Sentences with phrase «solar at midday»

«Anyone that's been out to Kauai will notice that they have a lot of solar on the island and really don't have any appetite at all for solar at midday,» Rudd said.

Not exact matches

Named P2, this iteration of the X-Prize concept rover has vertical solar panels to absorb energy even at sunrise and sunset and sports a white band around its shell that will act as a radiator during the intense heat of lunar midday.

For example, changes in solar brightness (TSI) will have an RF that is largest in the midday at low latitudes with clear skies and dark surfaces (oceans, forests), with a significant amount of RF applying directly to the surface, and some RF of the same sign acting on the stratosphere.

Comparing a sunny day at midday in June with a heavy overcast day at 10 am in December, the difference in solar output is almost twentyfold.

Solar, in particular, tends to be coincident with demand, rising and peaking at midday, right when demand is at its highest.

If KIUC could move some of it solar generation to later hours, it could decrease its reliance on dirty fuel oil, prevent solar curtailment at midday, and save customers money.

Here's a little experiment that you can do to investigate how quickly the atmosphere can respond to changes in incoming solar energy: go outside at midday.

The duck curve shows a major drop in electric load in midday when solar hits its peak, swamping the grid at a period of low demand and potentially pushing net load below the point where older baseload plants can ramp down to compensate.

Solar and back radiation are modeled as sine waves with the peak at midday.

But this German market is distorted by companies like RWE, only at times renewable producers can cash with wind and solar, during some hours of midday sunshine.

German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity — equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity — through the midday hours of Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank has said... Norbert Allnoch, director of the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry in Muenster, said the 22 gigawatts of solar power fed into the national grid on Saturday met nearly 50 % of the nation's midday electricity needs.