Sentences with phrase «wind generation potential»

The serviced region includes some locations with high sunlight and wind generation potential as well as some well watered areas suitable for carbon sequestration schemes.

Harvard researchers estimate that China's wind generation potential is 12 times larger than its 2010 electricity consumption.

Not exact matches

Apart from the nuclear issue, the exploitation of Scotland's fossil - fuel resources is a major industrial activity, and even more a source of tax revenue, while there is outstanding potential for renewable energy generation, especially wind, wave and tidal.

trees grow, chamical potential is released when wood is burned, or perhaps some mechanical atmospheric effect that increases potential energy by separating air masses — maybe generation of wind would be related, just wondering.)

«Even in the expected event that there are no important breakthroughs in the cost of nuclear power, the potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think, certain.

As well as assessing how well the battery system works specifically in improving operational and cost efficiency of offshore wind farms, Statoil and Masdar will use the «high level of operational data» collected to explore the potential for integrated or co-located battery systems at wind or solar power generation sites.

Since 1995, the Rosebud Sioux and other COUP tribes have committed to the utility - scale development of tribal wind resources on their reservations (estimated in the hundreds of gigawatts of potential), and the integration of large - scale distributed tribal wind generation with diminishing reliance on hydropower from federal transmission grids.

Despite its vast potential, there are a variety of environmental impacts associated with wind power generation that should be recognized and mitigated.

Despite the potential collective loss of millions of dollars in electric generation, the U.S. wind energy industry has voluntarily committed to changing how turbines are operated during the bats» fall migration season, slowing blade rotations to fewer than 1 - 3 revolutions a minute, depending on blade length, thereby reducing the risk of collision.

The plan errs by placing its focus on preventing fuel supply disruptions at larger power plants and ignores the potential resiliency benefits of fuel - free, distributed generation such as wind and solar, clean energy advocates said.

«From the enquiries TransGrid has received, Northern NSW has the potential to supply an additional 1200 Mega Watts of wind generation into the National Electricity Market in the future,» he said.

At that time, NYPA proposed installing up to 194 wind turbines, each generating 3.6 megawatts (MW) for a total potential yield of nearly 700 MW of wind energy generation for the Long Island and New York City region.»

There has been a lot of coverage lately of the dramatic cost reductions for wind energy over the last few years, and the potential this has for challenging fossil fuel - based electricity generation.

That proposal would give the president the ability to declare «National Renewable Energy Zones» with strong potential wind, solar or geothermal energy generation resources.

The capacity factor (the percent of maximum generation potential actually generated) of the best sites for wind turbines is about 40 %, and the average capacity of all the wind turbines used to generate utility power in the United States was 25 % in 2007.

North Carolina has utility - scale wind development in the eastern part of the state, primarily along the coastline where there is significant generation potential.

«BC has an abundance of world - class wind sites that can be developed flexibly on a scale that matches changing economic conditions and electricity demand, addresses environmental concerns, and reduces the potential financial risks of new electricity generation to BC ratepayers and taxpayers.»

With that issued defeated, depending on the effectiveness and cost of the fix — or even possible side benefits, such as if windbelt frames were the solution, letting sunlight through edgewise while generating power from wind crosswise and deflecting dust too — CSPV has the potential to drop the cost of electricity generation perhaps a thousandfold, indeed as a quantum leap in cost.

The potential for breakthroughs in solar PV technology, such as next - generation thin film materials, reduced capital intensity of manufacturing capacity as well as continued improvements in the scale and capacity factor of wind technology means the levelized cost of energy could continue to fall.

Not only do they greatly expand the area available for wind farms, they also have the potential to dramatically reduce the cost of offshore wind generation, which today is more than twice as expensive as that from turbines on land.

Despite this strong potential, Vietnam's current goals are only 6 GW goal for wind generation and 12 GW for solar by 2030.

Assuming another 2.25 MW for industry, the total load would probably be near 4.5 MW; about one thousandth of the potential wind generation capacity for the island.

The Indian Wind Energy Association has estimated that the onshore potential of wind energy for electricity generation is of the order of 65,000Wind Energy Association has estimated that the onshore potential of wind energy for electricity generation is of the order of 65,000wind energy for electricity generation is of the order of 65,000 MW.

... According to a review by Lovich and Ennen (2013), the construction and operation of wind farms have both potential and known impacts on terrestrial vertebrates, such as: (i) increase in direct mortality due to traffic collisions; (ii) destruction and modification of the habitat, including road development, habitat fragmentation and barriers to gene flow; (iii) noise effects, visual impacts, vibration and shadow flicker effects from turbines; (iv) electromagnetic field generation; (v) macro and microclimate change; (vi) predator attraction; and (vii) increase in fire risks.

It's unlikely that Denmark's energy will ever come 100 % from wind power — but with rising distributed generation (solar panels on homes), truly massive potential for offshore wind in the North Sea, and ample biomass infrastructure to pick up the slack, don't rule out the possibility that they might come pretty close.

A new study supported by Scotland's John Muir Trust, examines the potential electricity generation from wind power there and comes to the conclusion that a number of popular pro-wind talking points overstate the case.