Sentences with phrase «largest electricity transmission»

The resulting electrical current travels via underground cables to a substation, where it is converted to a higher voltage for the larger electricity transmission or distribution grid.

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And there has been no more fundamental, epoch - making modern innovation than the large - scale commercial generation, transmission, distribution and conversion of electricity.

It's a small change that speaks to the larger shifts that he's pushing through, including the partial sale of Hydro One, Ontario's electricity and transmission and distribution utility.

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

The largest is the Eastern Interconnection, an extensive complex of transmission lines that stretches from Halifax to New Orleans, with substations that step down the high - voltage electricity to lower levels so that it can be distributed locally along smaller wires.

WASHINGTON — A 700 - mile transmission line project that's supposed to deliver large quantities of electricity from Oklahoma wind farms to customers in the southeast has been another dealt a blow by the Department of Energy.

We used to place large and extremely reliable generation facilities near to the places where the electricity was consumed in order to «save the planet» from thousands of unnecessary miles of these expensive and destructive transmission lines and towers.

Large amounts of wind energy are already being reliably and cost - effectively integrated with the electricity grid; utilities around the world continue to recognize the value wind energy can play within a larger, interconnected electrical transmission system.

Unlike large - scale electricity generation that feeds into the transmission system, distributed generation (DG) provides energy directly to consumers and the local distribution grid.

As large project development in remote areas continues, China is also looking to increase the number of small systems that do not require long - distance electricity transmission, aiming for more than 8,000 megawatts of rooftop PV in 2014.

For large companies who have a direct supply and transmission contract with a specific electricity supplier, the best place to look would be the electricity supplier itself.

The plans included a new renewable energy electricity generation and transmissions infrastructure with large wind turbines, half a square kilometre of rooftop solar panels, and a biomass plant burning coconut husks.

Last March, Brewer launched a solar energy task force — a group of local solar executives, industry advocates and city officials — to develop strategies to lower solar installation costs, open up public lands to large - scale solar plants and build new transmission lines to connect green electricity to communities.

They include the difficulty of integrating large amounts of renewable energy into the electricity system; uncertainty on the timeline for meeting Renewables Portfolio Standards goals; environmental concerns with the development of renewable facilities and associated transmission; difficulty in securing project financing; delays and duplication in siting processes; time and expense of new transmission development; the cost of renewable energy in a fluctuating energy market; and maintaining the state's existing baseline of renewable facilities.

We define the supergrid as «a pan-European transmission network facilitating the integration of large - scale renewable energy and the balancing and transportation of electricity, with the aim of improving the European market».

Based on wind - speed measurements, researchers at MIT, led by Stephen Connors, director of the Analysis Group for Regional Electricity Alternatives, calculated that large turbines located far offshore could ultimately cost less per power generated than either land - based turbines or near - offshore ones, even factoring in extra costs, such as much longer underground electricity transmissElectricity Alternatives, calculated that large turbines located far offshore could ultimately cost less per power generated than either land - based turbines or near - offshore ones, even factoring in extra costs, such as much longer underground electricity transmisselectricity transmission cables.

The scheme includes «a new renewable electricity generation and transmission infrastructure with 155 large wind turbines, half a square kilometre of rooftop solar panels, and a biomass plant burning coconut husks.

A generation and transmission cooperative serving more than 685,000 members, GRE is Minnesota's largest supplier of electricity to cooperative and municipal utilities.