using a definition of «levelized cost» that deliberately ignores the hidden costs of maintaining a normal fuel - based generation grid capable of carrying the entire load because PV and wind (however cheap or expensive they might be when they are working) are literally incapable of working 24 × 7 and at best reduce the rate at which conventional plants consume fuel without reducing or eliminating the need for conventional plants.
Requires FERC to: (1) issue to each generator of renewable electricity a REC for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated after December 31, 2011; (2) issue three RECs for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated by an existing distributed renewable generation facility; and (3) review the effect of issuing three RECs and to reduce such number for any given energy source or technology to ensure that such number is no higher than is necessary to make such facilities using such source or technology cost competitive with other sources of renewable electricity generation.
These improvements will lower consumer energy bills, maximize the value of renewable energy generation, and reduce overall system costs.
Expanding renewable generation is a less risky alternative that provides stable costs, mitigates fuel price risk, and reduces emissions.
-- Except as provided in subparagraph (C), not later than January 1, 2014, and not less frequently than every 4 years thereafter, the Commission shall review the effect of this paragraph and shall, as necessary, reduce the number of Federal renewable electricity credits per megawatt hour issued under this paragraph for any given energy source or technology, but not below 1, to ensure that such number is no higher than the Commission determines is necessary to make distributed renewable generation facilities using such source or technology cost competitive with other sources of renewable electricity generation.
Cost advantages of hydropower based electricity generation and the substitution of fossil fuel based power production in an attempt to reduce carbon emission is expected to drive global hydropower market demand.
However, higher fixed charges are an inequitable and inefficient means to address utility revenue concerns: they reduce customer control, disproportionately impact low - usage and low - income customers, dilute incentives for energy efficiency and distributed generation, and increase electric system costs.