Sentences with phrase «grid demand»

It also reduces grid demand and provides buildings with backup power.

Solar energy storage reduces peak grid demand by 8 to 32 percent and the magnitude of solar power injections to the grid by 5 to 42 percent.

Their output won't necessarily match grid demand, and so either needs to be stored or wasted.

These supplies would be «topped up» by surplus intermittent power created during periods of low grid demand and stored instead of wasted.

Several of the scenarios involved potential worst case disruptions, such as the loss of major gas infrastructure or an outage at a nuclear power plant for an entire winter, and looked at whether the grid could continue to operate reliably in these conditions, with a particular focus on whether gas - fired power plants would be able to access the fuel needed to run and meet grid demands.

Energy trading will reduce peak levels through creating incentives and disincentives through the price mechanism for peaks and troughs in grid demand to occur.

The head of the DPS, Audrey Zibelman, has said the state needs more pipelines to meet electrical grid demand.

Scientists have grappled with ways to bank power from intermittent energy sources because municipal power grids demand a continuous flow.

-- The electricity grid demands normalcy.

It has now been reported that the cost of renewable energy plus battery storage is now comparable to, or actually cheaper than, the cost of the previously most economical form of the «peaking» power needed to compensate for sudden changes in electric grid demand or generation — natural gas.

The achievable add - on electricity price of $ 15 / MWh may be difficult to undercut profitably by increasing numbers of renewable energy providers, who instead will place their expectations in rising overall grid demand.

The success of the smart grid depends on being able to collect energy use information from all homes and businesses both to help users save energy and to help utilities to manage grid demand and respond to outages and other issues.

It is also focusing on energy saving initiatives — optimising the use of its ventilation fans with smart controls — which it says could also reduce grid demand by around 15 per cent.

The 6 × 7 grid demanded 70 terabytes, roughly 10,000 times that of a high - end PC.

The Plan also includes small - scale solar to reduce the grid demand during the daytime.