Sentences with phrase «energy electric grid»

While the California officials have been working overtime to approve solar power plants in time to meet a statewide renewable energy goal, its utility companies are faced with a slightly different task: How do we incorporate all of that renewable energy it our electric grid?

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission launched a six - month study today to determine how much renewable energy the electric grid can accommodate.

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In the emails, Clinton advisers discussed how to frame the candidate's «energy infrastructure» plan, which would call for replacing old pipelines, repairing rail tracks and improving the electric grid in a way that would appeal to labor unions, who had yet to endorse her at that stage.

As reported by Associated Press, the Serbian grid company EMS blamed Kosovo for «uninterruptedly withdrawing, in an unauthorized manner, uncontracted electric energy from the Continental Europe synchronous area.»

The new solar farm will provide power to Sierra Pacific Power Co.'s electric grid that serves Apple's data center and when completed will generate about hours 43.5 million kilowatt of clean energy a year, Apple said in a statement.

Programming when electric car chargers start charging and how home devices make use of energy from solar panels versus the grid are two examples he mentioned.

We need companies to invest and people to look at small grid power systems, combinations of wind and diesel, thermal energy, hydro electric energy things that can be tailored for these individual villages depending on their location.

A lot of money is earmarked for renewable energy projects but almost half has been allocated to energy efficiency and an electric smart grid.

Not only are fuel cells an eco-friendly option because they release almost no emissions, but they are also a self - contained, efficient and reliable source of energy, independent of the electric grid.

It loads up on energy from the sun and from the electric grid during off - peak hours.

Chicago - based Intelligent Generation, one of the startups the Smart Grid cluster supported, has created a software program that connects to the hardware of the electric grid and allows a home or business to capture solar energy, store the energy in batteries and release it to the grid when needed.

The ALEC draft document for this week's Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Task Force Meeting encourages state policymakers to recognize the value the electric grid delivers to all and to update net metering policies to require everyone who uses the grid, such as distributed solar users who feed into it, to pay for it.

Climate - friendly investments will proceed through the government's green infrastructure fund and its forthcoming infrastructure bank — but the budget also allocates dollars specifically to clean energy priorities like smart grids, energy storage, electric vehicle charging, stronger building codes, and moving remote communities off diesel.

«The budget also sets aside infrastructure dollars for clean energy, smart grids, energy storage and electric vehicle infrastructure — making sure those essential clean energy investments don't get lost among other priorities.

The 2017 budget pulled out $ 2.8 billion from the fund and earmarked some of that for clean energy priorities, including innovation in smart grids and energy storage, electric vehicle charging and adopting stronger building codes.

Smart Energy Instruments (SEI), a Toronto - based cleantech company with a unique solution to improve electric grid reliability, and Hitachi High - Technologies Corporation of Japan, today unveiled the first component of SEI's planned chipset product line for smart grid applications in an event at MaRS Discovery District.

«As for all electric vehicles, a grid emission factor of 0.5 g CO2 / Wh was also applied to the electric energy consumption.

The acquisition expands Mustang's exposure to the principal battery metals required for electric vehicles and the clean energy grid.

Meanwhile, a lot of the «clean energy» options (like hybrid / electric vehicles) still require the power grid, which — you guessed it — largely uses traditional energy sources (like natural gas).

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. --(April 6, 2016)-- Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has formed a strategic alliance with TransCanyon, LLC (TransCanyon), a joint venture between subsidiaries of Berkshire Hathaway Energy and Pinnacle West Capital Corporation, to jointly pursue competitive transmission opportunities solicited by the California Independent System Operator Corporation (CAISO), the operator for the majority of California's transmission grid.

Once the pipeline is complete, the Valley Energy Center will begin to reduce the region's overall emissions, protect and enhance the reliability of the region's electric grid, and start saving New York's energy consumers more than an estimated $ 600 million in electricity costs annually.&Energy Center will begin to reduce the region's overall emissions, protect and enhance the reliability of the region's electric grid, and start saving New York's energy consumers more than an estimated $ 600 million in electricity costs annually.&energy consumers more than an estimated $ 600 million in electricity costs annually.»

The comprehensive redesign and reconstruction will incorporate the latest hands - on interactive technologies and reflect the transformative changes occurring in New York State's electric power industry under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo from the increased use of clean renewable power resources, smart grid technologies and energy efficiency.

The Cuomo administration estimates the Clean Energy Standard, chiefly its nuclear subsidies, will add an average of $ 2 to residential electric bills, although the Empire Center calculated the standard would hike the average residential bill by more than $ 2.09 in 2018 and by $ 3.40 in 2021 from added supply costs alone; compliance with the standard will necessitate major changes to the electrical grid, which will separately drive up customer delivery charges as utilities are forced to accommodate intermittent generation from solar panels and wind turbines.

