Not exact matches
They dramatically improve the efficiency, flexibility and
reliability of the existing
electricity infrastructure,» they add.
But we must also work to improve the
electricity grid with increased transmission
infrastructure to integrate a high amount of renewable generation, and incorporate more advanced grid planning to maintain
reliability.
While New England remains a summer peaking
electricity system (with a forecasted 2018 summer peak around 25 percent higher than the forecasted 2018/2019 winter peak), winter peak forecasts are important for assessing the impacts of electric system
reliability during a period when much of New England's energy
infrastructure is dedicated to space heating (i.e., when interstate natural gas pipelines are used both for
electricity generation and for heating homes and businesses).
Success with ammonia means we will have developed and commercialized, at scale, with viable economics,
infrastructure and supply chains, the following new technologies: CCS, SSAS, methane cracking, conventional and high temperature electrolysis and thermochemical water splitting for hydrogen production, nuclear heat sources and small modular reactors, and solar heat sources and renewable
electricity of sufficient
reliability to be integrated into high volume must - run industrial processes.
By reducing the demand for
electricity, energy efficiency programs also play a major role in increasing
reliability of the
electricity system by reducing stress on existing power plants and the transmission system and reducing the demand for new power plants and transmission
infrastructure.