Electricity Grid
The unit for measuring the output of a power plant
What is MW
The ability to do work
What is energy?
Converts motion energy to electrical energy
What is generator?
The radiation from the sun required to generate electricity from solar panels
What is photons?
The greatest invention in human history
What is the electricity grid
10^6 Watts
What is MegaWatt?
The point at which the wind turbine is able to generate electricity?
What is cut-in speed?
The two ways of generating electricity from wind
what is offshore and onshore?
PURPA
What is Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978
1/2 xx PAV^3
What is Power in the wind?
The sector in which power is created, usually by large centralized power plants
What is Generation?
The visualization used to depict a flow from one set of values to another like energy from sources to end use
What is Sankey diagram?
The capacity factor of nuclear
What is 83 - 92%
Raw energy at the source
What is primary energy?
The energy source for base load
What is Nuclear or hydropower?
actual output/ maximum possible output
What is capacity factor?
The primary defense against poverty, disorder, hunger, and death.
What is energy?
The quantity measured by these units Kilowatt, BTU/h, Kilocalories/h
What is power?
Amount of electricity from wind electricity in the US
What is 10%
The cost of lithium-ion batteries per kwh
What is $132/kwh
When a company takes ownership of two or more key stages of its supply chain (e.g distribution, generation in the electricity markets)
What is vertical integration
The efficiency of a solar panel that receives 1200 watts from the sun and produces only 600 watts of electrical energy
what is 50%
Price per watt of solar panels
What is $0.20/W
Percentage of electricity from nuclear?
What is 10 percent?
Ways to integrate more renewables on the grid
What is demand response, storage, and energy efficient buildings
1/2Kgm/S^2
What is Kinetic Energy (fundamental unit)
The minimum energy required to move an electron from a valence band into a conduction band or distance between the conduction and valence band
what is band gap?
Changing some part of an already existing equipment or building like IC to EV
What is retrofitting?