Last year it represented 29% of new electricity capacity, behind only natural gas at 46%.
去年太阳能发电占新增电力的29%，仅落后于占46%的天然气发电量。
Traditional geothermal could provide thousands of megawatts of electricity capacity, which would be welcome.
传统地热开发方法可以提供数千兆瓦的发电能力，这是件让人高兴的事。
Today however this seems to be slowly becoming a distant memory as the excess electricity capacity has been fully utilised.
然而，今天，这似乎是慢慢成为一个遥远的记忆，多余的电力容量已充分利用。
That is paltry compared with the nation's total electricity capacity of over 1m megawatts: but the Energy Department says at least 7,000 megawatts from CSP plants will be available by 2020.
虽说该数量与全国1百万兆瓦的总电量尚不足一比，但是能源部预计，2020年CSP电站至少能提供7000兆瓦电力。
Towards the end of the decade, China's economy was expanding past the capacity of the nation's electricity grid.
在这十年期的末期，中国经济正在扩张，超过了国家电网的容量。
But capacity does not equal electricity. For all those turbines to be worthwhile, the wind has to blow in specific places at specific strengths for specific periods of time.
但是总转机容量不等于电力，对所有有价值的风力涡轮机来说，风必须在特定的时间段以特定的强度吹到特定的地方。
Instead, its inventors hope it will provide much-needed storage capacity for electricity grids.
相反，它的发明者希望这将为电力电网提供急需的存储容量。
By reducing the need for expensive backup capacity, it may actually reduce the cost of electricity, and so encourage consumption.
由于可以减少对昂贵的电力储备能力的要求，智能电网确实能降低电力成本，因而有利于刺激消费。
And even when the batteries start to lose capacity, he suggests, they will have a usable afterlife as, for instance, buffers to store electricity produced by wind farms.
即使电池开始失去负荷，它们还可以做其它用途，如，作为储存风力发电场产生的电力的缓冲器。
They claim that by replacing the copper and aluminum wires in the grid with a ceramic, high-temperature superconductor, the lines could have five times the capacity and waste less electricity.
他们声称，用陶瓷的高温超导体替换电网中的铜铝线缆，电网容量将提高5倍，同时减少电力浪费。
The shah's plans called for a "full-fledged nuclear power industry" with the capacity to produce 23, 000 megawatts of electricity.
国王的计划要求一个“功能齐全的核能工业”，具备23000兆瓦的发电能力。
The plants would have a total capacity of 15 gigawatts, which would account for about 10 percent of all electricity produced in the country.
这些电厂的总容量为15千兆瓦，占越南总供电量的10%左右。
Exelon wants to create America's biggest electricity generator, with a capacity of more than 47, 000 megawatts, enough to power 45m homes.
Exelon想要创造出产能超过47000兆瓦的美国最大电力生产商，足够为4500万户家庭供应电力。
They require a certain amount of electricity to run, but for large servers or storage devices, they would also require cooling capacity to run efficiently.
IT设备需要电能才能运行，但对于大型的服务器或存储设备，它们还需要冷却设备才能高效运行。
If a million Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) cars were on the road by 2020, they could generate up to 10,000 megawatts of electricity –about the capacity of 20 average-size power plants.
如果在2020年，电动汽车（V2G）的数量达到一百万，它们将产生一万兆瓦的电量——大概是20座普通发电厂的发电量。
Nine concentrated solar power plants with a total capacity of 354 megawatts (MW) have been generating electricity reliably for years in the U.S..
九座总发电量3.54亿瓦(MW)的聚光太阳能发电厂已经在美国持续提供电力。
Britain needs to increase its capacity for electricity generation because all but one of the country's nuclear facilities, and half of its coal power plants, are due to shut by 2023.
英国需要加强供电能力，因为到2023年，除了一个核电站之外，英国的所有核电站和一半的煤炭发电厂都面临关闭的命运。
As these countries undergo rapid urbanisation, they will also need to boost their power generation capacity in order to meet the increased demand for electricity.
这些国家正处于快速的城市化进程，为了适应不断增长的用电需求，它们需要大力提高其发电能力。
South Africa, which had a rash of blackouts in 2008 and imports electricity from its neighbours, sorely needs more generating capacity.
2008年，南非曾发生了一连串的断电事故，而平时得从邻国进口电力，迫切需要增加更多的发电量。
Last year the industry installed 37, 500 megawatts of electricity-generation capacity, increasing the total installed base by almost a third. Capacity in China doubled.
去年，整个业界安装了37,500兆瓦的发电容量，总装机容量提高了近三分之一，而中国的装机容量则增加了一倍。
Its capacity, of 25 gigawatts (GW), makes it the largest power-generation firm in Russia, the world's fourth-biggest market for electricity.
这家公司旗下拥有俄罗斯大部分的水电厂，其发电容量达25千兆瓦，是俄罗斯(全球第四大电力市场)最大的发电公司。
Generation capacity is insufficient to meet the existing demand for electricity, and transmission and distribution networks that carry power to consumers are inadequate.
发电能力不足以满足现有电力需求，而且输电和配电网络设施不足。
Today’s grid cannot generate enough electricity even to power a 40-watt bulb around the clock for every Nigerian—and rarely runs at full capacity.
现在的尼日利亚电网甚至不能为每个国民提供一盏40瓦电灯持续照明的电力——且几乎从不全力运营。
Texas already leads the nation in wind - power capacity, and in 2009 some 6% of its electricity was pulled from the air.
德州已经是美国在风力发电上的领导者。在2009年，德州大约6%的电能由风力产生。
Texas already leads the nation in wind - power capacity, and in 2009 some 6% of its electricity was pulled from the air.
德州已经是美国在风力发电上的领导者。在2009年，德州大约6%的电能由风力产生。
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