Sentences with phrase «as grid systems»

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Now, Matthews's wildly ambitious goal is to «democratize on - demand power for everyone» by rebranding her company as M.O.R.E. (motion - based, off - grid, renewable energy), an energy company that's creating a microgenerating system that can harness the kinetic energy of just about anything that moves.

Alternatively, as has also been an issue in the context of the switch to smart electricity grids, where the transmission system owner remains part of a vertically integrated firm, it has an incentive to implement network upgrades in a manner that excludes third parties from the competitive segments.

As our energy system increasingly switches from fossil fuels to clean power, we will need both more renewable energy supply and greater integration of our power grids.

Second, the Powerwall 2 storage system, which starts production this quarter at the Gigafactory, will take the energy that is generated by any source (whether from the solar roof, another solar power system, or even the grid) and use it when it's most beneficial, such as during the night, during a power outage, or when the customer can make money by doing so.

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.

«While more remains to be done to optimize our electricity system — building transmission lines to carry more clean power to those jurisdictions still burning fossil fuels, investing in smarter grids in our towns and cities, bringing more clean power online — these regulations create a foundation as we transition to clean energy and an economy built to last.»

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.

The rollout of «smart grid» systems and new energy storage technologies can strengthen Canada's reputation as a leader in clean electricity.

As long as people have become educated, love God, love people, and look at all their philosophy and psychology through the grid of Scripture, I have no preference for either systeAs long as people have become educated, love God, love people, and look at all their philosophy and psychology through the grid of Scripture, I have no preference for either systeas people have become educated, love God, love people, and look at all their philosophy and psychology through the grid of Scripture, I have no preference for either system.

«What appears to have happened [in Fukushima] is that after the first failure of the first cooling system, as a result of the power cuts from the grid, the back - up diesel generators began to work and began to operate but they were then hit by the tsunami and therefore back - up operators failed to work and it took the staff on site some time to re-establish and improvise cooling which they of course did with the pumping of sea water.»

NY1 VIDEO: As the state orders Con Ed to review the power grid for the subway system, Errol Louis gets an underground tour of the power system in the Columbus Circle station from Gov. Cuomo.

As the state orders Con Ed to review the power grid for the subway system, Errol Louis gets an underground tour of the power system in the Columbus Circle station from Gov. Cuomo.

Yet he warns that uncertainty should not deter us from practical preparations, such as making power grids more resilient and improving early - warning systems.

Space weather events such as geomagnetic storms can disturb Earth's magnetic field, interfering with electric power grids, radio communication, GPS systems, satellite operations, oil and gas drilling and air travel.

On their artificial grid, just as in the archives, blackouts looked like growing sand piles or fusion reactors: complex systems.

According to the cardinal rules of designing and operating power grids, the system should always have enough spare capacity to sustain the loss of any single element, even one as big as the Southwest Powerlink.

Power systems are adopting so - called smart grid technologies, such as advanced power sensors and automated switches, that could have unintended impacts on reliability, Papic notes.

They're a tough problem to crack because power grids, often described as the world's largest machines, are massively complex systems.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

Such new technology will enable advances in battery materials science, flexible battery charging rates, thermal and electrical engineering of new battery materials / technology and it has the potential to help the design of energy storage systems for high performance applications such as motor racing and grid balancing.

You want to control your cost, you want to lower cost by getting paid to use some of your appliances to be grid stability systems as well, [then] do it.

The new system is also designed to allow a PHEV to use its battery as an energy storage device, enabling the car to hold electrical energy in the battery while the grid has surplus power (during off - peak hours, for example) and contribute its surplus energy back to the grid when the latter needs more power to meet peak demand, Su says.

When applied to microgrid systems — local energy grids that can disconnect from the traditional grid and operate autonomously — combined solar and wind can help cut battery costs as well, says NREL's Kurtz.

Based on the results, development recommendations can be made for the benefit of all grid and storage system operators as well as for the consumer.

Grid parity is when the cost and reliability of that solar panel system is about the same as that of buying electricity like most people do today — from the local utility's power grid.

That way, homeowners will be able to install smaller and cheaper solar power systems while being able to use electricity from the grid only as backup, reducing the electric power demand, or load, on the utility's grid.

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.

Surplus power can be fed into the public grid as well as be used for charging the household electric vehicle,» explains Dominik Noeren, a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

Unless the reliability of renewable energy sources can be improved, as these sources contribute more and more electricity to the grid, engineers will have an increasingly difficult time keeping the system balanced.

Code consisting of very «regular» calculations, such as simulating the atmosphere as a grid of evenly - sized squares, may always work best on vector systems.

But as Kurt E. Yeager, former president of the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., points out, such standards «aren't worth the paper they're written on until we have a power system, a grid, that is capable of assimilating that intermittent energy without having to build large quantities of backup power, fossil - fueled, to enable it.»

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.

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

Grid cells are brain cells that act as an internal coordinate system, firing at a series of locations that form a hexagonal grid across our environment as we move around it.

«How do transportation networks like a subway system or an electric grid resolve the tension between two competing objectives, such as cost and performance?

While algae - powered fuel cells are unlikely to generate enough electricity to power a grid system, they may be particularly useful in areas such as rural Africa, where sunlight is in abundance but there is no existing electric grid system.

These three projects entail the development of tobacco as a source of biofuels, creation of a personalized system for reducing customer demands for electrical power when the grid is congested, and development of a commercial process for extracting biofuels from the resin of pine trees.

For instance, solar panels and battery storage systems are replacing the island's outdated grid, as they're more likely to withstand intense storm surges.

It may well go down as the biggest radiocarbon dating mistake in history; not because there is anything wrong with the measurement process (there may Willard Libby believed he could model the entire world of Carbon 14 by using a grid system.

Etrian Odyssey uses a first person perspective but a highly simplified grid - based movement system, where you only move forward in discreet steps — as in Atari ST classic Dungeon Master and modern homages such as Legend Of Grimrock.

Crafts and S - Crafts, special attacks, are learned by simply leveling up, while spells, known as Arts, require players to carefully arrange Quartz on the Arcus, a grid - like system and an evolution of the Orbment system of the Trails in the Sky games.

Compared to Sega's rushed out Saturn conversion of Daytona USA it was enough to establish the PSone as the superior system right off the starting grid.

[1] DECC will reduce the upper end to 21p for systems installed after 3rd March [2] The amount paid for excess electricity exported to the grid, such as during school holidays (see chart on previous page).

The first part gives a general introduction to group estimates, using an ant mound as example; the second part teaches the grid system.

Honda also revealed the Honda Power Management Concept, an integrated transfer system that can distribute electricity to the main grid and manage the power flow coming from renewable energy sources, as well as between a home and an EV.

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.

Additionally, the MyFord Mobile app allows you to remotely lock and unlock doors, start the climate control system to preheat or cool the cabin using power from the grid, and track driver - specific achievements for goals such as reaching a specific range on a charge, driving so many «oil - free» miles, or regenerating a specific amount of energy with the brakes.

D - pillar: Sometimes there is another pillar after the C - pillar as in stationwagens DCT: Double clutch transmission, see double clutch gearbox Dead Reckoning: The way in which the Navigation System navigates in the absence of GPS signals by steering angle, odometer readings and snap to grid logic Desmodromic Valves: A clever mechanism that allows a valve to accelerate and decelerate way beyond the capabilities of a standard valve - spring set up allowing the engine to spin way past 12,000 rpm Direct Fuel Injection: The next advance in the internal combustion engine.

So I was excited to try out the 2014 Honda Accord Plug - in, which would not only debut a new hybrid system, but also could work as an electric vehicle with power from the grid.