Sentences with phrase «into grid»

«Given the competition from other producers, it's not always possible to feed electricity into the grid profitably.

As you can see, net load was negative there for a few hours on August 8 — there was «backfeed» into the grid, which can mess with voltage and stability.

What I was referring to is simply collecting the electrolyzed H2, and maybe even the O2 if it made sense, on site and then using it to run a local generator, which would simply hooked into the grid like any other generator plant.

There may be some level of wind and solar penetration where the cost of integrating them into the grid exceeds the benefit, but we are nowhere close to that level yet.

But these electric vehicles plug into the grid with no guarantee that they are being fueled by clean energy sources.

The amount of electricity generated in a power grid must always equal the amount being consumed, so when wind turbines put power into a grid other generators, often fossil - fuelled, generate less; so less fossil fuels are burned.

The small group of investors together reap the financial rewards from the electricity sent into the grid.

Nor is Georgia Power's plans, which call for one megawatt at the outset, enough to move the state up from its current ranking of 38th in the nation in solar power supplied by individuals into the grid.

Where locally produced sustainable energy might not be available, the power required for the drying of coal could be taken from the grid when electricity is abundant - that is, when sustainable electricity generation methods are puting more electricity into the grid than is being consumed.

In an order issued Wednesday, the Michigan Public Service Commission decided to replace the state's current system with a new model that compensates net metering customers less for the excess energy they generate and put into the grid.

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 the grid.

Then imagine that the ice is divided into a grid of square columns, every one of which has a meltwater conduit in the middle.

He added: «This is an industry first that will produce and feed clean renewable energy into the grid with much greater consistency and reliability from a combination of solar, wind and battery storage.

Here's what else it means: the 25,680 MWh of power actually accepted by IESO into the grid cost $ 388.77 / MWh * or 39 cents a kWh!

No doubt the wasted wind power presented itself when it wasn't needed; if it had been accepted into the grid, that extra power could have caused blackouts or brownouts, so it was curtailed.

This creates uncertainty for those trying to sell renewable power into the grid.

Bullfrog Power ensures renewable electricity is put into the grid to match the amount of conventional electricity used by homeowners.

Those fees exist in certain states, like Arizona, to customers who have solar systems that are tied into the grid.

The biggest issues continue to involve solar energy policy, especially how solar customers are compensated for the excess power their systems make and send back into the grid during certain times of the day.

To go to scale, government is going to have to lead: loan guarantees for poor people, taking subsidies away from fossil fuels, making sure that when homeowners feed lowcarbon energy into the grid they get a good price from utilities.

These new roofs will seamlessly and beautifully supply renewable energy to homes, battery storage systems and back into the grid creating savings for owners.

Over 350 megawatts of offshore wind power were plugged into the grid in the first half of the year — all of it to complete the 400 - megawatt Anholt project, which is expected to meet 4 percent of Danish electricity needs.

The rooftop solar thermal panels produce hot water that flows through radiant tubing in the floors to heat the house; the rooftop photovoltaic panels are net - metered so that during the week when we're in L.A. and the house is empty and the energy goes unused, it is pumped directly back into the grid and creates a credit at the local utility.

They certainly have their place in remote areas where you can not tie into the grid, just do not plan on ever getting enough power to pay for them.

Emerging energy storage technologies are allowing electricity to be captured and stored and then re-injected back into the grid when it is required.

Raphael Declercq, Vice President, Portfolio Strategy at EDF RE commented, «In ramping up our commitment to distributed generation and energy storage, EDF RE will be developing new products for our customers that will also help enable greater penetration of wind and solar into the grid.»

Tasmania's wind resources could be dispatched into the grid first, load - balanced by hydro.

Solar feed into the grid is realizing a form of taxation by the utility companies in some states....

These models are composed of several hundred thousand lines of computer code that divide the air, land and oceans into a grid of hundreds of interacting boxes.

Once the lowest marginal cost, low - emission power sources are exhausted, higher carbon price - adjusted energy sources will be dispatched into the grid until demand and supply are balanced.

Florida may not be able to provide elecricity enough for the entire USA, but it should be able to put a LOT of electricity into the grid.

«We are hoping to gain valuable insight into how the integration of a hybrid solar and diesel solution into the grid can deliver even greater fuel savings to Daly River in the future as well as other remote Indigenous communities.»

South Australia shows the folly of trying to get high penetration of wind and solar into the grid.

An example is the World Bank Group's Scaling Solar Initiative under which the World Bank supports governments with plans to develop solar PV and integrate it into the grid, while the IFC offers a set of bankable documents (for example, power purchase agreements (PPAs)-RRB- and preapproved financing, speeding up the development process and reducing uncertainty (World Bank Group 2017).

Feed - in tariff - The price per unit of electricity that a utility or power supplier has to pay for distributed or renewable electricity fed into the grid by non-utility generators.

Lakeland is a demonstration for how integrated solar and batteries can together deliver dispatchable supply feeding electricity into the grid when it is needed, whether or not the sun is available at that moment.

In many cases, DIY projects are not permitted to be tied into the grid by the local utility, which means if your system is not producing enough electricity, there's no back - up.

By feeding the electricty into the grid, further green gas emissions are being avoided.

As electricity demand grows and federal regulation shuts down coal - fired power plants, SaskPower has concluded that wind energy is a low - cost source of new supply that can be reliably integrated into the grid.

«Units serving this backup role must be on line (connected to the grid and producing electricity) and running below their peak capacity and efficiency, or in a spinning reserve mode (i.e., connected to the grid and synchronized but not putting electricity into the grid),» according to Schleede.

They could install solar panels for self - use, just to reduce their power bill, without the need to use grid services to feed «excess» power into the grid.

Where wind and solar power account for at least 5 percent of total electricity generated in 2014, more than 80 percent of countries globally have completed a grid integration study to understand how to bring variable renewable energy into the grid.

Electric cars like the Nissan Leaf and Chevrolet's plug - in hybrid Volt, are generally not sold in the United States with two - way chargers that could feed back into the grid.

A requirement that utilities pay homeowners a premium for electricity fed back into the grid by renewable energy systems — known as a feed - in tariff or FIT — makes residential PV even more attractive.

The subsidies don't stop there either as many if not all states pay residential consumers retail rates for electricity they «sell» back into the grid, as opposed to wholesale rates that utilities pay to other suppliers.

We do feed back into the grid excess electricity generated.

This means that a poorly insulated building with an inefficient heating system can achieve an excellent BER, provided that the high energy demand is offset by a sufficiently large solar PV array, for instance — even if that PV array was discharging all of its power into the grid or — in apartments, the landlord areas — and providing no appreciable benefit to the occupant.

Nonetheless, in January 2016, feed - in tariffs for PV power fed into the grid will not likely be lowered again, but rather remain at the December level.

Barnes, in Queensland solar rooftop installations are not only heavily subsidised, their (highly variable) surplus electricity is fed back into the grid at an extremely high price, guaranteed for 20 years or so, causing a number of grid problems.

In the case of the RHI, there is no mandated quantity of biogas that companies must use, there is just a fixed subsidy paid per MWh that they inject into the grid.