Sentences with phrase «as my grid operator»

Especially if, as my grid operator friend assures, smart - grid - tech evolves to handle all that variable power in an economically attractive way.

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Every major U.S. grid operator strongly opposed Perry's plan, characterizing it as a threat to competitive power markets.

Energy Department Deputy Secretary Dan Brouillette said in an interview that the agency would work closely with the commission as it collects comments from grid operators.

«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.»

With growing risks to the nation's electrical grid from natural disasters and as a potential target for malicious attacks, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should work closely with utility operators and other stakeholders to improve cyber and physical security and resilience, says a new congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

If big blackouts were just a random, unlucky confluence of many small failures, as grid planners and operators believed, a major grid collapse would occur only once in a thousand years or so, showing up as the slim tail on a bell curve.

If the index rises to 4 (on a 1 - 9 scale), auroras are likely and an alert is issued, a handy heads - up for power grid and satellite operators, as well as aurora chasers.

The idea is that many small power plant operators can feed their electricity into the grid but act as a single power plant using computers to control the level of power.

Each operator is responsible for the reliable and stable operation of their distribution networks and local grids and is required to meet demand by carrying out measures such as smart management and grid expansion where necessary.

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.

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.»

Collectively, the work shows that the grid can be operated close to the limit of stability, as long as operators constantly have detailed knowledge of what is happening everywhere.

«It is in the spirit of common purpose that we express our disappointment that the Department has apparently chosen not to make this review — which as outlined in your memo has the potential to upend energy markets around the country — public and open to input from industry, grid operators, state regulators, and other key stakeholders.»

This flexibility is designed to facilitate a higher concentration of intermittent renewable resources — such as wind and solar — than is currently possible because, by having such flexible gas - fired plants, grid operators can respond to sudden changes in renewable generation caused by variations in wind speed or cloud cover.

«No decision has been taken to date,» as the plant's operators were still in negotiations with the Bavarian government and the grid operator TenneT, she said.

In the wake of the court's decision, and with an eye towards developing a stop - gap measure until recent events shake out, the grid operator has sketched a plan it says can help keep demand response functioning as a resource in the PJM marketplace.

Essentially, the grid operator's proposal would raise prices across the RTO to provide incentives to «inflexible» generating units such as coal and nuclear.

The urgency of an accelerated grid expansion has been underlined several times since last May by individual grid operators — as well as by the Federal Grid Agency, which warned that nuclear plant closures had brought the nation's transmission grids «to the edge of their resilience.»

The NRDC cites the «2016 State of the Market» report by PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, as showing that «new entrant natural gas - fired combined cycle plants, combustion turbine plants, and solar are economical, but that new coal and nuclear plants are not.»

The solutions to effectively accommodate large amounts of renewable energy onto our grid include: increasing cooperation between system operators, increasing the geographic diversity of installation sites, investing in new transmission, and improving demand - side solutions such as demand response and time - of - use rates.

It remains to be seen whether grid operators offer these pricing proposals as part of FERC's resilience, but some analysts think the commission's action could push things along.

Regional grid operators — referred to as RTOs and ISOs — set the tariffs in wholesale power markets and are overseen by FERC.

It's all about «giving the grid operator a better handle on what to expect for the output of the plant as clouds move across the landscape,» said Gay.

And a February report by Midwest grid operators estimated it would cost as much as to $ 80 billion to build transmission lines to carry wind power generated in the Midwest — which could help boost the country's wind power share from less than 1 percent today to 20 percent by 2030 — to where it's needed (see Wind Growth Could Cost Eastern U.S. $ 80B in Transmission Lines).

Many grid operators do not have mechanisms to provide compensation or even to value many of the services that energy storage can provide, particularly at the distributed level, as addressed in a recent report by City University of New York.

Every participating party, such as storage providers or grid operators, has full access to all data, making it very transparent.

What's more, grid operators will need to work with new types of organizations as automakers, retailers and others «with little or no experience in interfacing with the bulk power grid» start to take on the role of aggregator (grouping together 800 - 1,000 plug - in vehicles to provide services like scheduling battery charging based on pricing information and total grid load, or stop charging and reduce load on a targeted basis).

«Units can retire as scheduled,» PJM said in a summary of the report, which the grid operator will discuss Thursday.

As a result, the IRC says grid operators will need to invest in «increased communications capacity» to handle it all.

As renewables like wind and solar approach 30 per cent grid penetration, operators will need to increase the flexibility of their grids using natural gas generation, manage up to 2...

And efforts from the nation's grid operators could help as well.

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Use the demand load from PJM (East Coast grid operator) for 4 years as a basis for assessing the cost - minimized solution — with the average load being 31.5 GW

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.

Last month, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. held its biennial GridEx exercise, where utilities and grid operators run through their crisis plans, coordinating responses and reassuring customers as they rush to respond to a simulated attack.

As the independent system operator, ISO - NE is responsible for coordinating electric generation and sales in New England and for ensuring the reliable operation of the region's electric grid.

Energy storage projects in the UK are increasing at a significant rate as costs continue to fall and grid operators explore new ways to meet peak demand and integrate renewable sources into the nation's power mix.

Many utilities and grid operators have expressed concern that the EPA's Clean Power Plan would threaten electric reliability if enacted as currently proposed.

To manage a power system's variability, the grid operator needs three things, Goggin said: «Energy, which is megawatt - hours, capacity, which is the ability to produce power on demand, and flexibility, which is the ability to change output as supply and demand change.»

«Wind operates as a base load resource in maximizing energy production but it can be economic to use it for flexibility, as Colorado grid operator Xcel Energy does for a few crucial hours every year.»

Five utilities and grid operators have already joined the Energy Imbalance Market, a real - time wholesale power market managed by California's grid operator which allows electricity trading in intervals as small as five minutes.

States with significant solar capacity have been planning for the eclipse, and due to smart investments in modern grid technologies, national grid operators do not anticipate any reliability issues as a result.

In terms of valuation for C&I and community solar and other distributed energy resources, NYPSC staff recommends a calculation based on the combination of energy value based on day - ahead marginal price from the grid operator, capacity value, environmental externalities, and a calculation for «market transition», which Vote Solar describes as a «catch - all for values that could not be calculated».

While renewables advocates often think of negative pricing as manna from heaven, it actually means that system operators are desperately trying to shed excess generation when unneeded surges of wind or solar power are threatening to crash the grid.

As pressure rises on older and higher - cost generators, including gas generators, the California grid operator has been rethinking its capacity procurement efforts to ensure reliability.

A 2016 technical study prepared by GE Energy Consulting with the input of SaskPower and other grid operators in Canada, and co-funded by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) and CanWEA, found Saskatchewan's electricity system could handle twice as much wind energy as it is targeting without compromising grid reliability.

The German grid operator published a report (NoTricksZone posted in it in English) which had a lot of gloomy instability scenarios for the upcoming winter as a result.

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.

In fact Alevo says it could help grid operators save as much as 30 % of the energy that is currently wasted.

Historically - low natural gas prices pushed power prices to their lowest - ever level in the NYISO territory last year, and the grid operator expects significant growth in distributed energy resoruces (DERs) as the state's Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) docket moves into its implementation phase.