Sentences with phrase «turbine electric generating»

Georgia Power's coal - fired steam - turbine electric generating Plant Bowen in Euharlee, Georgia, about 40 miles northwest of Atlanta is seen from a commercial airliner on September 12, 2009.

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To power Tesla's electric car empire, the company has joined hands with Vestas, a top wind turbine manufacturer, to create a storage system that would make power generated from wind useful during quiet days in the jetstreams.

Like the hydro - electric turbine we installed in the nearby River Test, which generates electricity to help light the Visitor's Centre.

Magnets are the key to generating electricity, of course, and electricity is the key to the use of cleaner sources of energy — whether wind turbines or electric vehicles.

Nearly 50 percent of the electric power in this country comes from burning coal to create steam that drives electricity - generating turbines.

As it stands, eSolar expects to generate five megawatts of electricity with its refurbished 1940s - vintage General Electric steam turbines roughly 25 percent of the time, which coincides generally with peak demand for electricity, Tyner says.

It has been proposed for naval vessels where the diesels or turbines would generate electricity to power electric motors that turn the ship's propellers.

Another optional extra available for both models is an acoustic pedestrian warning, which makes it easier for pedestrians to notice the vehicle when driving at low speeds in all - electric mode by generating a distinctive identifying sound similar to the noise from a turbine.

Until the 1930s, hydroelectric - power plants equipped with water - turbine generating units produced the largest percentage of electric energy because they were less expensive to operate than thermal - power plants using steam - turbine units.

We saw a sketch of an electric car drawing power from the wind and storing energy from the grid, a photo of farmer taking off a hay crop while a wind turbine generates royalty income for his family from the same field, an illustration of wind energy at the centre of a clean and vibrant cityscape, and many more examples of how Canadians are becoming more conscious about where our electricity comes from, how we use it, and how our choices can contribute to a more prosperous and sustainable world.

When asked to select from a variety of sources to help the state increase its energy supply, more than 90 percent of the 949 Delaware residents responding to the survey supported an offshore wind option — in which whirling wind turbines as tall as 40 - story buildings would be erected off the coast to generate electricity — even if wind power were to add between $ 1 and $ 30 per month to their electric bills.

Electric power can be supplied by solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays and by solar thermal systems in which the Sun heats a fluid that generates steam to drive a steam turbine.

The wind turbines utilise generators from US provider GE (General Electric) and according to some estimates given by GE and Max Bögl Wind, the wind power plant could generate 10GWh of energy annually.

Today's story describes how electric power system planners treat wind generators, recognizing that the wind necessary to achieve a turbine's full generating capacity may not be available at the time of peak electric demand.

The generated electricity is being sold to the nearest Electric Supply Company Limited (ESCOM) based on the geographic location of the turbines.

Combined cycle: An electric generating technology in which electricity is produced from otherwise lost waste heat exiting from one or more gas (combustion) turbines.

Indeed, last month the Electric Reliability Council of Texas said that the latest data on wind turbine performance and costs suggests that wind power is likely to be more cost - effective than natural gas over the next 20 years, and it could account for the majority of new generating capacity added over that that time in Texas.

I would suggest we give a good long studied look into the energy production values of how a magnetic spinning disc could generate energy uinto a generator similar to the ones that wind turbines are generating but with higher friction values for higher electric output from the powerful spin that can be caused by rare earth magnets in specific allignments

Charles F. Brush built the first «automatically operated» wind - powered electric generating turbine, in 1887, in Cleveland, Ohio.

That means when their turbine is generating more power than they are using, the electric meter spins backward.