Sentences with phrase «grid electricity because»

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And more is needed to protect overseas bases, which are vulnerable because other countries» civilian electricity grids are as vulnerable as those in the U.S.

The overall total impact is difficult to measure because it depends what acts people do and where they are located in the US (the electricity grid varies by region).

NRG, Reliant and Brookfield can plan on earning big profits in New York because of the way the state's power grid buys electricity, Norlander said.

We waste, I think, something like eight percent of our electricity in New York state alone just because of a faulty electric grid.»

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Flow batteries are particularly suited for grid - level electricity storage because they can be scaled up easily.

Because Georgetown's electricity grid is managed by a regional entity, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the city is well - positioned for 100 percent renewable electricity, Edgar said.

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.

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.

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.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

The reality is that many of those people, and millions of others like them throughout the developing world who have NO access to electricity, will NEVER have access to fossil - fuel - fired electricity because no one is ever going to build the centralized power plants and the grid to deliver electricity to them.

Progressive utilities are assisting customers to the extent they can with these systems, because incrementally capitalizing grid tie can be attractive compared to capitalizing monolithic generation plants and because they do not demand an ongoing input of money for the electricity they generate.

They do in some areas of the country — I'd love to get on time - of - day billing, I know some solar people who pay nothing for electricity because they time - shift their usage from the grid, and I have the software to do precisely that, just don't have the incentive because TXU Energy ain't paying.

Off - grid solar is already providing electricity to communities in rural Africa, India, the Caribbean and elsewhere who will never get access to grid power from nuclear or any other form of large, centralized generation, because the resources to build either the grids or the giant power plants do not exist, nor do those communities have the wealth to purchase grid power.

Here's a look at the world's biggest blackout and India's underlying energy challenge by someone who works to bring electricity to the hundreds of millions of Indian citizens for whom the grid failures are an abstraction because they were never on the grid to begin with.

Microgrids powered by photovoltaics and / or wind turbines are bringing electricity to communities in the developing world who will never get it any other way, because they have no «national grid».

Because these generators must ramp up and down to balance the electricity grid, they are working at less than full capacity.

The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.

One of the reasons Ohio's nuclear plants are going bankrupt is because they — as reliable, 24/7 producers of power — are literally forced to pay the high cost of the grid absorbing electricity coming from wind turbines that have been heavily - subsidized for a quarter - century.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

Because German law requires renewable energy to be used first on the German grid, when Germany exports excess electricity to its European neighbors it primarily comes from coal plants... «If you want to use fluctuating renewable power, you have to upgrade the grids across Europe,» says Daniel Genz, a policy adviser with Vattenfall.

That's happening because even if there are times when renewables can supply nearly all of the electricity on the grid, the variability of those sources forces Germany to keep other power plants running.

Because sunlight is readily available almost everywhere and doesn't require fuel or a connection to a power grid (an interconnected network used to deliver electricity from suppliers to consumers), solar power is particularly useful for supplying power to remote areas and to some portable devices.

Annual water requirements of a PHES - supported 100 % renewable electricity grid would be much less than the current fossil fuel system, because wind and PV do not require cooling water.

Adding more wind energy to the electricity grid makes the system more affordable and reliable because wind has no fuel cost and delivers valuable services that make the grid more resilient.

of providing electricity, because the grid operator already makes some adjustments to make up for extra costs an inflexible generator has.

«We commend PJM, the largest grid operator in the U.S., for recognizing the importance of fuel security because it is the foundation for a reliable and resilient electricity grid.

If your solar array produced enough electricity, your bill could theoretically reach zero because excess solar electricity exported to the grid during the day could cover your power usage at night when solar is not producing.

Wind farms have the life of a parasite because they freeload themselves onto existing grids paid by conventional efficient energy, need subsidies and drain electricity from the grid when it is too cold.

25 - 30 years ago (sorry, don't have an exact figure), the electricity authority (Gov run) was called «Hydro - electric» — because at the time ALL the electrical generation for the grid came from hydro sources.

Wind generation in 2013 could have been even higher, by an estimated 10 percent, but for the problem known as curtailment — when wind turbines are stopped because the grid can not handle any more electricity.

Evidently the electricity can't benefit locals because it's not usable until it can be added to the grid.

It doesn't have to, because electricity from solar all goes into one big grid.

Parker Gallant and Scott Luft have both looked at the report from the Independent Electricity System Operator or IESO, and found that not only was demand at an all - time low that month (the lowest since the IESO began keeping records) but also that curtailed wind power (power we pay the wind power developers for, but do not accept on the grid because it isn't needed) was at an all - time high.

Because although the wind farm will soon be ready to generate electricity, it won't be able to start doing so because of a lack of infrastructure to transport the electricity to the mainland and feed it into thBecause although the wind farm will soon be ready to generate electricity, it won't be able to start doing so because of a lack of infrastructure to transport the electricity to the mainland and feed it into thbecause of a lack of infrastructure to transport the electricity to the mainland and feed it into the grid.

He provided a specific example of how renewables were sidelined, noting that «there was abundant wind power available in Hokkaido that went undeveloped because the electricity company claimed it did not have sufficient grid capacity».

You see, it works like this, because of an unreliability of grid power, because it saves money on electricity bills, or because there is no electricity grid, people purchase point of use solar.

Because the electric grid crosses state, and country, lines, there's a lot of export and import of electricity across state lines.

The grid is a network of power plants and transmission lines that work together to deliver electricity to consumers across the U.S. Because electricity is always in demand, the grid is constantly operating, and grid operators carefully manage its energy output to meet demand by turning power plants on and off.

Electricity grids are designed to handle variability in both demand and supply because there is no such thing as a «perfectly reliable» form of energy.

Because despite adding considerable electricity generation capacity in the last decade, India's energy supply is still not meeting its huge growing demand, and a lack of supply and infrastructure issues means the price of grid electricity is rapidly rising.

Being able to deliver cheaper electricity some of the time and with favorable rules requiring the grid to accept that electricity just shifts the cost burden to established utilities that can't maintain margins because they are forced to idle when the wind is blowing or the sun is shinning.

Not only were these studies out of date, I argued, because they used grid data from 2010 (despite radical changes in our electricity mix since then), but they also looked at driving emissions only — not offering a cradle - to - grave analysis of cars» true emissions.

Sounds like a win / win for both buyers and the local grid, because not only can the solar array be used to charge the LEAF directly during the day, which helps to reduce peak demand, but because the new LEAF includes a vehicle - to - home (V2H) feature, sometimes referred to as a vehicle - to - grid (V2G) system, it could potentially act as an electricity buffer by acting as a giant «personal» battery.

Most people who install solar panels don't want to go completely off grid (it's more expensive because of the extra batteries required), so how easily they can connect to the grid and how fairly they are compensated for the extra electricity they send back is important.

Because supplies of wind and solar power vary, «smart» electricity grids have been developed to store and deliver energy more efficiently.

And because solar panels have zero marginal cost — once they are installed and paid off, they generate power for free — grid operators take their electricity instead of resorting to more expensive «peaker» natural gas plants.

Again, fact is that thinfilm PV modules do not use energy intensive manufacturing methods and if one produces lots of them, the fossil fuel portion in the electricity grid will obviously be reduced, because most people actually install PV modules on roofs to produce electricity and not in their basements for fun.