Sentences with phrase «transmission lines often»

Transmission lines often have a long lifetime, lasting a few decades.

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Plus, local generation is more reliable than electricity transported over long transmission lines, a major plus on brutal winter days we often see in February.

Protected steel pipes are often used for higher pressure, longer distance transmission lines.

Often FWS can't determine the exact cause of death, but apparently poachers, transmission lines, pesticides and lead poisoning from bullet - ridden carrion killed significantly more than turbines.

Developers often purchase easements to secure a number of rights, including those for ingress and egress, installing transmission lines and facilities, and accessing unobstructed wind.

Existing electricity transmission lines have limits on how much electricity that they can carry and are often called on to deliver more.

Yes, there are places in the United States where the sun is likely to shine on an un-obscured basis far more often than in other places, and transmission via HVDC lines (rather than AC) has materially less loss over long distances (and is convenient for solar since a solar cell generates DC power in the first place; as such it requires only one conversion, to AC at the receiving end, if HVDC transmission is used.)

The problem is it is often located away from transmission lines, just as hydro electricity often was until developed.

By calculating the EROI of all the options, researchers have found that it can often be better to simply build more wind turbines or solar panels, or even transmission line to move power from somewhere where the sun is shining or the wind is blowing to somewhere where they're not, than to build storage.