Sentences with phrase «renewable facilities»

Coal currently dominates in a region flush with renewable resources but with minimal installations of renewable facilities.

Although renewable facilities require upfront investments to build, they can then operate at very low cost (for most clean energy technologies, the «fuel» is free).

Some older renewable facilities do not provide live data.

This has consequences for grid stability, the location of renewable facilities, and for electricity prices.

Careful site selection for renewable facilities of all types is important.

While it can clearly move the upstate wind and solar power downstate, the upstate renewable facilities are not constrained by system needs.

If she has her way, and utilities need to shut down their coal - fueled power plants and replace them with renewable facilities, we know the costs will be considerably higher — which some believe to be a worthwhile trade - off — but, what will that really look like?

Programs vary in ways that include: ownership of the shared renewables facility; the maximum system size that can be installed under the program; and the value given to the net metering credits produced by the system.

Careful site selection for renewable facilities of all types is important to minimize the loss and fragmentation of wildlife habitat and forests that sequester carbon.

«Between 2009 and 2011,» Sands wrote, «the federal cash grant program provided almost $ 10 billion to renewable facilities, reducing the direct cost to customers by approximately 30 percent.»

Renewable facilities that are under development and not yet commercially operational using a renewable fuel may seek «precertification,» with the understanding that the Energy Commission will verify the information submitted in the pre-certification application once the facility has been completed and evaluate this information under the RPS Eligibility Guidebook that is in place when the facility applies for RPS certification.

Procurement from a renewable facility can not be counted towards a utility's RPS obligation unless that facility has been certified as RPS - eligible by the Energy Commission.