Sentences with phrase «scale wind plants»

During 2010, wind capacity was added in 21 States - including Maryland and Delaware, each of which reported its first utility - scale wind plants (there are now wind plants in 37 States).

Not exact matches

In the middle third of the U.S., wind farms have an all - in cost that is less than a third that of a new natural gas - fired plant, and wind power is also well below the cost of power from large - scale solar farms.»

Weevils have attacked the plants in the past, damaging the local crop, but the biggest threats to supply are the lack of large - scale producers (most locals just grow a few plants for their own use) and hurricanes, which dump heavy rains and pack a punch with fierce winds that destroy the fragile plants.

COPENHAGEN — Revolutionizing the energy industry to achieve a target concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere of no more than 450 parts per million (ppm) would require building 17 nuclear power plants a year between now and 2030; 17,000 wind turbines a year; or two hydropower dams on the scale of Three Gorges Dam in China, according to the International Energy Agency.

Spurred by a series of nuclear - power mishaps, starting with 2011's disaster at Fukushima, large - scale solar and wind plants now dot the country.

These small cliffs, crevices and canyons are on a grand enough scale to protect plants from grazers, predators and the drying power of sun and wind alike.

In addition I would point out that small scale distributed wind and PV are ideal solutions for rural electrification in the developing world, in countries which don't have the resources to build giant power plants of any kind, or to build the grids to distribute electricity from large centralized power plants.

Dave wrote in Comment 9: ``... they will keep putting those new coal - fired energy plants online or create nuclear fission plants that create waste that can't be disposed of» and «Wind / Solar et al. is nice but is getting no funding and going nowhere fast right now, not to mention the fact that it might not do us much good anyway on the kind of unsustainable economic scales we (at least Americans) want to live at.»

In contrast, Jacobson's study estimates the time between planning and operation for utility scale wind and solar power plants to be only 2 to 5 years.

I think a comprehensive (and honest) assessment of alternatives to coal generation will include not only the hypothetical scaling issues of wind and direct solar generation but also will address what we know of the operating record of nuclear plants and what we can expect as we attempt to further scale nuclear power.

If the PUC chooses to build the wind power plant and there is no need for large scale CDR in several decades, then no further investment is required.

«The 18 utility - scale solar facilities, 7 commercial wind farms and 9 geothermal plants Interior green - lighted onshore would provide 10,400 megawatts when built, enough to power 3.4 million homes.

With this financial matching approach, the investor has the same capital costs and the same fuel costs whether building a coal plant or a wind turbine, and because the wind turbine has been scaled up, the investor will sell the same amount of power.

Not that it ever really left it: it is the one state that has hardly any large - scale renewable generation, apart from a series of biomass plants from sugar cane plantations and a single 12MW wind farm.

First - of - its - Kind Offering Allows Massachusetts to Use Offshore Wind to Replace Retiring Fossil - Fired Power Plants New Bedford, Mass. — December 20, 2017 — Deepwater Wind will propose to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts an innovative offshore wind solution that, for the first time, will allow a utility - scale renewable energy project to replace the retiring fossil fuel - fired power -LSB-Wind to Replace Retiring Fossil - Fired Power Plants New Bedford, Mass. — December 20, 2017 — Deepwater Wind will propose to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts an innovative offshore wind solution that, for the first time, will allow a utility - scale renewable energy project to replace the retiring fossil fuel - fired power -LSB-Wind will propose to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts an innovative offshore wind solution that, for the first time, will allow a utility - scale renewable energy project to replace the retiring fossil fuel - fired power -LSB-wind solution that, for the first time, will allow a utility - scale renewable energy project to replace the retiring fossil fuel - fired power -LSB-...]

The significance of these announcements are that these are some of the first announcements of power plant - scale solar projects in China, where there has been at the end of 2007 an installed capacity of only 0.08 GW of solar compared to nearly 6 GW of wind.

The lifecycle cost of electricity from new nuclear plants is now $ 148 per megawatt - hour, or 14.8 cents per kilowatt, while it is 5 c / kwh for utility scale solar and 4.5 c / kwh for wind.

With countries now investing in a low carbon future, the Danes are leading the way with sustainable wind energy and now with large scale solar thermal plant installations.

An experiment at the Sandia National Laboratories Scaled Wind Farm Technology facility successfully demonstrated wake steering, which will help wind power plants increase energy captWind Farm Technology facility successfully demonstrated wake steering, which will help wind power plants increase energy captwind power plants increase energy capture.

The base running costs in $ / megawatt - hour (MWh) for each coal unit are compared to several competitive energy resources: existing natural gas combined - cycle (NGCC) plants, * new NGCC plants, new wind power facilities, and new utility - scale solar photovoltaic (PV) systems.

The project is the first large scale battery storage and wind plant in operation, and lends five years of operational experience integrating Battery Management System with the wind plan control system.

Hornsdale Wind Farm follows on the heels of a Tesla - executed large - scale dispatchable solar and energy storage plant in Hawaii.

Dan Juhl, who understands farm life from his own childhood in Woodstock, Minnesota, has been creating profitable business arrangements to encourage this kind of small - scale wind - plant cooperative.

Similar arguments apply to utility - scale construction of concentrating solar plants and large megawatt wind turbines.

Hywind Scotland is Statoil's test case for commercialising utility - scale floating wind by 2023, with 100MW and then 500MW plants planned to follow off countries including the US, Japan, France, the UK and even its home market of Norway, where ultra-cheap hydropower has so far kept floating wind uneconomic.

These developments have been made at both individual turbine and wind plant scales.

Meanwhile India's Central Electricity Authority (CEA) is currently deciding whether or not to mandate that large - scale solar and wind power plants should have some energy storage installed onsite as standard.

World Wind & Solar (WWS), a provider of renewable energy operations and maintenance services, has acquired Axis Renewable Group, an independent service provider to utility - scale wind and solar power plants and original equipment manufacturWind & Solar (WWS), a provider of renewable energy operations and maintenance services, has acquired Axis Renewable Group, an independent service provider to utility - scale wind and solar power plants and original equipment manufacturwind and solar power plants and original equipment manufacturers.

... 328,000 new onshore 5 MW wind turbines (providing 30.9 % of U.S. energy for all purposes), 156,200 off - shore 5 MW wind turbines (19.1 %), 46,480 50 MW new utility - scale solar - PV power plants (30.7 %), 2,273 100 MW utility - scale CSP power plants (7.3 %), 75.2 million 5 kW residential rooftop PV systems (3.98 %), 2.75 million 100 kW commercial / government rooftop systems (3.2 %), 208 100 MW geothermal plants (1.23 %), 36,050 0.75 MW wave devices (0.37 %), 8,800 1 MW tidal turbines (0.14 %), and 3 new hydroelectric power plants (all in Alaska).

When someone proposes nuclear power plants, or wind farms, or solar farms, or large - scale use of microhydro, or hydrogen - based fuels, or changes to the building codes to accommodate conservation... that's what needs to be public.

circulation patterns, suggesting it was (as I recall) significant, and then went on to describe... potential purposeful alteration of synoptic scale weather in Europe by manipulation of a hypothetical wind power plant in the U.S..

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CCS has not yet been commercially deployed at any centralized power plant; the existing nuclear industry, based on reactor designs more than a half - century old and facing renewed public concerns of safety, is in a period of retrenchment, not expansion; and existing solar, wind, biomass, and energy storage systems are not yet mature enough to provide affordable baseload power at terawatt scale.

The projects employers undertake range in scale from the development of nanotechnologies and electronic devices to the construction of gargantuan production plants, refineries and wind farms.