Sentence examples for standby plants from inspiring English sources

But with so little base-load capacity in the area, standby plants for meeting peak demand could not be spun up fast enough to stabilise the voltage.

G.M.'s vice president for labor relations, Cathy Clegg, said the company would reopen the two standby plants if needed but that it had enough capacity to meet current demand.

"So it's important to keep those standby plants.

The generating capacity of the standby generating plant is 9 MW.

Citing "conservative" data on rainfall and the capacity of new and standby power generating plants, Pedro Parente, the head of the government's energy crisis committee, said, "Even if we had rainfall in the Northeast and Southeast as bad as last year, we would still not have rationing in 2002 or 2003".

These contracts reward successful bidders for keeping power plants on standby so they can be called upon when renewable energy production is low.

Its contingency plans include the DSBR and the supplemental balancing reserve (SBR), asking energy companies to keep mothballed power plants on standby.

There are also plans to find ways of encouraging the large power companies to keep generating plants on standby for emergency supply situations.

"Instead of being fined for polluting by the proposed new climate levy, utilities will instead get paid for keeping their oldest and most inefficient lignite plants on standby," noted a report for Oxfam on Germany's energy policies by the environmental nonprofit E3G.

One of the plants on standby notice will gear up to produce about 160,000 new subcompacts a year, most likely the Chevrolet Spark, which GM had originally intended to import from China.

Windmills are unpopular with some U.S. politicians and utility executives because they require ample subsidies to be viable, and the unpredictable wind means utilities must maintain additional power plants on standby.