Sentences with phrase «electrical utilities in»

DUK is one of the largest electrical utilities in the nation, and continues to slowly grow its customer base.

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A bachelor's degree or diploma in the corresponding field you'll managing: electrical engineering for power utilities, oil and gas engineering for natural gas distribution, and so on.

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.

This infrastructure firm provides design, engineering, civil construction, electrical and street - lighting services to public utilities, municipalities, developers and industrial manufacturing companies in Ontario.

According to a Georgia Power statement, the utility believes a piece of equipment in an underground electrical facility may have failed, causing the fire.

In a little over six months, the electrical utility has already rewarded investors with an 18 % return.

While the plants must be competitive in the electrical utility market, it is the environmental impact that could be the most exciting.

On March 24, Premier Shawn Graham stood in New Brunswick's legislative assembly and announced the death of a $ 3.2 - billion deal to sell the key assets of NB Power, the province's electrical utility, to Hydro - Quebec.

Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate over 320,000 MWh of electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.

As a result, the building looks like a war zone, everything is busted, there are live electrical wires hanging in the corridors (but the utility guys were nice enough to provide «DANGER OF DEATH DO NOT TOUCH» stickers).

A recent appeals court ruling in a case that grew out of PSEG Long Island's expansion of an electrical substation on Old Stone Highway in Amagansett, represents a mixed decision for East Hampton Town, which had sought to hold the utility provider to local zoning laws that would have required planning board review of the project.

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.

MoveOn also responded to electrical blackouts and skyrocketing energy costs in California by calling for cost controls on electricity utility companies, organizing a nationwide «roll your own energy blackout» - a voluntary, three - hour electricity - free evening on June 21, in which more than 10,000 participants turned out lights and unplugged TVs and other appliances to protest Bush's energy plan.

New York state announced Thursday it was sending 28 additional utility experts to assist in the restoration of electrical power, along with a team of accountants to help residents file federal recovery assistance applications.

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.

But over the next five years, electrical utilities alone will require an additional 7,000 power engineers, and factoring in other industries adds another 4,000 new hires.

Between 1995 and 2000, U.S. electrical utilities invested less than 0.3 percent of sales in R&D, and from 2003 to 2006 that number dropped to 0.17 percent.

Although these first images are smudgy, the technique could provide advance warning that solar flares and storms will take aim at Earth — warnings that could help electrical utilities or satellite operators plan for possible disruptions and put key instruments into a safe mode, says Ernest Hildner, director of the Space Environment Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

If solar rooftop arrays became as ubiquitous in home design as chimneys, the U.S. grid could indeed cease to exist — an end to power lines, electrical substations and transformers atop equally archaic wooden utility poles.

Utility poles are a favorite substrate for nests and when those get big enough to bridge the gap between live electrical lines, they short the lines out, sometimes blowing out transformers and turning off the power in whole neighborhoods.

Those that occur in nature are limited in their efficiency and utility by the strong links between their electrical and thermal conductivity.

Many utility companies will provide hourly data for electrical energy consumption, and utilities in some parts of the country are installing smart meters, which allow you (and the utility) to track how much energy your home is consuming on an hourly basis.

The utility said more than half of those in the dark had water damage to electrical panels and wiring, and their service could not be restored without an inspection and possibly repairs.

There should also be agreement on: proposed transportation, including drivers; permission to share information between host families; and permission for a home visit by trip organiser or competent person to confirm facts and ensure that obvious risks / hazards are identified, including, but not limited to, accommodation type and fire safety, security, electrical appliances and other utilities, general hygiene, structure of property and presence of internal individual gas heaters in property.

Many home inspectors are delighted to show you how to operate various mechanical or other systems in your home, and will walk you through the steps of operating everything from your thermostat, to your water heater, to your stove and dishwasher — and especially the emergency shutoffs for your gas, water and electrical utilities.

The first 2018 Roth IRA contribution was also added to the sell proceeds, and the total available cash was invested in two new higher yielding stocks: Edison International (EIX), an electrical utility company, and Kennedy - Wilson Holdings (KW), a diversified REIT consisting of multifamily rentals and commercial property.

The story in July on the Texas electrical utility TXU's plans for a heap of coal - burning plants was another great bit of reporting.