The credits would be paid to solar and wind companies, which would eventually add new clean energy sources to the state's electric grid.

The State, through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), awarded LIPA $ 6.7 million in Federal stimulus funding which will allow LIPA to connect the solar panels installed on the carports to the Long Island electric grid.

Awarded through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), $ 8.3 million in funding will support LIPA's Solar Pioneer program, which offers rebates to homeowners who install new residential grid - connected solar electric systems.

«Under such a scenario, PSEG, the New Jersey company that won the bidding to manage LIPA's electric grid starting in 2014, would be the outward face of LIPA, while other state agencies, such as the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency and the New York Power Authority, could take on renewable energy and power purchasing decisions,» the Newsday reportEnergy Research and Development Agency and the New York Power Authority, could take on renewable energy and power purchasing decisions,» the Newsday reportenergy and power purchasing decisions,» the Newsday report said.

In December 2009, the LIPA Board of Trustees approved power purchase agreements with BP Solar International Inc. and enXco Development Corporation, thereby creating the State's largest source of solar power on Long Island by introducing approximately 50MW of clean renewable energy generated on Long Island onto LIPA's electric grid.

In addition, LIPA and PSEG - Long Island — which manages LIPA's electric grid — are now seeking additional proposals for projects that would generate 280 MW more in renewable energy, including solar, natural gas and wind.

That certainly becomes true when we look beyond electric cars to an even more pressing energy problem: how to store electricity on the grid.

Smart electrical grids and energy storage options would allow utilities to operate more efficiently by helping them manage spikes in the demand for electric power.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

Entire electric grid The research is funded by the German Federal Ministry of the Environment and is aimed at showing that the entire electricity grid could be run on renewable energy.

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.

There, Ocean Power's sinuous, 450 - foot - long cherry - red steel snake, called Pelamis after a sea snake, pumps 11,000 AC volts into a grid at the European Marine Energy Centre, an innovative test bed that can offer the sort of apples - to - apples performance measures of sea generators that investors and electric utilities crave.

«Solar and wind farms should be able to provide around - the - clock energy for the electric grid, even when there's no sunlight or wind,» Cui said.

The state renewable energy standard requires electric companies to meet emissions targets by investing ratepayer money into programs that green the grid and electrify vehicles and buildings, or else pay into a state fund at the end of the year.

The Spy: Maggie Koerth - Baker, author of Before the Lights Go Out, a book about the electric grid and the future of energy in the United States.

Former Vice President Al Gore stood before a crowd of renewables investors, analysts and clean energy industry executives and declared the electric power grid in the U.S. as much of a technological dinosaur as landline telephones.

It takes lots of energy to build wind turbines and batteries for the electric grid.

Japan's electric utilities are putting the brakes on the country's fast - growing renewable energy sector as concerns mount that the addition of large amounts of solar power is creating oversupply problems for some regions while stressing the country's decentralized power grid.

Surplus power can be fed into the public grid as well as be used for charging the household electric vehicle,» explains Dominik Noeren, a scientist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg.

Now, demand response features allow electric utilities to adjust your thermostat during peak times to improve grid stability and shift energy demand.

In addition to grid applications, Natron Energy is promoting the technology for data centers» emergency power, and for heavy equipment such as electric forklifts, among other possible applications.

But as Kurt E. Yeager, former president of the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., points out, such standards «aren't worth the paper they're written on until we have a power system, a grid, that is capable of assimilating that intermittent energy without having to build large quantities of backup power, fossil - fueled, to enable it.»

With a Department of Energy grant awarded to General Motors, Bill Boyce, supervisor for electric transportation with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, said his utility modeled a few electric vehicle pricing schemes and found they were able to manage the impact of charging on the grid by educating their customers on the best time to charge.

If there is one thing stalling electric car development, preventing renewable energy sources from plugging into electricity grids and causing grief to smartphone users, it is poorly performing batteries.

BEIJING (Reuters)- Automakers» latest projections for rapid growth of China's green car market have added to concerns of worsening smog as the uptake of electric vehicles powered by coal - fired grids races ahead of a switch to cleaner energy.

They will discuss behind closed doors with representatives of industry and financial institutions topics from energy efficiency to electric vehicles, carbon capture and storage, the whole range of issues involving renewables, access to energy and smart grids.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry and his department want to tilt the playing field in the name of helping a supposedly frail electric grid