Sentences with phrase «wind power capacity increased»

Wind power capacity increased by 27 percent in 2006 and is expected to increase an additional 26 percent this year, according to the American Wind Energy Association.

LONDON (Reuters)- Global installed wind power capacity increased by 12.4 percent to more than 318 gigawatts in 2013 led by China and Canada, industry figures showed on Wednesday.

Not exact matches

The battery storage systems have become more important as solar and wind power capacity has increased.

Wind power is the renewable energy which has seen the widest and most successful deployment over the last two decades, increasing the global cumulative capacity from 3 GW to 370 GW.

«As wind and solar capacity climbs, the returns of usable power diminish because of increasing curtailment during surges that the grid can not absorb.

This increase in capacity, coupled with high winds across much of northern Britain over the next few days, have prompted experts to predict the wind power record could be broken several times over the course of this week.

This would be particularly useful because the province's total wind power capacity is expected to increase from 1,700 megawatts now to around 7,800 megawatts by 2018.

If the capacity of the links was greatly increased mainland Australia could feed large amounts of solar power into the Tasmania when it was plentiful, and Tasmania's hydro power could be conserved for the times when wind and solar were less plentiful on the mainland.

Over the past decade, world wind power capacity grew more than 20 percent a year, its increase driven by its many attractive features, by public policies supporting its expansion, and by falling costs.

OPIC is rapidly increasing its focus on renewable energy in Africa: Its 2014 agreement to provide financing and insurance to support construction of the310 - megawatt Lake Turkana wind power plant in northern Kenya, is the largest renewable power plant it has committed to date in Africa, and has a projected capacity of almost triple the total capacity of renewable energy projects OPIC committed in the prior three years.

Between 2004 and 2009, wind energy capacity in the United States grew by 423 %, while solar energy capacity expanded by 150 %.30 Yet over the same time frame, nuclear energy managed to increase by only 1 percent.31 By 2020, wind energy will grow by another 82 %, while nuclear power is only on track to expand by 10 %.32 A clean energy standard would help lift the dormant U.S. nuclear industry off the mat while also ensuring that the market for traditional renewables, like wind and solar, continues to grow through aggressive state mandates.

The facility increased the province's wind - power capacity by more than one third, to almost 674 megawatts, and made B.C. the 2017 growth leader.

For a European grid with a share of 60 % renewable power (an optimal mix of wind and solar), grid capacity would need to be increased at least sevenfold.

There has been no increase in the peaking power capacity in SA in the last 11 years, during which all the wind farms were built.

Reve With a rapid growth in the renewable energy projects over the past few years, the total installed capacity of the wind power plants across the world has witnessed a manifold increase.

Beijing says it plans to increase China's wind power capacity to 200,000 megawatts by 2020, but its own figures see nuclear rising to just 58,000 megawatts in the same time frame.

Wind power is fast growing in Brazil, with 10.6 GW installed capacity by the end of 2016 and a further 24 % increase 2017.

, wind farms covering 6 percent of the entire land surface of the 48 contiguous states, an outrageous and unrealistic increase in ecologically harmful hydroelectric power, and a build out of electricity generation capacity that hurtles along at 14 times the average rate of capacity expansion in the past half - century.

China plans to increase wind and solar power capacity by more than 21 percent and have at least 20 gigawatts of new wind power installations and 15 gigawatts of additional photovoltaic capacity next year, according to the NEA statement.

[280] Ukrainian State Agency for Energy Efficiency and Conservation forecasts that combined installed capacity of wind and solar power plants in Ukraine could increase by another 600 MW in 2012.

The one, teensy, weensy problem with the wind industry's «save the planet» pitch is that 100 % of the capacity from intermittent and unreliable wind power has to be backed - up 100 % of the time by fossil fuel generators running in the background and burning fuel ALL the time — and, therefore, increases CO2 emissions in the electricity sector.

Having increased ninefold in total capacity since the start of the twenty - first century, wind power is quickly solidifying its position as an important part of the global energy mix.

After California's San Onofre nuclear plant closed, and the state suffered droughts that reduced hydroelectric output, natural gas - fired power increased from 45 to 61 percent of the state's electricity generation even as wind and solar capacity soared.

