Sentences with phrase «electric grids»

And it is ratepayers and taxpayers that are actually doomed to end up footing the huge bill first for subsidizing the construction of wind and solar installations, then enduring the resulting unreliability of the electric grids, and finally for their huge disposal costs.

The Economist editorializes that this might mean wisely and cautiously considering forms of geoengineering that remove carbon from the atmosphere, but also innovation strategies that create society - wide electric grids that can take advantage of similarly powerful new solar and / or nuclear energy technologies:

And it would make electricity grids unstable, leading to more frequent and widespread, costly and often fatal, brownouts and blackouts — events mercifully rare in wealthy countries but all too familiar to billions of people living in countries without comprehensive, stable electric grids supplied by stable fossil or nuclear fuels.

We're seeing incredible progress in energy storage and real progress on smarter and more flexible electric grids, revealing huge potential to revolutionize energy markets — for the benefit of the environment and our economies.

but I think the key technology for global electrification with non-carbon generation is increasing interconnection of electric grids via high voltage DC transmission.

Commercial customers could include Fortune 500 companies — who may be interested in rounding out their energy procurement not to be as dependent on fossil fuels or regional electric grids — but also school districts, cities, counties, water districts, colleges and government agencies.

New York is set to join the ranks of a small but growing number of pioneering states that are setting targets for energy storage as wind, solar and other renewable energies supply increasing amounts of power to their electric grids.

We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together.

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 plants.

Rayko Toshev's doctoral thesis in Industrial Management «Risks and Prospects of Smart Electric Grids Systems measured with Real Options» analyses electricity price risk levels and evaluates smart grid R&D projects and technology opportunities, using real option pricing method.

Rayko Toshev's doctoral dissertation «Risks and Prospects of Smart Electric Grids Systems measured with Real Options» will be on April 1, 2016.

In the meantime the new discovery suggests that microbes like G. sulfurreducens and T. denitrificans may build electric grids wherever they find themselves.

Efforts to integrate storage into electric grids continue to struggle as a federally backed flywheel company goes bankrupt

Geomagnetic storms caused by violent solar flares can overload transformers and cause electric grids to fail; so can electromagnetic pulses, triggered by nuclear detonations miles above the ground.

He also deployed a team of power restoration specialists to help with electric grids that are still down.

Regarding public funds, we're getting older and broker as we speak in terms of public obligations toward pensions (and other expenses), and meanwhile our bridges and electric grids rot.

The security firm Symantec recently warned that hackers have already gained direct access to the electric grid.

It's the result of an abused electric grid left to rot — and what's happening in Puerto Rico could happen in many other parts of America.

In the emails, Clinton advisers discussed how to frame the candidate's «energy infrastructure» plan, which would call for replacing old pipelines, repairing rail tracks and improving the electric grid in a way that would appeal to labor unions, who had yet to endorse her at that stage.

The new solar farm will provide power to Sierra Pacific Power Co.'s electric grid that serves Apple's data center and when completed will generate about hours 43.5 million kilowatt of clean energy a year, Apple said in a statement.

First, in America's innovation heartland and its largest solar market, California discarded its cap (i.e. removed the «net metering cap») on how many households and businesses can plug into the electric grid with rooftop solar.

Not only are fuel cells an eco-friendly option because they release almost no emissions, but they are also a self - contained, efficient and reliable source of energy, independent of the electric grid.

It loads up on energy from the sun and from the electric grid during off - peak hours.

The Midwestern state that launched the political careers of Presidents Lincoln and Obama isn't as well known for its leadership in electric grid technology.

The Illinois Smart Grid Regional Innovation Cluster has used the funds to provide support to small startups developing technology to help modernize and update Illinois» electric grid, the network for delivering power from suppliers to businesses and consumers.

Chicago - based Intelligent Generation, one of the startups the Smart Grid cluster supported, has created a software program that connects to the hardware of the electric grid and allows a home or business to capture solar energy, store the energy in batteries and release it to the grid when needed.

The ALEC draft document for this week's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Meeting encourages state policymakers to recognize the value the electric grid delivers to all and to update net metering policies to require everyone who uses the grid, such as distributed solar users who feed into it, to pay for it.

Those comments, plus inquiries sent to the utilities by the commission staff, showed that efforts to harden the state's electric grid «have worked» to minimize damage to the system, Ballinger said.

Currently, households in Africa not connected to the electric grid can spend up to 20 % of their total budgets on kerosene, which is the primary source of light for many of these households.

Despite warnings from staff and ignoring input from lawyers, Puerto Rico's bankrupt utility signed a massive $ 300 million contract on October 17 with a tiny, inexperienced Montana company to rebuild its damaged electric grid in the aftermath of the Hurricane Maria disaster.

As Vox has reported, Puerto Rico's electric grid was vulnerable and dilapidated before the storm due to the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority's long history of financial woes and minimal maintenance and investment.

Its ancient electric grid was in disrepair, requiring expensive shipments of imported oil to operate.

The initial $ 220 million investment in the fiber optic system was funded, in part, by a $ 111.6 million federal grant provided as part of the federal stimulus program in 2010 designed to spur jobs and the development of a smarter electric grid.

Their job is to design and build a new electric grid for Puerto Rico.

Smart Energy Instruments (SEI), a Toronto - based cleantech company with a unique solution to improve electric grid reliability, and Hitachi High - Technologies Corporation of Japan, today unveiled the first component of SEI's planned chipset product line for smart grid applications in an event at MaRS Discovery District.

It's that discharge during peak times that relieves the electric grid from the demand posed by our facilities.

We unpack the sizable impact Tesla's utility scale storage will have on the electric grid.

In addition, electricity capacity margins — the amount of unused power capacity — have declined, increasing the vulnerability of America's electric grid in the event of a disruption.

It also helps the regional electric grid meet demand during peak hours, because batteries effectively eliminate some of that demand.

Powerpack 2 helps businesses gain greater control, efficiency and reliability across the electric grid by enabling them to:

A steadily increasing number of people will want to get in on the «new Bitcoin,» a bizarre paradox given that gold is as old as time, and will soon realize that gold possesses virtues Bitcoin does not, given that it is real, not digital and abstract; that owners can personally possess and store it in physical form; that it will survive any kind of electric grid or Internet disruption that might occur; that it can not ever be hacked; that it is the epitome of private, quiet wealth; that it is actually quite beautiful to behold; and that it was not and can not be made by man, only by God, who does not appear to have any interest in making any more of it.

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

Building owners can agree to place Sun Electric panels on their sites and the power generated can be sold onto the electric grid.

For example, a bill passed the House unanimously to harden the electric grid against the high altitude nuclear exposure.

Hurricane Maria did more than destroy Puerto Rico's electric grid and water supply.

The hurricane destroyed the island's electric grid, and 84 percent of the public utility's customers still don't have power.

Since a large part of St. Thomas» electric grid is powered by solar, many downed power lines were still live and one man got electrocuted.

Governor Brown has set an audacious goal to convert half of the state's electric grid to solar, wind and other low carbon sources in 15 years.

While efforts being made to restore the island's electric grid are having some success, experts are warning that the real challenges may have only just begun.

As the planet warms, driven by Western excess and cascading Asian growth (China adds the equivalent of southern California's electric grid annually), life may become increasingly untenable.