Sentences with phrase «electricity grid come»

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It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

To that end, the United Kingdom in December signed a memorandum of understanding with nine other northern European states — Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg and Norway — to study the possibility of building a $ 30 billion ($ 41.4 billion) grid in the North Sea that could be producing 100 GW of electricity within 20 years if all current plans come to fruition.

Plug - in cars come in two forms: electric vehicles fully reliant on a battery and the electricity grid,...

An era is coming in which artificially intelligent systems can manage your energy consumption to save you money and make the electricity grid even smarter

The system was the first commercial, grid - connected tidal power system in the United States, and ORPC expects to expand in the coming years to provide electricity to roughly 2000 homes and businesses.

At 1 p.m., 22 percent of all the electricity consumed in the Texas grid was coming from wind.

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

Honda also revealed the Honda Power Management Concept, an integrated transfer system that can distribute electricity to the main grid and manage the power flow coming from renewable energy sources, as well as between a home and an EV.

This arrangement gives owners a clear conscience when it comes to the environmental impact of their electricity sources, as Tesla claims the photovoltaic panels will feed more electricity into the grid than the Superchargers will to cars.

Even without seeing the mantas, just savouring this location as a viewpoint is reason enough to scooter along the bone - jarring road to get here — we came via the highest point of the island, where nine wind turbines help supply some of the island's electricity grid.

Now, some readers will think this is far - fetched, but I think that in the not - too - distant future the day will come when 100 percent of new electricity generation capacity added to the USA's electric grid is wind and solar.

Not only that, but storage of thermal energy (for later conversion into electricity) or electricity itself for grid purposes comes in a number of flavors.

One of the reasons Ohio's nuclear plants are going bankrupt is because they — as reliable, 24/7 producers of power — are literally forced to pay the high cost of the grid absorbing electricity coming from wind turbines that have been heavily - subsidized for a quarter - century.

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.

Because German law requires renewable energy to be used first on the German grid, when Germany exports excess electricity to its European neighbors it primarily comes from coal plants... «If you want to use fluctuating renewable power, you have to upgrade the grids across Europe,» says Daniel Genz, a policy adviser with Vattenfall.

If the government is to make meaningful progress toward its national goal to extend a constant supply of electricity to every household in the coming years, it will need to learn from and adapt its current financing structures for off - grid solar (and other renewable energy) technologies.

Just how much of a grid's electricity can come from wind and solar?

BEIJING (Reuters)- A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

Rather, area grid electricity tends to come from Clean Hydro - Electric resources, and regional Wind resources may have even more potential.

The government has now signed contracts to add 2,300 MW of electricity to the national grid over the coming five years, with 27 independent power producers.

It will supply cheap electricity that will replace expensive electricity that would otherwise come from the power grid.

As thousands of electric vehicles charge off Oregon's electricity grid — half of which comes from hydropower and renewable resources — Oregon's transportation - related carbon footprint continues to shrink.

When it comes to supplying your house with electricity, your two primary options are to design your own renewable energy system with solar panels and wind turbines, or to tie your house to the local power grid.

With an electricity grid supplied by hydroelectric dams across rivers, from the heat of its numerous volcanoes, and from wind and the sun, the small Central American nation expects 97 percent of its energy generation to come from renewable sources this year.

25 - 30 years ago (sorry, don't have an exact figure), the electricity authority (Gov run) was called «Hydro - electric» — because at the time ALL the electrical generation for the grid came from hydro sources.

So, many people are coming together to create a parallel track to the false hope of building polluting power plants and extending the existing electricity grid infrastructure to the poor.

While the dam could provide baseload power to Queensland, its real long - term value could come through providing ongoing «load - balancing» to Queensland's electricity grid.

That figure comes from Scott Luft who uses data supplied by IESO (Independent Electricity System Operator) for grid - connected wind power projects and conservatively estimates curtailed wind for distributor - connected turbines to compile the information.

After O&R installs an electric meter and other necessary components to prepare the grid for this new power supply to come online in late winter, the Lamont solar arrays will generate two megawatts of electricity from each farm.

Several companies came along and broke that barrier down by offering $ 0 - down solar loans, with the price of the systems paid back over time but in monthly payments that are lower than the price of electricity from the grid.

For more than 100 Indian villages cut off from grid electricity, life no longer comes to an end after dark thanks to an innovative solar - powered lantern that offers hope to the nation's rural poor.

In fact, I have come to the rather astounding conclusion that even if wind turbines and solar PV could be built at zero cost, it would not make sense to continue to add them to the electric grid in the absence of very much better and cheaper electricity storage than we have today.

There are important reasons natural gas is the United States» primary fuel for electricity generation — and will be in the years to come, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): 1) Natural gas is abundantly available — thanks to America's energy renaissance; 2) Natural gas» affordability has made it competitive in the marketplace; and 3) Among all the fuels used for power generation, natural gas is the definition of reliability — uniquely positioned as a fuel to furnish key attributes that ensure the health of the modern electricity grid.

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

When it comes to islands that use batteries, a combination of different technologies is sometimes used to address short term, in minutes, and long term, in hours, of storage, to ensure that grid operation is reliable, and that electricity is available also when the sun does not shine and the wind does not blow.

These remarks about helping the grid to be more efficient come in stark contrast to the plethora of power industry bodies and media reports blaming renewables for the electricity price hikes in South Australia of late as well as others claiming that efforts to hit renewables targets are compromising the stability of the grid.

In 2014, more than 10 % of the electricity used in the grid covering most of Texas came from wind generation, according to the grid's operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).

With the unofficial start of summer just around the corner, utilities and independent system operators are looking for ways to relieve peak loads and congestion on the electricity grid for the coming season and down the road.

And this year alone, California has had to discard 300,000 megawatt hours of excess electricity from the grid, all of which came from renewable sources.

This will also reduce the amount of electricity coming from the grid.

There are many policies that support the expansion of the solar industry, including financial investments for solar projects, setting renewable portfolio standards (how much electricity must come from renewable resources), and creating successful clean energy cash - back programs such as net metering (allowing solar customers to sell excess energy back to the grid).

Step - down transformers lower the voltage of electricity coming from the transmission grid, and distribution lines take the power to your home or business.

Either they could make their own hydrogen from electricity supplied by the grid, or obtain it from a pipeline network... Everything comes on and goes off at the flick of a switch, and works as smoothly as our heat and electricity systems do today.

Cisco has made the smart grid a primary focus for the company, and has determined that they want to be the leader when it comes to technology used for managing electricity.

First came the electric light bulb, then appliances and equipment that needed electricity, then came the grid to provide the service.

While I am a proponent of solar gadget chargers for off - grid electricity or backcountry convenience, I certainly don't think they move the needle much, if at all, when it comes to practical low - carbon energy solutions.

We covered a previous innovation that came out of the Billions in Change effort, the «Free Electric» bicycle that can generate electricity for home use, which looks like it will now only be available in India, but as of yesterday, there are now a few other off - grid energy products available.

One oddity about Perry's inquiry is that it comes even as Trump's «skinny budget» has proposed an unspecified cut to the department's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, whose key purpose is to work on making the grid resilient.

On the hottest day, when the grid is at 100 % that electricity has to come from somewhere.

new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.