Capacity Utilization
Capacity Utilization
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What can be said about a generator capacity utilization rate of 30% as a national average statistic. Would it be below average, average, or above? Are there typical numbers to expect.
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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world's energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies) http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/






RE: Capacity Utilization
RE: Capacity Utilization
If you're talking about wind turbines, 30% would probably put it in the Guinness Book of World Records.
David Castor
www.cvoes.com
RE: Capacity Utilization
You're right. Wind is 22%.
Its a national average consisting all types of total 100 GW,
as follows,
% Total Type Cap.MW Cap.Utilized
18% Hydro 16657 16%
8% Nuclear 7716 78%
12% Coal Fired 11359 35%
4% Fuel/gas 3927 6%
24% Comb Cyc 22243 40%
19% Wind 17739 22%
14% Other 13182 37%
100% TOTAL 92823 30%
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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world's energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies) http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/
RE: Capacity Utilization
22% for wind is extremely high. Maybe unbelievably high.
David Castor
www.cvoes.com
RE: Capacity Utilization
Alan
RE: Capacity Utilization
In 2007
Nuclear 91.8%
Coal 73.6%
Hydro 36.3%
Other Renewables 40%
Wind is not broken out, but EIA says wind is lower than other "Other Renewables". http://l
Capacity factor: The ratio of the electrical energy produced by a generating unit for the period of time considered to the electrical energy that could have been produced at continuous full power operation during the same period.
RE: Capacity Utilization
The Cap Utilization numbers I calculated looked pretty low, but I had no gage to compare stats. These are good.
I forgot the EIA has data for subjects other than petroleum use. Exactly what I needed.
That lightbucket link looks like a good read too.
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"Pumping accounts for 20% of the world's energy used by electric motors and 25-50% of the total electrical energy usage in certain industrial facilities."-DOE statistic (Note: Make that 99% for pipeline companies) http://virtualpipeline.spaces.live.com/