Sentences with phrase «says electricity grids»
It says electricity grids can accommodate up to 45 per cent wind and solar power «without significantly increasing power system costs in the long run».
https://www.carbonbrief.org/ Not exact matches
«Most of the turbines are already feeding green electricity into the grid,» Pierre Lestienne, managing director and CFO of Nordsee One, said in a statement.
«The electricity grid could become less reliable and less resilient while more information is being collected,» Bailey said.
Those batteries can lower peak electricity demand on the power grid by 25 %, the companies said.
«Our solar plants are going to lose over half of their ability to generate electricity during the two to two and a half hours that the eclipse will be impacting our area,» says Steven Greenlee, spokesperson for the California Independent System Operator, or CAISO, one of the largest independent grid operators in the world.
Renewable energy accounted for 103.6 percent of mainland electricity consumption last month, the report by the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association and the Sustainable Earth System Association said citing data from power grid operator REN.
Tesla founder Elon Musk says he can build a new and more efficient grid that would use solar power to generate electricity.
Barton said the Canadian government should focus on projects that offer a clear payback, like transportation systems, electricity grids and pipelines.
NRG, Reliant and Brookfield can plan on earning big profits in New York because of the way the state's power grid buys electricity, Norlander said.
He said more than 1,000 under - served communities in the Region had been connected to the national electricity grid and 300,000 people had also been supplied with potable drinking water under the Small Town Water system.
«The issues that must be addressed include: grid reliability, electricity costs, toxic emissions and related air pollution, attracting major investors for new energy sources and helping the impacted communities,» said Jerry Kremer, the chairman of New York Affordable Reliable Electricitelectricity costs, toxic emissions and related air pollution, attracting major investors for new energy sources and helping the impacted communities,» said Jerry Kremer, the chairman of New York Affordable Reliable ElectricityElectricity Alliance.
He said the 26 out of the 140 Krobo communities that were left out in the rural electrification project in some parts of Upper Manya, Yilo Krobo and the middle belt are being connected to the national electricity grid.
Restoring electricity is a high priority, but officials say it's important to make the grid more resilient to withstand major storms.
On the efforts by the President Muhammadu Buharu administration to improve electricity in Nigeria, Fashola said «Federal government is implementing off - grid renewable energy solutions such as rural mini-grids, standalone home solutions, IPP for Federal Universities, Teaching Hospitals and large - scale solar PV projects such as the Jigawa solar city.
Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.
Because Georgetown's electricity grid is managed by a regional entity, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the city is well - positioned for 100 percent renewable electricity, Edgar said.
Say we do build out wind power in the Dakotas and Wyoming, right along the seam of the eastern and western grid, and build transmission to get that wind -LSB-- generated electricity] to cities?
«If we can demonstrate this superconducting - wire technology in a wind turbine, we think it's more likely that it will make its way into the power cables of the electricity grid,» says Selvamanickam.
«Our goal is to rapidly transform the way electricity is delivered and used,» said Arnold, who added that Duke plans to expand the smart - grid effort to Kentucky and the Carolinas eventually.
Asked which smart grid features they would most prefer, 53 percent of the survey respondents said «technology that can completely automate the management of my electricity.»
The equalized cost of generating electricity on a rooftop, the report said, may lead many people to «defect» from the power grid.
Here, software downloaded to our computers would allow a government to assemble PCs into a benevolent «national defence botnet» that can mount cyberattacks to counter, say, attacks on the electricity grid.
«It is more cost effective to consume the self - generated solar electricity than to feed it into the public electricity grid,» says Noeren.
Chu says certain rules in China's Electricity Act enacted in 1996 are hindering the integration of renewable energy into the country's power grid, and he has submitted a proposal to NPC to revise the law.
But the nation can seek more clean energy from the sun or wind, which won't be affected by climate change, and get the electricity generated elsewhere via a smart grid, he said, referring to an advanced transmission infrastructure China has been building.
