Under these policies, lots of wind turbines were built, but were run at
very low capacity factor.
Not exact matches
Many conventional power plants have a
very very low capacity factor because of this.
If an Electric Utility built a nuclear power plant to meet this peaking load, the
capacity factor of the nuclear plant would be
very low (25 %).
It shows with their storage costs (which seem
very low), that the
lowest cost solution to building a 99.9 % renewable network in one (reasonable sized) region is to build nearly 3 times the actual supply needed (this is not a «
capacity factor» issue — see note 2).
As a means of producing useful electrical power, wind and solar are
very expensive generating technologies because of their
low capacity factors and because of their non-dispatchability and intermittency.
The wind turbine designs are based on
very low wind speeds in order to improve
capacity factor, and be used in conjunction with hydro - electricity / pumping schemes storing / generating electricity as currently used, also in South Africa.
But in our case, if you have free fuel, your marginal cost to operate is
very low, so you operate at a higher
capacity factor than a fossil peaker,» he said.
The downside to using a laptop size drive is that 2.5 ″ form
factor drives are usually
lower capacity (or
very much pricier if higher
capacity), and unlike 3.5 ″ drives that have a set height, 2.5 ″ drives can be 7 mm, 9.5 mm, and 12.5 mm tall.