Sentences with phrase «into electricity grids»

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:

If there is one thing stalling electric car development, preventing renewable energy sources from plugging into electricity grids and causing grief to smartphone users, it is poorly performing batteries.

De Bedout focuses on integrating sustainable energy sources — such as wind and solar — into the electricity grid.

The energy surplus produced by MFC might be integrated into the electricity grid and used elsewhere.

Hybrids can be modified so that their batteries can be charged by plugging them into the electricity grid as well as the car's engine.

When you install a solar battery as part of your home solar energy system, you can actually store the extra energy your solar panels produce at home instead of feeding it back into the electricity grid.

This is a huge, complex project overseen by the EU which is looking to incorporate large amounts of renewable power into the electricity grid by 2050.

Energy modelers evaluating the impact of legislation such as Senator Bingaman's American Clean Energy Leadership Act and the American Power Act proposed by Senators Kerry and Lieberman should take note for their models most likely are underestimating the cost of compliance by incorrectly modeling the integration of wind power into the electricity grid.

In addition, there will be efforts to determine what new, more flexible, and efficient natural gas technologies best fit into an electricity grid in transition.

Peter Lang wrote this piece with the expressed aim of showing new pumped - hydro schemes are unviable and therefore that incorporating large amounts of renewables into the electricity grid is impractical.

This has the added benefit of keeping costs low and making it easier to integrate more renewables into the electricity grid.

Not only can hydro - power be fed into the electricity grid when there is a shortage of supply and the wholesale price is high, but energy can be stored as potential hydro - power when there is an excess of electricity and the wholesale price is low.

Integrating the bitcoin blockchain into the electricity grid allows users to make automatic payments directly from their wallets.

Not exact matches

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

In what the head of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission called «the most significant incident of domestic terrorism involving the grid that has ever occurred,» the attacker - who may have been an insider - fired about 100 rounds of.30 - caliber rifle ammunition into the radiators of 17 electricity transformers over the course of 19 minutes.

And China, Russia and North Korea are all trying to break into the grid, potentially to disrupt the U.S. electricity supply the way Russia has in Ukraine in recent years.

«Most of the turbines are already feeding green electricity into the grid,» Pierre Lestienne, managing director and CFO of Nordsee One, said in a statement.

The darker the shade of red dot, the more electricity the ground will generate and conduct voltage into the power grid.

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.

Since electricity generated from solar and wind flows into the grid, Google simply has to invest in enough turbines and solar panels to cover its total energy consumption to make good on its goal.

Storage means solar could feed a steady stream of electrons into the grid, making it ever more valuable to the people whose job it is to maintain a reliable electricity supply.

It used to be that electricity was carried almost exclusively from big power plants over transmission lines, dumped into distribution grids, and then dumped into buildings, to be used by relatively dumb appliances.

As for the grid, the proliferation of electricity storage could eventually transform it into a «plug and play» for the units, used by utilities, solar customers and electric vehicles.

There is no running water, no sewage system, no electricity except what is illegally tapped into off the grid.

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.

Rather than generating their own power via water wheels or electric dynamos, companies can now plug into the newly built electric grid and buy electricity directly from power stations.

The shape even fed into the name — Solyndra — as well as promising half the installation cost in one third of the time, enabling «grid parity» (that is, a price competitive with electricity from fossil fuel — fired power plants) at some imminent date for the first time in the history of solar power.

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.

Researchers at Harvard, for example, are perfecting an organic flow battery that can store a full day's production of electricity from solar or wind farms, a development that could play a key role in integrating variable electrical generating sources into the grid.

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.

The idea is that many small power plant operators can feed their electricity into the grid but act as a single power plant using computers to control the level of power.

«If we can demonstrate this superconducting - wire technology in a wind turbine, we think it's more likely that it will make its way into the power cables of the electricity grid,» says Selvamanickam.

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.

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

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.

How it works: Electric vehicles can double as batteries plugged into the grid, saving up power at night when electricity demand is low.

The wind turbines on these wind farms connect directly into power grids and produce 5 percent of the electricity that that entire state uses.

Here, software downloaded to our computers would allow a government to assemble PCs into a benevolent «national defence botnet» that can mount cyberattacks to counter, say, attacks on the electricity grid.

Nor does a boom in Chinese turbine installations necessarily translate into a proportionate gain in electricity flowing to China's grid.

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

People with solar panels on their house will receive solar renewable energy certificates from their energy company in return for feeding a megawatt - hour of electricity back into the grid.

«It is more cost effective to consume the self - generated solar electricity than to feed it into the public electricity grid,» says Noeren.

Chu says certain rules in China's Electricity Act enacted in 1996 are hindering the integration of renewable energy into the country's power grid, and he has submitted a proposal to NPC to revise the law.

The energy would be sent to the surface in microwave or laser form, where it would be converted into electricity for commercial power grids or stored in the form of hydrogen.

Several states — including California, New York, and Connecticut — are rewriting their utility rules so individuals or companies can sell electricity (from a fuel cell or other private power source) back into the grid.

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.

Once their batteries were fully charged they would return to shore and feed the electricity into the grid.

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

In Kubuqi, the meaning of «desert» has been redefined: flocks of sheep and cattle are grazing amidst solar panels that pump electricity into the power grid, plentiful local organic produce is supplied across China and the wonder of barren land turned into a fruitful garden attracts many visitors from afar.

Argonne researchers are working to create new, more powerful technology for long - distance transmission of renewable electricity, to balance rural supply and urban demand, and to integrate wind - and solar - generated electricity into the grid.