Sentences with phrase «future national grid»
Stabilizing a future national grid that draws the majority of its power from renewable sources may seem like a tall order for a technology that delivers megawatts, not gigawatts, of power as it is used today, but some industry insiders are confident batteries can rise to the challenge.
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The research appeared online this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in an article titled, «Strategic siting and regional grid interconnections key to low - carbon futures in African countries.»
«These results can affect how future service areas are defined and where new substation capacity within the national grid may need to be located,» Allen said.
It forms the epicenter of the new Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Institutional Computing program which started in October 2011 and is already working to incorporate computational science into a number of different green - minded lab projects focused on how future power grids could operate, and designing better batteries for energy storage.
A future hydrogen economy could use the gas as an energy carrier As this method doesn't produce oxygen which needs to be kept separate from hydrogen, safety from explosion of the two gases is much less of a problem with electricity in the national grids carried by ageing cables, it would be useful to replace them by passing the hydrogen along gas pipes used currently for natural methane gas.
«Existing power grids designed and often managed for conventional power production in a national scope are suboptimal for a future where supply from renewable sources will become ever more important and where balancing is needed to compensate for their inherent variability.»
Eight national business groups representing the diverse spectrum of renewable energy technologies released a first - of - its - kind joint statement outlining a positive vision for the future of America's power grid.
-- Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Commission shall adopt, after notice and opportunity for comment, national electricity grid planning principles derived from the Federal policy established under subsection (a) to be applied in ongoing and future transmission planning that may implicate interstate transmission of electricity.
At national workshops on the future of the grid various scenario's around skewed assumptions on future resources are developed and discussed.
I'll summarize Dr. Finkel's real position as this: renewables are the immediate future and Australia must ensure that renewables are integrated into the national grid so that everyone benefits, not just the wealthy who can, and are, taking care of themselves.
The national grid and the future development of it, is the most important issue in the potential future of EVs.