Sentences with phrase «customers during a blackout»

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According to the authors, new technologies have made it possible to sustain critical social services and serve high priority customer loads during an extended blackout.

The pair of papers, «Assessing the cost of large - scale power outages to residential customers» and «Providing limited local electric service during a major grid outage — A first assessment based on customer willingness to pay,» examined residential power users» willingness to pay (WTP) for full or partial backup services during a theoretical 24 - hour blackout and then determined the investments required by the electrical provider to implement these services.

For now, the battery primarily serves as an expensive backup system during blackouts for customers like David Cunningham, an aerospace engineer from Foster City, California.

For some periods during August 2015, for example, industrial customers had to curtail electricity consumption during the day, in order to avoid blackouts and other supply problems.