Sentences with phrase «wind generating capacity»

Once built, they will together exceed the entire world's wind generating capacity at the start of 2008.

Now trailing well behind China, the United States installed 6,800 megawatts of wind generating capacity in 2011.

Nationwide, new wind generating capacity in 2008 totaled 8,400 megawatts while new coal plants totaled only 1,400 megawatts.

According to the global wind market statistics by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) there was a 44 % increase in the annual market as 51,473 MW of new wind generating capacity was added globally.

Denmark was first to put wind turbines in the sea, but today it ranks a distant second to the United Kingdom in total offshore wind generating capacity.

By the end of 2014, global wind generating capacity totaled 369,000 megawatts, enough to power more than 90 million U.S. homes.

With a $ 5 - billion investment and up to 2,900 miles of transmission lines, the stage has been set to harness 18,500 megawatts of wind generating capacity from these two regions alone, enough to supply half of the state's 24 million residents.

U.S. wind generating capacity expanded by 45 percent in 2007 and 50 percent in 2008.

While the United States trails only China in land - based wind generating capacity, it has yet to install a single offshore turbine.

From 2000 to 2007, world wind generating capacity increased from 18,000 megawatts to an estimated 92,000 megawatts.

The addition of more natural gas, solar, and wind generating capacity follows the pattern of the past several years.

Texas added about 6 % to its existing wind generating capacity; the other four added 20 - 30 %.

For this reason, hydroelectric generating capacity may be derated in long - term forecasts, meaning that hydroelectric generating capacity has a discount factor applied to it, in the same fashion that wind generating capacity resources are derated.

The United States has led the world in each of the last four years in new wind generating capacity, having overtaken Germany in 2005.

Now totaling more than 4,000 megawatts, almost all of it in Europe, offshore wind generating capacity has grown fivefold since 2006.

According to the global wind market statistics by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) there was a 44 % increase in the annual market as 51,473 MW of new wind generating capacity was added globally.

That could be a really important deal breaker preventing a high proportion of PV and wind generating capacity.

Substantial additions of new wind generating capacity, coupled with strong wind conditions amid unseasonably warm early - autumn temperatures, drove the recent generation records.

More than 4,000 MW of Canada's wind generating capacity has been operating for five years or more, and as the country's turbine fleet ages, it is becoming increasingly important for leaders in the industry to collectively focus on strategies to maximize wind farm performance and strive for operational excellence.

And soon Oregon will nearly double its wind generating capacity with a 900 - megawatt wind farm in the wind - rich Columbia River Gorge.

The official U.S. goal of one day getting 20 percent of its electricity from wind means developing at least 300,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity.

This package could lead to the development of 23,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity, enough to satisfy the residential electricity needs of 7 million homes.

And while the world's nuclear generating capacity is estimated to expand by only 1,000 megawatts this year, wind generating capacity will likely grow by 30,000 megawatts.

Preliminary data for 2012 from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) indicate that, for the first time, more wind generating capacity was brought online than any other resource type to meet the nation's electricity needs.

Texas, through the leadership of Gov. Rick Perry, plans to build 23,000 MW of wind generating capacity.

The enormous number of wind projects under development, on top of the 9,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity in operation and under construction, will bring Texas to over 50,000 megawatts of wind generating capacity (think 50 coal - fired power plants) when all these wind farms are completed.

Which is why it's worth checking out this interview with Robert Llewellyn (of cult BBC sitcom Red Dwarf fame), in which Dale busts some myths about wind turbine load factor, the UK's wind generating capacity, and explains how Ecotricity got started.