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On top of this, the report notes that solar thermal cooling technology - in which the sun's heat is used to power thermally driven absorption chillers or evaporation devices to cool air - can reduce the burden on electric grids at times of peak cooling demand by fully or partially replacing conventional electrically powered air conditioners in buildings.

«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.

Wind energy is a growing part of GRE's portfolio, he noted, and much of it often comes into the electric grid at night.

Not exact matches

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.

We need companies to invest and people to look at small grid power systems, combinations of wind and diesel, thermal energy, hydro electric energy things that can be tailored for these individual villages depending on their location.

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.

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.

«By this incident, the Nigerian electric power grid lost generation completely before restoration commenced at 20:22 Hrs.»

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

«We need to normalize the situation at the University of Puerto Rico as soon as possible — fix the electric grid and fix the Julio Garcia Diaz Building,» said Garcia - Arraras, referencing the university's severely damaged biology research center.

But at least the electric grid runs throughout the country.

Entire electric grid The research is funded by the German Federal Ministry of the Environment and is aimed at showing that the entire electricity grid could be run on renewable energy.

Charging electric vehicles at night generates less ozone than tapping into the grid during the daytime.

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.

The state renewable energy standard requires electric companies to meet emissions targets by investing ratepayer money into programs that green the grid and electrify vehicles and buildings, or else pay into a state fund at the end of the year.

How it works: Electric vehicles can double as batteries plugged into the grid, saving up power at night when electricity demand is low.

Surplus power can be fed into the public grid as well as be used for charging the household electric vehicle,» explains Dominik Noeren, a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg.

At Tesla, Cal Lankton, its director of global electric vehicle infrastructure, said they have also seen evidence that these «time of use» rates can be an effective way to influence car owner behavior to benefit the grid.

Such a dense cluster of electric vehicles might strain the grid if all owners try to charge them at the same time — say, on returning home in the evening — and that does indeed seem to be the case based on preliminary monitoring.

A recent study found that an electric car charged by utilities at night in the regional grid that stretches across Ohio, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia creates more greenhouse gas pollution than if owners plugged in their vehicles at random times throughout the daytime, when the utility fuel mixes are more varied.

With a grid of electric coils, they simulated magnetic fields found at three critical points in the turtles» migratory routes.

But generators aren't designed to run for months at a time, and most of the facilities can not get back to full operations until the utility restores the electric grid, Gottlieb said.

Among the areas of research that inspire Dr. Cui are: the development of new technologies to further the development of electric transportation; creating new battery chemistry for grid - scale storage at ultra-low cost; and harnessing low - cost technologies for the development of catalysts for efficient carbon dioxide reduction and conversion into highly valuable products and inert carbon - hydrogen bond activation.

«Hydro - Québec has developed extensive expertise in the area of battery materials scale - up and commercialization for electric vehicles and grid storage,» said Karim Zaghib, General Director of the Center of Excellence in Transportation, Electrification and Energy Storage and Conversion (CETEES) at Hydro - Québec.

However, as the amount of solar energy generation connected to our electric grid continues to grow at a rapid rate, further improvements in predictive accuracy will be needed.

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.

The May issue looks at the role of money in elections, the need to upgrade the electric grid, the role of legislative staff, state support of long - term health services and much more.

While at the same time, hyperactive sunspot region AR1598 unleashes a gigantic coronal mass ejection directly at the Earth, triggering a Harrington - class geomagnetic storm that shuts down the entire North American electric grid for days or weeks..

Solar - to - electric, fed into the grids, is feasible, and is presenly supplementing fossil fuel generators at several different locations around the U.S.. This, to my knowledge is usually done at multiple point - sources, so the energy losses and transmission costs are kept to minimal.

Environmentalists will rejoice at this, but the trend is so swift that owners and operators of electric power systems are legitimately worrying about whether the decline of coal will undermine reliability of the electric grid and also make the nation too dependent on natural gas.

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.

With new «smart grid» technology, the plug - in hybrid vehicle could even deliver some of its stored electrical energy — sold at premium $ / KWH — back to the electric grid during hot afternoons, as it sits plugged - in, in the parking lot of one's employer.

Instead of perpetuating the status quo concepts with enhancing of smart grid enhancements of the electric power infrastructure, we started looking at distributed generation that enabled utilization of discharged heat in cogeneration concepts.

Higher PV output at this time of day is often beneficial to grid operators working to increase electric supply to balance high levels of demand, but customers generally will not see this benefit unless they are on time - of - use electric rates.

«It really has a significant impact on grid reliability and also on people's ability to pay their electric bills,» said urban planner Nick Rajkovich at the University of Buffalo.

We saw a sketch of an electric car drawing power from the wind and storing energy from the grid, a photo of farmer taking off a hay crop while a wind turbine generates royalty income for his family from the same field, an illustration of wind energy at the centre of a clean and vibrant cityscape, and many more examples of how Canadians are becoming more conscious about where our electricity comes from, how we use it, and how our choices can contribute to a more prosperous and sustainable world.

But because of wind's variable nature, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which manages the grid, only includes 8.7 percent of wind generation in estimating available power at peak conditions, even though it frequently generates a much greater amount.

Auxiliary generator: A generator at the electric plant site that provides power for the operation of the electrical generating equipment itself, including related demands such as plant lighting, during periods when the electric plant is not operating and power is unavailable from the grid.

Because of intermittency and seasonal variability, the Texas grid (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) rates wind generation only at 8.7 percent of wind's installed capacity.

At that point, you either use the electricity in your house or send it back to the electric grid.

Scott Aaronson, vice president of security and preparedness at the utility trade group Edison Electric Institute, said that the federal government alerted grid operators to a threat targeting the energy and manufacturing sectors last summer, but that the incident hadn't affected operations.

The majority of community solar projects consist of a solar garden or solar farm located at a site determined by a utility or developer to maximize the amount of energy the system can produce and to not put too much stress on the electric grid.

In Hawaii (another island power grid), Maui Electric just signed a deal for a solar plus battery storage system at $ 0.11 / kWh.

The Pew Charitable Trusts On Global Wind Day, a look at how this renewable resource is transforming the international electric grid, particularly in developing nations.

Seems like the investment of Warren Buffet's MidAmerican Energy Holdings in Shezhen - based BYD Auto is not just a bet on electric vehicles, but also on the collaboration between MidAmerican and BYD to develop «rapid charge batteries» for electrical grid systems to serve as energy storage for renewable but intermittent power such as wind and solar, revealed MidAmerican's chairman, David Sokal, at a press conference earlier this week in Hong Kong.

-- In addition to the policy under paragraph (1), it is the policy of the United States that regional electric grid planning to meet these objectives should result from an open, inclusive and transparent process, taking into account all significant demand - side and supply - side options, including energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy and zero - carbon electricity generation technologies, smart - grid technologies and practices, demand response, electricity storage, voltage regulation technologies, high capacity conductors with at least 25 percent greater efficiency than traditional ACSR (aluminum stranded conductors steel reinforced) conductors, superconductor technologies, underground transmission technologies, and new conventional electric transmission capacity and corridors.

The North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and regional grid operators say U.S. grid reliability is not at risk in the short term, but Walker said those entities may not «have the visibility or the proper information to determine if something is a national security issue.»

At least $ 239 billion will be invested in lithium - ion batteries, making energy storage devices a practical way to keep homes and power grids supplied efficiently and spreading the use of electric cars.

Plugin Hybrid Vehicles (PHEVs) recharge large batteries from the electric - grid (mostly at night when demand is low) and use it to charge a large battery.