Sentences with phrase «grid at»

It's a bit like taking solar energy technology and creating your own electrical grid at home.

In the grid at the top you'll see that one of the choices is your desktop background image.

The need for precise predictions of how much power will be fed into the grid at any given moment is becoming increasingly important.

The project can interconnect to the California grid at the nearby Red Bluff substation, which is under construction and on schedule to be completed in December 2013.

And while the President lectures us about our sins against the planet, his EPA and other agencies embark on the project to impose penance on us by forcing the closure of coal and other fossil fuel power plants, blocking pipelines, bankrupting the coal mining industry, subsidizing intermittent power sources that can't possibly run a fully operational electrical grid at reasonable cost, and multiplying our cost of electricity by an order of magnitude or so.

Not only would a system like this allow power to be fed into the grid at times of low generation, but it could profitably divert wind - generated electricity from the grid at those times when there was excess generation.

Its Grid - Supply Option compensates DER owners for electricity their systems sell to the grid at $ 0.180 per kWh which is a «cost effective rate for all customers, but which nevertheless does not significantly lengthen the payback period.»

NV Energy in order meet their RPS quota are offering rebates to their solar customers alongside their net metering program crediting energy exported to the grid at 95 % the retail rate.

«Today we're proving that a virtual big battery can not only support the grid at times of peak demand, like the South Australian big battery but also empower consumers to take advantage of price spikes on the grid,» Spaccavento said.

Wind energy is a growing part of GRE's portfolio, he noted, and much of it often comes into the electric grid at night.

NV Energy also runs a net metering program valuing excess power sent to the grid at 95 % of the retail value.

Net metering credits unused solar generation sent to the grid at the retail rate for power.

Net metering requires utilities to credit unused solar generation sent to the grid at or close to retail value.

It is also easy for the customer to understand and it fairly compensates them for the electricity they provide to the grid at peak moments.»

Veterans interested in participating in the Troops to Solar training program, or low - income homeowners who would like more information about GRID's free solar energy assistance program can contact GRID at 951.272.4743 or [email protected].

This just highlights how it's important to electrify transportation and clean up the power grid at the same time.

... It is called demand response, and you can use it in ways that will ultimately make the grid work better and put more and more wind and solar and other renewables onto the grid at the same time.

The observed differences between their study and our assessment can further result from variations in the base data employed: Jongman et al. [73] used a finer resolution SRTM grid at 3 arc sec resolution but coarser resolution population density data at 5 arc min resolution and, as mentioned earlier, an older version of the UN's demographic data.

includes a gym, redundant power sources, zero emission mode, ability to run houseloads without generators running, ability to power the grid at a marina where facilities are available, and the gym equipment will charge the main batteries when in use.

Net metering for homeowners in Louisiana means that for every unit of surplus solar generated during the day you effectively get a credit for half a kilowatt hour of power purchased from the grid at another time.

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.

Each kWh of unused solar production offsets the cost of another kWh your home draws from the grid at night or on a cloudy day.

Net metering means that for every unit of surplus solar generation generated during the day you effectively get a credit for a kilowatt hour of power purchased from the grid at another time.

Net metering is, to me, an especially egregious form of subsidy in that it effectively pays «suppliers» a retail or even above retail rate for electricity while potentially wreaking havoc with the grid at great expense.

Solar owners could could also choose what's known as a «buy - all / sell - all» system, in which a solar owner would have to sell all his or her power to the grid at a to - be-determined rate set by PURA and buy back what he or she needs at the retail rate.

As such they are compensated for excess energy their solar array puts back on the grid at the same rate as what they pay for it.

The grid operators for the Mid-Atlantic and New England, PJM and ISO - New England (ISO - NE), procure such resources through mandatory auctions where providers bid on selling capacity to the grid at the auction's clearing price.

David Rivkin, Jr., a partner at Baker & Hostetler and a counsel for the state plaintiffs tomorrow, told the Federalist Society earlier this month that, in addition to eviscerating the Constitution, the CPP would «destroy states» existing energy economy,» thereby forcing them to massively reengineer the power grid at extremely high cost to consumers.

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.

Enter net energy metering (NEM), a policy in which utilities compensate producers of renewable energy at the retail rate for any excess production that flows back to the grid, allowing them to offset the cost of energy they draw from the grid at times when their system is not producing enough to cover their needs.

Net metering means that for every unit of surplus solar generation generated during the day you effectively get a credit for that kilowatt hour of power purchased from the grid at another time.

The duck curve shows a major drop in electric load in midday when solar hits its peak, swamping the grid at a period of low demand and potentially pushing net load below the point where older baseload plants can ramp down to compensate.

News showed that the storage systems shall support the grid at rated power output for 30 minutes, with a minimum cycle life of 5,000 cycles and a response time of no more than one second.

This net metering policy credits each kWh of unused solar generation exported to the grid at the same value as another kWh drawn from the grid.

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) customers in Brentwood are entitled to 1 for 1 net metering crediting each kWh of solar generation exported to the grid at the retail rate.

The proliferation of solar panels on homes also takes high - margin residential customers off the grid at peak hours.

Essentially a solar owner would have to sell all his or her power to the grid at a rate to be set by the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) and buy back what he or she needed at the retail rate.

A bunch of readings taken thousands of miles away during a different month tells us nothing useful as to what happened in the original grid at a different time of year under the circumstances Arnd describes.

Net metering means that for every unit of surplus solar generation (kWh) during the day you effectively get a credit for a kilowatt hour (kWh) of power purchased from the grid at another time.

They will choose to reduce their own consumption and dependence on the main grid at almost any cost.

«Based on these results, I can more confidently state that there is no technical or economic barrier to transitioning the entire world to 100 percent clean, renewable energy with a stable electric grid at low cost,» said Jacobson, who is also a senior fellow at the Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment.

The battery energy storage system will be used to keep South Australia's electrical infrastructure reliable, charging from the wind farm and discharging to the grid at times of peak and high demand.

Southern California Edison's net metering program values each kWh of excess solar generation sent to the grid at the retail power price.

Much of the generation on the grid at any one time is at or near full load.

They just put 377 megawatts of solar on grid at Ivanpah, which needs more than 8 hours of backup PLUS more for peaking morning and evening loads.

Barnes, in Queensland solar rooftop installations are not only heavily subsidised, their (highly variable) surplus electricity is fed back into the grid at an extremely high price, guaranteed for 20 years or so, causing a number of grid problems.

It's compounded by the fact that so many of India's citizens aren't on the grid at all (no count is precise, but the number is probably somewhere between 300 million and 400 million).

Net metering allows excess solar generation to be sold to the grid at the retail power rate.

Under net metering each kWh of unused solar generation is exported to the grid at the retail tariff rate.

Rocky Mountain Power value every kWh of energy exported to their grid at retail value under their net metering program available in Ogden.