The plants will produce a total of up to 20 gigawatt hours (GWh) per year, which corresponds to around nine percent of METRO Deutschland's
total electricity requirements.
Not exact matches
Steve: So, we are talking about a whole lot of square miles and the estimates in the article are [that] by 2050, you could generate 69 percent of all United States
electricity and 35 percent of the
total energy
requirements of the country, strictly with these solar farms out in the Southwest.
A previous NREL report, «Land - use
Requirements and the Per - capita Solar Footprint for Photovoltaic Generation in the United States,» had estimated that if solar energy was to meet 100 % of all
electricity demand in the United States, it would take up 0.6 % of the
total area in the United States.
The TSOs» so - called «Grid Development Plan» forms the basis of the «Federal
Requirement Plan for Transmission Networks,» which identifies as «urgent» under the German Energy Act a
total of 36 projects, including three north - to - south
electricity highways and 21 projects that traverse state or country borders.
The IEA first assessed the water - energy nexus in the World Energy Outlook 2012, dedicating a chapter to analysis of the water - for - energy relationship, reviewing water
requirements for different energy sources (primary energy production and
electricity generation) and estimating
total freshwater needs by scenario, energy source and region.
With the increase in energy required the effect will be a
requirement for say 6 - 10 times more
electricity generation in
total than now.
* Note: As discussed in Breaking Energy's article, the project's use of natural gas remains within the de minimus
requirement (2 % - 5 % of
total fuel use) as defined by the renewable portfolio standard (RPS) to be considered RPS - eligible delivered
electricity.