Sentences with phrase «as grid infrastructure»

It takes place annually at the Messe München exhibition center in Munich, Germany and focuses on the areas of photovoltaics, solar thermal technologies, solar power plants, as well as grid infrastructure and solutions for the integration of renewable energy.

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In this session, Author Kim Zetter will talk about Stuxnet and the security issues around the digital systems that control our critical infrastructure — trains, planes, water treatment plants and the power grid — as well as the products of our daily lives, including cars and medical equipment.

Therefore, cementing Greater Vancouver's status as a Canadian economic leader requires a commitment to invest in its transportation grid and public transit infrastructure.

So they end up having sold or having talks to sell critical infrastructure as aiports, electricity plants, or even the electricity grid itself to foreign funds for extremely undervalued pricing.

«As the Iranian attack on the Westchester dam shows, a particularly neglected area is critical infrastructure — dams and power grids — and we must increase our focus on protecting them.»

Switching to local grids can ultimately help make the whole power infrastructure more robust in emergencies such as hurricanes or solar storms.

Large power outages are expected to become more frequent as the result of a changing climate, where the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events is increasing, as well as geomagnetic storms and attacks on grid infrastructure.

With the EV revolution in full swing, University of Michigan mechanical engineer Jeffrey Stein says the time is now to integrate the electrical grid with the transportation infrastructure and ensure the country's carbon emissions drop as a result of the introduction of electric cars.

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

(Other countries — such as the United States — very much lack an energy infrastructure that can work better with renewable power, hence President Barack Obama's emphasis on the so - called smart grid in the stimulus package.)

The newly available data gives researchers a treasure trove of measurements they can use to better understand how space weather works and how best to protect critical infrastructure, such as the nation's satellites, aircraft, communications networks, navigation systems, and electric power grid.

«Long term, these steps will help with having a better grid infrastructure as well as market environment for integration of renewable energy,» he added.

Now the film has inspired engineers to develop a way to cope with cyber attacks on crucial infrastructure, such as electricity grids, water utilities and banking networks.

The team suggests that now we are forewarned of the possible worst - case scenario with regard to the smart grid and smart meters, we must put in place security measures to protect the infrastructure and maintain that security as the hackers advance to stay at least one step ahead of the threat.

Critical infrastructure, such as dams, power grids and other systems are increasingly linked to the Internet, meaning they, too, are exposed to ransomware.

Inslee, Jerry Brown and Kate Brown talked about the efforts underway in each of their states to curb greenhouse gas emissions through initiatives such as renewable energy and grid modernization, electrification of transportation infrastructure, energy efficiency and policies to price or cap carbon emissions.

PNNL will tap into its extensive experience in fundamental and applied sciences, including advanced materials synthesis, characterization and modeling, as well as electrical grid infrastructure, grid storage and management, to help improve the performance, reliability and life - span of batteries.

A 160 MWe SMR - 160 was identified as a near - optimum size to back - fit existing grids and brownfield sites for retiring fossil units, to suit the power needs of communities and industrial complexes not proximate to major grid infrastructure and city - centers, and to facilitate simple passive rejection of a limited decay waste heat.

The more we know about these particles, the better able we'll be to protect astronauts and infrastructure such as power grids.

For instance, the show's organizers will hold a special event to illustrate future infrastructure systems designed specifically to reduce carbon - dioxide emissions — such as smart grids.

RINC aims to provide investors access to a portfolio of listed companies that own «hard» physical assets, such as property, utilities and infrastructure (eg A-REITs, airports, toll roads and gas grids), that deliver strong dividend income from reliable revenue streams that can grow ahead of inflation.

Southern California Edison announced Wednesday that it will be making $ 12 million in grid improvements in downtown Santa Barbara and surrounding areas over the next two years as part of the infrastructure - investment projects that began earlier this year.

The paintings» starting point begins with a drawn - on graphite grid made up of 1/4» squares, which serves as a guiding infrastructure for the composition.

But conditions don't seem nearly as ripe for approving such investments and infrastructure in more crowded regions, where demand for electricity is highest, according to Matt Wald's latest article on wind and the grid.

Once the nation is committed to action, the government and private sector could concentrate their thinking on whether very large - scale infrastructure investments would need to be supported with public funds ---- projects such as solarization of the grid, new coal power plants with carbon capture and sequestration, etc..

For that reason, Earth observations, science and services, taken together, constitute a critical infrastructure every bit as vital to our well - being as the electrical grid, our communications networks, our sewage systems and our roads and bridges.

