Sentences with phrase «wind electric generating»

Worldwide, nuclear power generation actually declined in 2008 while wind electric generating capacity increased by 27,000 megawatts, enough to supply 8 million American homes.

Over the past decade, world wind electric generating capacity grew at nearly 30 percent per year, its increase driven by its many attractive features and by public policies supporting its expansion.

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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.

In addition, LIPA and PSEG - Long Island — which manages LIPA's electric grid — are now seeking additional proposals for projects that would generate 280 MW more in renewable energy, including solar, natural gas and wind.

Field studies in southeastern Morocco, just a few kilometers away from the site of this dust storm, show that electric fields generated by blowing sand boost dust emissions up to 10 times more than expected from wind alone.

People in Texas will plug in electric vehicles to their wind - powered grid, while Northeasterners might rely on nuclear - generated electricity.

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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.

«Nevertheless, this work moves magnesium batteries one step closer to reality — namely, a reality where batteries would be less - expensive, lighter and safer for allowing for easier adoption to large - area formats necessary for electric vehicles and to store energy generated by solar and wind sources.»

Though the federal government is doubling down on coal, electric power companies are embracing less - polluting natural gas, wind and solar power as the cost of generating electricity from those sources falls.

The offshore wind power potential in the U.S. is huge, totalling more than 4,000 gigawatts if fully developed — about four times today's total U.S. electric power generating capacity and enough electricity to power about 800 million homes, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Damaged tissues generate weak electric fields, and Zhao's research has shown how these electric fields can attract cells into wounds to heal them.

If / when oil gets over $ 100 / barrel and stays there, a combination of coal, nuclear, solar and wind will be used to generate electricity, and electric cars will become more common.

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Some proposed project ideas include installations of solar electric and solar hot water demonstration systems on a student housing complex; assessment of energy efficiency opportunities on a campus; installing energy metering to engage residents and building occupants in conservation; and construction of a small wind farm near campus that would generate electricity for the campus.

Of the country's 6,000 coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear, wind, and solar electric - generating facilities, a small sub-group of mostly coal - fired power generators produces more than its share of the nation's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions compared with the electricity it produces, the report found.

The U.S. wind energy industry installed a record 13,124 megawatts (MW) of electric generating capacity in 2012, which brings the total wind power in the U.S. to 60,007 MW.

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.

But because of wind's variable nature, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the grid, only includes 8.7 percent of wind generation in estimating available power at peak conditions, even though it frequently generates a much greater amount.

Replacing firewood with solar thermal cookers, or even with electric hotplates fed by wind - generated electricity or with some other energy source, will lighten the load on forests.

The basic problem is that Germany isn't close to generating nearly enough energy from wind and solar to power electric cars, and the country has been forced to slow its green energy plans due to blackout risk.

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.

In 2017, solar or wind power wins most competitive bids for electric supply: India just announced the closure of dozens of coal mines and the cancellation of plans for new coal - fired generating stations because the low cost of solar power was undercutting fossil fuel.

Past mandates and subsidies have increased wind's share of generated electric energy to 0.8 % of total U.S. generation and geothermal's share to 0.4 %.

Power generated by the wind farm will be delivered to the Towns of Berwick and Mahone Bay with the option of other Municipal Electric Utilities to join in the future.

Indeed, wind energy represents 38 per cent of all new electric generation capacity installed from these sources in Canada in this period — and Canada's coal - fired generating capacity has actually fallen at the same time.

The subsidies available to the West Virginia wind farms include federal accelerated depreciation (5 years as opposed to 20 years for other electric generating facilities), production tax credits, a reduction in the West Virginia Corporate Net Income Tax (due to accelerated depreciation), an 87.5 to 93.75 percent reduction in West Virginias Business and Occupation Tax, and a 91.67 percent reduction in West Virginia property taxes.

This important fact seems to have escaped T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil tycoon from Texas who is now promoting a plan to replace natural gas in the electric power sector with wind - generated electricity and use the freed up natural gas to power a fleet of NGVs.

With plug - in hybrids and all - electric cars coming to market that can run on local wind - generated electricity at a gasoline - equivalent cost of 80 cents per gallon, why keep burning costly fuel at four times the price?

The EF, in turn, is used by EPA to justify all its climate regulations, including its ultra-expensive so - called «Clean Power Plan» (CPP -RCB- requiring that many coal plants be replaced with wind and solar - generated electric power at huge expense to ratepayers in terms of outlays and reductions in reliability as well as to taxpayers for government subsidies.

I - 937 was passed by the voters to diversify and clean up Washington's electric grid by requiring utilities to generate at least 15 % of their electricity from new, non-hydro, renewable sources such as wind and solar.

... By integrating electricity from renewable sources such as wind power into our electric generating mix, we can help ensure a clean environment and a robust economy for the Commonwealth.»

Instructs the Secretary to assign 60 % of appropriated funds for any given year to facilities that use solar, wind, geothermal, or closed - loop (dedicated energy crops) biomass technologies to generate electricity if there are insufficient appropriations to make full payments for electric production from all qualified renewable energy facilities.

Because of the higher cost, electric generating companies and other developers would not be planning and building «wind farms» if it were not for subsidies and other «incentives.»

They've also chosen wind and solar as the best electric power generating technologies so the law mandates increasing their use.

For example, could a permitting agency decide that an electric generating unit is not BACT - compliant unless the facility switches fuels from coal to natural gas, or from natural gas to a mixture of gas and wind?

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For example, these organizations are not sufficiently candid about: * The high costs of wind energy; * The added costs of wind energy due to its need for backup generating capacity from traditional energy sources because of the intermittence, variability and unpredictability of wind energy; * The absence of transmission capacity in remote areas where windmills might otherwise be acceptable; * The extent to which wind developers» costs are being shifted to taxpayers and electric customers and hidden in their tax and electric bills; * Scenic impairment and other adverse environmental, health and safety impacts.

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.

Authorizing the final segments of the Project will make 7,191 acres of Federal lands within the ROW available to transmit electric power generated from both traditional (i.e. coal - fired and natural gas - fired) generation facilities and renewable sources (i.e. wind generation facilities) in Wyoming and Idaho.

At least two critics have challenged the authorsí use of new coal - fired electric generating capacity as a basis for comparing their estimate of the cost of new wind energy - based generation.

Over the past few years, wind, solar, and natural gas have made up nearly all new electric generating capacity in the U.S. And earlier this year, wind energy surpassed conventional hydropower to become the country's largest renewable resource, with enough installed to power 25 million homes.

The fact is that over the last five years, wind power has added more new electric generating capacity in the USA than coal and nuclear combined — in spite of the fact that both coal and nuclear have enjoyed large, and permanent public subsidies, while subsidies for wind have been small, short - term and therefore unreliable.

Finally we moved to Texas where I got on Green Mountain Energy's 100 % wind - generated electricity (&, of course, we bought our home close to work), so even though I spend maybe $ 5 or $ 10 more a month for electricity in our all - electric home, the $ hundreds in savings from my other measures, and our great reduction in KWHs over the years makes this more than feasible.

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

Growth in wind - powered electric generating capacity slowed in 2010, increasing by 11 % from 2009 after increasing 40 % on an average annual basis from 2005 - 2009.

Wind, solar, geothermal and other green technologies account for less than 1 % of the electric power generated in the USA today (50 % coal - 20 % Natural Gas - 20 % Nuke - 7 % Hydro - 2 % Petro - 1 % Other) and that is electric power only.

AWEA reveled in the fact that wind was the largest source of new electric generating capacity in 2015, representing 41 % percent of all new electric power placed in service for the year.

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