Sentences with phrase «grid electricity which»

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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 European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO - E), which runs the grid powering 25 separate European countries, disclosed recently that «frequency deviations» in power supply have been experienced across the network since mid-January.

Another plus: the introduction of so - called net metering, unknown in the»70s, which allows power - generating home owners and businesses to feed unneeded electricity back into the grid and thus run their meters backward.

Under her leadership, the company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal» by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.

Energy regulators in the state are battling utility companies over net metering, which is the process through which solar customers get a credit for a certain amount of electricity that they send back to the grid.

Similar global expertise is embodied in the GWE anaerobic technologies of which more than 300 have been completed worldwide, including more than 70 that generate biogas to replace fossil fuels in fuelling boilers and processing plant or to sellback to the electricity grid.

The Tories also want to introduce smart grids and smart meters which can match demand with supply, while a «decentralised energy revolution» will introduce a system of feed - in tariffs to encourage the micro-generation of electricity.

In addition, this year, delayed monsoon rains increased farmers» demand for irrigation - related electricity while reducing the water available for hydroelectricity, which accounts for 20 percent of India's grid, according to Businessweek and Reuters.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

An era is coming in which artificially intelligent systems can manage your energy consumption to save you money and make the electricity grid even smarter

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

With these homes making their own electricity, utilities lose their most lucrative customers and confront a dwindling base over which to spread big infrastructure costs, like building new power plants or maintaining the grid.

Some people charge their battery electric cars by plugging into the power grid, which delivers electricity generated largely from carbon - emitting fossil fuels.

The Nicaraguan government is in the process of adding villages like these to the electricity grid — which is likely to bring TV with it.

Asked which smart grid features they would most prefer, 53 percent of the survey respondents said «technology that can completely automate the management of my electricity.»

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

The budget also includes a request to fund three new Energy Innovation Hubs, which would focus on electricity storage, smart - grid technologies and critical energy materials such as rare metals used in solar panels.

But the nation can seek more clean energy from the sun or wind, which won't be affected by climate change, and get the electricity generated elsewhere via a smart grid, he said, referring to an advanced transmission infrastructure China has been building.

Such demand response is different from using electric vehicle batteries as a form of storage or backup for the electricity grid, which can put undue strain on batteries as they constantly cycle from fully charged to nearly drained.

«A smart grid is a complex modern electricity system which utilises sensors, monitoring, communications, and automation, to improve the electricity system,» the team writes.

Should there be an excessive peak in electricity demand, grid operators can select which areas of the country will have power cut off.

Haile's team will also investigate making the fuel cells reversible, which would transfer electricity back into hydrogen for placement on grid backup.

This year, high school students, early career professionals and students from 15 colleges and universities participated in Argonne's annual Cyber Defense Competition, an all - day competition in which individual cyber defense teams defend their electricity and water grid networks from attacking teams.

This means it covers the direct cost of low - carbon subsidies, energy efficiency and carbon taxes, as well as indirect costs due to strengthening grids, backing up intermittent renewables, compensating conventional generation for lost revenue through the capacity market and savings due to the merit - order effect, which pushes down wholesale electricity prices.

Thirty - eight universities buy green electricity from the grid (of which eight buy 100 per cent green energy), while 37 generate some of their electricity on - site, and the number with CHP installed is also 37.

Any electricity generated and used by the school itself will offset electricity bought from the grid, which a school will typically paying 10p / kWh for or more.

«In sharp contrast to the glacial pace with which the levees were repaired and the electricity grid brought back online, the auctioning - off of New Orleans» school system took place with military speed and precision,» writes Naomi Klein in her landmark 2007 book The Shock Doctrine.

This one is more focused towards monitoring the electricity usage of all the gadgets in the home from a single location while also suggesting means that will lead to optimum usage of electricity.The launch of the tablet can be seen as an extension of Cisco's Home Energy Management Solution Suite which is a part of its Connected Grid portfolio of smart grid products as well as technologies that it had recently unveiled.

Short of radical advances in solar - power technology, the long - term prospect for true «grid parity» — the price at which it will be equally cheap to produce a kilowatt - hour of electricity... Read More

The ONLY way they will ever have electricity is with distributed renewable energy, principally photovoltaics — which are vastly less expensive than building a whole new grid - based electricity generation and distribution infrastructure.

Not sure what you mean by «rate» and «commercially available solar» covers a lot of territory from 5 KW residential rooftop installations to gigawatt - class utility - scale power plants (both PV and thermal)-- but the cost of electricity from rooftop PV is approaching parity with the retail cost of grid electricity, and that's the point at which distributed PV will explode like cell phones and personal computers did.

Not much compared to all the other costs which you pay for electricity delivered through the grid to your home (at least in the UK).

In addition I would point out that small scale distributed wind and PV are ideal solutions for rural electrification in the developing world, in countries which don't have the resources to build giant power plants of any kind, or to build the grids to distribute electricity from large centralized power plants.

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.

DC electricity generated at a residence is used to operate an inverter, which is designed so as to maintain phase with grid - supplied AC.

Read on for a summary of the main points by Nate Gilbraith, the lead author, and Paulina Jaramillo, who directs the school's RenewElec Project, which works to identify and overcome hurdles to integrating renewable energy sources like wind and solar panels into electricity grids:

The focal points of our chat were recent papers in which Jacobson and others proposed how New York State could move entirely to renewable energy supplies by 2050, as well as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo «s ambitious Reforming the Energy Vision (or REV) initiative, aimed at making the state's electricity grid cleaner, more resilient and more affordable.

We are really approaching the point where it will be entirely «mainstream» for US suburbanites to live in solar - powered homes that will not only be «net zero energy» in the sense of generating as much or more energy than the house itself consumes, but will also generate all the electricity to operate an EV, which will be integrated with the house so its batteries can provide power to the house at night and during grid outages.

In the early 2000s, 50 miles from the MO I was helping my good mate (rip) install his self - sufficient solar power system w a battery pack unit which then was big as a car on a trailer, and helped out planting out his small plantation of Olive Trees into the ex-cow paddocks... he and his wife bought a 120 acre ex-cattle farm to regenerate that along the lines of New Age Healing Greenie Principles of Self - Sufficency and Self - Responsibility... they disconnected from the electricity grid as well.

Indeed the whole concept of the «smart grid» is that it will an «InterGrid», which connects a multitude of intelligent micro-grids which will be both consumers and producers of electricity.

«Smart Garage» Rocky Mountain Institute is working on a major project called the «Smart Garage» — the integration of vehicles, the grid, and buildings in which each would share electricity when it was advantageous to the other without being damaging to any.

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.

The electricity generated is fed to the national grid, and replaces electricity which would otherwise be generated by fossil fuel fed power plants, resulting in further emission reductions.

The gas industry, the electricity generators and the Independent System Operator — New England, which runs the grid, all say there is a problem, although they are not quite in agreement on how to solve it.

Interestingly, only days before, the IESO (Independent Electricity System Operator) posted their 2016 - 2020 nine - page Strategic Plan which said the opposite of the CanWEA / GE study and its claim about not «compromising grid reliability.»

One of the primary business models that has emerged which provides solutions focuses on areas covered by mobile networks but not electricity grids.

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.

The foundations for this departure from orthodoxy have been laid by the International Energy Agency (IEA), which has essentially admitted in a series of energy access papers that the majority of those without electricity today will never be wired to the grid (PDF).

There is one large pan-European grid in which electricity flows backwards and forwards over their borders all of the time.

The federal production tax credit (PTC), which offers wind energy developers 2.2 cents for every kilowatt - hour of electricity produced from grid - tied projects, was a key case in point at the conference.