Sentences with phrase «scale electricity generation»

The Libellula (dragonfly) wind turbine, designed by the architects at the Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) in collaboration with Italy's Enel Green power, could be a viable choice for small - scale electricity generation, with the ability to produce up to 55Kw (sufficient to power up to 15 homes).

Includes utility - scale electricity generation, which is electricity generation from power plants with at least one megawatt (or 1,000 kilowatts) of total electricity generating capacity.

In that regard, it seems certain that expanding this process to large - scale electricity generation (up from the comparatively tiny carbon source of cement production) would overwhelm the economy's demand for these chemical products.

The research found that almost 80 per cent of Albertans surveyed say the Government of Alberta has not done enough to develop wind power and other renewable forms of large - scale electricity generation.

-- Fifty percent of the funds raised under this section shall be provided in the form of grants to electric utilities that had, prior to the award of any grant under this section, committed resources to deploy a large scale electricity generation unit with integrated carbon capture and sequestration or conversion applied to a substantial portion of the unit's carbon dioxide emissions.

«We started American Wind Week to honor the American innovators who taught the world how to harness the wind for large - scale electricity generation.

Photovoltaic panels have traditionally been used for smaller scale electricity generation, particularly for residential or commercial use in individual buildings or complexes, while CSP is used for utility - scale electricity generation in solar power plants.

CSP is also being adapted for smaller scale electricity generation.

Unlike large - scale electricity generation that feeds into the transmission system, distributed generation (DG) provides energy directly to consumers and the local distribution grid.

EIA expects the share of U.S. total utility - scale electricity generation from natural gas - fired power plants to rise from 32 % in 2017 to 34 % in both 2018 and 2019.

That an energy technology suitable for small - scale electricity generation in space probes can easily be scaled up to power the national grid?

This is odd because solar — including photovoltaics, concentrating solar thermal, and solar space & water heating — is a mature, commercialized technology that is already being installed in quantity today, both as centralized utility - scale electricity generation and as distributed, small - to - mid-scale electricity and heat generation.

Not exact matches

And there has been no more fundamental, epoch - making modern innovation than the large - scale commercial generation, transmission, distribution and conversion of electricity.

It's one of the nation's leading producers of corn and ethanol but has yet to begin any utility - scale biomass electricity generation.

If the UK is to keep to its environmental commitments then electricity market reform (EMR) needs to quickly facilitate investment in new large scale generation, whilst enabling transition to a low carbon energy system over the next ten years, say the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

FITs are subsidies for small - scale renewable electricity generation, paid for by ordinary households through their energy bills.

What kind of scale of transformation are we talking about in order to — as far as the electricity generation transmission goes — effect this change?

Distributed generation creates power on a smaller scale at locations throughout the electricity network.

· Wide - scale deployment of a mix of low - carbon electricity generation technologies, as foreseen in mitigations scenarios such as the IEA's Blue Map Scenarios, helps to stabilize or reduce pollution such as eutrophication, acidification, particulates, photochemical smog, and toxicity.

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.

Cathles et al. believe the focus should be just on electricity generation, and the global warming potential of methane should be considered only on a 100 - year time scale.

Solar's share of electricity generation is slightly less (0.4 % and 0.2 %, for utility - scale and distributed), reflecting the intermittent nature of solar resources.

Furthermore, citing Denmark, Germany, and Nicaragua as proofs - of - concept, the report concludes that scaling up renewable energy for electricity generation is feasible on the same timescale needed to move away from fossil fuels.

If we start using electric cars in large numbers (and I hope we do soon), then solar towers and various other forms of large scale clean electricity generation may supply a substantial fraction of our transport energy, especially for short local runs less than 100 klms a day.

Utility - scale solar energy projects (defined for the Solar PEIS as facilities with a generation capacity of 20 MW or greater) generate electricity that is distributed to consumers through the electric power transmission grid.

Using the latest available national data on power generation, this most recent look at data on annual and quarterly electricity generation nationwide from the Energy Democracy Initiative at ILSR illustrates how small - scale, distributed solar energy stacks up against its big, fossil fuel and utility - scale renewable energy competitors.

