Sentences with phrase «for power grid operators»

The August 21 eclipse cut a path across the US, causing concern for power grid operators — especially those with significant amounts of solar power generation.

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.

Renewable energy accounted for 103.6 percent of mainland electricity consumption last month, the report by the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association and the Sustainable Earth System Association said citing data from power grid operator REN.

Siemens monitors its own systems and provides plant security services, cybersecurity services for utilities and power grid operators, and virus protection for tomographs and other imaging products.

For example, advanced sensors are providing unprecedented real - time information on power flows that grid operators are using to monitor system stability.

If the index rises to 4 (on a 1 - 9 scale), auroras are likely and an alert is issued, a handy heads - up for power grid and satellite operators, as well as aurora chasers.

That massive impulse blacked out the entire power grid in Quebec in 92 seconds, giving operators «no time to even assess what was happening to the power system, let alone provide any meaningful human intervention,» said John Kappenman, author of a January 2010 report by Metatech Corp. prepared for Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

If the pattern can be unraveled completely, it could give hours or even days of warning to telecommunications companies, electric power grids, and satellite operators to prepare for these dangerous storms.

«To operate the grid more efficiently and keep fossil reserves at a minimum, operators need to have a better idea of how much wind and solar power to expect at any given time,» says Malte Siefert, a physicist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology in Kassel, Germany, and a leader on the project, called EWeLiNE.

Eventually, the idea is for grid operators to use the power forecast to guide these requests.

While investment in China's power grid has risen substantially, the country still has some of the world's highest curtailment rates for renewable energy, meaning thousands of turbines are taken offline, even under optimum wind conditions, because grid operators lack the knowledge and skills to integrate the clean energy with other sources, including baseload power from coal plants.

The sudden loss of electricity supply forced grid operators to cut power to some offices and factories for several hours to prevent statewide blackouts.

Grid operators who want to know how much wind or solar power the grid can handle look first to Texas for answers.

We look forward to engaging with FERC, DOE, and grid operators in an examination of what resilience of the electric power system means and requires, and to demonstrating the contribution of our industries to ensuring reliable power for all.»

While the DOE's reasoning for linking fuel stores to grid resiliency has been widely criticized for its vagueness and gaps in logic, its idea for a solution is clear: «full cost recovery» for those power plants now playing by the rules of the energy and capacity markets run by interstate grid operators serving about three - quarters of the country.

For more than two decades, power companies and grid operators have met pollution control limits for sulfur dioxide and other pollutants by ramping up cleaner generation and ramping down dirty generation, using both smokestack pollution controls and pollution reduction crediFor more than two decades, power companies and grid operators have met pollution control limits for sulfur dioxide and other pollutants by ramping up cleaner generation and ramping down dirty generation, using both smokestack pollution controls and pollution reduction credifor sulfur dioxide and other pollutants by ramping up cleaner generation and ramping down dirty generation, using both smokestack pollution controls and pollution reduction credits.

On a commercial basis, German energy storage provider Sonnen has already launched SonnenCommunity, an energy sharing and trading platform and has separately worked with grid operator TenneT to trial Blockchain - enabled balancing of renewable energy resources across long distances, for instance trading surplus wind generated power in northern Germany for solar generated in the south.

For example, FERC can bolster distribution - level efforts by implementing policies that require grid operators to plan transmission among grid regions, allowing them to share power more easily and strengthening grid resilience.

ERCOT, the grid operator for most of the state, said there should be enough power to go around this summer, even with less room for error.

According to a recent Wall Street Journal op - ed, this is so generous that during hours of low demand wind producers actually pay grid operators to accept their power, just to get the tax break (which can be «carried forward» and used against future tax liabilities for up to 20 years).

