Sentences with phrase «electric grid there»

Since the system isn't tied to the utility and electric grid there aren't as many incentives offered for an off - grid system.

Not exact matches

There's an electric buzz around Formula E at the moment, but what would the grid look like if big manufacturers joined the party?

YOU CA N'T» if fear mongers like you lived back in the 30s there would be no interstate highways, no electric grid and life expectancy would still be at 55.

There, Ocean Power's sinuous, 450 - foot - long cherry - red steel snake, called Pelamis after a sea snake, pumps 11,000 AC volts into a grid at the European Marine Energy Centre, an innovative test bed that can offer the sort of apples - to - apples performance measures of sea generators that investors and electric utilities crave.

«Solar and wind farms should be able to provide around - the - clock energy for the electric grid, even when there's no sunlight or wind,» Cui said.

If there is one thing stalling electric car development, preventing renewable energy sources from plugging into electricity grids and causing grief to smartphone users, it is poorly performing batteries.

McKibben: So there's plenty of good, I mean, it -LSB-'s] nice to have an electric grid, right, that connects us.

Not only would major new wind farms and photovoltaic arrays have to be constructed there, but the entire electric grid would have to be upgraded and reconfigured to bring that electricity to the population centers where it is needed.

While algae - powered fuel cells are unlikely to generate enough electricity to power a grid system, they may be particularly useful in areas such as rural Africa, where sunlight is in abundance but there is no existing electric grid system.

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.

There'll be plenty of other issues, too, when operators are riding in the back seats of their own cars, drunk, high, and shagging; when the electric grid fails; when terrorists hijack the systems; and when Grandma heads to her local CVS in Ho - Ho - Kus, New Jersey, for some bunion pads and winds up at the grindcore convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, because her 2020 Ford Taurus thought that was where she belonged.

There are people who live off - the - grid, yet run appliances having electric motors with no heat engine connected.

There's the electric SUV approach, which uses as much or more energy than at present, but gets it from less CO2 - intensive sources such as the electric grid.

There is no need for these societies to repeat the disaster of the western world's 19th century fossil - fueled industrial revolution, nor is there any possibility of them doing so, given that they can afford neither the cost of the fossil fuels nor the cost of building electric grids to distribute power from large, centralized power plThere is no need for these societies to repeat the disaster of the western world's 19th century fossil - fueled industrial revolution, nor is there any possibility of them doing so, given that they can afford neither the cost of the fossil fuels nor the cost of building electric grids to distribute power from large, centralized power plthere any possibility of them doing so, given that they can afford neither the cost of the fossil fuels nor the cost of building electric grids to distribute power from large, centralized power plants.

In a scenario where most light vehicles and heat is from electric power, there will be tremendous load - balancing opportunities through vehicle - to - grid technology, used vehicle batteries, and heat storage.

«There is enormous technical potential to using microgrids to make electric service more resilient in the face of loss of bulk grid power,» said the report.

As is the case in many other developing countries, there is vast potential in India for PV to provide power in places without an electric grid.

Wind systems are thus usually operated in conjunction with electricity supplied from the grid — the grid supplied electricity serves as a backup to ensure constant electric power when there is no wind.

There's more demand than ever for electric power straining the Electric Reliability Council of Texas grid, and other US power markets are also seeingelectric power straining the Electric Reliability Council of Texas grid, and other US power markets are also seeingElectric Reliability Council of Texas grid, and other US power markets are also seeing shifts.

In fact, there are several recent studies that detail the benefits of solar and other renewable energy technologies for electric grid stability, electric power quality, electric rate stability, and increased electric power reliability.

This is leading to the electrification of transportation, which puts pressure on the electric grid and causes prices to rise there, too.

«Based on these results, I can more confidently state that there is no technical or economic barrier to transitioning the entire world to 100 percent clean, renewable energy with a stable electric grid at low cost,» said Jacobson, who is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

These include energy storage, such as massive batteries to store power at homes and businesses when there's a surplus on the grid; proliferation of electric vehicles, which are essentially rolling batteries; and even encouraging consumers to use more power during midday when there's an oversupply.

The new estimate appears likely to be far more accurate since it is based on actual experience in Western Europe where similar efforts have been pursued for a number of years and rates have increased rapidly where there has been extensive use of non-hydro «renewables,» and includes all the hidden costs such as rebuilding the electric grid that are so difficult to model using engineering studies.

There is extensive analysis of grid balancing issues, with electricity storage in electric / hybrid vehicles (BEVs and HFCVs) being seen as part of the answer, along with better wind forecasting, and demand side management to reduce demand peaks.

Because the electric grid crosses state, and country, lines, there's a lot of export and import of electricity across state lines.

For one billion dollars they could secure America's electric grid with solar flare proof transformers, preventing every nuclear power plant in America from melting down during a Carrington level solar flare, which is overdue to happen and will cause a nuclear holocaust guaranteed due to the fact that they take years to cool off even after cold shutdown, they'll run out of deisel after a few days, the pumps don't work when there's no power.

I would add that there are other very real threats to the aging and increasingly fragile electric grid, that while not necessarily as catastrophic as a Carrington Event, would certainly be disruptive and costly — and these include, of course, the impacts of AGW - driven extreme weather events, which we have every reason to expect will become more frequent, and worse.

In the 100 + year history of the electric utility industry, there has never before been a truly cost - competitive substitute available for grid power.

Once everybody is using the same connectors, what will matter most for electric car and plug - in hybrid owners will be how «smart» the chargers & cars will be; for example, you could set it to charge only certain times of the day or night, or to communicate with a smart meter to only charge when electricity is at a certain rate, or only when there's a surplus of renewable energy on the grid, or to charge in a way that extends the life of your battery pack as much as possible, etc..

We covered a previous innovation that came out of the Billions in Change effort, the «Free Electric» bicycle that can generate electricity for home use, which looks like it will now only be available in India, but as of yesterday, there are now a few other off - grid energy products available.

This can mitigate the problem, along with other technologies like hydro storage, smart grids that can better match supply and demand, and things like V2G for electric cars (storing renewable energy surplus in batteries, and using it when there's a deficit).

Toby Barlow writes in the New York Times about his move to Detroit, (into a famous Miesian townhouse community) but also of others there who are rebuilding a neighbourhood, complete with local farming, solar heating and a mini-community solar electric grid, and more.

There's upgrading of the grid to offer new connections; making the grid «smarter» and using demand response; there's increasing the flexibility and efficiency of non-renewable generation to work alongside variable renewables, and storage is still much discussed, particularly in relation to fleets of electric vehicles (storage won't be covered here other than in the context of pumped storThere's upgrading of the grid to offer new connections; making the grid «smarter» and using demand response; there's increasing the flexibility and efficiency of non-renewable generation to work alongside variable renewables, and storage is still much discussed, particularly in relation to fleets of electric vehicles (storage won't be covered here other than in the context of pumped storthere's increasing the flexibility and efficiency of non-renewable generation to work alongside variable renewables, and storage is still much discussed, particularly in relation to fleets of electric vehicles (storage won't be covered here other than in the context of pumped storage).

There were several new green patent lawsuits filed in November and December in the areas of eco-friendly pet products, electric vehicle charging, LEDs, smart grid, and solar mounting systems.