Sentences with phrase «grid electricity transmission»

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The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO - E), which runs the grid powering 25 separate European countries, disclosed recently that «frequency deviations» in power supply have been experienced across the network since mid-January.

Alternatively, as has also been an issue in the context of the switch to smart electricity grids, where the transmission system owner remains part of a vertically integrated firm, it has an incentive to implement network upgrades in a manner that excludes third parties from the competitive segments.

«While more remains to be done to optimize our electricity system — building transmission lines to carry more clean power to those jurisdictions still burning fossil fuels, investing in smarter grids in our towns and cities, bringing more clean power online — these regulations create a foundation as we transition to clean energy and an economy built to last.»

It used to be that electricity was carried almost exclusively from big power plants over transmission lines, dumped into distribution grids, and then dumped into buildings, to be used by relatively dumb appliances.

Her focus throughout that period has been largely on the technical, infrastructure and economic issues underpinning the electricity industry, covering topics related to generation, transmission and distribution, smart grid / smart homes and the prospects for electric vehicles.

Ofgem to tackle market exploitation where companies take advantage of constraints in the electricity transmission grid.

Greater challenges lie ahead as smart grid technologies proliferate in the nation's transmission network and utility control centers and eventually reach business and residential electricity customers

Say we do build out wind power in the Dakotas and Wyoming, right along the seam of the eastern and western grid, and build transmission to get that wind -LSB-- generated electricity] to cities?

Electricity Transmission Intermittent sources are less troublesome if they feed a bigger grid; a region with 100 scattered installations of wind and solar could count on some average level of input.

The material is a member of a family of copper - oxygen - based superconducting compounds - the cuprates - that are prime candidates for numerous potential high - impact applications, including extremely efficient electricity generation, storage, and transmission across the nation's power grid.

We have to put in storage technology, and convert the world's electricity and transmission grids to an energy internet.

But the nation can seek more clean energy from the sun or wind, which won't be affected by climate change, and get the electricity generated elsewhere via a smart grid, he said, referring to an advanced transmission infrastructure China has been building.

Argonne researchers are working to create new, more powerful technology for long - distance transmission of renewable electricity, to balance rural supply and urban demand, and to integrate wind - and solar - generated electricity into the grid.

The transmission line, proposed by Atlantic Grid Holdings, would allow 7 GW of electricity from offshore wind farms access to the grid.

Worthy research objectives include improved fuel cells, solar power, light - emitting diodes for lighting, intelligent buildings, carbon sequestration, advanced nuclear power, superconducting transmission lines, cellulosic biofuels, geothermal power, batteries and other energy storage technologies, super-efficient vehicles, and smart electricity grids.

Building new transmission capacity doesn't necessarily mean that more renewable electricity will be integrated into the grid.

«Microgrids have several advantages for the electricity grid; for example, they can provide electricity during peak - usage hours and therefore forestall the need for expensive upgrades in central generation, transmission, and distribution systems.

G2 Energy, one of a small number of companies in the UK authorised to make new grid connections to the country's electricity transmission and distribution networks, claims it has now surpassed the 100MW mark of battery projects worked on, as it announced the completion of connection works at a new 29MW battery storage facility in Kent, southern England.

Large amounts of wind energy are already being reliably and cost - effectively integrated with the electricity grid; utilities around the world continue to recognize the value wind energy can play within a larger, interconnected electrical transmission system.

With a share of 100 % renewable energy sources and 12 times the current grid capacity, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants can be reduced to 15 % of the total annual electricity consumption, which represents the maximum possible benefit of transmission for Europe.

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.

Utility - scale solar energy projects (defined for the Solar PEIS as facilities with a generation capacity of 20 MW or greater) generate electricity that is distributed to consumers through the electric power transmission grid.

No medium of long - distance power transmission line has ever been built in Australia to connect a region rich in renewable power with the electricity grid.

Nevertheless, it does happen, and when it does, these flares can cause costly damage to electric circuits, electricity transmission grids and other systems vulnerable to such storms.

Subtitle F: Transmission Planning -(Sec. 151) Amends the Federal Power Act to establish a federal policy for transmission planning that calls for regional electric grid planning that facilitates the deployment of renewable and other zero - carbon and low - carbon energy sources for generating electricity to reduce GHG emissions while ensuring reliability, reducing congestion, ensuring cyber-security, minimizing environmental harm, and providing for cost - effective electricity services throughout the UnTransmission Planning -(Sec. 151) Amends the Federal Power Act to establish a federal policy for transmission planning that calls for regional electric grid planning that facilitates the deployment of renewable and other zero - carbon and low - carbon energy sources for generating electricity to reduce GHG emissions while ensuring reliability, reducing congestion, ensuring cyber-security, minimizing environmental harm, and providing for cost - effective electricity services throughout the Untransmission planning that calls for regional electric grid planning that facilitates the deployment of renewable and other zero - carbon and low - carbon energy sources for generating electricity to reduce GHG emissions while ensuring reliability, reducing congestion, ensuring cyber-security, minimizing environmental harm, and providing for cost - effective electricity services throughout the United States.

This Carbon Tracker report shows how rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks.

Unlike large - scale electricity generation that feeds into the transmission system, distributed generation (DG) provides energy directly to consumers and the local distribution grid.

The Solar PEIS analyzed potential environmental impacts associated with the development, operation, and decommissioning of utility - scale solar energy projects; i.e. solar energy projects that can generate 20 MW or more of electricity that is delivered into the electricity transmission grid.

