Sentences with phrase «wind capacity planned»

As of November 30, 2012, the wind capacity planned to come on line by the end of December would account for approximately half of the total 2012 wind capacity additions.

Not exact matches

According to the American Wind Energy Association, there are 18.2 gigawatts of wind energy capacity currently under construction or in the planning process, which would represent nearly a quarter of current capacWind Energy Association, there are 18.2 gigawatts of wind energy capacity currently under construction or in the planning process, which would represent nearly a quarter of current capacwind energy capacity currently under construction or in the planning process, which would represent nearly a quarter of current capacity.

There are also plans afoot to build a 1.4 GW capacity line under the Pyrenees between Spain — with a highly developed wind and solar power industry — and France that will double the power capacity between the two countries.

Currently, Spain has 16,000 MW of installed wind capacity, or 10 % of its total annualized electric demand, and plans to expand renewable generation to 40,000 MW over the next twelve years.

Enbridge also owns a share in the UK's Rampion offshore wind project and 50 % of 1.4 GW of French capacity planned by EDF.

Capacity requirements must be reviewed and decided at the same time as plans are being made for any wind farm project requiring equipment.

China's target in the 12th five - year plan is to expand its wind and solar energy capacities to more than 100 gigawatts and 20 gigawatts respectively by 2015.

On subseasonal timescales, probabilistic predictions of wind, solar and hydropower generation can help stabilize energy costs and supply by improving scheduling and trading, maintenance scheduling, reducing curtailments and imbalance penalties, improving decisions about reserve energy sources, maximizing grid integration, and planning capacity commitments.

In a little more than a decade, South Korea could have offshore wind capacity of 13 GW if ambitious plans laid out in its latest plan for electricity supply and demand come to fruition.

On 2013/10/25 Grenatec reported that China has plans to built up to 20 high - capacity, high - voltage power lines across its territory in order to connect its western sun, wind and hydro energy sources with its eastern and southern energy - hungry coastal cities.

SaskPower's plan for a ten-fold increase in installed wind energy capacity is an exciting step forward in more ways than one.

Wind capacity will top 22,000 MW in three years if planned projects move forward.

As a result of green energy's rampant unreliability, Germany plans to cap the total amount of wind energy at 40 to 45 percent of national capacity, according to a report published by the German newspaper Berliner Zeitung.

DTE Energy, which already purchases electricity from two NextEra wind farms in the county, plans to add 4,000 megawatts in renewable capacity over the next few decades.

The United Kingdom has approved plans for the world's largest offshore wind farm: up to 300 turbines with a capacity of up to 1.8 gigawatts in the North Sea.

Beijing says it plans to increase China's wind power capacity to 200,000 megawatts by 2020, but its own figures see nuclear rising to just 58,000 megawatts in the same time frame.

they also do deals to secure financing of other people's new build (i.e. some new build wouldn't happen without them) and repowering their old Delabole site amounts to new build as the capacity is vastly increased with their building development plan on that wind farm.

The project was completed with little public input, bypassing the Texas Public Utility Commission's Competitive Energy Renewable Zones (CREZ) process in which the PUC designated new transmission routes and assigned companies to add more than 2,300 miles to the grid in a $ 5 billion plan to reduce congestion and allow Texas wind capacity to swell to 18,500 MW by late 2013.

China aims to reach 210 GW of grid - connected wind capacity by 2020, as part of its 13th Energy Technology Innovation Five Year Plan.

Although the United States has the second - highest wind power capacity in the world — some 61,000 megawatts — a lack of long - term policy planning has led to several such boom - and - bust cycles.

China plans to increase wind and solar power capacity by more than 21 percent and have at least 20 gigawatts of new wind power installations and 15 gigawatts of additional photovoltaic capacity next year, according to the NEA statement.

Texas now has nearly 6,000 megawatts of wind - generating capacity online and a staggering 39,000 megawatts in the construction and planning stages.

New York State, which has 700 megawatts of wind - generating capacity, plans to add another 8,000 megawatts, with most of the power being generated by winds coming off Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.

The wind project shown here delivers a mind - numbingly small amount of power - only 0.001 % of its capacity - and not much in the way of those fabulous «green» jobs, unless dressing up like a cow is part of the brilliant green career plan.

In the past China has set multiple» 5 year plans» for installing wind capacity, met each target early, and then set a new, more aggressive target.

