Sentences with phrase «summer peaking generation»

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.

Not exact matches

As we near peak summer driving season, American consumers would have worried a generation ago that such a meeting would be an impetus for a pullback in production, with oil exporters aiming to raise prices by limiting supply.

Solar generation follows daily and seasonal sunlight patterns, peaking during the long summer days and reaching its annual minimum during the winter.

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.

The LEAP model contains an electric dispatch model to simulate the electric system, determine the generation mix and ensure that there are sufficient resources to satisfy peak demand for power in summer and winter.

Solar can help shave peak daily generation and thus reduce the need for traditional peaking generation for the summer peak when it is hot and usually sunny.

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).

Thus, OSW generation could help offset the exceptionally high demand peaks experienced around 6:00 p.m. during summer months, which require grid operators to dispatch costly (and often inefficient) generation assets.

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

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

But the next generation iPhone 5S would come up in the market during the peak summer, in the month of June or July of the present year along with the buzzed cheaper iPhone.