Sentence examples for offshore generation from inspiring English sources

And Britain is not the only country questioning its support for costly, complex offshore generation.

The government wants offshore wind to account for nearly a fifth of Britain's renewable energy by 2020, for example, yet by official estimates offshore generation currently costs between double and triple that from gas.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, at the firm's base in Grimsby, Mr Clegg said the government was looking to attract inward investment in the UK's offshore generation industry.

High voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission is the only feasible mode of importing energy from large-scale offshore generation sites through long submarine cables [1].

The states will gain more than electricity: MMS will collect lease fees for the offshore generation projects and feed 27% of those revenues to the states that get the offshore projects.

By interconnecting HVAC and HVDC networks, many technical advantages might be harnessed, which would definitively contribute to enable large-scale integration of offshore generation envisioned for the future; with key contributions in essential areas, such as generation capacity connection and grid stability.

He said offshore windpower generation was a relatively new industry and needed some help drawing in commercial lenders.

"This puts the United Kingdom in the fast lane to becoming a world leader in offshore power generation".

Because the Labour government has made us the leader in offshore wind generation and provided financial support for manufacturing investment.

Siemens has been late to deliver high-speed trains for the German railroad and had problems connecting a huge offshore wind generation project to the power grid.

With those restrictions, he estimates Japan's offshore wind generation potential far lower, from a third to three-fifths of Japan's current electric power supply.