Sentences with phrase «transmission capacity»

The article makes the useful point that lack of transmission capacity is a barrier to wind energy.

Investment in new transmission capacity may also be required to avoid price spikes or even failure of supply in a dry year.

As long as the 30 % federal investment tax credit is an option, finding the best wind resource with adequate transmission capacity isn't even that important.

The limited transmission capacity connecting the wind production and power demand centers was insufficient for the amount of wind power being generated in the west.

But no one wants to build transmission capacity unless there's generation capacity in place.

What if you don't have access to enough hydro, or you do but can't use it for some reason (not enough transmission capacity, or grid needs an upgrade)?

Can we manage the capital cost risk, does it have good transmission capacity and is the resource in the area strong?

The higher cost of the batteries far exceeds the savings in the reduced transmission capacity required.

With the long range transmission capacity of this video baby monitor, you can easily see how your baby is doing when you are doing chores indoors or outdoors.

During the past two decades very little transmission capacity has been built.

The dual - clutch automated manual transmission capacity it has installed, is sufficient for half its total annual production.

The firm renders transmission capacity to mobile and fixed - line carriers, and private network operators.

The fact that existing wind farms shut down because of inadequate transmission capacity is not news to those of us actually involved in alternative energy - it's been widely known for years.

Building new transmission capacity doesn't necessarily mean that more renewable electricity will be integrated into the grid.

Significant progress has been made in improving transmission capacity and in reforming the struggling power distribution companies.

When transmission capacity is added to serve «wind farms,» the costs should be counted as part of the full cost of the wind - generated electricity.

Often the best place to build a wind farm, for example, doesn't have adequate transmission capacity to bring that energy into the places where it is needed.

Now NREL says that «an economic carrying capacity of 30 % [VRE] in much of the United States will require largely understood changes to operational practices as well as transmission capacity expansion.»

For those that didn't hear the message over the past year: One major bottleneck in expanding renewable energy generation in the US is that electrical transmission capacity needs to be expanded and modernized.

«As many countries also need to expand transmission to support greater use of renewable energy, grid planners should consider the air quality implications of investment in transmission capacity in order to increase the co-benefits for health and carbon mitigation.

Domestic transmission capacity service declaration inquiry 2018 - 2019 ACCC (Access declaration review)

The study, published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, examined if ongoing power transmission capacity investment in China — driven largely by concerns over air pollution — could also reduce local adverse health impacts from air pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions.

A new connectivity infrastructure that will allow the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array) observatory to increase its data transmission capacity by more than 25 times begins construction today, thanks to the signing of a contract for optical connectivity between Associated Universities Inc. (AUI), on behalf of ALMA, and two Chilean companies: Silica Networks Chile S.A. and Telefónica Empresas Chile S.A.

«To date, we have installed nine connections using AC technology with a total transmission capacity of more than three gigawatts, transporting enough electricity to supply three million households with wind power.

«Sufficient transmission margin remains to import emergency power into impacted LDAs,» the report noted, meaning that enough transmission capacity exists to power those regions» needs from outside.

A shortage of transmission capacity keeps Upstate New York's glut of power from flowing to the Downstate cities that need it.

Because each pair is polarized differently and isolated, there's no interference between the two pairs, allowing for a simpler structure and a larger transmission capacity.

Signaling dynamics increase the information transmission capacity of biochemical signaling pathways.

Proposed federal legislation might encourage more investment, but even if transmission capacity is added, blackouts will still occur.

Bartos and Chester say power plants must strengthen transmission capacity and enact conservation strategies if they are to remain capable of reliably supplying power to the region as conditions change.

The full automatic transmission capacity is listed at 7.8 L (8.2 US qt, 6.9 Imp qt), but only around 3.5 US qt (3.3 liters) can be drained from the transmission drain plug.

Wind may be close to competitive with coal in some areas, except it can't supply more than 20 % of grid capacity, except it doesn't come with a cost - effective storage solution, except it requires building new underutilized transmission capacity, except some people think the windmills are ugly or kill birds etc... You need to not only compete on price, but also figure out how to get rid of all those «excepts» that make coal still seem viable.

The problem in New England, which has resulted in electricity prices that are four times higher than normal for sustained periods, is that all of the pipeline transmission capacity has been purchased by the local gas distribution companies that sell gas for home heating and retail uses.

Opponents also told commissioners Wednesday they believed the utility could get power as affordably from other wind energy projects that are being independently developed, and said they were worried Wind Catcher and its associated line could stifle the development of other transmission capacity.

While carbon pricing can theoretically address the externalities associated with climatic harm from emissions, it can not automatically deal with the externalities holding back grid development, which include the monopoly status of many of the firms involved, issues concerning economies of scale, the fact that the absence of transmission capacity restricts the emergence of renewable generation capacity (and vice versa).

Wind and solar require expensive renewable energy plant, far flung networks of lossy transmission capacity, and equivalent levels of fossil fuel backup generation (usually operating very inefficiently).

«Feeding such a potentially large (975 MW, at times), highly variable (from 0 to 975 MW), and often unpredictable amount of electricity into an onshore transmission line and electric grid would be a significant burden on existing onshore transmission capacity and the stability of a regional electric system that must be kept in balance (e.g., voltage, frequency).»

On the wind side, transmission capacity continued to be a problem, with nearly 15 % of wind power being wasted («curtailed») due to inadequate transmission capability.

Moreover, mountaintop wind farms require additional transmission capacity, which will only be used between 25 to 35 percent of the time due to wind powers low capacity factors.

This could be done through building much higher capacity electricity transmission capacity between the Mekong States and China's southern electricity grid nexus in the city of Kunming.

From 1988 to 1998, U.S. electricity demand rose by nearly 30 %, but transmission capacity grew by only 15 %.