Sentences with phrase «serve peak loads»

Average winds tend to pick up mid-day, and tend to be quite strong throughout the summertime — essential times to serve peak loads.

Not exact matches

Together the five utilities serve roughly half of Japan's geographic area, including the largest island prefectures, and have peak demand load of roughly 50,000 megawatts.

Wind, for example, you will find discussed in terms of energy needed, costs, energy produced, whether it can serve as peak load, base load, mini-generators, Liebig's Minimum, locations... etc..

«Load serving entities, in partnership with their customers (often under state programs), can manage their wholesale consumption, lower their forecast demand requirements and actively manage their consumption of energy at the peaks to lower their capacity obligations,» PJM said in a white paper sketching its approach to demand response in the wake of the court activities.

(Sec. 144) Requires: (1) each load - serving entity or state to determine and publish peak demand reduction goals for any load - serving entity that has an applicable baseline in excess of 250 megawatts; (2) the Secretary to develop a system and rules for measurement and verification of demand reductions; (3) such goals to provide that such entities will reduce or mitigate peak demand by a minimum percentage amount from the applicable baseline to a lower peak demand during 2012 and 2015; (4) such goals to provide that the minimum percentage reductions established as peak demand reduction goals shall be the maximum reductions that are realistically achievable with an aggressive effort to deploy Smart Grid and peak demand reduction technologies and methods; and (5) each load - serving entity to prepare a peak demand reduction plan that demonstrates its ability to meet applicable goals.

(B) Megawatts subject to the ability of a load - serving entity to call on demand response programs, smart appliances, smart electricity or energy storage devices, distributed generation resources on the entity's customers» premises, or other measures directly capable of actively, controllably, reliably, and dynamically reducing peak demand («dynamic peak management control»).

(B) load - serving entities will reduce or mitigate peak demand by a minimum percentage greater amount from the applicable baseline to a lower peak demand during calendar year 2015; and

(6) The term «peak demand reduction plan» means a plan developed by or for a load - serving entity that it will implement to meet its peak demand reduction goals.

--(1) Peak demand reduction goals may be established for an individual load - serving entity, or, at the determination of a State, tribal, or regional entity, by that State, tribal, or regional entity for a larger region that shares a common system peak demand and for which peak demand reduction measures would offer regional benePeak demand reduction goals may be established for an individual load - serving entity, or, at the determination of a State, tribal, or regional entity, by that State, tribal, or regional entity for a larger region that shares a common system peak demand and for which peak demand reduction measures would offer regional benepeak demand and for which peak demand reduction measures would offer regional benepeak demand reduction measures would offer regional benefit.

-- Nothing in this section diminishes or supersedes any authority of a State or political subdivision of a State to adopt or enforce any law or regulation respecting peak demand management, demand response, distributed energy storage, use of distributed generation, or the regulation of load - serving entities.

On an average summer day during peak demand, solar can serve between 30 to 40 percent of load on California's grid.

-- Nothing in this section diminishes any authority of a State or political subdivision of a State to adopt or enforce any law (including regulations) that increases electricity grid efficiency, smart grid and distributed generation deployment, dynamic peak management control, demand response and distributed storage, or the regulation of load - serving entities.