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  2. Environmental impact of electricity generation - Wikipedia

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    For example, for the production of ethylene via steam cracking temperatures as high as 900 °C are required. Hence, drastically new processes are required. Nevertheless, power-to-heat is expected to be the first step in the electrification of the chemical industry with an expected large-scale implementation by 2025. [37]

  3. List of emerging technologies - Wikipedia

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    Electricity and heat generation, transmutation of nuclear waste stockpiles from traditional reactors Gravity battery: Small-scale examples Energy storage Home fuel cell: Research, commercialization [58] [59] [60] Off-the-grid, producing electricity in using an environmentally friendly fuel as a backup during long term power failures.

  4. Electricity generation - Wikipedia

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    Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.For utilities in the electric power industry, it is the stage prior to its delivery (transmission, distribution, etc.) to end users or its storage, using for example, the pumped-storage method.

  5. Orders of magnitude (power) - Wikipedia

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    1.26 × 10 10: tech: electrical power generation of the Itaipu Dam: 1.27 × 10 10: geo: average electrical power consumption of Norway in 1998 2.25 × 10 10: tech: peak electrical power generation of the Three Gorges Dam, the power plant with the world's largest generating capacity of any type. [33] 2.24 × 10 10

  6. List of countries by renewable electricity production - Wikipedia

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    Renewable electricity generation by source and country in 2023 [1] This is a list of countries and dependencies by electricity generation from renewable sources. [1] Renewables accounted for 30% of electric generation in 2023. Renewables consist of hydro (47%), wind (26%), solar (18%), biomass (8%) and geothermal (1%).

  7. Variable renewable energy - Wikipedia

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    Capacity credit: the amount of conventional (dispatchable) generation power that can be potentially removed from the system while keeping the reliability, usually expressed as a percentage of the nominal power. [16] [example needed] [clarification needed] Foreseeability or predictability is how accurately the operator can anticipate the ...

  8. Sustainable energy - Wikipedia

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    For example, transitioning from oil to solar power as the energy source for cars requires the generation of solar electricity, modifications to the electrical grid to accommodate fluctuations in solar panel output or the introduction of variable battery chargers and higher overall demand, adoption of electric cars, and networks of electric ...

  9. Binary cycle - Wikipedia

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    The 11 MW design by J. Hilbert Anderson, Inc. was implemented by Magma Power to harvest power from the hot water fields in East Mesa, Southern California. As of December 2014, there were 203 binary cycle geothermal power plants across 15 countries worldwide, representing 35% of all geothermal power plants, but only generating 10.4% of total ...