Sentences with word «brownouts»

He also warned that shutting the plant, without alternative base - load power, increased the risk of brownouts in Victoria.

But the power brownout in the prodigal son story is not just the result of over familiarity.

Utilities need to institute rolling brownouts when the wheather gets hot in the summer now.

Gaining two - way control over how much energy homes use is an easy sell to utilities, which have an incentive to reduce peak demand and avoid brownouts.

In order to prevent brownout and to retain top talent, companies and managers must understand what they're doing that contributes to this slow fade.

Face it, the money isn't there to pay for it and as soon as it shows signs of going anywhere near mainstream it won't be free to charge anymore either; additional demand, especially on US grids which already suffer from frequent brownouts should be interesting too.

People don't give their all if they aren't having fun, and fun is a major protector against brownout.

This special transformer makes Line - Interactive UPS units better at handling brownouts and power sags.

This loss added one and a half hours of extra daily brownouts — periods when grid managers shut down some power to avoid bigger blackouts.

If, for example, there are predictions for increased heat waves, you can expect more demands on the local energy grid, including more brownouts, which could lead to downtime for your business, Barnes says.

I call this phenomenon «executive brownout» and the details of El - Erian's departure (not to mention more recent reporting on the conduct of his co-CIO Bill Gross, who has also since resigned) only confirmed my opinion that he was very likely suffering from it.

New dams and power shortfalls Masses of people could also face prolonged brownouts.

Blowing dust and brownout conditions on January 19, 2009, created a chain reaction of fatal crashes on I - 70 in eastern Colorado.

Basically, a tendency to break down and a predilection for brownouts are built in to the system, not to mention the difficulty of hooking up sustainable power sources.

But never fear, Malaysian native Yuna and Austinites Brownout, playing as «Brown Sabbath», stepped in to fill the void on the stage.

Well California encountered brownouts because the power companies wanted to up the price.

So that seems fair too: if his system has no better brownout resistance under such perfect conditions, it will be worse under real ones.

Yet 400 million Indians today still have not seen a light bulb while 200 million more regularly suffer from regular brownouts (between 6 and 19 hours).

But with increasing trouble meeting energy demands — there are now brownouts, blackouts everywhere — who's going to want a power line in their backyard for new corridors of power supply?»

Both «bottom up» community planning and «top down» national strategies may help regions deal with impacts such as increases in electrical brownouts, heat stress, floods, and wildfires.17

You build wind turbines everywhere (not as many brownouts as you might think given wind rarely fails everywhere, as it did in Texas two months ago).

A 2008 study released by the Council warned that the United States «faces potentially crippling electricity brownouts and blackouts beginning in the summer of 2009,» while «opposition of well - funded environmental groups that oppose and file lawsuits against virtually every new infrastructure project proposed.»

When the electric system is stressed, it can result in localized brownouts, instances of low voltage or isolated outages.

We do have the occasional brownout / blackout when there's lightning.

This increase in demand — up 58 % since 2009 — combined with antiquated infrastructure has resulted in an increasing number of brownouts and blackouts, such as the one resulting from the 2013 ice storm that caused 27 deaths, loss of power to over a million residents and more than $ 200 million in damages.

When the power's not available, the Despatch Centre throttles down; the result is the daily rolling brownouts that plague Delhi, along with most other Indian cities.

They're also getting incentives from Edison, which is now saving money because they don't have to go out and build peaker plants to avoid brownouts or blackouts.

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Pervasively insufficient electrical power has meant frequent brownouts that have hampered factory output and forced gold and diamond mines to shut down, because of risks that miners would suffocate in darkness deep underground.

Remember from the section above detailing types of UPS units that line interactive means that the unit is sophisticated enough to handle brownouts and voltage changes on the line without flipping over to the battery.

Michael Kibler, who has spent much of his career studying this phenomenon, refers to it as brownout.

Power brownouts and blackouts are more prevalent also as profit driven firms, as always, put more resources towards the most profitable areas.

The cost of blackouts and brownouts in sub-Saharan Africa is, in some cases, in excess of 5 per cent of GDP.

North America's lack of a coherent and pragmatic energy policy will prove a disaster «that will bring blackouts, brownouts, and lines at the pumps within the next decade,» he writes.

«Brownout is different from burnout because workers afflicted by it are not in obvious crisis,» Kibler said.

The New York Independent System Operator has stated many times that Indian Point's closure would drastically reduce grid reliability resulting in blackouts, brownouts, economic disruption, and serious safety issues.

A brownout begins in six more western states.

In the electricity industry, an «unbalanced load» is not just untidy, it can mean blackouts and brownouts: bad news for local economies.

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.

Unless the country is willing to put up with a steady diet of blackouts and brownouts, electricity must be delivered in steady, reliable doses.

I then apply Marc Jacobs Highliner Eye Crayon in Brownout to add a quick, thin line of liner to define my lashes; it is super creamy and I absolutely love the formula.

Brownout, as the Texas Performing Arts playbill noted, «delve deep into reinterpreting the catalog of metal godfathers, Black Sabbath.»

May 17, 2018 • Inspired by Public Enemy's discography, Brownout's latest batch of Latin funk covers is an instrumental soundtrack that recalls the grooves of late 1970s.

The increase in demand — up 58 % since 2009 — combined by antiquated infrastructure has resulted in an increasing number of brownouts and blackouts, such as the 2013 ice storm / power outage that resulted 27 deaths, loss of power to over a million residents and over $ 200 million in damages.