Sentences with phrase «electricity grid as»

In short, Canada has an opportunity to lead the rest of the world in this transition to a cleaner electricity grid as well as set the standard for the provision of technologies and services that will help companies around the globe.

Investments in T&D provide a good illustration of how conditional projects may in fact be well aligned with 2 - degree pathways; in this case, the «conditional» categorization serves more as a reminder of the urgent need to decarbonize the electricity grid as it expands and becomes more efficient.

Hybrids can be modified so that their batteries can be charged by plugging them into the electricity grid as well as the car's engine.

It allows prosumers using solar or other forms of renewable energy to bank excess electricity on the grid (to use the electricity grid as a temporary storage unit), usually in the form of kilowatt - hour credits.

In the early 2000s, 50 miles from the MO I was helping my good mate (rip) install his self - sufficient solar power system w a battery pack unit which then was big as a car on a trailer, and helped out planting out his small plantation of Olive Trees into the ex-cow paddocks... he and his wife bought a 120 acre ex-cattle farm to regenerate that along the lines of New Age Healing Greenie Principles of Self - Sufficency and Self - Responsibility... they disconnected from the electricity grid as well.

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Andreasen described the big cables as «critically important for the electricity grid» by connecting regions and countries with one another, enabling the trade of energy over borders.

And more is needed to protect overseas bases, which are vulnerable because other countries» civilian electricity grids are as vulnerable as those in the U.S.

The idea is that when grid electricity rates are high, a building can switch over to using the batteries for power as a way to lower monthly energy bills.

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

Alternatively, as has also been an issue in the context of the switch to smart electricity grids, where the transmission system owner remains part of a vertically integrated firm, it has an incentive to implement network upgrades in a manner that excludes third parties from the competitive segments.

The smart grid in both America and the UK uses communications technology such as smart meters to maximize the efficiency and affordability of electricity.

California's «NEM 2.0» policy has created a clear migration path to continue to allow solar customers to receive fair compensation for the solar power they produce even as the adoption of solar increases, and implicitly encourages the adoption of battery storage by assigning a higher value to electricity provided when the grid needs it most.

«While more remains to be done to optimize our electricity system — building transmission lines to carry more clean power to those jurisdictions still burning fossil fuels, investing in smarter grids in our towns and cities, bringing more clean power online — these regulations create a foundation as we transition to clean energy and an economy built to last.»

The threat, often referred to as the «utility death spiral,» goes like this: as customers choose to install solar panels or adopt energy efficiency measures, a utility will sell fewer units of energy and has to increase what it charges for electricity to ensure that it can still cover its fixed costs, such as grid maintenance and labor.

The rollout of «smart grid» systems and new energy storage technologies can strengthen Canada's reputation as a leader in clean electricity.

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.

For specific industry applications with high organic loads, enough biogas can be generated to fully cover a production plant's energy needs and still have a biogas surplus to feed it into power generators and sell electricity to the national grid, often generating carbon credits, where these apply, as well as profit.

As natural gas gets diverted for home and other heating this winter, the head of New England's electricity grid is warning about possible future risks to the region's power.

So they end up having sold or having talks to sell critical infrastructure as aiports, electricity plants, or even the electricity grid itself to foreign funds for extremely undervalued pricing.

On the efforts by the President Muhammadu Buharu administration to improve electricity in Nigeria, Fashola said «Federal government is implementing off - grid renewable energy solutions such as rural mini-grids, standalone home solutions, IPP for Federal Universities, Teaching Hospitals and large - scale solar PV projects such as the Jigawa solar city.

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.

With the United Kingdom, for one, aiming to get some 30 GW of electricity from wind farms in the North Sea within the next decade as part of its E.U. target to get 15 percent of its power — equivalent to about 40 percent of its electricity — from renewables by 2020, there are also proposals to build a giant subsea grid to bring that power ashore.

The Indian Central Electricity Authority (CEA) only produced its draft plan to install PMUs across the grid in April and, as of 31 May, there were just 14 operating in the country.

The shape even fed into the name — Solyndra — as well as promising half the installation cost in one third of the time, enabling «grid parity» (that is, a price competitive with electricity from fossil fuel — fired power plants) at some imminent date for the first time in the history of solar power.

Such grids will enable utility companies to monitor energy use in minute detail, allowing them to alter the price of electricity as demand changes.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

As of March, according to USAID figures, Power Africa has helped close deals accounting for 4,100 MW of electricity in places like Rwanda, where East Africa's largest solar array began sending 8.5 MW of electricity to the national grid late last year, boosting the country's electricity generation capacity by 6 percent.

Several start - up companies aim to help people cut costs, flex their muscles as consumers to promote green energy, and usher in a more efficient energy grid — all by unleashing smart software on everyday electricity usage.

Greater challenges lie ahead as smart grid technologies proliferate in the nation's transmission network and utility control centers and eventually reach business and residential electricity customers

As more wind energy is added to the grid, power companies have to match increasingly variable electricity supplies to intermittent demand.

De Bedout focuses on integrating sustainable energy sources — such as wind and solar — into the electricity grid.

As the share of enewables in Germany's electricity mix approaches 30 %, the country's power grid appears to be going strong.

Micro-grids may not be the cheapest option in the long run, as electricity from small grids tends to be three or four times as expensive per unit than that from centralised sources.

The lab's more agile model grid could do the rebalancing almost as quickly as electricity moves, at the speed of light.

«As more and more renewable electricity gets put on the grid over time, you're going to have [surplus] issues.

The idea is that many small power plant operators can feed their electricity into the grid but act as a single power plant using computers to control the level of power.

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

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.

The President's initiative will empower young men and women to invent and commercialize advanced energy technologies such as efficient and cost effective methods for converting sunlight to electricity and fuel, carbon capture and sequestration, stationary and portable advanced batteries for plug - in electric cars, advanced energy storage concepts that will enable sustained energy supply from solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, high - efficiency deployment of power across «smart grids,» and carbon neutral commercial and residential buildings.

What the company calls its «mPower» reactor would be used for smaller grids or limited electricity - demand areas, such as those of municipal districts or for individual industrial use.

A new survey of consumer attitudes released today by Accenture indicates that U.S. consumers are more interested in smart grid applications that save them money and automate the management of their electricity use, rather than giving them direct control over heating, cooling and appliances as prices fluctuate during the day.

The biggest challenge in selling a house that generates as much electricity as it pulls from the grid is that the cost savings require a buyer to live there a long time.

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

Grid parity is when the cost and reliability of that solar panel system is about the same as that of buying electricity like most people do today — from the local utility's power grid.

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.

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.

Other new technologies — such as micro grids that generate and store power for individual neighborhoods and automatic switches that can find open lines when some lines go down — can also help keep the electricity flowing.

Unless the reliability of renewable energy sources can be improved, as these sources contribute more and more electricity to the grid, engineers will have an increasingly difficult time keeping the system balanced.

Electricity storage technologies such as grid - scale batteries could work, but they're still in the research phase.

Experts reckon that when wind power provides a significant portion of the electricity supply (with «significant» defined as about 10 percent of grid capacity), some form of energy storage will be essential to keeping the grid stable.