Sentences with phrase «electricity grid operators»

But, the government has taken the approach of collaborating with local electricity grid operators to provide a more challenging ecosystem for miners.

To accommodate this variability, electricity grid operators use a variety of tools to maintain a reliable electricity supply — and can easily handle a much higher percentage of electricity from renewable sources.

Ingersoll Rand engaged with Western Cooling Efficiency Center at University of California, Davis, on research that shows thermal energystorage can provide significantly greater benefits to utilities and electricity grid operators than previously thought.

(March 5, 2011) According to the CEO of the UK's electricity grid operator, consumers are going to have to make lifestyle changes to adapt to unreliable wind power.

«The Auditor General of Ontario estimates that the province has already lost close to $ 2 billion on surplus wind exports, and figures from the electricity grid operator show the ongoing losses are $ 200 million annually», says the report.

Offering open - use terms, near real - time access, and APIs, Finland's electricity grid operator says it's the first European country to open up national electricity data.

Not exact matches

The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO - E), which runs the grid powering 25 separate European countries, disclosed recently that «frequency deviations» in power supply have been experienced across the network since mid-January.

At an energy summit meeting Monday, the EU yet again watered down an initiative to end the regulation of electricity prices and gave grid operators powers to stop new entrants encroaching on their businesses.

«Our solar plants are going to lose over half of their ability to generate electricity during the two to two and a half hours that the eclipse will be impacting our area,» says Steven Greenlee, spokesperson for the California Independent System Operator, or CAISO, one of the largest independent grid operators in the world.

BRUSSELS / COPENHAGEN, March 19 - EU antitrust authorities are investigating whether limits placed by German grid operator TenneT on cross-border electricity capacity with Denmark breaches EU antitrust rules.

BRUSSELS / COPENHAGEN, March 19 (Reuters)- EU antitrust authorities are investigating whether limits placed by German grid operator TenneT on cross-border electricity capacity with Denmark breaches EU antitrust rules.

Police in the north China city of Tianjin confiscated 600 computers used to mine bitcoin cryptocurrency after the local power grid operator reported abnormal electricity usage, Xinhua reported Wednesday.

Firms mining bitcoin have also taken to moving to remote locations, not registering a company and engaging in the mildly illegal activity of purchasing electricity directly from power producers rather than grid operators.

Renewable energy accounted for 103.6 percent of mainland electricity consumption last month, the report by the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association and the Sustainable Earth System Association said citing data from power grid operator REN.

The authorities» attention was attracted by the abnormal surge of electricity usage by the local power grid operator.

Among the targets of Dragonfly were energy grid operators, major electricity generation firms, petroleum pipeline operators, and energy industry industrial equipment providers.

Add to this an economic rebound, and Texas» grid operator is predicting a 2.7 % increase in peak electricity demand in the summer of 2018 over the previous record, set in August 2016.

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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.

The sudden loss of electricity supply forced grid operators to cut power to some offices and factories for several hours to prevent statewide blackouts.

Should there be an excessive peak in electricity demand, grid operators can select which areas of the country will have power cut off.

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.

In turn, that can reassure grid operators that electricity supply will continue to meet demand.

The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.

With liberalization of the electricity market and expansion of renewable sources, distribution grid mandates have mounted, requiring, for example, that operators ensure their grids remain stable despite increased levels of intermittent generation.

Add to this an economic rebound, and Texas» grid operator is predicting a 2.7 % increase in peak electricity demand in the summer of 2018 over the previous record, set in August 2016.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

Real world experience has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that grid operators and utilities can comply with clean energy policies, while also providing a reliable supply of electricity.

Thanet therefore cost a whopping # 8.6 billion per GW of effective capacity — nearly a # billion more than Hinkley point, but supplying the grid with electricity at three times the market value, netting its operators more than # 75 million in subsidies per year.

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.

But in periods when industrial demand for electricity has been stronger, a reactor shutdown has sometimes forced grid operators to scramble.

Enabling wind farm owners and operators to more efficiently and cost - effectively convert wind energy into electricity and supply it to power grids improves the economics of utility - scale wind power.

In the fourth quarter of last year alone, over $ 28 million in electricity was traded on the market, and two more grid operators in Idaho and Oregon are expected to joint the market in 2017 and 2018.

PJM, the independent grid operator for all or parts of 13 US states produced a report that confirmed that wind energy is decreasing both the price of electricity and emissions of harmful pollutants.

-- 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.

In this scenario, electricity produced by natural gas power plants could «crowd out» renewable generation by forcing the grid operator to curtail renewables to avoid a situation in which electricity supply exceeds demand.

Bresler said the grid operator's proposal is intended to be «agnostic» about the type of energy used to make electricity.

of providing electricity, because the grid operator already makes some adjustments to make up for extra costs an inflexible generator has.

«We commend PJM, the largest grid operator in the U.S., for recognizing the importance of fuel security because it is the foundation for a reliable and resilient electricity grid.

Twenty power companies including Germany's biggest utilities, EON SE and RWE AG, now get fees for pledging to add or cut electricity within seconds to keep the power system stable, double the number in September, according to data from the nation's four grid operators.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rightly voted to terminate the rulemaking, instead requesting information from grid operators and the public about how to address the undervaluation of coal and nuclear power generation in electricity markets.

With utilities and grid operators increasingly concerned about meeting big peak demand ramps in metropolitan load centers, rooftop solar's potential coincident electricity supply has become more valuable.

By interfacing with CAISO and PacifiCorp systems across the Northwest, the Idaho Power system will create a stronger link between EIM participants in the the region, facilitating the trade of electricity across greater distances in conjunction with the California grid operator.

Paul went on to point out that NERC, grid operators, and others that support fuel diversity have, at the same time, raised cautions about overreliance on natural gas to generate electricity.

From time to time, the imbalance between too little demand and too much uncontrollable supply in Ontario's electricity system becomes so precarious that grid operators in Michigan and New York can actually compel Ontario to pay them to take it the power.

So much wind power was being supplied that Texas» grid operator that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) reported wholesale electricity prices reached near zero and, in some cases, rates went negative.

It is based on grid operators» real - world experience and over a dozen studies by grid operators showing renewables can reliably supply 20 % to 40 % or more of U.S. electricity demand.

«Contrary to most people's intuitive experience that winds are variable and electricity demand and supply is stable, the opposite is actually true at the grid operator scale,» according to Goggin's report.