Sentences with phrase «building an energy grid»

The presidential candidate also stressed building an energy grid more focused on renewable energy, particularly solar, by the end of the decade.

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It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

The building boom is biggest on the East Coast, where the grid operator PJM has a new market that incentivizes utilities to add energy storage, followed by California.

The idea is that when grid electricity rates are high, a building can switch over to using the batteries for power as a way to lower monthly energy bills.

The Tesla factory is already being used to build Tesla's Powerwall and Powerpack home batteries, which pull energy from solar panels and the power grid and store it for later use.

By this he means an energy project that could produce electrons for the grid in mass quantity, as opposed to something clever that barely generates more energy than you put in to build it.

«What that imposes on us is the need to ensure the design of the power plant we put together is consistent with the utilities» view of the power grid, consistent with what's available on the vendor market and (the need to) build them on a scale to change the nature of energy supply, and that it isn't just a physicists pipe dream.»

Climate - friendly investments will proceed through the government's green infrastructure fund and its forthcoming infrastructure bank — but the budget also allocates dollars specifically to clean energy priorities like smart grids, energy storage, electric vehicle charging, stronger building codes, and moving remote communities off diesel.

The Sidewalk Labs proposal in the competitive bid for the project floated all kinds of technological dreams: a thermal energy grid that would be carbon neutral, sensors that separate waste from recycling, modular buildings that convert from retail to housing, monitors that track noise and pollution, self - driving transit shuttles, shared - ride taxibots, adaptive traffic lights, delivery robots, heated bike paths and sidewalks that melt snow on their own.

The 2017 budget pulled out $ 2.8 billion from the fund and earmarked some of that for clean energy priorities, including innovation in smart grids and energy storage, electric vehicle charging and adopting stronger building codes.

«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.»

It was an odd statement considering that his whole brand is built around that promise — whether it's rescuing the planet or the transportation system and energy grid.

Musk wagered a few months ago that Tesla could build a grid - connected energy - storage system in Australia within 100 days, or he'd eat the costs.

Having built the first renewable energy power plant in Nigeria that combines more than one technology and operates both off - grid and on - grid, the German Agency for International Corporation, Abuja (GIZ), said it is implementing the Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP) on behalf of the European Union and the German Government with an overall budget of 24.5 millionenergy power plant in Nigeria that combines more than one technology and operates both off - grid and on - grid, the German Agency for International Corporation, Abuja (GIZ), said it is implementing the Nigerian Energy Support Programme (NESP) on behalf of the European Union and the German Government with an overall budget of 24.5 millionEnergy Support Programme (NESP) on behalf of the European Union and the German Government with an overall budget of 24.5 million Euro.

Then you create a lot of business opportunities for small businesses and cooperatives to install distributed energy, because you've got a smart grid when you build it out.

This happens because a net - zero building may need to draw electricity from the grid to power its lights at night, for example, then returns that energy the next day, when its solar panels are most efficient.

The laboratory spun off a company, Spirae, and built a futuristic, computer - driven test bed that could simulate the operations of a large power grid and instantly adjust for power fluctuations caused by the often fickle nature of renewable energy.

By the purest definition, a net - zero building produces all the renewable energy it needs on site, drawing no more power from the grid than it gives back.

The President's initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug - in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high - efficiency deployment of power across «smart grids,» and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulEnergy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulenergy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulenergy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

Priority areas of focus for this Initiative may include: energy efficiency, smart grid, second - generation biofuels, and clean coal technologies including carbon capture and storage; solar energy and energy efficient building and advanced battery technologies; and sustainable transportation, wind energy, and micro-hydro power.

The state renewable energy standard requires electric companies to meet emissions targets by investing ratepayer money into programs that green the grid and electrify vehicles and buildings, or else pay into a state fund at the end of the year.

It takes lots of energy to build wind turbines and batteries for the electric grid.

The researchers did not calculate how much energy would be required to build and replace grid - scale batteries every few years, nor did they consider the financial cost of building and installing large storage systems on the grid.

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.»

But the nation can seek more clean energy from the sun or wind, which won't be affected by climate change, and get the electricity generated elsewhere via a smart grid, he said, referring to an advanced transmission infrastructure China has been building.

After the grid's privatization in the 1980s, new transmission lines were built catering to specific projects — particularly energy - hungry mines in the north.

