Sentences with phrase «wind generation resources»

Today Georgia Power issued a request for information (RFI) on wind generation resources.

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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.

This would still require a major investment in new electricity generation from renewable resources, particularly wind power because it is a well - established and relatively cheap technology.

«Our main conclusion is that geophysically - forced variability in wind and solar generation means that the amount of electricity demand satisfied using wind and solar resources is fairly linear up to about 80 % of annually averaged electricity demand, but that beyond this level of penetration the amount of added wind and solar generation capacity or the amount of electricity storage needed would rise sharply.»

This flexibility is designed to facilitate a higher concentration of intermittent renewable resources — such as wind and solar — than is currently possible because, by having such flexible gas - fired plants, grid operators can respond to sudden changes in renewable generation caused by variations in wind speed or cloud cover.

Today, renewable energy resources like wind and solar power are so affordable that they're driving coal production and coal - fired generation out of business.

First - generation, low - income students disproportionately wind up at campuses with the fewest resources; their wealthier counterparts, at the best.

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.

Wind power, a proven and reliable energy resource, is the most affordable option available today for new sources of power generation without emitting CO2.

Renewables such as solar and wind are top - of - mind when most people think of distributed resources, but natural gas - fired generation is often a good fit too, because it adds reliability to the system and is a consistent source of backup power.

The first projects using floating wind turbines are also now entering into operation, based on concepts widely deployed in the offshore oil and gas sector; cost - competitive floating technologies would widen the economic resource base for offshore electricity generation considerably.

The researchers are pursuing what they call «System Management of Atmospheric Resource through Technology» (SMART) strategies — a cluster of technologies and practices that will allow next - generation wind farms to produce more energy, more reliably, for more hours of the day.

But it's not just commercial power generation that is seeing a viable economic resource in wind power.

More than half of the country's new power generation capacity installed between now and 2040 is renewables - based, tapping Mexico's large wind and solar resources.

In addition, offshore drilling is contrary to New York's aggressive efforts to move toward cleaner energy resources, including the recent nation - leading $ 1.4 billion investment dedicated to on - shore renewable energy projects and a goal of developing 2,400 megawatts of offshore wind generation by 2030.

«During our assessment of long - term generation resource needs, we have found a good fit with Duke's Los Vientos V wind project,» said BTU Board of Directors Chairman Carl Benner.

«Based on generation needs, the most reliable and most cost - effective resources happen to be solar and wind,» Xcel Energy spokeswoman Michelle Aguayo told the online publication SRN.

«U.S. renewable power generation fell 4 percent in August, compared with the same month a year ago, as Texas wind and other resources underperformed, according to an analysis from research firm Genscape.

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

Although amendments to the original law have expanded it to a wide variety of renewable resources and technologies, the original PTC applied to generation from tax - paying owners of new wind plants, as well as eligible biomass power plants.

Lower Texas wind generation, the nation's largest wind resource, brought down overall renewable generation figures, Genscape said.»

These states have indicated their dissatisfaction with the current electricity - generation system by enacting binding RPSs, which require that wind, solar, geothermal, biomass, waste, or other renewable resources be used to generate up to 30 % of the electricity sold by 2025.

PG&E, for example, prioritizes SGIP applications that couple energy storage with renewable generation resources, such as solar or wind power systems.

Existing laws such as renewable portfolio standards, energy efficiency resource standards, long - term requirements for additional hydropower and wind power, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions caps will require a significant reduction in natural gas - fired generation throughout New England.

Therefore, intermittent renewables are not a suitable source of power for pumped hydro, except in a few special, extraordinary cases --(such as El Heiro island where they have a 700 m high extinct volcano crater providing a large upper reservoir, good wind resource and are replacing high - cost diesel generation.)

Increasing wind generation to the levels of the Study Scenario simultaneously reduces carbon dioxide emissions, improves air quality resulting in lower levels of illness and premature loss of life, and reduces demand on water resources.

We have also contributed planning and other resources to other energy providers, resulting in the installation hundreds of MW of additional wind energy generation.

