The Living Building Challenge envisions a safe, reliable and
decentralized power grid, powered entirely by renewable energy, supplied to incredibly efficient buildings and infrastructure without the negative externalities associated with combustion or fission.
Japan's electric utilities are putting the brakes on the country's fast - growing renewable energy sector as concerns mount that the addition of large amounts of solar power is creating oversupply problems for some regions while stressing the country's
decentralized power grid.
Researchers are developing software that will let renewable energy flow into and out of
a decentralized power grid like data on the Internet
Not exact matches
He also favors public
power in the energy sector to enable the democratic and
decentralized planning and financing of a clean energy system based on distributed energy generation linked by an interactive smart
grid.
Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more
power than a household uses — required a
decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the
grid, and from the
grid to consumers.
In New York, regulators are weighing allowing utilities to get into the solar leasing business to meet the state's aggressive plan to incorporate more
decentralized, renewable
power onto the
grid.
This reactive application of battery inverters could form a mesh net work of
decentralized energy storage that does not have a single failure point and that could provide all these extra
grid support functions without the need for telecommunications back to the
power plant from each individual site.
The funds are split among support for nonnuclear energy technologies along the entire energy chain, ranging from high - efficiency production in modern
power plants,
decentralized energy systems, smart
grids, and storage modules to energy usage in energy - optimized buildings and towns as well as efficient industrial processes.
The story of India shining got a rude shock... relying on highly inefficient
power grids and dirty and expensive fossil fuels like coal has only lead to greater environmental risks and poor energy access for millions of Indians... Another way is possible... It's time to invest in energy efficiency and
decentralized renewable energy for all.
It's a clear example of how conventional
power - sector thinking is blinded to the role of renewables and the evolution towards a more
decentralized grid.»
There have been numerous pronouncements recently about the upcoming demise of the bulk
power grid as consumers are projected to move toward
decentralized green energy sources.
In those areas of the world without reliable access to an electric
grid, or where no
grid is likely ever to be built, such a
decentralized approach can bring the benefits of clean electric
power to regions which would otherwise go without.