SaskPower's wind energy target is part of a broader plan that will see renewable energy sources make up 50 per cent of generating capacity in the province within 15 years.

By 2015, China plans to quadruple its installed wind power capacity between 2010 and 2015, and then nearly double it again by 2020.

Plan B involves a crash program to develop 3 million megawatts of wind generating capacity by 2020.

The EPA's plan, for example, would require somewhere on the order of 500 gigawatts of wind - powered generating capacity.

China is now the world's largest wind market and it has developed plans to build seven «wind bases» in the country by 2020, each with a capacity of 10 GW.

Belgium plans to increase its renewable wind energy capacity by constructing a doughnut shaped «Island of Wind» in the North wind energy capacity by constructing a doughnut shaped «Island of Wind» in the North Wind» in the North Sea.

In terms of the electricity sector, Serbia is aiming for 500MW of wind capacity by 2020 — wind thereby comprising 27.4 percent of the country's total planned capacity of renewable energy for the electricity sector.

Indeed, the idled capacity in the U.S. automobile industry is sufficient to produce the wind turbines to reach the Plan B global goal.

Although only in the early planning stages, more than 25 offshore wind projects — primarily located off the Northeast and mid-Atlantic coasts — representing approximately 24 GW of generating capacity are underway.

Morocco's state - run power utility has just invited companies to bid on five wind farm projects with a total power generation capacity of 850 megawatts, as part of its plan to build 2,000 MW of wind power by 2020.

PacifiCorp recently completed an Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) that identified 1,400 MW (14 %) of wind capacity over the next 10 years as part of the least - cost resource portfolio.

In effect, the shift to plug - in hybrids, with their electricity storage capacity and backup tank of gasoline, buffers the variability of wind energy, enabling it to become the centerpiece of the Plan B energy economy.

A UK - based global warming researcher posted the chart showing China plans to triple wind power capacity and greatly expand solar power by 2030 to comply with the pledge.

If all planned wind generators for 2012 come on line, as reported by industry participants, wind capacity additions could top 12,000 MW for this year.

The Utilipoint article apparently was stimulated by the recent announcement of FPLEnergyís intention to add more windmill capacity and, particularly, its plan to build a 204 MW «wind farm» in New Mexico and sell the power to Public Service Company of New Mexico.

The small contribution of electricity Comparison of Estimated Electricity Output from Planned «Wind Farms» with Actual 1999 Output from Some of Reliant Energy and TXUís Newer, Existing Generating Plants * Company & Generating Plant Generating Units Capacity In MW ** Fuel Unit Type Generation (kWh) # TXU - FPL Wind Farm 242 160.0 Wind Wind Turbine 500,000,000 Reliant Wind Farm 160 208.0 Wind Wind Turbine 455,520,000 to 637,728,000 *** Reliant?

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SaskPower's wind energy target is part of a broader plan to have renewable energy sources represent 50 percent of installed electricity generation capacity in Saskatchewan within 15 years.

The CPREs report «Generating light on landscape impacts: How to accommodate onshore wind while protecting the countryside», calls on the government to provide more clarity on the total number of onshore wind turbines it expects will be installed, and wants the capacity of the landscape to accommodate wind turbines «without unacceptable damage» to be formally taken into account in planning decisions.

Two days earlier EPA announced final regulations (which I call the Skyrocketing Rates Power Plan or SRPP, but which EPA calls the «Clean Power Plan» or CPP for obvious reasons) requiring states to decrease CO2 emissions from electricity production and use primarily by increasing the capacity of non-hydro «remewable» (wind and solar) sources of electric power from 4 percent to 28 percent by 2030.

Ontario's plan to double its wind energy capacity will make a bad situation worse, according to a report published by the Council for Clean and Reliable Energy.

Acciona Energia is planning to build two wind farms and two solar projects with a combined capacity of 400MW in Chile.

One early study suggested that up to 12 GW of offshore wind capacity could be installed around Japan by 2010, generating around 39 TWh pa, about the same as was expected from then planned 17 nuclear reactor expansion programme.

The Master Plan, to be released in 2017 will identify offshore wind sites and will set targets for capacity and commercial operations dates at each site.

That said, Planning Engineer did an excellent job presenting some of the important issues, from a transmission grid perspective, of the complications introduced by just one «good» idea — increased solar / wind generating capacity.