Sentences with phrase «summer peak»

Summer peak demand days generally coincides with high generation from solar power systems, as skies are usually clear at the time.

Demand for international tourism remained strong during the northern hemisphere summer peak season.

The state is expecting nearly 400 MW of additional utility - scale solar by this summer, as the most significant source of new generation to help it meet summer peak capacity needs.

The state is expecting nearly 400 MW of additional utility - scale solar by this summer, as the most significant source of new generation to help it meet summer peak capacity needs.

Figure 2 demonstrates these same trends for the annual summer peak.

One thing to note: While Killarney has heaps of accommodation, don't expect to just show up, especially during summer peak season.

In other words, this so - called «embedded» solar generation is making a big difference, especially during times of summer peak demand when the sun is shining strong and air conditioning loads put stress on the grid.

The April melt in itself is still not a huge part of the ice sheet — and not at its thickest portions — but it raises questions about what will happen when summer peaks, and along with it, melting.

Another nearby example comes from Lake Region Electric Cooperative, which offers members a solar program called «Go West,» in which solar panels are tilted southwest at 240 degrees to maximize production for summer peak demand.

An offshore wind farm at the center of a LIPA plan to address spiking electric demand on the South Fork will produce excess energy when it's needed least, and fall short of a sharply expanding summer peak load, a recent analysis found.

(one for one now which is around 20c / kwhr summer peak rate).

Average monthly natural gas - fired generation in Ohio in 2011 is similar to prior summer peak levels.

Despite seasonal changes in the price of natural gas, summer peaks in electric use will continue to be served by natural gas «peaker» units, as well as new flexible natural gas combined cycle units.

Coal is not built at all, but gas enjoys a boom in the middle of next decade to also cope with summer peak demand, and to replace 6.2 GW of retired capacity.

In Q4 2013, Appreciation Slowed from Summer Peaks; Formerly Boiling Markets like Bay Area Reduced to a Simmer, According to Zillow Fourth Quarter Real Estate Market Reports

The cost of offshore wind energy remains a significant issue, however, as we have pointed out in previous analysis, offshore wind energy in the Southeast is also a very high - value power, with the ability to offset more expensive summer peaking generation.

The AEMO (SA Supply and Demand Outlook, 2011) estimated that at time of summer peak power demand wind will only provide 5 %, and at winter peak, 3.5 %, respectively, of installed capacity.

Picente noted that Oneida County's efforts are part of statewide efforts to target unsafe driving over the Labor Day holiday and late summer peak driving season.

Positive values of the SOI during the past southern hemisphere summer peaked at +20 in mid-April.

The island also has a separate summer peak season when large groups of university students on backpacking trips come to party during their summer break.

Monitored Summer Peak Attic Air Temperatures in Florida Residences, Danny Parker and John Sherwin, FSEC

I for one am a technophile (among other things, I admire the life - saving flood control offered by the Three Gorges Dam, also its 22GW of electricity generation is about half of California summer peak demand; and I am a booster for continued investment in R&D of renewable energy sources), and I eagerly track down most links provided here, as well as buying and reading books about the climate.

«Higher summer temperatures will increase electricity use, causing higher summer peak loads, while warmer winters will decrease energy demands for heating.

Extraordinarily, this build out occurs until 2020, but then no wind energy is built at all after that because the only new capacity installed will be designed to meet summer peaks — hence the focus on utility scale solar.

Stay at Best Western three times between now and April 14 and you'll get a certificate for one free night good for those price spring or summer peak season stays later this year.

ISO New England estimates that had they made this change last year, the 2017 CELT forecast of summer peak would have been 400 MW lower.

New England is projecting a dip in summer peak demand and energy usage as efficiency measures and solar proliferates.

Having passed committee scrutiny, the bill will go before the full parliament in the next few weeks and cheap calls could be in place before the summer peak travel period, assuming EU nations approve the changes.

Negri's trees each pump as much as 26 gallons of water per day at their summer peak.

[10] In 2003, Clifton suggested that «the winter feral cat population may now be as low as 13 million and the summer peak is probably no more than 24 million.»

Cebu Pacific has added flight frequencies from Manila, Cebu, Iloilo, and Davao to key domestic and international destinations, to accommodate passenger demand during the summer peak travel period.

This is a great time to visit Portugal before the summer peak rates jump up.

Statistically, the most of the earth is basking in perfect weather and worldwide travel costs almost drop in half from the summer peaks.

Hot, sunny weather through June, July and August makes the summer the peak beach - holiday time to visit Majorca.

The Saudi flag carrier launched its Los Angeles to Jeddah nonstop service last year, on March 31, 2014, starting with 3 flights a week and currently at 5 flights weekly during the summer peak season.

While the summer peak weekend rate of $ 136 is high for a Days Inn, it was good value compared to similar motels in Morro Bay and I'd stay here again.

Commencing on 1 June 2018, the flights will operate all - year - round, with daily services during the summer peak travel season and three weekly flights in the winter.

PV is ALWAYS available when a summer peaking utility experiences it's peak, and that is worth enough cash dollars to pay for the differential in cost between PV and a new coal plant.

Glaciers provide about 13 km3 of water during the summer peak melt period as the Abramov and Fedchenko glacier are at the headwaters of the Vaksh River (Normatov and Petrov, 2006).

As demand increases towards its summer peak level, the utilization rates for both coal - and natural gas - fired units tend to rise.

The summer peak forecast is critical because it drives the determination of future demand of New England's generating capacity needs from power plants and informs planning of transmission lines.

As with the forecast for annual energy and summer peak, CELT 2018 presents a lower — and declining — trajectory for winter peak.

While New England remains a summer peaking electricity system (with a forecasted 2018 summer peak around 25 percent higher than the forecasted 2018/2019 winter peak), winter peak forecasts are important for assessing the impacts of electric system reliability during a period when much of New England's energy infrastructure is dedicated to space heating (i.e., when interstate natural gas pipelines are used both for electricity generation and for heating homes and businesses).

It is primarily a thermal system in the Mid - Continent Area Power Pool (MAPP) region with a summer peak load in excess of 2300 MW, growing at 3 % -4 % per year..

The CELT 2018 forecast includes estimates of annual energy use, winter and summer peak demand, energy efficiency, and distributed solar from 2018 through 2027.

Electricity demand in the PJM region is not constant year round, but fluctuates throughout the year, with the summer peak as much as 26 gigawatts higher than the winter peak, Chen said.

Construction is scheduled to start this month, with both batteries to be commissioned in time for the summer peak.