Utility - scale and distributed solar together account for nearly 15 percent of California's net electricity generation.

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.

Furthermore, environmental and security concerns have sparked increased interest in small - scale, «distributed» sources of renewable electricity generation like rooftop solar panels, to reduce our reliance on large, centralized power plants.

In the U.S., large - scale renewable projects plus conventional hydropower are expected to account for 14 percent of total electricity generation in 2016, a 9 percent rise from 2015, the U.S. Energy Information Administration recently reported.

«Support for expansion of electricity generation and transmission facilities — on a vastly increased scale — as part of a deliberate national «export driven» strategy is either limited or all too often met with derision or outright hostility,» Nathwani wrote.

Due to an increase in demand for natural gas for space and water heating, and limitations imposed by natural gas pipeline constraints, electricity generation from gas was unable to scale up, and the burden was transferred to oil as dual fuel generators switched over.

«BC has an abundance of world - class wind sites that can be developed flexibly on a scale that matches changing economic conditions and electricity demand, addresses environmental concerns, and reduces the potential financial risks of new electricity generation to BC ratepayers and taxpayers.»

According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), for the first time since July 1984, monthly U.S. electricity generation from utility - scale renewable energy sources exceeded nuclear generation in March and April 2017.

Evolutions in technology and the electricity marketplace are expanding opportunities for participation in Ontario's electricity system and are driving a transition towards a system characterized by two - way energy flows and growing prevalence of smaller - scale distribution - connected, or embedded, generation.

For example, utility - scale wind generation, a particularly volatile intermittent power source, requires electricity operators to make significant adjustments to balance generation and load, creating inefficiency in the system.

Utility - scale renewable electricity generation surpassed nuclear for the first time since Reagan was president.

Countries such as Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, and the United Kingdom, have emphasized small - scale distributed electricity - generation projects.

The trend of decreasing coal generation can be attributed to both falling natural gas prices and stagnant demand for electricity, but it can also be partially attributed to the increasing role of solar and wind generation: March 2016 set records for both the highest amount of monthly wind generation ever measured and the highest amount of monthly utility - scale solar generation ever measured.

But the overall scale of the UK FIT is quite small — overall it is expected to led to a total of 8 TWh generation by 2020 — about 2 % of UK electricity by then.

It is urgent to «de-carbonize» electricity generation, Bass agreed, so both utility - scale and distributed generation solar have important roles to play.

This tool calculates the average emissions from utility - scale electric generation at the regional electricity grid level.

Cool Power manufacturers an Energy and Microgenerator Manager (EMMA) that captures unused power from small - scale distributed electricity generation like rooftop solar and residential wind systems before it is sent to the grid.

But he wholly fails to explain what the implications of the variability problem is (the need for overbuild of generation capacity and expensive / unfeasible large - scale energy storage), nor whether, if an effort is made to deal practically with these problems in real national electricity grids, the «increasingly cheaper» renewables will ever become cheap enough (when all relevant real - world factors are considered) and reliable enough (without natural gas «backup»), to actually substitute for and displace fossil fuels (or nuclear) at the scale required.

This incapacity is due to both the intermittency of natural resource availability, and the difficulty or even impossibility of storing electricity on a large scale, to defer generation.

De-centralization of electricity — we'll start to see generation at a variety of scales and not just at large power plants, for example: energy generation at the community or home level

In recent years, as the large - scale deployment of renewable generation gathers pace and the contribution of conventional power generation (gas, coal and nuclear) to electricity supply dwindles, popular concern over grid stability and reliability has grown substantially.

In 2017, about 4,015 billion kilowatthours (kWh)(or 4.01 trillion kWh) of electricity were generated at utility - scale facilities in the United States.1 About 63 % of this electricity generation was from fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, petroleum, and other gases).

His seminal paper, Democratizing the Electricity System, describes how to blast the roadblocks to distributed renewable energy generation, and how such small - scale renewable energy projects are the key to the biggest strides in renewable energy development.

The introduction of cash incentives to boost small scale green electricity generation is welcome - however, Ministers have been far too timid with a policy that could make a significant contribution to cutting emissions and boosting energy security.