Sentences with phrase «total grid capacity»

To achieve 20 % grid penetration in New England you would need to build 200 % of the total grid capacity in turbine name plate capacity.

Not exact matches

A study earlier this year by German company Energynautics commissioned by Greenpeace found that grid upgrades totaling up to 140 GW of capacity would be necessary across the European Union and eastern and northern Europe to cope with the vast increase planned in renewable energy.

Germany added 344 MW of solar power in May, taking the total to 33,877 MW, or 19 percent of installed capacity, according to the nation's grid regulator.

While such off - grid expansion will remain a small share of capacity total, it can have significant socio - economic impact by helping to bridge the electrification gap.

In particular, if challenges in China around the cost of renewable subsidies and grid integration are addressed, its solar PV could reach a total of 320GW by 2022, equivalent to the total capacity of all power in Japan.

Quebec added three projects totalling 249 MW of capacity in 2016, ending the year with 3,510 MW of wind energy on its grid and maintaining its position as the second largest wind energy market in Canada.

Each spreadsheet lists the model estimates of capacity additions (what electric generating capacity the model and what the states tell the model to include because of regulations); generation (how much the existing and projected units will produce); prices (including firm power prices, energy prices, capacity prices, allowance prices, natural gas prices, and renewable energy credit prices); total CO2 emissions; fuel consumption for different fuel types; and transmission flows into and out of the RGGI power grids.

With a share of 100 % renewable energy sources and 12 times the current grid capacity, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants can be reduced to 15 % of the total annual electricity consumption, which represents the maximum possible benefit of transmission for Europe.

To cover the total loss of power when the wind drops or blows too hard, every wind farm needs a conventional back - up power station (commonly gas - fired) with capacity of twice the design capacity of the wind farm to even out the sudden fluctuations in the electricity grid.

As of 2012, the sub-Saharan 48 had a mere 83 GWe of total grid - connected generation capacity, with South Africa alone accounting for more than half of that.

Three new nuclear reactors were connected to the grid in 2013 and four were permanently shut down, dropping the total number of reactors in operation around the world to 436 with an installed capacity of 372 GW.

Those projects total 140 megawatts on a grid with 27,000 megawatts of capacity.

Among the world leaders in installed PV capacity, Japan connected an estimated 900 megawatts to the grid in 2010, bringing its total capacity to more than 3,500 megawatts.

When it comes to current capacity, «The total installed capacity of grid interactive renewable power, which was 16817 MW as on 31.03.2010 had gone up to 19971 MW as on 31.03.2011 indicating growth of 18.75 % during the period.

In China, total installed and grid - connected capacity was reported to have reached nearly 130 GW, while total solar capacity had crossed the 50 GW mark.

The grid operator said on March 1 that total resource capacity for the upcoming summer (spanning June through September 2018) is expected -LSB-...]

Much of the expected growth in China's offshore wind build - out, which has the potential to reach total grid - connected capacity of 5GW by 2020, is mapped out to take place off Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Fujian provinces.

A total of 584 offshore wind turbines were put into service in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom during the first half of this year, adding 2,300 megawatts of capacity to the European grid.

Just last year, ten reactors — eight in China, one in South Korea, and an experimental fast reactor in Russia — connected to the grid with 9.4 gigawatts total capacity, the most since 1990.

Phase Three the presence of VRE becomes more apparent as its output can swing in large percentages of total capacity across the grid.

In terms of total capacity on the grid, thermal dipped below 70 percent http://theenergycollective.com/michael-davidson/335271/china-s-electricity-sector-glance-2013

According to the Digest of UK Energy Statistics, nuclear power provided 69,098 gigawatt hours (18 % of total) of electricity to consumers in 2009, whereas there were only 50 megawatts of installed solar PV capacity on the grid in the same year.

The power grid has a total installed capacity of 23.4 million kW, and last month, around 83 percent of that came from solar, wind and hydro power.