Sentences with phrase «electricity network»

Now that we depend on electricity networks and are subject to the far - reaching lights of public places and other people, we have lost personal control over light — and of dark.

These countries also share experience with technical and policy issues related to the integration of renewables into existing electricity networks.

The wireless charger is plugged into the main electricity network and can be placed on a dresser or bedside table.

Their research showed that the number of regions with a vulnerable electricity network due to water availability will increase significantly by 2030.

While coal looks like a worse bet, copper and uranium have a role in clean electricity networks.

It seems like there should be many more studies, especially given the increase in wind penetration of electricity networks in Germany, UK and Ireland.

(An article by Michael Liebrich of Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) earlier this year looked at the policy options for integrating higher amounts of renewables into electricity networks in a cost competitive way.)

Australian Securities Exchange — May 20, 2016 2015 was a year of celebrations for Spark, winning a 15.01 % equity stake in New South Wales electricity network company TransGrid and a successful A$ 405.4 million entitlement offer to fund the deal.

Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks, which provides power to 3.8 million people across northern Scotland and parts of central England, said it had restored energy to 18,000 homes since midnight.

HCWH says that while a $ 315 billion investment stimulus package announced by the EU in late 2014 is likely to help modernise electricity networks and build greater energy efficiency, Brussels needs to put more resources into making sure energy savings projects are properly implemented and monitored.

One attendee alluded to the recent failure of the capacity market auctions to foster significant levels of storage deployment before asking what specific incentives might be applied to storage as a flexibility resource for electricity networks.

Electricity storage could be the «glue» that holds electricity networks together in the near future, according to UK politician Alan Whitehead MP, speaking at a parliamentary reception held to launch a new report published by the Electricity Storage Network.

A large - scale energy storage system aimed at integrating renewables into electricity networks has been completed on the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i, paired with the state's biggest PV array to date.

Europe's integrated electricity network is getting back on track after a bizarre and unprecedented episode that caused clocks across the region to run at a delay of around six minutes.

Solar Bankers has announced plans for a decentralized electricity network, allowing consumers to freely produce and trade clean energy using proprietary energy - generating devices.

Electrify.asia aims to build a better electricity network, and it starts with an intelligent energy ecosystem.

Productivity Commission (PC), Electricity networks regulatory frameworks, Inquiry report no. 62, PC, Melbourne, 9 April 2013.

«Tackling parts of the system in isolation, for example improving electricity network management and retrofitting buildings, will help, but the real challenge for engineers will be to find new ways to plan and manage the integrated system.

Now in its fourth round of awards, ARPA - E allocated $ 156 million to 60 projects grouped in five focus areas: Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO), Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies for Energy (REACT), High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS), Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) and Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (Solar ADEPT).

Innovative and cost - effective energy storage solutions will add great value to energy users and electricity network operators alike,» Solafrica Energy project director Nasi Rwigema said.

The wind farm will have a capacity of 7.2 MW and will connect to the existing 22 kV electricity network in the area.

The release named «Electricity Network transformation Roadmap: Final Report» also details how individual households could save AU$ 414 every year on average by combining solar and batteries.

Ergon Energy, which operates the sprawling, regional electricity network that covers 97 per cent of Queensland, has suggested that within the next decade renewables and battery storage will be cheaper for domestic consumers than grid power.

Utilities play an important role in improving access but RISE shows that many utilities in the developing world are not creditworthy and struggle to make the investments needed to expand electricity networks to the unserved.

These collective links would create a nationwide fiber optic, natural gas and electricity network bundled together over common rights of way.

b)-- There are several electricity networks in the US, and they are not interconnected.

Linking up the Northern Territory to Australia's states would create a nationwide electricity network.

The research topics include but are not limited to designing control algorithms for buildings and electricity network systems, and optimizing and implementing control strategies for the House Zero project.

The S2S4E project will create an operational climate service that will enable renewable energy producers and providers, electricity network managers and policy makers to design better informed strategies at sub-seasonal to seasonal time scales.

Electricity networks form the backbone of reliable and affordable power systems and also significantly support the inception of renewable generation.

At a recent London event hosted by UK storage manufacturer Moixa Technology, academic Jonathan Radcliffe of the University of Birmingham talks through some of the benefits — and barriers — to storage in the UK, as well as the wider implications for adding flexibility to electricity networks with batteries and related technologies.

The GEI is focused on electricity network interconnection, mainly because of breakthroughs in interconnection technologies.

The hydrogen storage capacity of the SuperGrid, combined with fuel cells, may allow electricity networks to shift to a delivery system more like oil and gas, away from the present, costly, instant matching of supply to demand.

Worldwide about 1.2 billion people have no access to electricity and 1 billion more have access only to unreliable electricity networks.

*** Electricity network in «uncharted territory» as blackouts loom The Telegraph Andrew Critchlow 5 September 2015 As Britain loses one more power station, experts argue the grid has been left too exposed.

UKERC, 2006: The costs and impacts of intermittency: An assessment of the evidence on the costs and impacts of intermittent generation on the British electricity network.

Representing Enexis, a Dutch electricity grid operator, in appeal court proceedings against 27 municipalities as well as the provinces of Groningen and Drenthe in a case concerning the property rights of the low voltage electricity network in and above the territory of these municipalities / provinces.

Overhead Line Inspector (514865) Location: Inverness Salary: # 17,900 - # 19,990 depending on skills and experience Permanent — Full Time Hours (39 hr week) Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks...

For most users, the choice of small wind is colored by financial necessity: They live off the grid, and hooking into the main electricity network would be prohibitively expensive.

Arguably, none of the Texas wind story would have been written, however, if the state had not essentially walled itself off from the rest of the nation's electricity networks in the New Deal.

To use one of the CRTC's favourite analogies, think of the electricity network.

The state government will lay underground power lines in areas of the South West after the Yarloop bushfire racked up a $ 26 million damage bill to the region's electricity network.

While it's true that Notley won with the Alberta Tory dynasty and other opposition parties crumbling all around her, the Alberta NDP platform for 2015 had blanched out many past pledges to slash university tuition fees, regulate the electricity network or tightly control the pace of oil sands expansions.

«The doors of the cathedral and 43 windows and doors have to be replaced, holes need to be filled, fuel tanks and water tanks need repairing, as does the electricity network, a car was damaged,» he said.

Ends Notes to editors: A European Supergrid is an electricity network that could connect generators and consumers from as far apart as Norway down to North Africa.

We explain out to our traders in the informal sectors that these same taxes are used for social good like road network, portable water and electricity network.

Distributed generation creates power on a smaller scale at locations throughout the electricity network.

Solar Power has been going strong in Hawaii in recent years, so much so it has revealed some issues in the State's electricity networks.