Sentences with phrase «us electric grid»

The security firm Symantec recently warned that hackers have already gained direct access to the electric grid.

It's the result of an abused electric grid left to rot — and what's happening in Puerto Rico could happen in many other parts of America.

In the emails, Clinton advisers discussed how to frame the candidate's «energy infrastructure» plan, which would call for replacing old pipelines, repairing rail tracks and improving the electric grid in a way that would appeal to labor unions, who had yet to endorse her at that stage.

The new solar farm will provide power to Sierra Pacific Power Co.'s electric grid that serves Apple's data center and when completed will generate about hours 43.5 million kilowatt of clean energy a year, Apple said in a statement.

First, in America's innovation heartland and its largest solar market, California discarded its cap (i.e. removed the «net metering cap») on how many households and businesses can plug into the electric grid with rooftop solar.

Not only are fuel cells an eco-friendly option because they release almost no emissions, but they are also a self - contained, efficient and reliable source of energy, independent of the electric grid.

It loads up on energy from the sun and from the electric grid during off - peak hours.

The Midwestern state that launched the political careers of Presidents Lincoln and Obama isn't as well known for its leadership in electric grid technology.

The Illinois Smart Grid Regional Innovation Cluster has used the funds to provide support to small startups developing technology to help modernize and update Illinois» electric grid, the network for delivering power from suppliers to businesses and consumers.

Chicago - based Intelligent Generation, one of the startups the Smart Grid cluster supported, has created a software program that connects to the hardware of the electric grid and allows a home or business to capture solar energy, store the energy in batteries and release it to the grid when needed.

The ALEC draft document for this week's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Meeting encourages state policymakers to recognize the value the electric grid delivers to all and to update net metering policies to require everyone who uses the grid, such as distributed solar users who feed into it, to pay for it.

Those comments, plus inquiries sent to the utilities by the commission staff, showed that efforts to harden the state's electric grid «have worked» to minimize damage to the system, Ballinger said.

Currently, households in Africa not connected to the electric grid can spend up to 20 % of their total budgets on kerosene, which is the primary source of light for many of these households.

Despite warnings from staff and ignoring input from lawyers, Puerto Rico's bankrupt utility signed a massive $ 300 million contract on October 17 with a tiny, inexperienced Montana company to rebuild its damaged electric grid in the aftermath of the Hurricane Maria disaster.

As Vox has reported, Puerto Rico's electric grid was vulnerable and dilapidated before the storm due to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's long history of financial woes and minimal maintenance and investment.

Its ancient electric grid was in disrepair, requiring expensive shipments of imported oil to operate.

The initial $ 220 million investment in the fiber optic system was funded, in part, by a $ 111.6 million federal grant provided as part of the federal stimulus program in 2010 designed to spur jobs and the development of a smarter electric grid.

Their job is to design and build a new electric grid for Puerto Rico.

Smart Energy Instruments (SEI), a Toronto - based cleantech company with a unique solution to improve electric grid reliability, and Hitachi High - Technologies Corporation of Japan, today unveiled the first component of SEI's planned chipset product line for smart grid applications in an event at MaRS Discovery District.

It's that discharge during peak times that relieves the electric grid from the demand posed by our facilities.

We unpack the sizable impact Tesla's utility scale storage will have on the electric grid.

In addition, electricity capacity margins — the amount of unused power capacity — have declined, increasing the vulnerability of America's electric grid in the event of a disruption.

It also helps the regional electric grid meet demand during peak hours, because batteries effectively eliminate some of that demand.

Powerpack 2 helps businesses gain greater control, efficiency and reliability across the electric grid by enabling them to:

A steadily increasing number of people will want to get in on the «new Bitcoin,» a bizarre paradox given that gold is as old as time, and will soon realize that gold possesses virtues Bitcoin does not, given that it is real, not digital and abstract; that owners can personally possess and store it in physical form; that it will survive any kind of electric grid or Internet disruption that might occur; that it can not ever be hacked; that it is the epitome of private, quiet wealth; that it is actually quite beautiful to behold; and that it was not and can not be made by man, only by God, who does not appear to have any interest in making any more of it.

(Another connection: Nikola is named after Nikola Tesla, who among many other things is responsible for making alternating current dominant on the electric grid.)

Building owners can agree to place Sun Electric panels on their sites and the power generated can be sold onto the electric grid.

For example, a bill passed the House unanimously to harden the electric grid against the high altitude nuclear exposure.

Hurricane Maria did more than destroy Puerto Rico's electric grid and water supply.

The hurricane destroyed the island's electric grid, and 84 percent of the public utility's customers still don't have power.

Since a large part of St. Thomas» electric grid is powered by solar, many downed power lines were still live and one man got electrocuted.

Regarding public funds, we're getting older and broker as we speak in terms of public obligations toward pensions (and other expenses), and meanwhile our bridges and electric grids rot.

Governor Brown has set an audacious goal to convert half of the state's electric grid to solar, wind and other low carbon sources in 15 years.

While efforts being made to restore the island's electric grid are having some success, experts are warning that the real challenges may have only just begun.

As the planet warms, driven by Western excess and cascading Asian growth (China adds the equivalent of southern California's electric grid annually), life may become increasingly untenable.

Cuomo predicted that the president would utilize any additional money he gets as a result of this agreement to create a «cyber wall» along the border, with seniors, cameras and an electric grid.

He also deployed a team of power restoration specialists to help with electric grids that are still down.

The Army Corps of Engineers is ending its work to rebuild Puerto Rico's electric grid despite fears the island's government won't be able to restore power on its own to more than 16,000 people who remain blacked out eight months after Hurricane Maria.

Once the pipeline is complete, the Valley Energy Center will begin to reduce the region's overall emissions, protect and enhance the reliability of the region's electric grid, and start saving New York's energy consumers more than an estimated $ 600 million in electricity costs annually.»

YOU CA N'T» if fear mongers like you lived back in the 30s there would be no interstate highways, no electric grid and life expectancy would still be at 55.

Many of the same warnings Mario Cuomo heard in the 1980s about Shoreham are the same ones his son hears today from supporters of Indian Point: Closing a nuclear plant will result in blackouts, a less reliable electric grid and increased air pollution as fossil fuels are burned to replace the lost emissions - free nuclear power; customers could face higher bills; more than 1,000 jobs will be lost, and tax revenue for schools and towns will dissipate.

«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.

The director of Puerto Rico's power company resigned on Friday amid ongoing blackouts and scrutiny of a contract awarded to a small Montana - based company to help rebuild the electric grid destroyed by Hurricane Maria.

The authority's staff has been reduced by half to fewer than 50, and most operational control of the electric grid has been turned over to PSEG Long Island.

Matthew Cordaro, a former Long Island Lighting Co. executive who is now a LIPA trustee, said the additional pension costs point to the potential pitfalls of the public - private partnership under which LIPA has operated since its 1998 takeover of the electric grid.

And regardless of the «science,» the economic reality is that Indian Point's 2,000 megawatts of power are indispensable to an electric grid that's already straining to meet growing demand.

After a yearlong campaign to end what New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called a «failed» and «bloated» agency, New Jersey - based PSEG is now almost five months into running Long Island's electric grid.

While a large aid package will likely take time, one area the senators agreed could be addressed is rebuilding Puerto Rico's electric grid.

Superstorm Sandy may have been the worst disaster to hit the LIPA electric grid, but the storm's aftermath brought a wave of changes that included a new system operator, badly needed technology and infrastructure upgrades, and more than $ 1.4 billion in federal funding to repair and prepare for the next big storm.

The credits would be paid to solar and wind companies, which would eventually add new clean energy sources to the state's electric grid.