Sentences with phrase «existing utility grid»
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Under existing VOS program designs, solar customers continue to purchase all of their electricity from the grid at the utility's retail rate and receive credit for the solar electricity exported to the grid at the approved VOS rate.
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«Disagreements exist about whether recovery of a utility's smart grid costs should be restricted to the «traditional» rate - base method, or whether a «non-traditional» method... should be used.
If solar rooftop arrays became as ubiquitous in home design as chimneys, the U.S. grid could indeed cease to exist — an end to power lines, electrical substations and transformers atop equally archaic wooden utility poles.
The grid is just too far saturated with existing installations and the utility is worried about the stability of the power grid.
US utility Florida Light & Power (FPL) has followed up the US» first DC - coupled grid - scale battery system with the announcement of a solar - plus - storage project pairing 10MW / 40MWh of energy storage with an existing 74.5 MW PV plant.
Greater grid integration can be achieved through «strategically using demand response kinds of options,» «working with other utilities in the region to try to share the imbalances that exist» and «really trying to forecast.»