The Australian Wind Energy Association has pledged to increase the country's wind power generating capacity from 72 MW in 2001, to 5,000 MW by 2Wind Energy Association has pledged to increase the country's wind power generating capacity from 72 MW in 2001, to 5,000 MW by 2wind power generating capacity from 72 MW in 2001, to 5,000 MW by 2010.

Two days earlier EPA announced final regulations (which I call the Skyrocketing Rates Power Plan or SRPP, but which EPA calls the «Clean Power Plan» or CPP for obvious reasons) requiring states to decrease CO2 emissions from electricity production and use primarily by increasing the capacity of non-hydro «remewable» (wind and solar) sources of electric power from 4 percent to 28 percent by Power Plan or SRPP, but which EPA calls the «Clean Power Plan» or CPP for obvious reasons) requiring states to decrease CO2 emissions from electricity production and use primarily by increasing the capacity of non-hydro «remewable» (wind and solar) sources of electric power from 4 percent to 28 percent by Power Plan» or CPP for obvious reasons) requiring states to decrease CO2 emissions from electricity production and use primarily by increasing the capacity of non-hydro «remewable» (wind and solar) sources of electric power from 4 percent to 28 percent by power from 4 percent to 28 percent by 2030.

This American study details just why increasing wind power capacity — and trying to incorporate its wildly fluctuating output into a coal and gas fired grid — results in increased CO2 emissions across the electricity sector.

More than 3.4 gigawatts (GW) of clean, renewable wind power capacity were installed in Q4, bringing 2011's total to 6.81 GW, a 31 % year - over-year increase.

In today's story, we describe how electric power system operators adjust their procedures to deal with increasing wind capacity as the demand for electric power changes over the course of the day.

Earlier editions of Today in Energy discussed the intermittent nature of wind generation (March 22, 2011) and the challenges it poses for electric power system operators (March 25, 2011) as the Nation's wind capacity rapidly increases.

The increasing penetration of wind capacity creates challenges for the electric power industry.

Yet in that time, the net capacity of wind energy has not increased by the output of just one coal - fired power station, many of which are now closed thanks to... yes, you've guessed it... Legislation.

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.

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.

As wind and solar capacity climbs the returns of usable power diminish because of increasing curtailment during surges that the grid can't absorb.

note 43, and Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2006 Report (Brussels: 2007), p. 4, with capacity factor from National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Oak Ridge, TN: DOE, August 2006); Flemming Hansen, «Denmark to Increase Wind Power to 50 % by 2025, Mostly Offshore,» Renewable Energy Access, 5 December 2006; Global Wind Energy Council, «Global Wind Energy Markets Continue to Boom - 2006 Another Record Year,» press release (Brussels: 2 February 2007), with European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association, «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16.

The upgrade will allow for the export of power from increased wind farm capacity in South Australia.

By 2015, China plans to increase its current estimated 60,000 megawatts of grid - connected wind power capacity to 100,000 megawatts.

The report noted that 25 percent of all the electricity capacity increases in the U.S. were wind power installations in 2010.

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.

Simply doubling the usable life of a lithium battery would be enough to start shifting battery storage of wind power into the break - even territory (increasing capacity and the ability to sustain larger drains would also help).

Short term projections have new Wind farm capacity increasing by +20 GW per year only being able to replace maybe 2 x 5 GWe Coal Fired power stations per year.

An earlier EWEA Tradewind study found that, for the 2020 medium scenario (200 GW, 12 % wind penetration), aggregating wind energy production from multiple countries strongly increased the capacity credit, the amount of capacity that can be relied on to meet peak demand, almost doubled it to 14 %, which they say corresponds to approximately 27 GW of firm power in the system.

«The latest auctions have shown that renewable power can be produced offshore without any additional funding,» Lies said, adding that Germany should increase its expansion goal for offshore wind power to 20 gigawatts (GW) installed capacity by 2030 (current goal: 15 GW).

A grant of $ 27 million will also be allocated to support the construction of a new 400 kV inter - nal power line between Cernavoda and Stalpu (RO), which will contrib - ute to increase the in - terconnection capacity between Romania and Bulgaria and help inte - grate wind power from the Black Sea coast.