Sentences with phrase «local electric grid»

These systems are connected to your local electric grid as well as your home.

Expanding energy efficiency and demand side management, adding more renewable energy, and shifting the fuel mix of the local electric grid have emerged as critical strategies for cities striving to achieve ambitious climate goals.

Not exact matches

By 2030, solar - plus - storage could threaten the economic relevance of their distribution grids by making less necessary the connection with the local electric utility.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

The pair of papers, «Assessing the cost of large - scale power outages to residential customers» and «Providing limited local electric service during a major grid outage — A first assessment based on customer willingness to pay,» examined residential power users» willingness to pay (WTP) for full or partial backup services during a theoretical 24 - hour blackout and then determined the investments required by the electrical provider to implement these services.

Fraunhofer researchers have developed prototype software to show grid operators how many electric vehicles can be connected to their local grid.

There'll be plenty of other issues, too, when operators are riding in the back seats of their own cars, drunk, high, and shagging; when the electric grid fails; when terrorists hijack the systems; and when Grandma heads to her local CVS in Ho - Ho - Kus, New Jersey, for some bunion pads and winds up at the grindcore convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, because her 2020 Ford Taurus thought that was where she belonged.

When the wind turbines in Denmark are producing more power than can be used locally (and indeed «locally» is an oversimplification of how an electric grid works), it flows through the rest of the grid; when they're not meeting local demand, power flows in from France, Germany, Switzerland, or wherever.

Solar has become a mainstream technology that Massachusetts residents, businesses, and institutions can own and operate; a technology that produces local clean energy, saves money, and lightens the electric burden on the utility grid while reducing the use of fossil fuels» said William Stillinger, President of SEBANE.

Many analysts see the potential for surging sales of these efficient vehicles to enable smart grid management, but few have explored the local impact of electric vehicles: promoting energy democracy.

The gasoline engine serves as an on - board personal electric utility for when you forget to plug in to the local grid, or for ensuring a total range to match that of any conventional car you'd buy today.

They will also produce surplus electric power for the local grid, which will displace more fossil fuels.

Some is delivered to the local electric power grid, and some powers a portion of the farm's operations.

The landmark ruling of the state's Energy Commission is expected to lower the monthly cost of home ownership by $ 40, but it will also have significant benefits for the local economy and the electric grid.

The Halfmoon Community Solar Project will feed solar energy to the grid operated by New York State Electric & Gas Corporation (NYSEG) and will allow more than 100 residential customers in NYSEG's Capital Region territory (parts of Columbia, Essex, Rensselaer, Saratoga and Washington counties), including low - income residents, to participate in local clean power generation and save money on their electricity bills.

«Community solar provides win - wins for consumers: savings on their electric bill, and the knowledge that they're supporting local, safe, reliable, clean power generation for the grid,» added Cramer.

Depending on the electricity source of the local grid, even the most efficient electric car could be charged by coal or natural gas, or by hydropower (no combustion emissions, but linked to increased methane emissions), or nuclear energy (which might qualify as clean or low - carbon energy, but which also has its own environmental bugaboos and massive costs to consider)

Toby Barlow writes in the New York Times about his move to Detroit, (into a famous Miesian townhouse community) but also of others there who are rebuilding a neighbourhood, complete with local farming, solar heating and a mini-community solar electric grid, and more.