Sentences with phrase «summer peak load»

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..

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.

Not exact matches

In the California Independent System Operator's (CAISO) Summer Loads & Resource Assessment, CAISO noted that the generation supply was expected to be adequate in order to meet peak electrical demand requirements in spite of drought - related concerns, in part because of recent renewable and natural gas capacity additions.

This is becasue the peaks were typically on hot summer days - those same days where we have now got loads of solar.

Peak load electricity — the power that consumers draw on in the middle of a hot summer afternoon, for instance — costs a lot more than a region's average cost of electricity.

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

That could mean that electricity demand in most U.S. regions will peak in the winter — not during the summer as it does now — if no efforts actively manage loads.

With the unofficial start of summer just around the corner, utilities and independent system operators are looking for ways to relieve peak loads and congestion on the electricity grid for the coming season and down the road.

Peak load month: The month of greatest plant electrical generation during the winter heating season (Oct - Mar) and summer cooling season (Apr - Sept), respectively.

Worse, nuke plants require water for cooling and would be shutdown in summer drought just when the AC load peaks.

In summer, usage climbs each day during a heat wave causing the load to grow, peaking in the afternoon.