Sentences with phrase «full energy grid»

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Puerto Rico's notorious $ 300 million contract with Whitefish Energy to rebuild the power grid shows the potential danger of signing contracts without full competition.

The $ 300 million grid repair contract PREPA signed with Whitefish Energy, a tiny company that had only two full - time employees at the time, is a case in point.

A Montana energy company that had only two full - time employees when Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico has been tasked with restoring the power grid in the cash - strapped territory.

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.

A far better near - term choice is wind power, but both wind and solar begin to have another problem at scales at or above that which Clinton is discussing: Since solar panels and wind turbines can't currently work at full capacity 24 hours a day, they require huge advances in energy storage and grid capacity, as well.

Under SCE service area those looking to go solar will be able to receive full net metering with the retail power price when their system exports energy to the grid.

They are intended to maximise the energy output from the Hywind turbines by mitigating peaks and troughs in production, storing surpluses at times when the grid is at or near full capacity and unable to accept further injections of electricity.

NRG Energy is building a new gas plant that can be at full power in 10 minutes — a fast start time that will help firm up the power grid when intermittent renewable resources are not producing electricity.

Their main focus is rooftop solar power and their main fight is keeping «net energy metering» — the ability for solar users to get full credit for the energy they give back to the grid.

As California moves toward increasing renewable energy beyond the current requirement of 33 percent by 2020, the state's approach to managing the electricity grid needs to evolve to take full advantage of its low - carbon resources.

Reaching universal energy access at tier 5 (full grid power, all day, every day) by 2030 would require a five-fold increase in finance, to approximately $ 50 billion annually.

Although private investors are investing in long - distance high - voltage transmission lines, these need to be incorporated into a carefully planned national grid, the electrical equivalent of President Eisenhower's interstate highway system, in order to unleash the full potential of renewable energy wealth.

With today's energy mix, PHEVs running on electricity from the grid are nearly three times more efficient than NGVs on a «well - to - wheel» basis — that is, when considering the full life cycle of the energy source, from fuel extraction to combustion to vehicle propulsion.

What this means is that in periods (usually during the middle of the day) when your solar system is producing more power than your home is using, you are credited for the excess solar energy you feed back into the grid at the full retail rate of power.

German solar power plants produced a world record 22 gigawatts of electricity — equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity — through the midday hours of Friday and Saturday, the head of a renewable energy think tank has said... Norbert Allnoch, director of the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry in Muenster, said the 22 gigawatts of solar power fed into the national grid on Saturday met nearly 50 % of the nation's midday electricity energy think tank has said... Norbert Allnoch, director of the Institute of the Renewable Energy Industry in Muenster, said the 22 gigawatts of solar power fed into the national grid on Saturday met nearly 50 % of the nation's midday electricity Energy Industry in Muenster, said the 22 gigawatts of solar power fed into the national grid on Saturday met nearly 50 % of the nation's midday electricity needs.

GE's survey shows that the trust of consumers is gained when they have a full understanding of how the smart grid works and the potential it holds for solving some major problems with our overconsumption of energy.