Other factors include: generators» nonfuel variable operating costs, startup / shut down costs, emission rates and allowance costs, transmission constraints on the electricity grid, and reliability requirements.

Electric expenses: The cost of labor, material, and expenses incurred in operating a facility's prime movers, generators, auxiliary apparatus, switching gear, and other electric equipment for each of the points where electricity enters the transmission or distribution grid.

Domestic solar power has helped to decrease the average demand for power from the electricity grid, but peak power consumption, so far as I know, has not declined, and the generation and transmission system has to be able to cover peak demand.

Directs FERC to: (1) adopt, within a year, national electricity grid planning principles derived from such policy to be applied in transmission planning that may implicate interstate transmission of electricity; (2) encourage regional planning entities to cooperate and coordinate across regions and harmonize regional electric grid planning with planning in adjacent or overlapping jurisdictions; (3) seek to ensure that planning is consistent with the national electricity grid planning principles; (4) require regional planning entities to submit initial regional electric grid plans within 18 months of FERC promulgating such principles and to update such plans every three years; and (5) report to Congress within three years on the results of the initial regional grid planning process.

-- Not later than 3 months after the date of adoption by the Commission of national electricity grid planning principles pursuant to paragraph (1), entities that conduct or may conduct transmission planning pursuant to State, tribal, or Federal law or regulation, including States, Indian tribes, entities designated by States and Indian tribes, Federal Power Marketing Administrations, transmission providers, operators and owners, regional organizations, and electric utilities, and that are willing to incorporate the national electricity grid planning principles adopted by the Commission in their electric grid planning, shall identify themselves and the regions for which they propose to develop plans to the Commission.

The electricity generated is transformed into the higher voltages (up to 400,000 volts) used for economic, efficient transmission via power line grids.

-- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Commission shall adopt, after notice and opportunity for comment, national electricity grid planning principles derived from the Federal policy established under subsection (a) to be applied in ongoing and future transmission planning that may implicate interstate transmission of electricity.

-- In addition to the policy under paragraph (1), it is the policy of the United States that regional electric grid planning to meet these objectives should result from an open, inclusive and transparent process, taking into account all significant demand - side and supply - side options, including energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy and zero - carbon electricity generation technologies, smart - grid technologies and practices, demand response, electricity storage, voltage regulation technologies, high capacity conductors with at least 25 percent greater efficiency than traditional ACSR (aluminum stranded conductors steel reinforced) conductors, superconductor technologies, underground transmission technologies, and new conventional electric transmission capacity and corridors.

(9) a robust, efficient, and interactive electricity transmission grid that will allow for the incorporation of clean energy technologies, distributed generation, and demand - response in each regional electric grid;

The resulting electrical current travels via underground cables to a substation, where it is converted to a higher voltage for the larger electricity transmission or distribution grid.

LONDON, 13th November 2014 — Rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks, new research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) shows.

The regulator said the volume of electricity the grid is forced to buy will be determined by technical criteria such as transmission capacity and end - user demand in regions where capacity has been idled.

Most have vested interests in existing sources of electricity generation and transmission capabilities that stand to be compromised if the AWC makes vast new sources of wind power available to the onshore grid.

Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Biofuels (2nd, 3rd generation), Geothermal Energy, Fusion Energy (not fission), Ocean and Wave Energy, Nuclear Fission Energy, Phasing Out Fossil Fuels, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change, Waste Management and Energy, GRIDS - Electricity Power Transmission

Smart grid communication infrastructure is basically the Internet for electricity transmission and distribution systems, with information technologies embedded throughout the system such as digital meters, remote sensors and data communications devices.

And with the early - 2014 completion of state - funded transmission projects linking windy West Texas and the Panhandle to population centers to the east, Texas can accommodate even more clean electricity on the grid.

Last month, the California Independent System Operator quietly announced that it could face a record - breaking need for curtailments — paying, or forcing, generators to stop pumping electricity into a transmission grid that just doesn't have the demand for it at the time.

Electricity from wind farms also increases the cost of electricity by adding to the burden of keeping the grid in balance and makes it difficult to keep transmission lines from being Electricity from wind farms also increases the cost of electricity by adding to the burden of keeping the grid in balance and makes it difficult to keep transmission lines from being electricity by adding to the burden of keeping the grid in balance and makes it difficult to keep transmission lines from being overloaded.

Further, even some utilities have found that when all the benefits provided by solar energy to the grid are tallied up — like avoided fuel costs, emissions - free energy and lower transmission and distribution costs — they are actually higher than the retail costs of electricity.

Could I urge you to look Figures 5, 6 and 7 (compare the options on the basis of CO2 emisisons intensity from the entire grid, capital cost, cost of electricity, CO2 abatement cost and cost of additional transmission system: http://oznucforum.customer.netspace.net.au/TP4PLang.pdf

The Smart Energy Network: Electricity's Third Great Revolution (2003) Electrical power is entering its greatest revolution in a century, one that compares to Thomas Edison's creation of the world's first electrical grids and George Westinghouse's origination of long - distance power transmission.

Such a reform would incorporate the «priority connection» rule, in which the priority is given to power producers using renewable energy to connect to power transmission grids, and the «priority dispatching» rule, in which electricity generated using renewable energy is supplied first, before electricity generated from other sources of energy.