Sentences with phrase «pjm transmission grid»

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. --(April 6, 2016)-- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has formed a strategic alliance with TransCanyon, LLC (TransCanyon), a joint venture between subsidiaries of Berkshire Hathaway Energy and Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, to jointly pursue competitive transmission opportunities solicited by the California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO), the operator for the majority of California's transmission grid.

Looking forward we plan to put an addition 3500 MW of power into our transmission grid utilizing the significant gas reserves we have discovered in offshore concessions.

The Commission has estimated that transmission grid system peak demand will be between 2,477 - 2,500 megawatts, which is about 8.5 percent growth over what was projected for 2015.

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

«This is for the government to access the Japanese International Corporation Agency's loan to support the TCN to continue its transmission grid expansion programme.

The former Lagos State Governor who was represented by the Acting Director, Renewable and Rural Power Access Development, Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Faruk Yabo, was, however, quick to add that efforts must be intensified at improving the transmission grid.

About 20 percent of investments in the high - cost scenario would go into upgrading the high - voltage transmission grid, including installation of sensors to alert operators to potential failures of transformers on the system, and purchases of equipment to protect the grid and make it more efficient, EPRI said.

No comprehensive plan exists to retrofit the transmission grid with protective devices, although the Electric Power Research Institute, the industry's primary research and development organization, is developing a range of technical responses.

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

«Our transmission grids need major improvements so we can more easily produce energy and then send it to where it's needed.

RICHLAND, Wash. — National Grid, a leading US transmission company, and the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have entered into an agreement to work together on research in the areas of transmission grid modernization and energy storage technologies.

To build a sustainable future, we will need engineers, construction workers and scientists to create turbines, affix solar panels and construct transmission grids.

Since 1995, the Rosebud Sioux and other COUP tribes have committed to the utility - scale development of tribal wind resources on their reservations (estimated in the hundreds of gigawatts of potential), and the integration of large - scale distributed tribal wind generation with diminishing reliance on hydropower from federal transmission grids.

The urgency of an accelerated grid expansion has been underlined several times since last May by individual grid operators — as well as by the Federal Grid Agency, which warned that nuclear plant closures had brought the nation's transmission grids «to the edge of their resilience.»

Senate Bill 1565 (Bowen, Chapter 692, Statutes of 2004) requires that the Commission adopt a strategic plan for the state's electric transmission grid.

A CNY 1 (16 US cents) per kWh feed - in tariff for large PV projects connecting to the transmission grid ended on 1 January, creating the year - end rush.

«Transmission grid extensions for the integration of variable renewable energies in europe: who benefits where?.»

This can be solved with a powerful overlay high - voltage DC transmission grid.

David Yaffe serves as the managing partner of Van Ness Feldman's electric practice, focusing on the interstate transmission grid as well as wholesale electric power transactions.

MVM and OVIT are also responsible for the technical side of system operation, i.e. dispatch, system control and operation, maintaining adequate reserve capacity, operation, maintenance and expansion of the transmission grid and international interconnectors, provision of ancillary services, etc..

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.

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.

Operation and maintenance work of the transmission grid is carried out by OVIT on the basis of contracts signed by MVM.

Hydrogen Utility chief executive Attilio Pigneri was reported as saying that the project would provide balancing services to the national transmission grid and fast frequency response support to new solar plants under development on the Eyre Peninsula.

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.

Among his other accomplishments there were fielding the proposal that led Google to invest in a proposed underwater transmission grid off the Atlantic coast, running from Virginia to New Jersey.

Windpower Monthly Work has started on reinforcing Jordan's transmission grid in order to integrate more renewable energy on to the network and improve the reliability of the power supply.

(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;

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.

Other wind farms that were forced to shut down are now back online, according to the American Wind Energy Association, though one site remains down due to the loss of the local transmission grid near Corpus Christi.

Just connecting storage to the transmission grid can cost $ 10 to $ 15 million, according to Cava.

One thinks you only occassional need to run a thermal plant to back up wind and the other thinks the transmission grid is a dinosaur on the brink of extinction.

The transmission grid is not about economies of scale, at least once you get past the actual source of generation.

The study is a result of a directive from a bill passed by the California Legislature last year, (S.B. 350) that required CAISO to analyze the effects of merging its transmission grid with neighboring utilities such as PacifiCorp, which operates in Oregon, Utah and Wyoming.

Even while testing is being carried out to ensure it meets the requirements and standards of the transmission grid operator and the approval of AEMO, the system will be helping provide unspecified «system security services», Weatherill's statement said.

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.

«As discussed below, the value of the Cape Wind facility as compared to alternative Section 83 - eligible resources is further enhanced when these benefits are considered in combination with the facility's favorable location on the regional transmission grid and advanced stage of development.»

The culprits were outmoded power generation stations and a creaky electricity transmission grid.

Also, transmission grids are operated by regional power utility companies within their own service areas, and that hampers the implementation of «priority dispatching» for renewables on a par with European countries.

Probably the 5TW of wind farms will only cost $ 5TR and the redundant transmission grid will only cost $ 20TR — so that's only $ 25TR.

That's because the North Anna nuclear plants are only two out of more than 1,300 generating units (power plants) feeding a 13 - state portion of the transmission grid managed by independent operator PJM Interconnection.

-- Plans for the development and improvement of high - priority national transmission projects into a national high - capacity transmission grid shall take into consideration --

«That might require a change in operations that's not really supported by the transmission grid and may cause reliability issues.»

Embedded generators supply electricity to local distribution systems, which reduces demand on the transmission grid.

The current installed capacity on Ontario's transmission grid is more than 36,900 MW.

As Pickens tilts at billion - dollar windmill farms, he advocates the federal government enact multi-year renewable energy tax credits, require private companies to purchase alternative fuel vehicles and help build a renewable energy transmission grid.

«(1) periodically evaluate whether high - priority national transmission projects are being constructed in accordance with the Interconnection - wide transmission grid plan for high - priority national transmission projects for both the Western and Eastern Interconnection areas;

A major disruption of the electric transmission grid, or the equipment it contains, as part of a cyber attack could have disastrous consequences.

But the government's efforts to promote a switch to cleaner energy has been hindered because power generated from fossil fuels is cheaper and is therefore given priority on the power transmission grid.

Limejump says the system will help keep the transmission grid balanced through demand response at «sub-second granularity».