Utility companies increasingly buy back
surplus electricity produced by small domestic turbines.
That surplus electricity produced from the drought releases of water from the Three Gorges Dam could have been used to supplant electricity elsewhere in the system, or could have gone into storage for use later.
Not exact matches
According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough
electricity to power the biorefinery, so
surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing
electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to
produce ethanol from sugarcane.
All of the
electricity produced feeds into the public network, and Juhnde profits from the
surplus.
In addition, biorefineries could use lipidcane bagasse to
produce steam and
electricity to become self - sustainable for their energy needs and provide
surplus electricity, providing environmental benefits by displacing
electricity produced with fossil fuels.
«Our study showed that wind actually
produces enough
surplus electricity to support up to 72 hours of either battery or geologic storage.
The energy
surplus produced by MFC might be integrated into the
electricity grid and used elsewhere.
The so - called «e-dumper» is being built from a massive Komatsu dump truck that weighs 45 tons when empty and has tires as tall as a person, and although that might initially seem like a strange choice for electrification, its intended usage is expected to
produce a net
surplus of
electricity rather than draw a huge amount of grid power.
Plus: wind
produces enough
surplus electricity to offer 72 hours of backup power (vs. 24 hours for solar panels).
Energy efficiency is a top priority at Sustainability Base, and the facility is expected to
produce all its own power as well as
surplus electricity which can be channelled into the local power grid.
Power
surplus in Ontario: in my presentation I had suggested that more wind power projects were not necessary, especially not for a form of power generation that is intermittent,
produced out - of - phase with demand and is expensive, causing Ontario
electricity rates to rise.
This occurs because Ontario
produces more clean
electricity than it can use, so it is forced to sell off
surplus energy at a discounted rate.
The commercial units could, for example, be used to economically
produce hydrogen from
surplus, low - cost
electricity (such as overnight wind energy production).
Because the fuel is stored for later use after it's
produced, it could be
produced during off - peak periods overnight, which would lower the cost and allow the province to tap into its considerable
electricity surplus.