Output this financial year has passed a previous record of 3, 890 gigawatt hours (GWh).
It is estimated that 30 GWh of heat storage would provide enough absorptive capacity for 5 GW of installed wind capacity.
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Research suggests that up between 20 and 30 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electric energy could be stored as useful heat in hot water.
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The DECC figures showed that wind generation in Scotland was 8296 GWh, up 19% on 2011, and more than four times the level in 2006.
Resumption of operations at the Yokosuka thermal plant would bring in an additional 2.27 GWh of power, and the Niigata No. 5 Thermal plant, adding 110 megawatts (MW).
Grid operators in the Pacific Northwest have repeatedly pulled the plug on several large wind farms in Oregon and Washington State, collectively curtailing roughly 13 gigawatt hours (GWh) of wind power since last Wednesday.
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The water company has agreed to buy 75 GWh of this output to run Beckton sewage works, which serves 3.5 million people, and the nearby desalination plant, operated in times of drought or other emergencies.
The grease will be fed into the power station at Beckton in east London, and is set to produce 130 Gigawatt hours (GWh) a year of renewable electricity - enough to run 39, 000 average-sized homes, according to Thames Water.
Conventional geothermal power stations worldwide have a total capacity of 10.7 gigawatts (GW) and will generate 67, 250 gigawatt hours (GWh) of energy this year enough to supply power to more than 52.5m people in 24 countries, according to America's Geothermal Energy Association.
The rules of the competition state: "The winner will be the individual, team or organisation that achieves the greatest volume of electrical output over the set minimum hurdle of 100 GWh over a continuous two year period, using only the power of the sea".
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