As adoption increases, utilities will have to figure out the best way to have enough electricity on the grid to charge more and more cars without affecting rates and reliability for those with and without electric cars, he said.
«It makes the lowest - cost electricity on TECO's grid,» Shorter says.
This year's milestone shows that renewables are becoming a major source of electricity in the U.S. and can no longer be considered «alternative» energy, said Christopher Clack, CEO of the power grid modeling firm Vibrant Clean Energy and a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher.
The program has also contributed to a big decrease in carbon emissions without harming the reliability of the electricity grid, the analysts said.
643 SecularA said,» when 100 percent of new electricity generation capacity added to the USA's electric grid is wind and solar.»
Presently a electric car plugged into the grid is only around 40 % efficient overall due to the generation of grid electricity from coal, nuclear and gas mainly (here in the UK) and that makes them a lot less efficient than you say.
He said they are «hoping to get them electricity from the grid in a few months» and in the past had distributed solar ovens and the like, as a «short - term solution.»
WASHINGTON — Adding electricity from the wind and the sun could increase the frequency of blackouts and reduce the reliability of the nation's electrical grid, an industry report says.
The Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA) press release of July 6, 2016 was headlined «Canada can integrate large amounts of wind energy reliably, cost - effectively, says report» followed by the industry trade association's assertion that «Canada can get more than one - third of its electricity from wind energy without compromising grid reliability — and at the same time realize economic and environmental benefits».
The gas industry, the electricity generators and the Independent System Operator — New England, which runs the grid, all say there is a problem, although they are not quite in agreement on how to solve it.
Interestingly, only days before, the IESO (Independent Electricity System Operator) posted their 2016 - 2020 nine - page Strategic Plan which said the opposite of the CanWEA / GE study and its claim about not «compromising grid reliability.»
Because German law requires renewable energy to be used first on the German grid, when Germany exports excess electricity to its European neighbors it primarily comes from coal plants... «If you want to use fluctuating renewable power, you have to upgrade the grids across Europe,» says Daniel Genz, a policy adviser with Vattenfall.
This post is framed around «limitations,» but as I said above, if wind and solar both reach global grid penetrations equal to their capacity factors, that would make VRE cumulatively around half of all global electricity.
The search giant recently joined the Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition, and in September, teamed up with GE on an energy policy and technology partnership that the companies said would include pushing for a smarter electricity grid.
The report says «a house with a 3kWh battery and a 4kW PV system could to lower its electricity consumed from the grid by 50 - 60 per cent.»
Bresler said the grid operator's proposal is intended to be «agnostic» about the type of energy used to make electricity.
The regulator said the volume of electricity the grid is forced to buy will be determined by technical criteria such as transmission capacity and end - user demand in regions where capacity has been idled.
As the world heats up so too will the need for air conditioning, but America's electricity grid could struggle to meet demand, say US scientists.
The reach of the grid is random, says Ignacio Pérez - Arriaga, a visiting professor at MIT and head of the Reference Electrification Model, which is focused on planning electricity access for India and other developing countries.
David Green said the three projects would help exert downward pressure on wholesale electricity prices, introduce competition into the electricity market and stabilise the grid cost - effectively.
Renewable energy poses challenges for day - to - day operations and long - term grid development, said Ashley Brown, executive director at Harvard University's Electricity Policy Group.
Margie Tatro, director of fuel and water systems at Sandia National Laboratories, says, «I think natural gas is a transitioning fuel for the electricity sector until we can get a greater percentage of nuclear and renewables on the grid.»
RICHMOND - As long as America is addicted to air conditioning, flat - screen televisions and computers, there will be a need to burn fossil fuels to power the nation's electricity grids, a panel of business leaders said Monday.
Meanwhile, he said, the add - on sends a price signal for either the addition of generation or improvements to the grid to import more electricity into the zone.
«We're supporting projects that will integrate existing and new renewable energy generation, storage, distribution and management technologies within the electricity grid,» said Lisa Neville, acting minister for energy, environment and climate change.