Sentences with phrase «significant wind capacity»
In the Pacific Northwest, abundant hydroelectric resources have been augmented in recent years with significant wind capacity.
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Experts reckon that when wind power provides a significant portion of the electricity supply (with «significant» defined as about 10 percent of grid capacity), some form of energy storage will be essential to keeping the grid stable.
On the other hand; wind, geothermal, bio-gas and hydroelectric power new and efficient technologies are also improving significant; and lager capacity and efficient wind and water turbines have been improvised and are adding to the total world's energy in supply.
It is important to understand that the key issue is not whether a system with a significant amount of wind capacity can be operated reliably, but rather to what extent the system operating costs are increased by the variability of the wind..
As Professor Gordon Hughes, of the University of Edinburgh, has shown, if wind ever does make a significant contribution to energy capacity its intermittent nature would require a wasteful «spinning» back - up of gas - fired power stations, so it would still make no difference to emissions or might make them worse.
Chicago, May 8, 2018 — GE Renewable Energy announced today from AWEA Windpower Conference in Chicago that it has reached 40 GW of onshore wind capacity in North America1, powering the equivalent of over 11 million homes and representing a significant amount of the total onshore wind installed capacity on the continent.
The decline in the normalized capacity factor for Danish onshore wind farms is slower but still significant with a fall from a peak of 22 % to 18 % at age 15.
In December 2000, the total wind energy capacity installed worldwide was just 17,300 MW óachieved with significant government subsidies and incentives at taxpayer expense over the past 20 years.
Wind and solar are expensive alternatives, that require huge direct investments as well as huge investments in transmission capacity and storage while at the same time leaving the system vulnerable to significant disruptions in service.
Some have estimated that significant reliance on wind will result in insignificant changes in the installed base - load capacity.
I often point to the Ontario Power Schedule to show how things work out where a large system strongly promotes wind, though the problem there seems to be more that there is not much that should be expected from wind in general, even though the «nameplate» capacity is significant.
Despite adverse economic conditions as well as uncertainty about future Federal energy policy, wind generators continue to represent a significant share of capacity additions in the electric power industry, which totaled 16,409 MW in 2010.
The good news: Israel has the potential to generate significant amounts of wind power (one speaker, the CEO of a company that sells wind turbines, estimated an enormous potential capacity of up to 2,500 megawatts).
«Oklahoma has done a tremendous job of positioning the state as a competitive and attractive market for the wind industry to invest, and the benefits have been significant,» said Stephen Pike, Vice President of Operations and Maintenance for Enel Green Power North America, which last year in Oklahoma brought online more than 420 MW of capacity for a total of nearly one GW in the state.