Right now, because demand plunges at night, wind generated at night is lower value or sometimes even dumped.
Just as suddenly the air deadened, and at one point during the night the wind meter read zero.
Cars batteries are a good match with wind power because they mostly charge at night, when people are sleeping, and wind tends to peak at night.
That night, the wind was up, and the bough of an ash thumped and scraped across the thatched roof.
Most of all, there is nothing as satisfying as those moments where you step out on a dark night, the wind blowing, the rain beating down, with a long journey ahead - and decide to catch the Tube instead.
She passed the night outside in the wind and rain.
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For example, in many places, winds are stronger at night, which means local wind farms produce most of their power when demand is lowest.
The rising and setting of the sun controls many of our daily rituals, from when we eat breakfast in the morning to when we wind down at night.
The building's steel lattice roof collapsed after a night of heavy rain and wind but Wealden District Council does not believe the weather was to blame.
Average wind speeds Wednesday night were around 20 mph, though a weather station in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles recorded a 101 mph gust at around midnight.
The building's steel lattice roof collapsed after a night of heavy rain and wind, but the council's building control officer Paul Dunstall said at the time he did not believe the weather was to blame.
The storm started to wind down Thursday night in Wichita after leaving 14.2 inches of snow over two days -- the second highest storm total in the city's history, according to the National Weather Service.
The steel lattice roof collapsed about 04:30 GMT after a night of heavy rain and wind, but the council's building control officer Paul Dunstall said at the time he did not believe the weather was to blame.
By Sunday night, despite predictions of light wind, Outrageous was surfing on 25 knots of wind.
Wind blows strongest at night, when electricity demand is low.
The researchers modeled their study on the electric grid in Illinois, which depends on a large number of coal and gas plants, and where the wind blows strongest at night, when demand is lowest.
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Kempton first got the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) idea in 1996, while wrestling with a fundamental problem with renewable energy: Solar power peaks at noon, and wind power peaks at night, but demand for electricity peaks between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Residents of the city awakened to crumbling walls, crushed cars, fallen trees and scattered branches after heavy rain, wind and hail hit Wednesday night, the state-run Telam agency said.
College life is difficult: What with all those classes, work and late-night videogame and movie marathons, many students wind up with raccoon eyes, an empty wallet, pounds of pizza and a serious caffeine addiction.
It's dropped a degree today, the wind must have changed easterly during the night, and later we'll get fog in the valley.
The wind blowing in on a cool and damp night meant very little hitting for either team, just 10 combined hits.
That means men spending long hours trekking around the mountain every night setting the guns according to the temperature, humidity and wind conditions.
And all this interspersed by hours adrift on the river, planks and ropes gently creaking in the wind, the water dark and cool, the night sky clear above.
The wind in California tends to blow the strongest at night and in the winter while the sun obviously is at its strongest during the day and in the summer months.
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The temperatures we experience locally and in short periods can fluctuate significantly due to predictable cyclical events (night and day, summer and winter) and hard-to-predict wind and precipitation patterns.
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Argonne researchers are working on one possible solution to this problem: batteries that can store wind power for use when the wind stops blowing as well as store solar energy for use at night.
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The ship departed the wind-blasted town of Puerto Natales at first light, with passengers boarding the night before.
With the wind at their backs, even Pennsylvania may have seemed realistic with a three-point deficit Sunday night.
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