Sentences with phrase «to meet peak demand»

It also didn't include plants designed to meet peak demand because they don't operate continuously.

In general, bids from power plants, renewable energy and other resources need to cover their costs for being ready to meet peak demand on an as - needed basis.

Essentially, with utility - scale solar prices lower than wholesale in Arizona, at as low as 2.5 to 3 cents per kWh on a 25 - year PPA, the state has «super-cheap fuel» which it can now use for meeting peak demand, Huber said.

ERCOT is expecting another 387 MW of additional utility - scale solar to come online by summer, and given the higher peak capacity contribution this will be the largest contributor to meeting peak demand in the next four months.

Peaking capacity runs a few times a year for short periods to help electricity systems meet peak demand.

Once energy storage scales up, utilities will meet peak demand more easily with less total capacity and fewer power plants

There should be more than enough capacity to meet peak demand of 51 GW

Power Grids have trouble meeting peak demands and keeping up when they have unexpected outages or unexpected lack of delivery from renewable.

Again, it has been argued and is still argued that IWT's are inefficient energy producers that can never meet peak demands for power.

This is crucial because California can not meet peak demand relying only on in - state generating plants.

Law firms have found that calling Latitude leaves them with more freedom and flexibility to meet peak demand without disrupting team cohesion.

One potential downside of real - time pricing is that it may increase pollution emissions in certain regions of the country if customers switch their use from daytime, when natural gas is the predominant generation source for meeting peak demand, to the night, when coal dominates.

ERCOT is expecting another 387 MW of additional utility - scale solar to come online by summer, and given the higher peak capacity contribution this will be the largest contributor to meeting peak demand in the next four months.

By avoiding an unnecessary overbuild of power generation to meet peak demand, this kind of optimization can also help reduce costs.

More than 18,000 lithium ion battery packs would replace a gas - fired power plant used to meet peak demand

The new system is also designed to allow a PHEV to use its battery as an energy storage device, enabling the car to hold electrical energy in the battery while the grid has surplus power (during off - peak hours, for example) and contribute its surplus energy back to the grid when the latter needs more power to meet peak demand, Su says.

Lazkano says that fossil fuel plants, particularly coal - fired plants, must pay a significant cost when ramping up production to meet peak demands.

Two of the biggest problems confronting most «green» power generating schemes are that the most abundant renewable sources tend to be far from population centres and that there is as yet no practical means of storing the generated power to meet peak demand.

With average electricity demand rising annually at 1.5 % -2 % and peak demand rising at around double that rate in some sections of the country (and remember that majority of the generating and T&D capacity is dedicated to meeting peak demand for a few hours each year)... we need to approach the electricity issue not only by considering the generating side of the equation but careful consideration of the rest of the pieces as well.

Not only is a lot of electricity lost during transmission, but power companies have to supply enough energy to meet the peak demand, which not only depend on the hours of the day, but also on the weather.

sunny summer days when air conditioning usage peaks — which means that we don't need to have as many big power plants to meet that peak demand.

Some surplus is required in any grid to meet peak demand and to have reserve capacity, but the extent of the excess capacity reveals the extent to which the government and private interests overbuilt, and can not be blamed on the popularity of solar PV alone

As John Farrell, from the Institute of Energy Self Reliance, writes in a blog on the same subject, even rooftop solar is meeting peak demand in the state of Colorado, at less than half the cost of peaking gas plant.

Zero - carbon alternatives to the UK's predominantly gas - fired UK heating infrastructure would, therefore, need to be able to meet peak demand some five or six times higher than peak power demand.

Hydroelectric power is also cheap, clean, and good for both baseload and meeting peak demand, but limited by available natural sources.

Energy storage projects in the UK are increasing at a significant rate as costs continue to fall and grid operators explore new ways to meet peak demand and integrate renewable sources into the nation's power mix.

The current energy production structure consists primarily of coal and nuclear energy providing baseload power, while natural gas and hydroelectric power generally provide the variable reserves to meet peak demand.

In that case, the renewables - plus - storage would not be competing directly with new gas plants, but instead face off against existing peaking resources, which tend to be less - efficient, higher - cost plants used to meet peak demand.

An earlier EWEA Tradewind study found that, for the 2020 medium scenario (200 GW, 12 % wind penetration), aggregating wind energy production from multiple countries strongly increased the capacity credit, the amount of capacity that can be relied on to meet peak demand, almost doubled it to 14 %, which they say corresponds to approximately 27 GW of firm power in the system.

That depends on the «capacity credit» of wind — how much of the wind plant capacity can be relied on statistically to meet peak demand.

However even if that option is available, some say that, with more wind on the grid, to meet peak demand, we will still need more backup plants than we have.

Accusations of Apple throttling older iPhones are again in the news, but according to the company, it is more an issue with older Lithium - ion batteries and Apple's attempts to «smooth out» battery usage to meet peak demands.