But in places that use a lot of energy, i.e. Europe, North America, and China, if you build a high - voltage DC grid, which isn't free and has all sorts of regulatory problems, but it's not — it wouldn't make your cost of your energy super-high.

The three institutions are part of a first - of - its - kind study to research and test the concept of «transaction - based» energy management, which combines financial signals and dynamic control technologies to shift the timing and quantity of energy usage in devices, buildings and campuses to increase efficiency and reduce costs, while also providing flexibility for the power grid.

Princess Elisabeth Antarctica's design and construction seamlessly integrates passive building technologies, renewable wind and solar energy, water treatment facilities, continuously monitored power demand and a smart grid for maximising energy efficiency.

A battery built with the abundant and cheap material could be used to power big data centers, as well as provide a cheaper energy - storage option for microgrids and the traditional electric grid.

I think you would also come to see why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

For 38 - year - old Jason Rioux, the vice president of Toronto - based energy firm NRStor Inc., building an off - the - grid vacation home at a lower cost had to be a project that wouldn't consume all of his free time and money.

Our goal is to defend the population in the buildings in order the keep the power grid that grants the energy to our robot army.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

The ONLY way they will ever have electricity is with distributed renewable energy, principally photovoltaics — which are vastly less expensive than building a whole new grid - based electricity generation and distribution infrastructure.

However, they should not be a diversion from the growing momentum for renewables, quantum energy efficiency gains, «smarter» grids, green building, and yes, a growing appreciation of the many benefits of high - density planning.

Here's a portion that's highly relevant, in which Hande explains that urgent calls now to fix the grid or speed the building of more coal - burning power plants are unlikely to ameliorate the energy challenges confronting hundreds of millions of citizens there:

Apple plans to build more than 200 megawatts of solar projects in the northern, eastern and southern grid regions of China, which will produce the equivalent of the energy used by more by than 265,000 Chinese homes in a year and will begin to offset the energy used in Apple's supply chain.

The E.C.P. will include collaborative projects on renewable energy, smart grid, clean transportation, green building, clean coal, combined heat and power and energy efficiency.

I stress this one deal because here is a chance to help a developing country just building a free market economy build a power grid not based on coal, but in cleaner energy.

The Sport weighs just 9 pounds, is built to be durable, and is small enough to be portable, which makes it a great option for an alternate cookstove for those of us who want to take a «baby step off the grid» by using solar energy for cooking.

I am also just back from far northern Kenya where I was working with the grid planning and the infrastructure for both on - grid wind energy (Africa's largest wind farm is begin built to take advantage of remarkable wind site and the transmission access provided by a new Kenya - Ethiopia linking line).

Looking beyond the 2019 standards, the most important energy characteristic for a building will be that it produces and consumes energy at times that are appropriate and responds to the needs of the grid, which reduces the building's emissions.

The firm, which has offices and operations in more than 60 countries across over 5,500 properties, covering approximately 75 million square feet — about 27 times the square footage of the office space at the Empire State Building - will achieve this goal by prioritizing transactions that add new renewable energy to the grids on which it consumers power.

In May 2012, at the German Energy Agency's (DENA's) behest, the nation's four grid operators (TSOs)-- 50Hertz, Amprion, TenneT TSO, and TransnetBW — drew up a joint network development plan identifying necessary expansions to help transmit power from the North and Baltic Sea, where many offshore wind parks are being planned and built, to industrialized areas in southern and western Germany.

«What we really need to focus on in the coming years,» said Neal, «is a visionary process for rethinking North Carolina's electric grid that would be built around distributed resources and clean renewable energy.»

The first of five classes in the Fort Drum Solar Ready Vets program included 19 service members who attended classes taught by SUNY Canton instructors on how to size and install solar energy systems, connect solar projects to the grid, and interpret and comply with local building codes.

Centrica has revealed plans to build a single 100MW battery energy storage system in Ireland for delivery by 2022 to take advantage of capacity market and grid services opportunities currently under development.

Worthy research objectives include improved fuel cells, solar power, light - emitting diodes for lighting, intelligent buildings, carbon sequestration, advanced nuclear power, superconducting transmission lines, cellulosic biofuels, geothermal power, batteries and other energy storage technologies, super-efficient vehicles, and smart electricity grids.