The committee also called for increased investment through public and private funds in physical resources to ensure that
critical electric infrastructure is robust and that society is able to cope when the grid fails.
This is both because of green costs like the carbon tax and feed - in tariffs, but also because of
aging electric infrastructure that needs to be changed.
Up to $ 400 million to demonstrate and evaluate plug - in hybrids and
other electric infrastructure concepts, like truck stop charging stations, electric rail and training for technicians to build and repair electric vehicles.
A senior administration official said the idea is to create large pockets of opportunity for wind developers so they can reduce costs through economies of scale, and through state investments in workforce training, manufacturing and
electric infrastructure.
Do you remember the Porsche Boxster E, the electric prototype which was supposed to help gather information as far as the practicality of an electric roaster and
the electric infrastructure in mid 2011?
Lauer says they picked the location, about 50 miles northeast of Detroit in East China Township, because there's existing natural gas and
electric infrastructure and a «great workforce» that's already running two of the company's existing coal plants nearby.
«It's riding on the natural gas infrastructure, not
the electric infrastructure,» Mr. Ford said.
America's
electric infrastructure is too dependent on water, write Synapse's Melissa Whited and Frank Ackerman in an op - ed for the Houston Chronicle, leaving the system vulnerable to water shortages while contaminating existing water supplies.
Two companion papers investigate the technical potential and economic impacts of using the existing idle capacity of
the electric infrastructure in conjunction with the emerging plug - in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) technology to meet the majority of the daily energy needs of the U.S. LDV fleet.