Sentences with phrase «electricity grid infrastructure»

Smart grid incorporates a network of technologies and services to improve current electricity grid infrastructure with increased multidirectional communication, data collection, and automation.

Australia's northwest shelf also needs electricity grid infrastructure.

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.

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Under her leadership, the company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal» by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.

The $ 127 million in new projects are dependent on upgrades to regional infrastructure, particularly energy, and Murray Goulburn is looking for government support for gas connectivity and to improve the electricity grid.

Her focus throughout that period has been largely on the technical, infrastructure and economic issues underpinning the electricity industry, covering topics related to generation, transmission and distribution, smart grid / smart homes and the prospects for electric vehicles.

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.

The infrastructure challenges include installing tens of millions of charging stations, strengthening the grid to handle electricity demand by plug - ins, and changing utility regulations to promote nighttime recharging

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.

The U.S. electricity infrastructure is sorely in need of modernization; whatever our choice for generation, we must invest in a newer, more efficient electricity grid.

With these homes making their own electricity, utilities lose their most lucrative customers and confront a dwindling base over which to spread big infrastructure costs, like building new power plants or maintaining the grid.

Now the film has inspired engineers to develop a way to cope with cyber attacks on crucial infrastructure, such as electricity grids, water utilities and banking networks.

But the nation can seek more clean energy from the sun or wind, which won't be affected by climate change, and get the electricity generated elsewhere via a smart grid, he said, referring to an advanced transmission infrastructure China has been building.

Enron helped pioneer the trade in «physical» electricity, actual power available for purchase on the grid and only physical in the sense that the infrastructure to transport it is more visible than an odorless, colorless greenhouse gas.

This makes multiple - unit based SMR - 160 electricity supply more resistant to natural disasters or acts of sabotage, and eliminates the need and cost of building traditional grid infrastructures.

The ONLY way they will ever have electricity is with distributed renewable energy, principally photovoltaics — which are vastly less expensive than building a whole new grid - based electricity generation and distribution infrastructure.

But conditions don't seem nearly as ripe for approving such investments and infrastructure in more crowded regions, where demand for electricity is highest, according to Matt Wald's latest article on wind and the grid.

Infrastructure in the form of an electricity grid is becoming an outmoded collection of cables.

«One of the most important infrastructure projects that we need is a whole new electricity grid.

Just over a quarter of development finance commitments for electricity access, or 28 percent, reached the 20 high - impact countries over 2011 - 15, with delays and under - disbursements being very common, especially for large grid - based energy infrastructure projects.

This shift, combined with the other transformations in the energy ecosystem require new ways of thinking about the electricity system and power generation that can be supported by the existing grid infrastructure.

But we must also work to improve the electricity grid with increased transmission infrastructure to integrate a high amount of renewable generation, and incorporate more advanced grid planning to maintain reliability.

Additional infrastructure is needed in the electricity sector for creating a well - integrated national grid, and the market should be designed to give strong signals to locate generation where it is most valuable to the whole system.

TEG technologies, however, have the potential to produce geothermal electricity without all the infrastructure — turbines, steam piping, etc. — thus making small scale production and geothermally - source micro power grids both practicable and affordable.

Alongside the physical grid infrastructure, the EU needs a single market in electricity just like the single market in people, capital, goods and services created over 25 years ago.

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Smart grid communication infrastructure is basically the Internet for electricity transmission and distribution systems, with information technologies embedded throughout the system such as digital meters, remote sensors and data communications devices.

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The Australian Energy Market Operator suggests building out the electricity grid from South Australia to Brisbane and Sydney should be a long - term infrastructure priority.

September 21, 2016 The development of mobile payment platforms, increasing options for providing debt, and cheaper and better off - grid solar power systems are presenting countries around the world with a chance to leapfrog the archaic electricity infrastructure that defined the twentieth century.

Reasons for the drop - off include concerns about project quality and inadequate electricity transmission and grid infrastructure, which prompted the government to approve fewer projects and to restrict lending.

The development of mobile payment platforms, increasing options for providing debt, and cheaper and better off - grid solar power systems are presenting countries around the world with a chance to leapfrog the archaic electricity infrastructure that defined the twentieth century.

But if existing combustion power plants could be adapted to use metal powder instead of coal or other fossil fuels, then much of the existing power generating infrastructure could be used, and power generation could continue to be in the same places it is now, using the same grid as is currently supplying electricity.

Because although the wind farm will soon be ready to generate electricity, it won't be able to start doing so because of a lack of infrastructure to transport the electricity to the mainland and feed it into the grid.

It is in close proximity to well established infrastructure including the national electricity grid and rail network.

Every country around the world, they note, has a unique energy storage potential that is based on the combination of energy resources, historical physical infrastructure, and electricity market structure, as well as regulatory framework, population demographics, energy demand patterns and trends, and general grid architecture and condition.

The Energy Commission will conduct further analysis to identify solutions to integrate increasing levels of energy efficiency, smart grid infrastructure, and renewable energy while avoiding infrequent conditions of surplus generation, or overgeneration, in which more electricity is being generated than there is load to consume it.

Because despite adding considerable electricity generation capacity in the last decade, India's energy supply is still not meeting its huge growing demand, and a lack of supply and infrastructure issues means the price of grid electricity is rapidly rising.

Tyler Hamilton at Clean Break thinks that the «momentum is on the side of battery technology and the infrastructure to support it needs to be extended and upgraded, instead of created from scratch» and «millions of «smart» electric cars plugged into the grid can offer an extremely valuable way of managing electricity supply and demand and smoothing out peaks.»

The position requires strong quantitative and analytical skills with a preference for candidates with expertise in electric vehicle charging infrastructure and grid - related impacts, sophisticated understanding and knowledge of electricity sector policy and public utility commission regulatory processes, and demonstrated experience with energy analysis and advocacy.

Like the smart grid for electricity, a smart water grid includes the meters, infrastructure and software that provide real - time data on water use to consumers and utilities.

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Our electricity grid is at once an incredible modern marvel and a staggeringly vulnerable piece of critical infrastructure.

These sources can piggyback on existing infrastructure, pumping electricity into power grids (though their intermittent power production requires managers to adjust their load - balancing techniques).