Sentences with phrase «wind power capacity exists»

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Industry analysts reckon that, at maximum capacity, tidal power could generate 13 gigawatts nationwide, small beer compared with the 35 gigawatts of wind generation that already exists.

Alabama Power, a Southern Company subsidiary and operator of all the listed plants except Lowman, already gets 404 MW of power capacity from wind power imported from the plains on existing transmission lines, highlighting the feasibility of wind power purchPower, a Southern Company subsidiary and operator of all the listed plants except Lowman, already gets 404 MW of power capacity from wind power imported from the plains on existing transmission lines, highlighting the feasibility of wind power purchpower capacity from wind power imported from the plains on existing transmission lines, highlighting the feasibility of wind power purchpower imported from the plains on existing transmission lines, highlighting the feasibility of wind power purchpower purchases.

The group's proposal would allow existing power plants to maintain and even replace their equipment, and would allow providers to purchase extra power from any source on the national grid for emergencies and unexpected surges, but it would require that any permanent increase in capacity come from clean sources like wind and solar.

In regard to the future of wind power their SA Annual Planning Report of 2011 stated that: «Studies show that the existing transmission network has the capacity to enable up to approximately 2300 MW of wind generation in South Australia before generation exceeds regional demand and interconnector export capacity.

If tomorrow we suddenly replaced 30GW of existing coal fired power -LRB-(20GWav) with 60GW wind (20GWav) but retained the present 15GW NG and 8GW hydro (1,5 GW av) how much additional pumped storage capacity and how large total storage would be required?