Sentences with phrase «local grid»

Wouldn't it make more sense for local grids to be connected, share various power resources, and have high efficiency storage systems?

Choosing a project in a more carbon intensive grid rather than your potentially less intense local grid can therefore dramatically increase the actual greenhouse gas emissions avoided by your renewable energy choice.

Monthly TPO solar lease payments are keyed to forecast increases in the cost of local grid electricity and rise along with them — hence the term price escalators.

I participated at the beginning of a Hydro One, GE, IBM project which is hardening the distribution system with smarter central management combined with smarter semi-autonomous substations for local grid power management.

In an interview with South China Morning Post, one bitcoin miner who requested his name to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the subject, revealed that there exists corruption within the Chinese bitcoin mining sector and that miners have been paying local grid operators to be able to mine cryptocurrencies.

South Australian premier Jay Weatherill, who is standing for re-election this weekend, said the Whyalla project would benefit the wider community by improving local grid stability.

In Germany there are around 560,000 local grids which are divided among approximately 800 grid operators.

«Local grid solution for global energy transition.»

The two kinds of factories are supposed to be interspersed as a thin layer on a surface exposed to solar radiation, with a layer of storage modules below and a fractal - like local grid connected to each fuel cell to collect electricity and transmit it to an output interface.

And unlike mass - market TOU rates, they could include different measures of real - time value — price changes based on wholesale grid power costs, for example, or demand charges or distribution grid values aimed at getting customers to change energy - use patterns to mitigate local grid congestion needs.

Local grid conditions may necessitate matching between demand and VRE output.

In Illinois and Minnesota, efforts are underway to come up with a localized value of solar that would take into account local grid capacity.

«Bottom line: 2B and 2C allow Boulder to explore the true costs and benefits of a high - renewables, low - emissions local grid.»

A group of 36 municipal power authorities in northern and western New York petitioned the PSC for permission to raise electricity rates for cryptocurrency miners because their excessive power use has been taxing very small local grids and causing rates to rise for other customers.

As a result, one city in the Shaanxi province has decided to choose which new wind projects will go ahead through a lottery, signaling the local grid can not take in all the available and planned wind power supply.

The Chok Chai Starch RAPTOR ™ starch plant produces enough biogas to generate 3.3 - 3.4 MW of renewable electricity for sale to the local grid, while the biogas produced by previously installed ANUBIX ™ B reactors is heating the factory's two thermal oil boilers using green energy produced from digestion of organic matter in its waste water.

Food processors such as Remo - Frit — including breweries, fruit, food waste, agro industries, and energy crops including corn — can easily use this technology to generate energy for use in powering factory plant such as boilers or to feed electricity generation sets to produce electricity for the production plant or for feeding back to the local grid.

The batteries can help stabilize the local grid during peak - use times, while providing backup for proposed solar and offshore wind installations that may deliver power intermittently.

In 1993, while Sladek was still battling for control of the local grid, some 100 miles to the northeast in Bavaria, Hans - Josef Fell was orchestrating a different kind of energy overhaul as a member of the town council of Hammelburg (population 12,000), his hometown.

But local grids are ill - suited to distributing energy from the alternative sources of tomorrow.

Switching to local grids can ultimately help make the whole power infrastructure more robust in emergencies such as hurricanes or solar storms.

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

Each operator is responsible for the reliable and stable operation of their distribution networks and local grids and is required to meet demand by carrying out measures such as smart management and grid expansion where necessary.

Instead, the power generated in daylight hours is fed into the local grid and consumed during the day by offices and homes.

In a matter of seconds the software program shows the degree of overload risk and how many electric vehicles can be charged simultaneously in a local grid.

The station makes hydrogen fuel using city water and electricity from the local grid and also buys electricity generated by the Niagara Falls hydropower complex some 380 miles (610 kilometers) to the northwest.

Now, 120 houses are connected to a local grid.

Each computer, for example, is a component of the local grid.

«Each customer is part of the local grid.

Shutting down or refueling the large plant takes 1600 MWe off the grid at one time, while incremental service and refueling to one SMR - 160 in a ten unit cluster eliminates that large single - shaft dilemma, assuring sustainable stable power to the local grid and dependent users.

Electricity generated by a schools solar panels is either used in the school itself or sent to the local grid to be used by other consumers nearby.

We know this is working too because rooftop solar is showing up as reduced demand on the national grid (the grid works a bit like the road network — the main transmission lines are like motorways, and local grids are like B roads.

That's true, but of course it all depends on how green your local grid is..

I recently visited the Army's Schofield Barracks on Oahu, where more than 5,300 homes for military personnel and families are being built with solar hot water systems and photovoltaic panels feeding into the local grid.

That doesn't matter until wind is about 40 % of your local grid.

The main problem will be commercial / political inertia I suppose: i.e moving from a centralised generating and distribution system over to a dispersed generating system where the utility companies supply, install and lease the generating and connection equipment in homes and workplaces and discount the surplus energy sold back into the local grid...... one day perhaps.

The new project by Falu Energi, Vatten and EcoDC AB will be powered by the local grid in Falun, which is exclusively fed by renewable sources including wind, solar, hydro and a nearby cogeneration plant.

County plans also call for adding wind and solar energy to the local grid, plus developing a downtown microgrid that can work in «island mode» if an extreme storm or other event knocks out power from the rest of the grid.

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.

I was chatting with some maintenance men from the local grid (SA power network) who had congregated in the local park while their supervisor phoned Head Office about priorities (we had heavy rain o'night which made some jobs impossible).

The local grid operator argued that the plant was a critical resource for backing up renewable generation in the area.

And, we're making our datacenters» backup generators available to the local grid, boosting reliability while keeping prices low for all ratepayers.

The advances in wind turbine design that offer cheap electricity from wind help explain why some 22 states now have commercial scale wind farms pumping electricity into the local grid.

The community solar farm produces clean energy and sends it back to your local grid.

If there is a scarcity of electricity and the population trends are rising you may need to add some more power to your local grids.