Sentences with phrase «current electric grid»

Adding «renewables» to the current electric grid infrastructure also means that it must be rebuilt at huge cost since new large scale «renewables» must be placed where the sun and wind are, which is not where the users are usually located.

That's roughly equivalent to the size of the US's current electric grid, but made up entirely of non-fossil energy.

The current electric grid could accommodate tens of millions of plug - in vehicles as long as they are charged up overnight.

It's unfortunate that adding new power lines is expensive, but the current electric grid system is old and must be updated.

Not exact matches

(Another connection: Nikola is named after Nikola Tesla, who among many other things is responsible for making alternating current dominant on the electric grid.)

Electric currents from a March 1989 geomagnetic storm caused a blackout in Quebec and numerous glitches in the U.S. power grid.

The way reconnection disturbs terrestrial power grids is complex but, in essence, the process mimics what happens in electric generators, where a fluctuating magnetic field (usually a moving magnet) produces a current in a coil of wire, says Adam Szabo, director of NASA's Heliophysics Laboratory.

It also floods the space around our planet with radiation that can incapacitate satellites and sicken astronauts, and can trigger electric currents on Earth capable of knocking out power grids.

Those pixels are converted to an electric current that is sent to the business end of the plastic strip — a 12 - by - 12 grid of electrodes that rests on my tongue.

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.»

When hooked up to an electronic sensor, the pad converts signals from the sensor into small pulses of electric current across the grid, which the tongue «reads» as a pattern of tingles.

I think we can agree that the current grid would not support the kind of huge power draws we're talking about here but we should also be able to agree that, if the demand was there, the electirc utilities would find a way to make it work, even if the electric system in houses will never have the capability of handling 100K watts.

The enhanced currents can damage or destroy electrical transformers, causing a cascade of power failures across a large portion of the electric grid.

The current system only requires electric providers to demonstrate to MISO, the federally - sanctioned regional grid operator in which most of Michigan is located, that providers have enough capacity to serve customer needs in the upcoming year.

EIA collects electric capacity data in alternating - current megawatts (MWAC), the type of electricity used in homes and on the grid.

ABSTRACT The current U.S. electric grid is underutilized and could generate and deliver the necessary energy to power the majority of the U.S. light - duty vehicle fleet.

We must improve our electric grid to prepare for this current and growing threat.

India's rapid economic growth will increase significantly the electricity demand during the next decades, therefore India needs to make massive investments in order to expand its current installed capacity and to improve the stability of its electric grid.

80 Bcf of natural gas is equivalent to 24 terawatt - hours of energy or the same energy that 1,000 gigawatts of electric generation capacity — roughly the size of the current US electric grid — would produce over a 24 - hour period.

Although this project was developed to satisfy requirements for a wind site operating within the ERCOT region, it is compatible with any operating wind farm that contains voltage and current transformers at the wind farm feed - in point (connection point to the grid) in any electric reliability council.

And you also knew, for example, that that an average gas driven car emitted 4.7 tons of carbon dioxide per year and an electric car would cut that in half even when powered from the current polluting grid, and much much less on a life cycle basis from a future global efficient renewable energy system displacing almost all fossil fuels.

When the wind blows through them, it separates positive and negative charges as it moves the mist, which builds up to an almost 200,000 volt direct electric current that the system transmits through a high voltage cable back to the electrical grid on land.