Sentences with phrase «grid electricity needs»

As such, a flexible system can take into account vicissitudes not directly related to immediate grid electricity needs.

According to a 2011 report from the International Energy Agency, coal will be responsible for delivering half of the on - grid electricity needed to meet its energy for all scenario.

Not exact matches

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.

California's «NEM 2.0» policy has created a clear migration path to continue to allow solar customers to receive fair compensation for the solar power they produce even as the adoption of solar increases, and implicitly encourages the adoption of battery storage by assigning a higher value to electricity provided when the grid needs it most.

The system will store solar energy created during the day and feed it to the grid during the evening hours to help reduce the amount of diesel power generation needed to meet the island's electricity demand.

For specific industry applications with high organic loads, enough biogas can be generated to fully cover a production plant's energy needs and still have a biogas surplus to feed it into power generators and sell electricity to the national grid, often generating carbon credits, where these apply, as well as profit.

The main argument against the plant's closing is that the state's power grid is inadequate to handle the extra electricity that would be needed from Upstate and Canada.

In effect, the college will be making more electricity from the sun than it needs and can send clean electricity back into California's grid.

Worse, the diesel generators needed to power emergency cooling systems, and switching gear that connects the plant to the electricity grid and controls core cooling, were not in waterproof buildings.

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.

The U.S. electricity infrastructure is sorely in need of modernization; whatever our choice for generation, we must invest in a newer, more efficient electricity grid.

The concept permits the «consumer», who is generating heat or electricity for their own needs, to send their surplus electrical power back into the power grid or share excess heat via a distributed heating grid.

This would send more solar electricity into the grid — which, in turn, should further cut the need for fossil fuels.

As long as countries like China or the U.S. employ big grids to deliver electricity, there will be a need for generation from nuclear, coal or gas, the kinds of electricity generation that can be available at all times.

It could also be part of a solution for large cities that need ways to store surplus electricity from their electrical grids.

Not only would major new wind farms and photovoltaic arrays have to be constructed there, but the entire electric grid would have to be upgraded and reconfigured to bring that electricity to the population centers where it is needed.

Relying on electricity from the grid to power the hand means all the muscles and nerves need do is send the right signals to a prosthetic.

The companies know nearly precisely when and how much electricity consumers need over the course of the day — but they know only approximately how much photovoltaic systems and wind farms will feed into the grid.

This makes multiple - unit based SMR - 160 electricity supply more resistant to natural disasters or acts of sabotage, and eliminates the need and cost of building traditional grid infrastructures.

The less electricity you need to buy in from the grid, the lower your energy bills will be.

And unless you're planning on going «off - grid,» water and electricity need to be hooked up.

Sensors on the powerline monitor and gather data about local system activity and are fed back to our control centre for analysis and planning of Nova Scotia's future energy needs... As we add more renewable energy to the grid, batteries can provide the utility with more flexibility to reliably address peak electricity demand with stored energy.

Radio waves are actually just a high frequency type of alternating current (AC), which is the type of electricity in our power grids, but devices need DC power to operate.

We need a new grid, a smart grid, an electricity Internet that is capable of intelligently integrating diverse, centralized and distributed, large and small, baseload and intermittent electricity consumers and providers.

At present, for example, we do not have a unified national grid that is sufficiently advanced to link the areas where the sun shines and the wind blows to the cities in the East and the West that need the electricity.

If we choose to use our own abundant coal resources to provide the energy for electricity, heating, and motive power; remove CO2 from the coal - fired electrical generationg plant smokestacks, and add better safety systems to the mines, we will have done all that we need to do other than greatly improve and enlarge our public transportation systems, and the reliability of our power grid system.

«During an #OhmHour, the electricity grid needs power.

As we develop new sources of energy and electricity, we will also need to modernize our national utility grid so that it's accommodating to new sources of power, more efficient, and more reliable.

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.

After the eight nuclear reactors were shuttered in March 2011 by order of the government, a series of reports released by the Federal Network Agency analyzing scenarios under different conditions concluded that Germany would be able to generate sufficient power to cover its own electricity needs, but it could no longer support security of the European interconnected grid to the extent it had done previously.

This means policymakers will need to put in place ways to increase system flexibility — such as grid interconnections, electricity storage and demand - side response.

«One of the most important infrastructure projects that we need is a whole new electricity grid.

«Microgrids have several advantages for the electricity grid; for example, they can provide electricity during peak - usage hours and therefore forestall the need for expensive upgrades in central generation, transmission, and distribution systems.

Many also believe that electricity rates will rise substantially — since the current power grid needs maintained alongside the wind farms for when the wind doesn't blow, the maintenance costs could outweigh the benefit of free fuel from the wind.

It essentially circumvents the need for grid electricity at night, saving individuals and cities thousands of dollars.

If the government is to make meaningful progress toward its national goal to extend a constant supply of electricity to every household in the coming years, it will need to learn from and adapt its current financing structures for off - grid solar (and other renewable energy) technologies.

Wind energy will be an important player in cleaning electricity grids in Alberta and Saskatchewan and across Canada clean electricity grids will be needed for reducing fossil fuel use in other sectors through electrification and in the United States through clean energy exports.

For CanWEA and the wind energy sector, the challenge will be to get the message across that our industry is ready to meet the demand for more clean, reliable and cost - competitive renewable power, without compromising the needs of the electricity grid.

Does wind energy need to be stored to increase its contribution to our electricity grids?

Right now, when a customer with a solar roof creates more electricity than needed, it becomes available to the grid.

Lastly, in a grid with 100 % renewable power production, the generation capacity would need to be ten times larger than the peak load, and excess electricity would surpass the EU annual electricity consumption.

He hopes this will facilitate further development of the wind project, including supporting the environmental assessments and interconnection studies needed to assess the impact of additional electricity on the grid.

The thermal inertia of buildings and hot - water storage allows electricity demand from heating and cooling equipment to be shifted in time to suit the needs of the grid at low cost without compromising user comfort.

The reality is that gas powered plants are still needed nearby to back up intermittent green power and to provide voltage (similar to water pressure) to push electrons through the electricity grid.

In the case of a grid with 80 % renewables, the generation capacity needs to be six times larger than the peak load, while the excess electricity would be equal to 60 % of the EU's current annual electricity consumption.

The solar panels can often produce more electricity than the customer needs, so it goes onto the grid.

To cover the total loss of power when the wind drops or blows too hard, every wind farm needs a conventional back - up power station (commonly gas - fired) with capacity of twice the design capacity of the wind farm to even out the sudden fluctuations in the electricity grid.

For a power grid based on 100 % solar and wind power, with no energy storage and assuming interconnection at the national European level only, the balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants needs to be just as large as peak electricity demand.

Additional infrastructure is needed in the electricity sector for creating a well - integrated national grid, and the market should be designed to give strong signals to locate generation where it is most valuable to the whole system.

Hydrogen, produced from electricity when it isn't needed on the grid, which can be used to power a gas turbine to generate electricity