Sentences with phrase «voltage lines needed»

Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner is worried about the slow pace of expansion of the country's high - voltage lines needed to transport offshore wind energy from the North Sea to industrial areas in the south of Germany.

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Plenty of power, not enough lines To make this happen, Germany needs nearly 1,000 miles of new high - voltage power lines in the coming years, according to plans approved by the federal government.

The lower map shows existing high - voltage lines capable of transporting wind - generated power in red; lines needed to meet the 2030 goal for renewable energy, according to the American Electric Power / American Wind Energy Association plan, are shown in green.

But a study out today suggests that the United States could, at least in theory, use new high - voltage power lines to move renewable power across the nation, and essentially eliminate the need to add new storage capacity.

MacDonald wondered whether the U.S. grid might be able to overcome intermittency problems if it added high - voltage, direct - current (HVDC) transmission lines — which suffer less energy loss than do traditional alternating - current transmission lines — to connect regional grids, so that power could be moved to where it was needed.

Some 40 % of transmission lines worldwide need to be replaced with Ultra High Voltage lines.

Although private investors are investing in long - distance high - voltage transmission lines, these need to be incorporated into a carefully planned national grid, the electrical equivalent of President Eisenhower's interstate highway system, in order to unleash the full potential of renewable energy wealth.

A new paper by NOAA and CIRES finds that with the deployment of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) transmisson lines, the US can seriously ramp up the use of solar and wind power to meet the nation's energy needs.

To minimize power loss, after the electricity leaves the power plant, it is «stepped up» at substations to high voltage and then moved long - distance across transmission lines to get where it is needed.

To replace just 20 % of the United States» 995,000 MW of total installed generating capacity, we would need to blanket an area the size of Kansas with wind turbines, and then add nearly a thousand 600 - MW gas - fired backup generators... and thousands of miles of new high voltage transmission lines.

Theoretically, he says, we could produce all the electricity we need, with 90 % less carbon emissions, with a combination of scrubbed natural gas burning generators and wind energy from high - wind regime areas transported through high voltage direct current lines.

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