Sentences with phrase «access to a power grid»

With Hubbell's help, the most devastated communities will soon have renewed access to power grids, which should be a huge help in other relief efforts.

Boyle notes that this approach will be especially valuable in areas where there is no access to a power grid.

All it takes to install this smart urban display are four bolts fixing the sign in place — no access to the power grid or complex machinery necessary!

The «open access» is to ensure that PPS companies using any type of energy sources have access to power grids, in principle.

In January, the government canceled its support for what was supposed to be a showcase project, a plant at a carefully chosen site in Illinois where there was coal, access to the power grid, and soil underfoot that backers said could hold the carbon dioxide for eons.

Not exact matches

He also pointed out that in addition to the military aspect of US operations in the country, other parts of the US government like the State Department and USAID are also active in reconciliation efforts, recovering water access, and rebuilding the power grids in destroyed towns and cities.

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.

You don't need any tools to remove the safety gutter and access the power grid to clean up, so it's a quick and easy process.

Solar power is giving millions of people access to electricity for the first time — could they bypass traditional fossil fuel grids altogether?

But their economics would really shine for isolated towns whose lack of access to central power grids has forced them to rely on dirty and costly - to - run diesel generators.

If they've accessed a network that's controlling something, such as an electrical power grid or a railroad system, they can cause things to happen not in cyberspace but in physical space.

This technology could also provide very useful backup for off - grid rooftop solar panels — an important advantage considering some 20 percent of the world's population does not have access to a power distribution network.

The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids: due to low power requirements it can be powered by cheap local solar power.

Advanced hardware and software allow the epaper screen to withstand the harsh elements and use up as little power as possible, creating an energy - sustainable solution that does not require access to the electrical grid.

The reality is that many of those people, and millions of others like them throughout the developing world who have NO access to electricity, will NEVER have access to fossil - fuel - fired electricity because no one is ever going to build the centralized power plants and the grid to deliver electricity to them.

And in fact, I do think it would be a good idea for the billions of people all over the world who have never had access to electricity to have access to cheap, efficient, mass - produced off - grid solar power — power they can generate for themselves, without being beholden to big utilities.

Off - grid solar is already providing electricity to communities in rural Africa, India, the Caribbean and elsewhere who will never get access to grid power from nuclear or any other form of large, centralized generation, because the resources to build either the grids or the giant power plants do not exist, nor do those communities have the wealth to purchase grid power.

Of the 1.2 billion people who have gained access since 2000, nearly all have gained access via connection to the main grid, with 70 % of people getting access with power generated from fossil fuels (45 % coal, 19 % natural gas and 7 % oil).

We also heard that the Capacity Market, Britain's mechanism for ensuring security of consumer power supplies in winter months is «rapidly becoming outdated», according to one panellist, while the question of grid connection capacity, in terms of cost and access, remains a hot topic.

GRID Alternatives» International Program addresses a critical energy access gap in rural communities in Nicaragua and Nepal by bringing solar power to schools, health clinics, homes, farms and small businesses.

As we won't always have access to AC power, it means that we can also travel with a back - up ethanol burner for off - the - grid cooking.

This Carbon Tracker report shows how rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks.

Montes notes that in the emerging age of dominant renewables, «access to and control over electricity grids will be the predominant determination of local, national and regional power.»

So what good are fossil fuel power plants if they don't lead to greater grid access?

Reaching universal energy access at tier 5 (full grid power, all day, every day) by 2030 would require a five-fold increase in finance, to approximately $ 50 billion annually.

That's because India's over-reliance on a centralized grid powered largely by coal has always been a failure - one that most Indians accept as a fact of daily life considering the prolonged power cuts they routinely face, not to mention the 300 million people who don't even have access to it.

LONDON, 13th November 2014 — Rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks, new research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) shows.

The story of India shining got a rude shock... relying on highly inefficient power grids and dirty and expensive fossil fuels like coal has only lead to greater environmental risks and poor energy access for millions of Indians... Another way is possible... It's time to invest in energy efficiency and decentralized renewable energy for all.

GRID addresses a critical energy access gap in communities in Nicaragua, Nepal, and Mexico by bringing solar power to schools, health clinics, homes, farms, orphanages, and small businesses.

GRID Alternatives» International Program addresses a critical energy access gap in communities in Nicaragua, Nepal, and Mexico by bringing solar power to schools, health clinics, homes, farms, orphanages, and small businesses.

Another example is where power utility companies water down the system connection rules, which require utility companies by law to allow PPS companies to connect to their power grids based on the principle of open access.

Renewable energy and the potential it has to plug off - grid power gaps, for example, may be indispensable to achieving universal energy access.

Free markets would be preferred, but the US failed to create competitive power markets under deregulation because it awarded old coal and nuclear power plants all sorts of advantages including stranded cost subsidies, grandfather exemptions to environmental regs, preferential grid access, etc..

The country's 2003 electricity act mandates power for all, but the United Nations estimates 400 million of India's citizens are still without access to an electric grid.

The report highlights: Trends in domestic energy demand and supply prospects to 2040, broken down by fuel and sector The outlook for the power sector and the increasing share of coal in the region's electricity generation The role that Southeast Asia will play in international energy trade and the implications for its energy expenditures The potential energy and environmental benefits of implementing pragmatic measures that would help limit the rise in the region's greenhouse - gas emissions An in - depth analysis of energy prospects in Malaysia to 2040 A focus on four key issues that will shape the direction of the region's energy system: power grid interconnection, energy investment, energy access and fossil - fuel subsidies

If you have a wind power company desiring access to the grid to sell the power, the grid operator will act as a middle man and ensure that he gets his cut, so yes the cost of integration will be passed to the producer, and he will only stay in business as long as he can make a profit.

They claim that this will «provide direct access to power at cost and without the additional charges and costs associated with transmission, of power including; grid costs, poles and wires, electricity retailer margins to supply to the end user.»

In those areas of the world without reliable access to an electric grid, or where no grid is likely ever to be built, such a decentralized approach can bring the benefits of clean electric power to regions which would otherwise go without.

TreeHugger: The ultimate goal here is to roll these out into remote populations who may not have access to a reliable power grid, is that right?

In regions where access to modern sanitation systems and a reliable power grid can be a challenge, biogas digesters really come into their own.

The Lao firm Sunlabob Rural Energy provides two different ways for rural people to access solar power where grid access is nonexistent and unlikely to be built in the future.

Unfortunately, today's investments in energy access are heavily skewed toward traditional grid extension, with billions going to large scale centralized power projects which are often heavily polluting coal plants.

Nigeria's government has just announced its intention to make another round of investments in solar energy to supply up to 10 rural communities that currently lack access to the national power grid.

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As it emerged on Friday (16 March), the US has officially warned that Russian hackers have already been shown to have gained access to energy grids, nuclear power facilities and water facilities in the US.