However, wind provided only 3.4 % of total electricity generation between January and November 2012 (the latest available data), reflecting a capacity utilization rate that is limited by the intermittent nature of the wind resource.

Deploying this metocean data collection technology builds on the more than 20 robust studies the state completed over the past two years in support of the New York Offshore Wind Master Plan and reinforces Governor Cuomo's steadfast commitment to safeguarding our natural resources for generations to come.»

Renewables such as solar and wind are top - of - mind when most people think of distributed resources, but natural gas - fired generation is often a good fit too, because it adds reliability to the system -LSB-...]

That could make wind competitive on price with natural gas generation even in the Southeast, though flexible gas plants or other resources would still be necessary to integrate the capacity.

The PUC concluded that renewable resources like wind and solar helped to produce lower prices as a result of zero fuel costs for clean energy generation.

In total, the power company has about 8.3 GW of coal, oil and gas - fired resources currently available, so this would mean a 44 % reduction in its fossil capacity, and a fleet where wind and solar represent a majority of capacity, if not necessarily generation.

Deep - sea wind, as being pioneered in the EU and now possibly in the US, is certainly unproven so far, and the cost of installation are higher in deep water, but the new generation of floating wind turbines may yet make it possible to exploit the very large resource further out at lower costs.

The two main drivers are policies, like renewables mandates, and taking advantage of increasingly competitive prices for generation in resource rich regions, like wind in the Midwest and solar in the Southwest.

The utility cites «challenges with inflexible baseload generation» in the proposal, and also «the challenge of managing overgeneration and intermittency conditions under a resource portfolio increasingly influenced by solar and wind production».

Until now, NPPD has invested in large - scale wind farm projects to reach its goal of having 10 percent of its power generation come from renewable energy resources by 2020.

Minnesota has more than enough wind and solar resources to meet the state's demand for electricity generation.

Often, wind generation does not coincide with the demand for electric power; wind resources are generally more prevalent overnight, when demand for electric power is at a minimum.

Xcel Energy, one of the largest utilities in the united states recently told the Colorado Public Utility Commission, «Based on generation needs, the most reliable and most cost - effective resources happen to be solar and wind.

An unsung benefit of hybrid systems is that by choosing a location with naturally high wind resources, the temperature of the solar modules is also reduced by the breeze, thus increasing the PV generation, said Raaizada.

«The tremendous wind resources of the northern Great Plains have many Indian tribes looking at utility scale renewable energy generation as a «no - regrets» sustainable homeland economic development strategy, with a positive impact on CO2 emission reductions.

At this time, the cheapest generating system is based on coal and gas — with relatively small scale opportunistic generation using hydro, landfill gas, wind, geothermal, biomass, etc depending on resource availability, local construction and operating costs and local distribution costs that vary with technology.

Alabama Power has 1,600 megawatts of hydro resources across Alabama and 404 megawatts of purchased wind generation from projects in Kansas and Oklahoma.

Such storage could be the key to enabling more renewable sources of electricity generation — providing power when the sun is not shining or the wind not blowing — or simply making the best use of existing resources, such as sucking up power that would otherwise be dumped from always - on nuclear reactors.

Breaking a streak of five years in which wind power was the second - largest new resource added to the U.S. electrical grid in terms of aggregate gross capacity, in 2010 wind power placed third, behind the 7,200 MW of new natural gas and 6,000 MW of new coal - fired generation capacity.

«Renewable Minnesota» demonstrates that: - Minnesota has more than enough wind and solar resources to meet the state's demand for electricity generation.

In 2015, almost 88 % of net electricity generation in Wyoming came from coal and nearly 11 % came from renewable energy resources, primarily wind.

With the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission Tricia has managed a wide variety of dockets including new generation and transmission need determinations, transmission and pipeline route permits, wind and power plant site permits, thermal and renewable power purchase agreements, utility resource acquisitions, resource planning, and externality costs of power generation.

«It's just another very valuable resource that not only will be benefiting energy generation, but will create a new industry in the state of California,» says Alla Weinstein, CEO of Trident Winds.