Rocknbob

Seven New Developments in Renewable Energy

Bravo and hats off to billp37 ! power must be defined over time to be truly useful..
From all us electrical engineers out there (r there any others left?) Thanks!!



On Jan 05 09:42 AM billp37 wrote:

> "The plant will have a capacity of 400 megawatts according to a Bloomberg
> report." ...
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> "total annual production capacity of over 1,125MW of wind turbines"
> ...
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> "66MW on-grid photovoltaic project" ...
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> "China's wind energy capacity has reached 1GW in 2008" ....
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> "generate 3.6 gigawatts of energy which could provide power for up
> to 5m homes from 2012"
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> Peak generating capability is important.
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> But we think the concept of CAPACITY FACTOR is also important.

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> www.google.com/search?...;q=capacity+factor+def...

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> Fine to report kilo-, mega-, or gigwatts but kilo-, mega-, gigawatt
> HOURS probably should be reported too?
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