Sentences with phrase «into utility planning»

An innovative approach to incorporating these decisions into utility planning is to use a customer adoption model that accounts for the available rooftop space, the customer economics of rooftop solar, and the diffusion of new technologies into the market.

In this report, «Planning for a Distributed Disruption: Innovative Practices for Incorporating Distributed Solar into Utility Planning,» the researchers highlight these innovative planning approaches across nine methodological areas.

Fully integrating distributed solar into utility planning requires more tightly linking distribution, transmission, and resource planning.

Bringing forecasts of customer adoption of rooftop solar into utility planning is essential to realizing the full value of solar and ensuring reliable operation of the power system.

He began his career with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities where he directed the regulatory effort making Massachusetts among the first states to incorporate energy efficiency into the utility planning, resource acquisition and ratemaking processes.

Not exact matches

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said recently that Tesla plans to get into grid services, which use software, smart algorithms, and data to control Tesla batteries to help utilities better manage the power grid.

For many content calendars, a modular approach means thinking ahead about how the content you're planning can be remixed, repurposed and deconstructed into other forms that retain their utility for your customers.

«A lot of planning goes into it from a lot of different groups, between events, utilities and maintenance, and promotions and sponsors,» said Barberis, OGS» assistant HVAC engineer, whose background is in refrigeration.

We have worked hard to streamline workflow activities, we have purchased equipment, from significant investments like RFID to smaller investments into new floor cleaning equipment and everything in between to increase efficiencies, we have reduced floor plans and restructured staffing patterns, and monitored utility use... the list goes on and on.

The utility plan for Underwood Creek will require approval from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, which considers requests for utilities to send water into waterways, Duchniak said.

But Milwaukee County Supervisor John Weishan said he does not trust the plan and supports a resolution opposing the utility sending water into rivers and creeks.

Although these first images are smudgy, the technique could provide advance warning that solar flares and storms will take aim at Earth — warnings that could help electrical utilities or satellite operators plan for possible disruptions and put key instruments into a safe mode, says Ernest Hildner, director of the Space Environment Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, Colorado.

In New York, regulators are weighing allowing utilities to get into the solar leasing business to meet the state's aggressive plan to incorporate more decentralized, renewable power onto the grid.

Mr. Byrne reaffirmed his utility's intention to operate the first Holtec SMR that is planned to be built at the Savannah River National Laboratory Site and to enter into a power purchase agreement with Holtec.

Plus, you could cancel all of those ridiculous insurance plans that you were scared into, like the pipes in your house that your utility company claims they don't cover.

The UK government has revealed plans to pump # 23 million into «cutting edge» infrastructure to accelerate the uptake of hydrogen powered vehicles, reports Utility Week.

Mr. Schellenberg is also a recognized expert in estimating customer interruption costs and incorporating customer benefits into utility reliability planning.

Requires the President to enter into an agreement with the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices to: (1) evaluate the utility to state, local, and regional decision makers of each Plan and of the anticipated and actual information outputs of the Program for development of state, local, and regional policies to reduce vulnerability to global change; and (2) recommend priorities for future global and regional climate change research and assessment.

The utility set the date to draw a line between current net - metering customers, whom Rocky Mountain Power plans to grandfather into the old rate structure permanently, and new customers who would be charged according to the new rate schedule.

A detailed legend shows you how to read the floor plans making each drawing a wealth of information on how to pack a lot of utility into a tiny space.

I understand that utilities actually have created additional charges for those that put energy back into the system but if they were the owners they would control the planning and operation utilizing them to their benefit.

Indeed, Dominion and other utilities, including Duke Energy, Southern Company, and NextEra in the Southeast and DTE Energy in the Midwest, even plan to use electricity customers to make money for the gas pipelines they are building, locking Americans further into gas.

He said many utility companies, like TVA, have put plans to reduce carbon emissions into place that they will not likely reverse.

To receive credit, the utility must have an approved clean energy investment plan for disbursing the funds and a separate clean energy investment account into which the funds are deposited.

«By passing peak demand reduction mandates into law, or creating peak demand reduction programs, policymakers and utilities in Massachusetts, Illinois, and neighboring states could significantly reduce costs for ratepayers, strengthen reliability, and facilitate compliance with the Clean Power Plan,» the report concluded.

To account for these changing needs, utilities are increasingly incorporating rooftop solar into their planning practices.

After the history, goals and process of utility - scale renewables development were explained by the Planning Commission's Thuy Hua, the meeting broke into groups.

One of the challenges utilities face with incorporating solar into planning studies is that customer decisions are central to where and when rooftop solar is adopted in most cases.

The utilities plan on building a system that will rely on a gigantic air compressor (as seen in the diagram) to pump air into porous layers of sandstone.

Our representation of the noteholders in bankruptcy court litigation led to a confirmed plan under which our clients received (i) the opportunity to buy Energy Future Holdings» regulated utility Oncor and convert its parent into a real estate investment trust (REIT), and (ii) a down - side recovery, along with other unsecured creditors, of US$ 550 million in the event the transaction did not close.