Sentences with phrase «electricity over a grid»

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.

Not exact matches

In what the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission called «the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred,» the attacker - who may have been an insider - fired about 100 rounds of.30 - caliber rifle ammunition into the radiators of 17 electricity transformers over the course of 19 minutes.

Andreasen described the big cables as «critically important for the electricity grid» by connecting regions and countries with one another, enabling the trade of energy over borders.

The idea is that when grid electricity rates are high, a building can switch over to using the batteries for power as a way to lower monthly energy bills.

The current electricity providers and the electricity grid have failed a number of times over the extremely hot summer, leaving the entire state without power.

«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.

Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

Energy regulators in the state are battling utility companies over net metering, which is the process through which solar customers get a credit for a certain amount of electricity that they send back to the grid.

The Palestinian Authority will pay Israel Electric NIS 915 million and take over management of its grid through Palestinian electricity supplier PETL.

The hub would integrate solar rooftop panels, be connected to the smart electricity grid to provide grid balancing and auxiliary services, and produce net economic benefits estimated at $ 1.35 million per year over 20 years.

It used to be that electricity was carried almost exclusively from big power plants over transmission lines, dumped into distribution grids, and then dumped into buildings, to be used by relatively dumb appliances.

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.

«As more and more renewable electricity gets put on the grid over time, you're going to have [surplus] issues.

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.

Over time the numbers should average out so that there is no net electricity drawn from the power grid.

A new survey of consumer attitudes released today by Accenture indicates that U.S. consumers are more interested in smart grid applications that save them money and automate the management of their electricity use, rather than giving them direct control over heating, cooling and appliances as prices fluctuate during the day.

According to reports released over the past 6 months, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Southern Company have successfully deployed networks of distributed power flow control devices to relieve stress on the nation's electricity grid.

$ 150 billion over ten years, including workforce training, plug - in hybrids, renewable electricity, advanced biofuels, advanced coal technology, nuclear power, and smart grid

The companies know nearly precisely when and how much electricity consumers need over the course of the day — but they know only approximately how much photovoltaic systems and wind farms will feed into the grid.

The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids: due to low power requirements it can be powered by cheap local solar power.

''... Under the average U.S. electricity grid mix, we found that producing a midsize, midrange (84 miles per charge) BEV typically adds a little over 1 ton of emissions to the total manufacturing emissions, resulting in 15 percent greater emissions than in manufacturing a similar gasoline vehicle.

And in fact, I do think it would be a good idea for the billions of people all over the world who have never had access to electricity to have access to cheap, efficient, mass - produced off - grid solar power — power they can generate for themselves, without being beholden to big utilities.

Converting an existing fossil fuel grid completely to renewable electricity is calculated to cost between 1 — 2 % of a countries gdp, if spread over 20 years.

As the Nobel Committee notes in its press release: «The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids.»

We will be ramping up the grid anyway over the next few years and so we should plan for the requirements for an electricity based vehicle transportation system.

In Germany, anyone can sell solar generated electricity to the grid at 20 % over their cost of electricity.

Non-hydro renewables have not managed to do so to date in any large electricity grid, (hydro can not help; its capacity growth is limited so it will decrease its share of global electricity generation over future decades).

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There is one large pan-European grid in which electricity flows backwards and forwards over their borders all of the time.

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.

Over the last three decades, according to the World Bank, China has achieved universal access to electricity — 600 million people have been lifted out of poverty and connected to the 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.

That's over ten times greater than the capacity of Australia's electricity grid 8.

This WRI / WBCSD report explains how to quantify reductions in greenhouse gas emissions resulting from projects that either generate or reduce the consumption of electricity transmitted over power grids.

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.

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.

Participants are paid a guaranteed price over a 20 - year term (40 years for waterpower projects) for the electricity they produce and deliver to the province's electricity grid.

Montes notes that in the emerging age of dominant renewables, «access to and control over electricity grids will be the predominant determination of local, national and regional power.»

It has been over two weeks since Hurricane Maria made landfall there, yet much of the aid received is still trapped in shipping containers; its electricity grid is months from becoming functional, and more than half of Puerto Rico is still without drinking water.

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.

At the time of the eclipse, California's electricity grid, managed by California Independent System Operator (CaISO) will have over 10,000 megawatts (MWs) of commercially operated, grid - connected solar, an additional 5,800 MW of behind - the - meter rooftop solar, plus hundreds of additional solar MWs located in other states that participate in CaISO's Western energy imbalance market.

THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN Meanwhile, over the weekend, Senator Obama told a group of Democratic governors in Chicago, reports AP http://ap.google.com/­article/­ALeqM5jNlJOuGuTs5qgEuIws8f56V48hyAD91DVH680, that «he would invest $ 150 billion over the next 10 years to create green jobs, particularly in the automotive industry and to improve the electricity grid so people can drive plug - in hybrid vehicles.»

(In general, a FIT guarantees generators a certain price over a fixed term for the electricity they send to the grid.

China will continue its position as the world's largest installer of clean solar energy over the next five years as they address their very real mandates of reducing severe air pollution and upgrading electricity grid capacity to service their economy.

The aim of installing a solar power system for most people is to make a profit and provide for your electricity energy needs over the next 25 years in a more cost effective manner than relying just on grid power.

Germany and other EU countries are now building new brown coal fired stns to try and fix their electricity grids after wasting over 100 bn on S&W energy for a zero return.

Germany's network connects four grid companies to 1,315 utilities selling 200 billion euros of electricity a year over 1.1 million miles of lines.

Over 80 percent of this world - leading wind capacity is now feeding electricity to the grid.

Over 350 megawatts of offshore wind power were plugged into the grid in the first half of the year — all of it to complete the 400 - megawatt Anholt project, which is expected to meet 4 percent of Danish electricity needs.

They also decided that existing and small new renewable energy installations should keep their right to get priority over other, polluting energy sources on European electricity grids.