On December 1, the EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration) published its latest report on capacity factors for power plants based on data for September 2015. Capacity factors for both coal and ...

How should investors think about factor capacity? It’s a top-of-mind question for asset owners today, so II asked guest writer Andrew Ang, PhD, Head of Factor Investing Strategies at BlackRock for his ...

Over the past two decades, nuclear power plants have achieved increasingly higher capacity factors with the same or greater levels of safety. The average capacity factor for U.S. plants in operation ...

Wind Engineering, Vol. 39, No. 3 (2015), pp. 253-260 (8 pages) ABSTRACT This workmodels capacity factor in terms of wind turbine operating characteristics, mean wind speed, and shape parameter of ...

Utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) generation has exploded over the past few years. From nearly nothing in the late 2000s, the U.S. now has more than 10 GW of utility-scale solar PV in operation ...

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported summer capacity factors for the nation’s fleet of nuclear power plants. No fewer than 21 nuclear units had capacity factors that exceeded 100%. And ...

Recent discussions and long-term modelling suggest that wind farm capacity factors are on an upward trajectory. Much of this optimism is attributed to technological improvements that should enhance ...

The average capacity factor for U.S. natural gas–fired combined cycle power plants (CCPPs) exceeded that for coal-fired plants in 2015 for the first time since the Energy Information Administration ...

Two new Australian wind farms are nearing capacity factors of 50 per cent – and are the best performing wind farms in Australia, according to their owner, Windlab. Windlab tweeted the above graph on ...