Sentences with phrase «very low capacity factors»

Under these policies, lots of wind turbines were built, but were run at very low capacity factor.

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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.