That was despite the utility, Florida's largest, investing nearly $ 3 billion over the past decade to modernize and harden its grid infrastructure — costs, as well as a regulatory profit of between 9.6 and 11.6 percent, that its customers will continue to pay for many years to come.

If the energy used for building and maintaining the extra infrastructure is accounted for in a life cycle analysis of a renewable power grid, it would be just as CO2 - intensive as the present - day power grid.

$ 100 billion per year is already spent on outages per year due to climate - related damages to grid infrastructure alone in the US; this will only increase as America becomes more dependent on shale oil and gas.

To move toward a cleaner energy economy, we must improve our nation's electrical grid, as well as construct the transmission infrastructure needed to connect renewable energy facilities to cities and regions with high power demand.

Other public utility commissions in other states are also considering mandating time of use rate plans as a way of reducing periods of peak demand that necessitate capital upgrades to grid infrastructure

Now, tell us how to you power business, infrastructure, such as water and sewage, traffic lights etc, etc without a grid?

Smart grid communication infrastructure is basically the Internet for electricity transmission and distribution systems, with information technologies embedded throughout the system such as digital meters, remote sensors and data communications devices.

Infrastructure projects such as this one will be critical in reaching the official Chinese goal of 200,000 megawatts of grid - connected wind capacity by 2020.

Because transmission and distribution grids that operators of power transmission and distribution develop systematically as their equipment formation will serve as infrastructure for the whole of society.

The Energy Cloud scenario describes a radical transformation of energy markets as the one - way power grid gives way to a more dynamic network of stakeholders, technologies, and infrastructure.

Our grid connected and off grid wind turbine systems, which consist of our 2.4 kW and 10 kW devices and related equipment, are utilized for electrical power generation for applications and markets such as residential, micro-grid based rural electrification, agricultural, small business, rural electric utility systems, as well as other private, corporate infrastructure and government applications.

But if existing combustion power plants could be adapted to use metal powder instead of coal or other fossil fuels, then much of the existing power generating infrastructure could be used, and power generation could continue to be in the same places it is now, using the same grid as is currently supplying electricity.

Green, a longtime proponent of a technology - led response to global warming, demonstrated the effectiveness of a policy of government investment in R & D aimed at developing new low - carbon technologies, making current technologies cheaper and more effective, and expanding energy - related infrastructure such as smart grids.

The consequences of not having such an infrastructure in place can be seen in the case of Chile, whose solar farms produced so much power last year that it had to be given away for free as there was no way to distribute it to regions outside their grid.

This book assumes some serious energy saving through technical upgrades, to houses, etc, as well as a lot of new green energy transmission and storage infrastructure for grid balancing nationally.

Yet, due to an aging infrastructure and increasing demand, our electrical grid is not as reliable or resilient as we need.

According to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC) latest monthly «Energy Infrastructure Update», the US grid added more than 70 times as much renewable energy capacity as natural gas capacity.

Every country around the world, they note, has a unique energy storage potential that is based on the combination of energy resources, historical physical infrastructure, and electricity market structure, as well as regulatory framework, population demographics, energy demand patterns and trends, and general grid architecture and condition.

While the Sierra Club lambasts electrical grids as outmoded technologies, centralized grids are exactly what Africa and other low - income countries need to power hospitals, school, factories, and other foundational infrastructure.

Over the last few weeks, I've produced a few posts about different components of infrastructure, and now realize that maybe we should take a step back, discuss the general topic a bit more, and cover some essential points before diving deeper into the reasons such innovations as smart grids, electric cars and clean energy may or may not be as sustainable as promised.

Despite mounting evidence that poor countries will develop and lead high - energy lives, some advocates have focused almost exclusively on low - energy rural electrification as opposed to top - down investments in grid extension, industrialization, and infrastructure.

Your project is to design for Portland, with the functionality of Copenhagen's active transportation infrastructure with adaptions as required for Portland's hilly land character, a neighborhood to employment interconnecting system of cycle tracks to be built upon Portland's street grid, that would enable and support residents» opportunity to dispense with the use of a car for this typical day to day commute, accomplishing it with a bike instead.

In other words, besides requiring a huge (environmentally damaging) infrastructure to collect a meaningful amount of such a diffuse energy source as the wind, it is only by chance that it provides power when the grid actually needs it.

As China's wind power installations took off in the mid-2000s, electric grid and transmission infrastructure expansion could not keep pace.