Sentences with phrase «from grid electricity»

For more than 100 Indian villages cut off from grid electricity, life no longer comes to an end after dark thanks to an innovative solar - powered lantern that offers hope to the nation's rural poor.

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Building owners are also interested in buying batteries so that they can run buildings off of battery power when electricity rates from the power grid are high.

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).

Under her leadership, the company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal» by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.

Small - scale solar panels generate electricity more cheaply than buying from the grid in certain parts of the United States.

Alternatively, as has also been an issue in the context of the switch to smart electricity grids, where the transmission system owner remains part of a vertically integrated firm, it has an incentive to implement network upgrades in a manner that excludes third parties from the competitive segments.

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.

Since electricity generated from solar and wind flows into the grid, Google simply has to invest in enough turbines and solar panels to cover its total energy consumption to make good on its goal.

Residents of Puerto Rico are facing the reality that it may be months until the power grid is restored, and the problems of life without electricity range from the obvious (severed communications and no way to combat the oppressive heat) to the potentially catastrophic (parents unable to provide respiratory treatment for an infant with pneumonia).

Firms mining bitcoin have also taken to moving to remote locations, not registering a company and engaging in the mildly illegal activity of purchasing electricity directly from power producers rather than grid operators.

Instead, we should invest in an enhanced east - west electricity grid and bring in renewables from neighbouring provinces, while Alberta takes advantage of its huge potential in solar and wind.

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.

Alberta and Saskatchewan stand out in Canada with power grids still heavily reliant upon fossil fuels, but both recently released targets for significantly more electricity generation from renewable sources.

Police have reportedly arrested six individuals in Tianjin for mining bitcoin with electricity from the power grid — without paying for it.

The line is a key choke point for Puerto Rico's power grid, carrying electricity from generators in the south of the island to load centers in the north.

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.

Florida homeowners found out about this the hard way after Hurricane Irma, where the utility told residents with rooftop solar systems that they couldn't draw power from their panels while workers were restoring power due to the risks of sending errant electricity on the grid.

Responding to tight market conditions and the growing demand from automotive electrification and stationary grid storage of electricity, the price of cobalt has continued its ascent from US$ 10 / lb in early 2016 to more than US$ 40 / lb today.

We deliver photovoltaic panel installation without any investment from our clients to sell the client electricity below Chilean grid prices.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

The main argument against the plant's closing is that the state's power grid is inadequate to handle the extra electricity that would be needed from Upstate and Canada.

From there they were transported to a power station in the west, where they are now being connected to the power grid and soon ready to produce electricity.

«So this year, 2017, and 2018, a total of 660 communities in the Upper East will be connected to the electricity grid, to expand electricity access to all in the region,» he added, receiving a rousing applause from the gathering.»

Not only does this system reduce their electricity bought from the grid by 70 %, but it helps Bates Troy serve their customers even during power outages and shifts away from standard fossil fuels.

Peculiarities of the electricity system in New York State, including its unusual independent status, would make it difficult and expensive to replace electricity from the Indian Point nuclear power plant if Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo succeeds in shutting it down, experts on the grid warn.

According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce ethanol from sugarcane.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

Just how do we go about making our power grids smart and flexible enough to handle people generating their own electricity from renewable sources?

Rather than generating their own power via water wheels or electric dynamos, companies can now plug into the newly built electric grid and buy electricity directly from power stations.

With the United Kingdom, for one, aiming to get some 30 GW of electricity from wind farms in the North Sea within the next decade as part of its E.U. target to get 15 percent of its power — equivalent to about 40 percent of its electricity — from renewables by 2020, there are also proposals to build a giant subsea grid to bring that power ashore.

The shape even fed into the name — Solyndra — as well as promising half the installation cost in one third of the time, enabling «grid parity» (that is, a price competitive with electricity from fossil fuel — fired power plants) at some imminent date for the first time in the history of solar power.

EPRI assumes that by 2030, 10 million plug - in vehicles will be on the road, and smart grid technologies will permit plug - in vehicles not only to take recharging power from the grid, but to feed power back in from their batteries to help meet sudden changes in electricity demand.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

Researchers at Harvard, for example, are perfecting an organic flow battery that can store a full day's production of electricity from solar or wind farms, a development that could play a key role in integrating variable electrical generating sources into the grid.

Even if renewable energy goes mainstream, INL researchers still believe nuclear will be essential for supporting the electrical grid's base load — that portion of the nation's electricity that must be supplied at a constant rate, in contrast to the variable supplies from the sun and wind.

In effect, the college will be making more electricity from the sun than it needs and can send clean electricity back into California's grid.

In short, the analysis showed that storing solar energy today offers fewer environmental benefits than just sending it straight to the grid, because the energy lost to storage inefficiencies is ultimately made up with fossil - fuel electricity from the grid.

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

A new study aims to find out how much electricity from wind and sunshine the aging power grid can support

Micro-grids may not be the cheapest option in the long run, as electricity from small grids tends to be three or four times as expensive per unit than that from centralised sources.

Because storage affects what time of day a household draws electricity from the grid, it also influences emissions in that way.

This happens because a net - zero building may need to draw electricity from the grid to power its lights at night, for example, then returns that energy the next day, when its solar panels are most efficient.

Using electricity from the central power grid to run an energy - intensive electrolysis machine is expensive and inefficient.

WHEN Arab energy ministers met in Cairo in April, there was one thing at the top of their agenda — plans for a regional electricity grid that would stretch more than 5000 kilometres from Morocco in the west to the Gulf states in the east.

Public rail systems are harvesting and storing electricity from regenerative braking with the hope of making a profit on power sold back to the grid

And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.

After all, the 10 RGGI states are connected to a national grid for power that can allow, for example, cheaper, dirtier power from coal - fired power plants in Ohio to substitute for reduced electricity production at a coal plant in New York State.

Some people charge their battery electric cars by plugging into the power grid, which delivers electricity generated largely from carbon - emitting fossil fuels.

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.

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.