«We tried to put out a reasonable report,» said Mr. Holt, who now is in charge of managing power supplies and fuel for the National Rural Electrical Cooperative Association, which represents utilities serving 40 million people.

The Life Pod is a small free standing structure that implements solar panels as a roof surface providing dry covered shelter and water catchment, the water off the solar roof is stored in rain barrels, on the south side there is a Hydroponic food system mounted that produces fresh organic supply of greens, on the north side of the structure is a small utility closet that houses the solar battery and all the food system equipment, on the side of the utility closet there are 4 electrical outlets and an EV charging station, you can run the AC power over to your home or business and power any of your electrical needs with the off grid energy from the Life Pod.

He also accepted almost $ 400,000 in contributions last year from electrical utilities and the oil and gas industry.

The tiny house dwelling must also have the appropriate water, sewer, and electrical utility systems in place and can also be the principle and only dwelling on the lot.

As to the effectiveness of our efforts Bill Slaton (Sacramento Municipal Utilities District) recently recommended that our approach in the electrical market should be modified as noted here - Episode 126 [Watch online»]-- Bill Slaton.

Despite wood's low energy density and high cost, utilities in the US and abroad are switching from coal to wood to produce electrical power.

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A built - in exterior utility hub with space for electrical panel, water heater, and propane tank to fit out - of - sight

As of late 2007, Plug - In Partners had 617 members, including 169 electrical utilities, 168 corporations, 71 city governments, and 67 environmental groups.

The only down side I can see with this provision is that these EED's must be built on an approved foundation that meets the State of Michigan residential building code, while also having the appropriate water, sewer, and electrical utility systems in place.

A carbon tax would allow energy efficiencies to become cost effective faster, a carbon tax would cause the utilities to use less carbon fuels in the electrical grid and a carbon tax would promote fuel switching faster.

In July, California municipal utility Glendale Water & Power (GWP) connected a 2MW / 950kWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at an electrical substation, designed to be able to regulate the transmission network and balance load, but also capable of providing black starts to generators on its network that have gone offline in unscheduled eventIn July, California municipal utility Glendale Water & Power (GWP) connected a 2MW / 950kWh battery energy storage system (BESS) at an electrical substation, designed to be able to regulate the transmission network and balance load, but also capable of providing black starts to generators on its network that have gone offline in unscheduled eventin unscheduled events.

Today, IBEW represents electrical worker members in a wide variety of fields, including utilities, construction, telecommunications, manufacturing, and government and still advocates for members» wages, benefits, and rights.

The biggest market segment for electrical storage remains the utility - scale battery storage market (i.e. front - of - meter), accounting for 60 % of total capacities installed in 2015 and still commanding 55 % of the overall stationary battery market in 2017.

On June 5 at Resources for the Future, Holmstead did not make the false comparison between EPA's estimated rise in electrical rates but reduction in utility bills, though he called a carbon tax «politically incorrect.»

ALEC's Updating Net Metering Policies Resolution, discussed last week at its States and Nation Policy Summit in Washington, DC, would complement dirty utilities like Duke Energy that are working to make it more costly for people to feed their own solar power into the electrical grid.

No doubt there are issues to be overcome in achieving widespread vehicle electrification that affect all of us, whether we're automakers, utilities, NGOs, policymakers or potential early adopters of electrical vehicles.

Even though the home of the Mutuku Family is located roughly 600 meters from an electrical utility transformer, their residence in Machakos County...

Large turbines, often grouped in wind farms, are widely used by utilities across Canada to provide electrical energy to electricity grids.

In an ideal outcome, Nanologix would be able to utilize a relatively benign species from this group of anaerobes to produce hydrogen from food scraps and industrial waste heat, such as from electrical utilities.

At the same time, through the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy (LAANE), we joined forces with local community members and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers to build RePower LA, a program in which low - income residents lower their neighbors» utility bills and receive a living wage as they make businesses and homes more energy efficient, train for jobs with the local utility, and get on a path to union membership.

It will be the first utility scale wind farm in North Carolina, sending power to an electrical grid that supplies Amazon Cloud data centers in the region.

This approach, they say, will spare fragile desert landscapes while rapidly scaling up the nation's solar capacity and usurping the role traditionally played by utility companies in allocating resources and setting electrical rates.