Sentences with phrase «grid resilience»
Grid resilience refers to the ability of a power grid or electrical system to bounce back quickly from disruptions or challenges. It means that even if there are problems like power outages, natural disasters, or cyberattacks, the grid can recover and continue providing electricity to homes, businesses, and other users. Resilient grids are designed to withstand and adapt to various obstacles, ensuring a reliable and consistent power supply for everyone. Full definition
The coal and nuclear sectors want swift federal action on grid resilience, while others are keen to let regional grid operators handle the issue.
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The definition of resilience should lead to identifying specific attribute — for example, fuel security — that are necessary to ensure grid resilience.
The report includes specific recommendations for federal, state, and regulatory agencies detailing actions that different groups can undertake to improve grid resilience.
Rather, the record demonstrates that, if a threat to grid resilience exists, the threat lies mostly with the transmission and distribution systems, where virtually all significant disruptions occur.
In the context of its broader consideration of grid resilience in New England, our message to FERC is simple: ISO New England's analysis shows that to ensure fuel security in the region, we need to continue what we are already doing: implementing current state clean energy laws that improve energy efficiency and grow renewable energy.
Energy companies and regional grid operators filed comments in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's grid resilience docket on Wednesday, dividing over the role of the federal agency in securing the nation's power infrastructure.
The order gave regional grid operators 60 days to submit feedback on how grid resilience should be assessed, if at all, and whether the commission should take any action on the matter at this time.
Just prior to the 10th anniversary Scientific American spoke with electrical engineer Jeff Dagle, a member of the task force and a specialist in power - grid resilience at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, to find out what we know now that we didn't then, and whether similar mishaps could still happen.
FERC opened the resilience docket after rejecting one of those efforts — the Department of Energy's grid resilience proposal — in January.
In the January ruling, FERC ordered PJM and the rest of the country's independent system operators and regional transmission organizations to respond to a list of 14 questions about how to define and measure grid resilience, with the goal of determining what, if any, additional steps might be needed outside of existing market rules to prevent or recover from disasters.
Perry has made a big deal out of grid resilience as opposed to grid reliability.
For example, FERC can bolster distribution - level efforts by implementing policies that require grid operators to plan transmission among grid regions, allowing them to share power more easily and strengthening grid resilience.
A new report upends the debate on grid resilience by putting customer security, distributed energy and local utilities before power plants.
Clean Coalition, NREL and City of San Diego are working on solar siting and designing a feed - in - tariff program to drive grid resilience via distributed solar power.
(We also like PJM's definition which is consistent with FERC's but focuses more on the extraordinary nature of events — «high impact, low frequency» (HILF)-- that challenge grid resilience.)
«While some commenters allege grid resilience or reliability issues due to potential retirements of particular resources, we find that these assertions do not demonstrate the unjustness or unreasonableness of the existing RTO / ISO tariffs.
In particular, they must consider how reliability — a term that is clearly defined by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation and comes with strict performance standards and requirements — fits into broader grid resilience.
As Christine's report on a successful megabattery demonstration in Germany shows, there is huge interest in developing viable energy storage solutions to both ease the introduction of intermittent wind and solar onto the grid, decrease the need for coal plants to cycle their production inefficiently and improve overall grid resilience.
In the end, McIntyre hopes the commission can identify specific power system attributes that can be compensated to enhance grid resilience.
REV will grow the state's clean energy economy, support innovation, ensure grid resilience, mobilize private capital, create new jobs, and increase choice and affordability for energy consumers.
designed to keep coal and nuclear plants online as FERC took on a broader examination of grid resilience.
With Tesla Energy, Tesla is amplifying its efforts to accelerate the move away from fossil fuels to a sustainable energy future with Tesla batteries, enabling homes, business, and utilities to store sustainable and renewable energy to manage power demand, provide backup power and increase grid resilience.
By August, DOE released the study, which pinned coal and nuclear retirements on cheap natural gas, debunked reliability concerns, and identified opportunities to improve grid resilience.
In rejecting the NOPR, FERC asked regional grid operators to report back to the commission within 60 days on grid resilience.
Still others have highlighted the diminishing diversity of our nation's electric generation mix, and what that could mean for baseload power and grid resilience.
These efforts predate pressure from Perry and others to ensure grid resilience.
In its grid resilience docket, FERC requested that ISO New England and other grid operators explain how they «assess the impact and likelihood of resilience risks.»
The FERC chairman said it «would sure be convenient» if the commission could identify specific attributes of grid resilience to compensate.
At the same time, utilities appear overwhelmingly opposed to the Trump administration's attempt to reshape wholesale power markets with its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) on grid resilience, rejected last month by FERC.
The coal fleet has large stockpiles of coal that help to ensure grid resilience and reliability.»
Decentralization offers a few key advantages (including, importantly, grid resilience), but it also presents barriers: siting and transmission.
Rochester Institute of Technology ($ 78,000) to explore microgrid / utility relationships to improve economic and environmental cost and grid resilience.
In addition, the extensive comments submitted by the RTOs / ISOs do not point to any past or planned generator retirements that may be a threat to grid resilience.
Ensuring grid resilience is a necessary step in the growth of renewable generation,» added Russell Hardy, chairman of VPI Immingham and chief executive of EMEA at parent company Vitol.
FERC earlier this year launched a proceeding to examine the resilience of the US grid after terminating proceedings on a proposed rulemaking on grid resilience and reliability from US Energy Secretary Rick Perry.
«We still have our grid resilience proceeding open and we hope we get a lot of data, studies and information from that process that will enable us to take a strong look.»