Sentences with phrase «scale wind generators»

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This also means that other generators, such as those powered by fossil fuels, can scale their power output in advance rather than rapidly ramping up or slowing down to compensate for wind, increasing their efficiency and improving the grid's reliability.

Wind fields are capable of great volatility and very rapid global - scale teleconnections, and they are efficient generators of oceanic circulation changes and (more speculatively) of multiple states relative to great ice sheets.

Small - scale and local wind generator companies have received 10 % of all subsidies.

Abbreviations WTG, wind turbine generator; ESS, Epworth Sleepiness Scale; PSQI, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index

These projects run the gamut from grid scale battery research to efforts to develop more advanced wind generators and zero - emissions refrigeration.

However, the biggest threats to the business model of the coal - fired generators are lowering demand — caused by changing consumption patterns — and from increased capacity from renewables such as large scale wind and solar, as McIndoe and ACIL Tasman acknowledge.

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4 Issue 4) that «offshore vertical - axis wind turbines offer the potential for a break through in offshore wind energy availability and reduced life cycle costs due to their design characteristics of few moving parts and the sitting of the generator at the base level potentially allowing large - scale direct drive.