Sentences with phrase «electricity grids across»

The report evaluates regional electricity grids across the United States based on the global warming emissions produced from electricity generation, and then compares the emissions generated by charging an EV with those produced by gasoline - powered vehicles.

We're seeing an increase in conversation around increased interconnection of our electricity grid across the country.

Across six regions, according to the report, coal provided 55 percent of daily incremental generation, and the study concludes that at least for PJM Interconnection (which manages the electricity grid across 12 Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states as well as DC), «coal provided the most resilient form of generation, due to available reserve capacity and on - site fuel availability, far exceeding all other sources» without which the region «would have experienced shortfalls leading to interconnect - wide blackouts.»

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.

Continental Europe boasts the world's largest synchronous electricity grid — energy flows freely across the borders of 25 countries, at a fixed frequency of 50 Hz that is maintained by close coordination between the region's power companies.

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 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.

The material is a member of a family of copper - oxygen - based superconducting compounds - the cuprates - that are prime candidates for numerous potential high - impact applications, including extremely efficient electricity generation, storage, and transmission across the nation's power grid.

But there are more radical moves being considered, like the plan to build a giant set of batteries that will store electricity for use at times when supplies across the grid are low.

Reactive now partners with a number of companies, including the French hypermarket chain Carrefour, to balance supply and demand across national electricity grids.

In Kubuqi, the meaning of «desert» has been redefined: flocks of sheep and cattle are grazing amidst solar panels that pump electricity into the power grid, plentiful local organic produce is supplied across China and the wonder of barren land turned into a fruitful garden attracts many visitors from afar.

Reposting this big news from Solar Love: Herman Trabish of Greentech Media has happened across a pretty interesting find — 97 % of new electricity generation capacity in line to be added to the California grid in the second half (2H) of 2012...

Herman Trabish of Greentech Media has happened across a pretty interesting find — 97 % of new electricity generation capacity in line to be added to the California grid in the second half (2H) of 2012 is from solar power projects.

Most utility companies across the country have net metering programs to credit solar system owners for feeding solar electricity to the power grid, when the system is generating more than the home consumes at the time.

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.

Wind energy will be an important player in cleaning electricity grids in Alberta and Saskatchewan and across Canada clean electricity grids will be needed for reducing fossil fuel use in other sectors through electrification and in the United States through clean energy exports.

For CanWEA and the wind energy sector, the challenge will be to get the message across that our industry is ready to meet the demand for more clean, reliable and cost - competitive renewable power, without compromising the needs of the electricity grid.

Most homes use electricity, which is generated from a mix of fuel sources before being transmitted and distributed across the electric grid.

Directs FERC to: (1) adopt, within a year, national electricity grid planning principles derived from such policy to be applied in transmission planning that may implicate interstate transmission of electricity; (2) encourage regional planning entities to cooperate and coordinate across regions and harmonize regional electric grid planning with planning in adjacent or overlapping jurisdictions; (3) seek to ensure that planning is consistent with the national electricity grid planning principles; (4) require regional planning entities to submit initial regional electric grid plans within 18 months of FERC promulgating such principles and to update such plans every three years; and (5) report to Congress within three years on the results of the initial regional grid planning process.

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.

Moving to the highly efficient gas - electric hybrids with a plug - in capacity, combined with the construction of thousands of wind farms across the country, feeding electricity into a national grid, will give us the energy security that has eluded us for decades.

He championed replacing older power grids with a national electric grid that could easily ferry electricity from solar and wind farms across the country.

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.

To achieve this, China should deepen interconnections between the Chinese electricity grid and neighbors Japan and South Korea across the East China Sea.

According to Inhabitat, off - grid solar could help make electricity accessible to communities across Myanmar, as traditional alternative power sources like diesel generators are far too expensive for poverty - stricken areas in the country.

Now an investigation by two Environment & Energy (E&E) reporters has traced a network of industry fronts and astroturf grassroots organizations spreading across the southeastern United States, all united in attacking state laws or regulatory or other efforts to make rooftop solar panels economical to use by allowing customers to sell any surplus electricity back to the grid.

This American study details just why increasing wind power capacity — and trying to incorporate its wildly fluctuating output into a coal and gas fired grid — results in increased CO2 emissions across the electricity sector.

With falling battery prices, lowered feed - in tariffs and increasing electricity rates across Europe, it has become increasingly attractive to raise the share of self - consumption of the photovoltaic electricity generated on the homeowners» roof rather than sell it to the grid.

Every village in India now has some form of access to electricity whether it be through an on or off - grid solution, according to prime minister Narendra Modi, however, there are still millions of households across India, both urban and rural, without access to electricity.

Because the electric grid crosses state, and country, lines, there's a lot of export and import of electricity across state lines.

The grid is a network of power plants and transmission lines that work together to deliver electricity to consumers across the U.S. Because electricity is always in demand, the grid is constantly operating, and grid operators carefully manage its energy output to meet demand by turning power plants on and off.

What critics of renewable energy don't understand is that electricity systems operate as grids — networks of transmission lines that draw power from several sources across a region and then redistribute that power.

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

In contrast, Jacobson et al. [Jacobson MZ, Delucchi MA, Cameron MA, Frew BA (2015) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 112 (49): 15060 — 15065] argue that it is feasible to provide «low - cost solutions to the grid reliability problem with 100 % penetration of WWS [wind, water and solar power] across all energy sectors in the continental United States between 2050 and 2055», with only electricity and hydrogen as energy carriers.

Iggy is evidently going to cover «common concerns about energy issues, from improving the shared electricity grid to constructing natural gas pipelines that can easily flow fuel across the border.

National Grid is responsible for balancing the supply of electricity from all sources across the grid to match demand and generators will sometimes be required to reduce output as part of that process.

But grid operators in Germany have to go to great lengths to balance asymmetric production of green electricity across their networks.

For example, transactions across smart electricity grids can be authenticated and paid for through the blockchain.