Sentences with phrase «utility grids in»

There have been a few high profile entries in the energy storage market, including Tesla whose Powerwall series offers some degree of independence from utility grids in addition to being an emergency backup system.

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In a Friday update, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that for a brief period on March 11th, utility - scale solar accounted for 40 % of net grid power produced in CaliforniIn a Friday update, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that for a brief period on March 11th, utility - scale solar accounted for 40 % of net grid power produced in Californiin California.

In Japan, utilities are building battery arrays as powerful as 300 megawatts for grid storage.

Advocates counter that the higher the concentration of rooftop solar systems in a neighborhood, the less a utility has to spend on distribution to shore up grid reliability.

In May, for instance, SolarCity introduced a set of services for utilities, including development of solar power plants, battery storage and other grid planning resources.

Distributed solar systems require additional upgrades to the power grid, including enabling the grid to operate in both directions, and most utilities are pushing back against covering those upgrade expenses.

Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.

The region around San Diego will soon get two big battery projects that will help the local utility add in more clean energy and better manage the power grid.

Energy regulators in the state are battling utility companies over net metering, which is the process through which solar customers get a credit for a certain amount of electricity that they send back to the grid.

The utilities are trying to charge solar users more in grid - fees.

The company has one Connecticut service station, in Milford, and five super-charging stations that can provide up to 170 miles of range in as little as 30 minutes, though the charge rate depends on weather, demands on the utility grid, and other factors.

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.

The head of Puerto Rico's public utility company, PREPA, resigned Friday afternoon following a series of blunders in the effort to restore Puerto Rico's power grid.

«This funding and the demonstration project ensure that Ontario will continue to lead in the development of smart grid technology,» said Bob Leigh, President, Prolucid Technologies Inc. «Utilities globally face significant challenges to change the model of power consumption, reducing greenhouse gases and increasing the efficiency of the grid.

Generally, experienced utility crews take on the daunting task of repairing power grids in most US disaster zones.

Turns out, the culprit was a semi-truck, which knocked over a utility pole and knocked out a transformer (the power - grid kind, not the robot kind) in Texas, which in turn started a chain of events that ended up taking down a bunch of sites hosted by server provider Rackspace.

He, therefore, assured that «on the basis of my country's specific needs, Government is keen on developing utility - scale solar energy projects, as well as accelerating the development of mini-grid solutions in off - grid and island communities for lighting, irrigation and other economic activities».

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

The infrastructure challenges include installing tens of millions of charging stations, strengthening the grid to handle electricity demand by plug - ins, and changing utility regulations to promote nighttime recharging

Smart electrical grids and energy storage options would allow utilities to operate more efficiently by helping them manage spikes in the demand for electric power.

Such grids will enable utility companies to monitor energy use in minute detail, allowing them to alter the price of electricity as demand changes.

Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power consumption in homes at peak periods of demand, when wholesale electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.

Deployment of smart grid technology from U.S. utility control centers and power networks to consumers» homes could cost between $ 338 billion and $ 476 billion over the next 20 years, but will deliver $ 1.3 trillion to $ 2 trillion in benefits over that period.

In comments to EPA, a number of utilities and regional grid operators have expressed concern about the plan's forecasts for renewables, fuel switching and energy efficiency gains.

Utility executives and smart grid advocates agree that apart from the smart grid projects funded by $ 4 billion in federal stimulus grants, most current smart grid investment is going into improving the efficiency, reliability and profitability of power supply, rather than reaching consumers directly.

Some stakeholders are concerned that utility proposals for cost recovery of smart grid investments would lead to significantly higher monthly bills and a shift in the risk of investment from utilities to ratepayers.

This tail - wagging - the - dog scheme is approaching a critical test in Boulder, Colorado, where Minneapolis - based utility Xcel Energy is rolling out one of the first systemwide installations of a smart 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

If solar rooftop arrays became as ubiquitous in home design as chimneys, the U.S. grid could indeed cease to exist — an end to power lines, electrical substations and transformers atop equally archaic wooden utility poles.

The bigger hurdle to realizing the study's vision of a national grid, however, may be persuading policymakers, utilities investors, and landowners that it's a good idea, says Susan Tierney, a former U.S. assistant secretary of energy under President Clinton who's currently an energy consultant at the Analysis Group in Boston.

Such capabilities explain why the evolution of the «smart grid» is proceeding differently in the utility and customer sectors, say Shapard and Greg Guthridge, global managing director of utility services for the consulting and technology services firm Accenture.

Most of the investment currently in the United States is driven by utilities seeking to get the grid's backbone infrastructure modernized, he added.

Rather than pursuing the centralized power systems favored by big utilities and international lending agencies, the initiative encourages the private sector to develop small independent grids in remote regions.

In the United States, smart grid investments that improve utilities» ability to manage the grid are moving faster overall than the rollout of smart meters, thermostats, appliances and displays at the household level, Guthridge said.

Utilities will be challenged to understand and respond to their customers» different levels of interest in the smart grid.

They see a market in servicing large electric utilities that want to incrementally expand their generation capacity, developing countries that can not afford or make good use of traditional reactors, and off - grid and hard - to - power sites.

In June, German meteorologists, engineers and utility firms began to test whether big data and machine learning can make these power sources more grid - friendly.

And to avoid brownouts and absorb these surges, utilities will need to spend between $ 70 billion and $ 180 billion in grid upgrades — power plants and futuristic energy storage systems for which ratepayers would ultimately foot the bill.

Tomoaki Ikenaga, a partner and chairman of the energy practice group at the Tokyo law firm Anderson Mori & Tomotsune, said in an email exchange that Japan's regulated utilities are also required to maintain grid stability, while developers of new renewable energy projects are not subject to any requirements.

Shocks to the grid But that pace of growth has placed a severe strain on the country's vertically integrated utilities, according to Japanese energy experts, who say the surge in solar power threatens to overwhelm the country's transmission and distribution systems, which since the 1950s have been organized to serve each of the 10 distinct distribution areas and are not bound together by a robust transmission system.

In order to provide a benefit to the customer and GM, someone — whether a utility or grid operator — will have to pay for the service.

The company that operates the state's power grid has a contingency plan in case of emergency shutdowns, says Dorothy Schnure, a spokesperson for Green Mountain Power, one of two local utilities that purchase and resell much of the power from Vermont Yankee.

Nevertheless, some utilities still prefer to keep coal to maintain a diversity of fuels in the electric grid.

Researchers have used the compound to create a high - performance «flow» battery, a leading contender for storing renewable power in the electric utility grid.

Last year, for example, the Edison Electric Institute, a utility trade group, in a report described rooftop solar as a «disruptive challenge» that could squeeze revenue and profits as customers defected, leaving companies forced to maintain grids that serve all.

In New York, regulators are weighing allowing utilities to get into the solar leasing business to meet the state's aggressive plan to incorporate more decentralized, renewable power onto the grid.

A recent study found that an electric car charged by utilities at night in the regional grid that stretches across Ohio, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia creates more greenhouse gas pollution than if owners plugged in their vehicles at random times throughout the daytime, when the utility fuel mixes are more varied.

For instance, the utility can place panels in locations that will most improve grid stability.

Such a scene would have been difficult to imagine in December 2015 when the Public Utilities Commission voted to end net metering — as the credits paid to panel - owning homeowners for power sent back to the grid are called.