Sentences with phrase «electric utility grid»

Researchers have used the compound to create a high - performance «flow» battery, a leading contender for storing renewable power in the electric utility grid.

Not exact matches

By 2030, solar - plus - storage could threaten the economic relevance of their distribution grids by making less necessary the connection with the local electric utility.

Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.

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.

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.

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

As for the grid, the proliferation of electricity storage could eventually transform it into a «plug and play» for the units, used by utilities, solar customers and electric vehicles.

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

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

Smart electrical grids and energy storage options would allow utilities to operate more efficiently by helping them manage spikes in the demand for electric power.

Even the electric utility industry recognizes that where residential electricity costs reach 15 cents per kilowatt - hour — or roughly 16 percent of the U.S. retail electricity market — solar is already as cheap as grid electricity.

Utility companies warn that the lost revenue from solar - powered costumers will necessitate price increases for people without solar panels, because the electric grid and other critical infrastructure must still be maintained.

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.

They see a market in servicing large electric utilities that want to incrementally expand their generation capacity, developing countries that can not afford or make good use of traditional reactors, and off - grid and hard - to - power sites.

That way, homeowners will be able to install smaller and cheaper solar power systems while being able to use electricity from the grid only as backup, reducing the electric power demand, or load, on the utility's grid.

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.

Now, demand response features allow electric utilities to adjust your thermostat during peak times to improve grid stability and shift energy demand.

With a Department of Energy grant awarded to General Motors, Bill Boyce, supervisor for electric transportation with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, said his utility modeled a few electric vehicle pricing schemes and found they were able to manage the impact of charging on the grid by educating their customers on the best time to Utility District, said his utility modeled a few electric vehicle pricing schemes and found they were able to manage the impact of charging on the grid by educating their customers on the best time to utility modeled a few electric vehicle pricing schemes and found they were able to manage the impact of charging on the grid by educating their customers on the best time to charge.

As adoption increases, utilities will have to figure out the best way to have enough electricity on the grid to charge more and more cars without affecting rates and reliability for those with and without electric cars, he said.

Electric vehicles pose both challenges and opportunities for the grid, said Noel Crisostomo, a public utilities regulatory analyst for the California Public Utilities Coutilities regulatory analyst for the California Public Utilities CoUtilities Commission.

Now, they have approved the technology and the Pacific Gas and Electric company, one of the US's biggest utilities and a leading member of the consortium, has plugged the array into its grid.

Nevertheless, some utilities still prefer to keep coal to maintain a diversity of fuels in the electric grid.

Last year, for example, the Edison Electric Institute, a utility trade group, in a report described rooftop solar as a «disruptive challenge» that could squeeze revenue and profits as customers defected, leaving companies forced to maintain grids that serve all.

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.

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.

The proposed switch, which GE is developing under contract with the DOE's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, could contribute to a more advanced and reliable electric grid and help lower utility bills.

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.

Solar has become a mainstream technology that Massachusetts residents, businesses, and institutions can own and operate; a technology that produces local clean energy, saves money, and lightens the electric burden on the utility grid while reducing the use of fossil fuels» said William Stillinger, President of SEBANE.

The system is connected to the San Diego Gas and Electric grid and is the utility's biggest source of demand response.

Currently, more than half of American households have smart meters and they are increasingly being deployed by utilities around the country as part of utility efforts to modernize the electric grid.

Our complete technology solution also provides electric utility companies a means to control the load that plug - in vehicles put on the grid and a means to compute and implement taxes on electricity as a transportation fuel.»

The gasoline engine serves as an on - board personal electric utility for when you forget to plug in to the local grid, or for ensuring a total range to match that of any conventional car you'd buy today.

Meeting electric peak demand has long been one of the utility industry's biggest challenges — a challenge that has grown with soaring costs and strained electricity supply grids.

FirstEnergy, an Ohio - based utility that was a key supporter of the DOE proposal, urged FERC to direct the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) to take «prompt and decisive action to ensure the continued resilience of the grid.»

Solar is making a difference — But shouldn't America's utility industry be working hand - in - hand to help our solar industry prosper while building a sustainable national electric grid infrastructure?

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 Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities issued an order approving investments and upgrades to the state's electric grid....

Utility - scale solar energy projects (defined for the Solar PEIS as facilities with a generation capacity of 20 MW or greater) generate electricity that is distributed to consumers through the electric power transmission grid.

The course comprises four modules that cover renewable energy technologies, including power - generation technologies and integrating renewable energy into the power grid, economic regulation of electric utilities, policy and regulatory frameworks and conditions for success, and energy access through renewable energy.

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.

Some utilities will also pay more for electricity from home solar during peak hours and the energy storage system can also send electricity back to the grid during those times to maximize your electric bill savings.

In most states the systems provide your power needs throughout the day and if your system produces more electricity than your home is using, it sends the excess back to the electric grid, selling your extra solar power back to the utility where it can be used by your neighbors and others.

Utilities have been pushing their state regulatory commissions to charge solar users a fee to cover possible costs to the electric utility of integrating solar generation into the grid.

It should be noted that while all solar systems in the US can qualify for federal incentive programs like the Investment Tax Credit, you're more likely to get more incentive opportunities, like net - metering — allowing you to sell power back to the utility — with a grid - connected system than with an off - grid electric system, since most incentives are offered through utilities.

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 later than 3 months after the date of adoption by the Commission of national electricity grid planning principles pursuant to paragraph (1), entities that conduct or may conduct transmission planning pursuant to State, tribal, or Federal law or regulation, including States, Indian tribes, entities designated by States and Indian tribes, Federal Power Marketing Administrations, transmission providers, operators and owners, regional organizations, and electric utilities, and that are willing to incorporate the national electricity grid planning principles adopted by the Commission in their electric grid planning, shall identify themselves and the regions for which they propose to develop plans to the Commission.

Instead of cutting residents a break for helping solve the climate crisis, in state after state utility corporations — led by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Edison Electric Institute (whose political advocacy efforts ratepayers actually underwrite)-- are passing legislation that pre-empts «net - metering» laws, which let customers sell their excess power back to the grid.

For rooftop solar to be economically feasible, the owner / operator of a panel needs to be able to sell the power (or excess power) to the electric utilities running the grid.

The following post summarizes a series of presentations focusing on a the potential of vehicle - to - grid capability to accelerate the adoption of plug - in hybrid (PHEV) and battery electric vehicles (BEV): [From GCC:] The premise is that the additional cost to consumers of full - function zero - emission vehicles (ZEV) or near zero - emission vehicles — whether full battery electric vehicles, plug - in hybrid vehicles or fuel - cell vehicles — can be partially offset by providing grid power support to utilities or major power consumers.

In this week's Quick Microgrid News... Ontario utility PowerStream and the Korea Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) have signed an agreement to develop demonstration microgrids and smart grid projects in Canada and market and sell the technology in North America.