Sentences with phrase «reliable than wind»

Additionally, both of those are orders of magnitude more reliable than wind is.

Solar power may be more reliable than wind power; Germany's efforts in developing solar (and wind) power suggest it may be, given the amount of cloudiness that country experiences.

Not exact matches

That's because Alberta is uniquely suited for renewable energy, with the most hours of sunshine in the country and more reliable winds than any other province, says the report.

Although solar thermal collectors are better than photovoltaic panels or wind turbines at generating reliable power around the clock, solar thermal power is also expensive; at present energy costs, it would require government subsidies to compete with coal and natural gas, which can generate electricity much more cheaply.

Next - generation wind turbines will be smarter, more efficient, and more reliable than ever before, continuing the innovative process that is propelling this industry forward.

Solar and wind are too diffuse and not reliable enough to power factories and cities, and thus can not lift people out of poverty nor reduce emissions from fossil fuel - powered electrical systems more than only modestly.

On the one hand, wind energy can be harvested both day and night, while on the other hand, it's less predictable and less reliable than solar energy.

The authors contend the world's economies are heavily dependent on fossil fuels because such fuels are and will continue to be safer, less expensive, more reliable, and of vastly greater supply than alternative fuels such as wind and solar.

So the issues are very much broader than the trillions of taxpayer and ratepayer dollars which the states are being forced to devote to the misguided effort to tear down fossil fuel plants and replace them with much more expensive and much less reliable wind and solar plants which will have no measurable impact on climate or anything else other than the profits of the solar / wind industries.

Globally, wind energy is one of the fastest growing major sources of new electricity around the world, with installations of more than 55,000 MW of clean, reliable wind power in 2016 alone.

Xcel Energy, one of the country's biggest utilities, has just announced a planned major expansion of its solar and wind investments — because they are «cheaper and more reliable» than natural gas.

A reliable generation system of wind, and solar with gas as backup is 20 % cheaper than a system of new nuclear power combined with gas.

Wind with pumped hydro energy storage is about 30 times more costly than nuclear to provide reliable dispatchable power.

Put another way: One dollar spent subsidizing Fitzpatrick could thus leverage almost three times as much clean electricity as a dollar spent on renewables subsidies — and deliver far more reliable power than wind farms and solar plants do.

And because they are now 100 meters tall, instead of less than 40 meters, they harvest a far larger, stronger, and more reliable wind regime, generating 20 times as much electricity as the turbines installed in the early 1980s when modern wind power development began.

«Our hybrid technology is more cost effective than a full carbon blade and also much less sensitive to manufacturing defects, a key element to making a reliable blade,» said Marc de Jong, LM Wind Power's CEO.

Second, although the final cost per kWh of energy is not given, we can see that whereas in the GIV storage case we build 16GW solar, 90GW offshore wind, 124GW inland wind = 230GW peak, with centralized storage we build 50, 129, 61 = 240GW peak and probably need the expensive offshore wind as a more reliable (less intermittent) source than onshore wind.

And as we all know, wind and solar without REAL and RELIABLE back - up, are probably WORSE than USELESS.

It is like «blowing against a high wind» to try to explain that dense energy sources which are reliable and affordable are far better for humanity than renewables.

«The hybrid power project also makes the power output a little bit more reliable than a standalone solar or standalone wind project so that again from a Discom's point of view or from a transmission grid stability point of view should be actually better for the entire system.»

Today's larger wind turbines are more cost - effective and reliable than ever.

I think that you are on to something, jim2, but you didn't think it through all the way: The REAL mother lode of wind is in the jet stream, and it is much more reliable than those fickle surface winds.

A report from Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) claims that «the current mix of generating plant will be unable to ensure reliable electricity supply with significantly more than 10 GW of wind capacity.

I'm not persuaded because, as explained in other posts, a megawatt of unpredictable, unreliable wind capacity has less value than a megawatt of predictable, reliable natural gas or coal capacity.