Sentences with phrase «power grid operator amprion»

Power grid operator Amprion has said German networks came close to blackouts during settled and overcast conditions in January when renewable plants produced almost nothing.

In 2012, the continuing SONGS closure put pressure on the electric power grid operator, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), to adjust both generation and transmission in order to meet summer demand for electricity, and in general, continues to change the generation profile in the area.

The authorities» attention was attracted by the abnormal surge of electricity usage by the local power grid operator.

Renewable energy accounted for 103.6 percent of mainland electricity consumption last month, the report by the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association and the Sustainable Earth System Association said citing data from power grid operator REN.

Police in the north China city of Tianjin confiscated 600 computers used to mine bitcoin cryptocurrency after the local power grid operator reported abnormal electricity usage, Xinhua reported Wednesday.

Siemens monitors its own systems and provides plant security services, cybersecurity services for utilities and power grid operators, and virus protection for tomographs and other imaging products.

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

BEIJING (Reuters)- A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

The August 21 eclipse cut a path across the US, causing concern for power grid operators — especially those with significant amounts of solar power generation.

The group of U.S. and Canadian power grid operators who make up the ISO / RTO Council (IRC) and manage most of North America's bulk electric grid, expect 1 million plug - in vehicles could be deployed on the continent within five years to a decade — and they aim to be prepared.

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

Photo: Michael Graham Richard Well, it Depends... Not All Megawatts Are Created Equal Power grid operators are looking at the coming wave of plug - in vehicles and trying to figure out what it will mean for them.

new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

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Every major U.S. grid operator strongly opposed Perry's plan, characterizing it as a threat to competitive power markets.

The Energy Department plan drew criticism from natural gas producers, grid operators and others who argued it would undermine competition in wholesale power markets.

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.

At an energy summit meeting Monday, the EU yet again watered down an initiative to end the regulation of electricity prices and gave grid operators powers to stop new entrants encroaching on their businesses.

Firms mining bitcoin have also taken to moving to remote locations, not registering a company and engaging in the mildly illegal activity of purchasing electricity directly from power producers rather than grid operators.

The generation and pricing patterns that occurred in March and that may continue through the spring highlight some of the issues California grid operators will face in integrating large amounts of solar into their power markets.

«What appears to have happened [in Fukushima] is that after the first failure of the first cooling system, as a result of the power cuts from the grid, the back - up diesel generators began to work and began to operate but they were then hit by the tsunami and therefore back - up operators failed to work and it took the staff on site some time to re-establish and improvise cooling which they of course did with the pumping of sea water.»

«I guess he feels in the end this is an excellent scheme,» said Matthew Cordero, a former electric grid operator and a trustee of the Long Island Power Authority.

New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), New York State's grid operator, confirmed that, in 2021, when Indian Point closes, other power sources coupled with energy efficiency improvements are already set to take up virtually all the slack resulting from the plant's shutdown.

BUCHANAN, N.Y. (AP / WCBS 880)-- The Indian Point nuclear power station was entirely off the grid Friday after a non-radioactive leak forced operators to close the only reactor that was running.

For example, advanced sensors are providing unprecedented real - time information on power flows that grid operators are using to monitor system stability.

But such real - time intelligence could also entice grid operators to allow more power to flow over existing power lines.

If the index rises to 4 (on a 1 - 9 scale), auroras are likely and an alert is issued, a handy heads - up for power grid and satellite operators, as well as aurora chasers.

The idea is that many small power plant operators can feed their electricity into the grid but act as a single power plant using computers to control the level of power.

That massive impulse blacked out the entire power grid in Quebec in 92 seconds, giving operators «no time to even assess what was happening to the power system, let alone provide any meaningful human intervention,» said John Kappenman, author of a January 2010 report by Metatech Corp. prepared for Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

In 2015, wind surpassed nuclear to become the grid operator's third - largest power source.

Distribution grid operators can use these figures to protect their power grids from long - term damage and sudden outages.

They can also lead to needless carbon dioxide emissions if grid operators generate extra power that ends up being wasted.

The trouble is that on calm and cloudy days, grid operators still need to call on conventional power stations to meet expected demand.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

If the pattern can be unraveled completely, it could give hours or even days of warning to telecommunications companies, electric power grids, and satellite operators to prepare for these dangerous storms.

«To operate the grid more efficiently and keep fossil reserves at a minimum, operators need to have a better idea of how much wind and solar power to expect at any given time,» says Malte Siefert, a physicist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology in Kassel, Germany, and a leader on the project, called EWeLiNE.

Eventually, the idea is for grid operators to use the power forecast to guide these requests.

While investment in China's power grid has risen substantially, the country still has some of the world's highest curtailment rates for renewable energy, meaning thousands of turbines are taken offline, even under optimum wind conditions, because grid operators lack the knowledge and skills to integrate the clean energy with other sources, including baseload power from coal plants.

The sudden loss of electricity supply forced grid operators to cut power to some offices and factories for several hours to prevent statewide blackouts.

Grid operators who want to know how much wind or solar power the grid can handle look first to Texas for answers.

New kinds of forecasts available in the demonstration platform help transmission system operators calculate precisely how much wind and solar power will be fed into which grid nodes.

Should there be an excessive peak in electricity demand, grid operators can select which areas of the country will have power cut off.

Therefore, power generators and grid operators need back - up capacity that can fill the generation gap that results when these intermittent sources are unavailable and that also can be scaled back when intermittent sources are generating power.

We look forward to engaging with FERC, DOE, and grid operators in an examination of what resilience of the electric power system means and requires, and to demonstrating the contribution of our industries to ensuring reliable power for all.»

Environmentalists will rejoice at this, but the trend is so swift that owners and operators of electric power systems are legitimately worrying about whether the decline of coal will undermine reliability of the electric grid and also make the nation too dependent on natural gas.

While the DOE's reasoning for linking fuel stores to grid resiliency has been widely criticized for its vagueness and gaps in logic, its idea for a solution is clear: «full cost recovery» for those power plants now playing by the rules of the energy and capacity markets run by interstate grid operators serving about three - quarters of the country.

In May 2012, at the German Energy Agency's (DENA's) behest, the nation's four grid operators (TSOs)-- 50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT TSO, and TransnetBW — drew up a joint network development plan identifying necessary expansions to help transmit power from the North and Baltic Sea, where many offshore wind parks are being planned and built, to industrialized areas in southern and western Germany.

Meanwhile, distribution grids, which connect smaller renewables installations and conventional power stations, will also require considerable expansion and modernization, the scale of which will depend on specific tasks assigned to the nation's 800 - plus distribution grid operators when developing smart grids.

For more than two decades, power companies and grid operators have met pollution control limits for sulfur dioxide and other pollutants by ramping up cleaner generation and ramping down dirty generation, using both smokestack pollution controls and pollution reduction credits.

On a commercial basis, German energy storage provider Sonnen has already launched SonnenCommunity, an energy sharing and trading platform and has separately worked with grid operator TenneT to trial Blockchain - enabled balancing of renewable energy resources across long distances, for instance trading surplus wind generated power in northern Germany for solar generated in the south.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....