-- Not later than 3 months after the date of adoption by the Commission of national electricity grid planning principles pursuant to paragraph (1), entities that conduct or may conduct transmission planning pursuant to State, tribal, or Federal law or regulation, including States, Indian tribes, entities designated by States and Indian tribes, Federal Power Marketing Administrations, transmission providers, operators and owners, regional organizations, and electric utilities, and that are willing to incorporate the national electricity grid planning principles adopted by the Commission in their electric grid planning, shall identify themselves and the regions for which they propose to develop plans to the Commission.

The PJM independent system operator (ISO) said there is no imminent danger to the grid when it was asked about the First Energy bankruptcy filing and First Energy's request of FERC for cost recovery for its nuclear and coal - fired power plants.

In acooperation between IBM, German transmission system operator, TenneT, and battery supplier, sonnen, decentralised home storage systems are being integrated into the power grid with a blockchain for the first time.

For rooftop solar to be economically feasible, the owner / operator of a panel needs to be able to sell the power (or excess power) to the electric utilities running the grid.

For significant overfrequency (like power going south and the DC tripping), the grid operators are using a station trip at Te Mihi, rather than just governors backing the load off.

Twenty power companies including Germany's biggest utilities, EON SE and RWE AG, now get fees for pledging to add or cut electricity within seconds to keep the power system stable, double the number in September, according to data from the nation's four grid operators.

Because transmission and distribution grids that operators of power transmission and distribution develop systematically as their equipment formation will serve as infrastructure for the whole of society.

ABB has won an order worth more than $ 30 million from Norway's transmission system operator Statnett for two substations that will strengthen grid reliability and boost power supplies

With that in mind, the main Texas grid operator ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) reported that it had achieved an instantaneous output of 10,296 MW for wind power at 8:48 on the night of March 26.

It's a reduction in demand for the power supplied by the grid operator's power plants — a somewhat predictable reduction, but not a controllable one.

But determining just which afternoon hours are truly the most expensive for the state's power generators, grid operators, utilities and customers is a complex undertaking.

Wind power is attractive for its lack of emissions and low operating costs, but its intermittency and sudden changes in production create challenges for grid operators and planners.

In regard to the amount of power a particular wind farm will supply to the grid at any time: «wind farm operators... estimate the wind farms energy output one hour in advance for each 5 minute period of supply.

But many states and regional transmission organizations and grid operators are already planning for a future with less coal, and are turning to increased transmission for wind and gas - fired power plants to demand response to meet future demand.

In 2012, the continuing SONGS closure put pressure on the electric power grid operator, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), to adjust both generation and transmission in order to meet summer demand for electricity, and in general, continues to change the generation profile in the area.

Northern Powergrid, one of the six distribution network operators (DNOs) responsible for delivering power across regions of the UK, is to plough # 1.9 million (US$ 2.53 million) into the creation of a smart energy grid across its network, allowing its eight million customers to trade power and services using their home solar, battery systems and electric vehicles (EVs).

Photo: Michael Graham Richard Well, it Depends... Not All Megawatts Are Created Equal Power grid operators are looking at the coming wave of plug - in vehicles and trying to figure out what it will mean for them.

And because solar panels have zero marginal cost — once they are installed and paid off, they generate power for free — grid operators take their electricity instead of resorting to more expensive «peaker» natural gas plants.

... The Market for Electricity is Rigged... The preferential dispatch system used by many RTO / ISO grid operators favors wind and solar to the exclusion of critical baseload power from fossil fuel and nuclear power plants.

When grid operators tell power stations to limit production, they must compensate them for the power they would have been paid for supplying (minus expenses the power plants save on fuel)

The need for investment in the grid is evident from the increasing number of grid interventions to balance intermittent power supply from renewable energy installations, which cost grid operator TenneT, for example, nearly 1 billion euros in 2017, he writes.

«Utilities, grid operators and policymakers are recognizing that CSP provides clean, reliable and flexible power — all necessary components for a diverse and affordable energy mix.»

With increasingly more competitive choices available to consumers, there is a growing recognition among power buyers, grid operators and regulators that new metrics are needed to help lead to more informed decision - making for the benefit of all energy consumers.