Sentences with phrase «local grid power»

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.

• The cost of a general distribution system for methane is orders of magnitude smaller than for major electrical grids, so areas still developing their energy systems can invest in local grids powered by small, re-deployable gas generators using a much cheaper distribution system that can also provide direct gas for heating, cooking, and other such purposes.

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Police in the north China city of Tianjin confiscated 600 computers used to mine bitcoin cryptocurrency after the local power grid operator reported abnormal electricity usage, Xinhua reported Wednesday.

The region around San Diego will soon get two big battery projects that will help the local utility add in more clean energy and better manage the power grid.

Solar panels, which can feed their power into batteries and be linked together into local or regional power grids, are one example of a technology that could spread the potential risk out across a population.

Police in north China's Tianjin municipality have expropriated 600 Bitcoin mining computers after a local power grid reported faulty electricity consumption.

The authorities» attention was attracted by the abnormal surge of electricity usage by the local power grid operator.

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 Valbroye plant will provide renewable energy for the nearby Henniez bottled water plant and the Swiss power grid, as well as natural fertiliser for local farms.

All evidence points to Russia for hacking the Dems, US power grid, and even attempts at local state elections.

New York state has launched a $ 40 million competition to spur the development of small, independent power grids called microgrids that would allow local communities to keep the lights on during power failures.

The government, which blamed recent power outage on cable theft and vandalism, also said that all the local government areas in the state had been connected to the national grid.

Most significantly, at about 2:45 A.M. local time on Monday, March 13, Canada's Hydro - Québec power utility's grid crashed when safety systems sensed a power overload caused by the currents pulsing through the ground.

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.

Today's power grids are designed for local delivery, linking customers in a given city or region to power plants relatively nearby.

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

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.

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

Apex put the solar onsite because the Army wanted the grid security provided by local generation that isn't vulnerable to power outages and other transmission constraints, Apex director of public affairs Dahvi Wilson explains.

Grid parity is when the cost and reliability of that solar panel system is about the same as that of buying electricity like most people do today — from the local utility's power grid.

It therefore guarantees local security of supply and a grid - friendly connection to superordinate power grids.

These reactors could face extraordinary challenges, such as the recent twin blows of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which knocked out connections to the local power grid, followed by a wall of water that destroyed the fuel tanks for backup diesel generators and flooded critical electrical equipment, crippling the boiling - water reactors at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.

The company that operates the state's power grid has a contingency plan in case of emergency shutdowns, says Dorothy Schnure, a spokesperson for Green Mountain Power, one of two local utilities that purchase and resell much of the power from Vermont Yapower grid has a contingency plan in case of emergency shutdowns, says Dorothy Schnure, a spokesperson for Green Mountain Power, one of two local utilities that purchase and resell much of the power from Vermont YaPower, one of two local utilities that purchase and resell much of the power from Vermont Yapower from Vermont Yankee.

The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids: due to low power requirements it can be powered by cheap local solar power.

In Kubuqi, the meaning of «desert» has been redefined: flocks of sheep and cattle are grazing amidst solar panels that pump electricity into the power grid, plentiful local organic produce is supplied across China and the wonder of barren land turned into a fruitful garden attracts many visitors from afar.

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.

SAM develops cost - of - energy estimates for grid - connected power projects based on local weather conditions, installation and operating costs, and system design parameters for a range of renewable energy technologies, including solar photovoltaics (PV), concentrating solar power (CSP), wind, and geothermal.

From The Sanctuary at Two Rivers, offering yogis a retreat in a 100 percent off - the - grid, solar - powered facility, to Maderas Village in Nicaragua, pairing surf and water - sport offerings beside an open - air village that's constructed of local, naturally fallen timber, there are now a handful of resorts around the world introducing wellness lovers to new landscapes without harming them.

Off - grid power capability, Passive Haus building techniques, and New Zealand's first renewable distributed heating scheme all ensure the retreat treads lightly on the local environment.

Other random W - 12 victims endure brutal, red - hot endurance tests on the dyno, the resulting hurricane so ferocious, Bentley diverts the output to the local power grid.

For example, after transporting its owner to the airport, the IMx can park itself in a spot where the vehicle can connect to the local power grid and act as a «virtual» power plant by returning electricity to the grid, an extension of its vehicle - to - home and vehicle - to - building features.

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.

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.

Gases fed into the grid are ever more diverse: natural gas and LNG from various origins, biomethane and hydrogen from Power to Gas plants result in permanently increasing in local and time - related fluctuations in gas quality.

Harnessing alternative sources of energy not only reduces the output of carbon emissions, but also helps military bases reduce their vulnerability to energy disruptions from the local power grid.

Last year, the city carried out its first ever study to see how much solar power is being produced outside the grid and it found that local businesses and other private owners were producing around 5 -LSB-...]

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

Then, as clean power is produced by the RooflessSolar array, power is transferred to your local utility's grid and distributed to customers across the territory.

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

The solar project delivers all the power it produces into the grid, and the local utility redistributes this power among its customers.

A new report upends the debate on grid resilience by putting customer security, distributed energy and local utilities before power plants.

Montes notes that in the emerging age of dominant renewables, «access to and control over electricity grids will be the predominant determination of local, national and regional power.»

For example, for a business in a remote area with an unstable local power grid, complete or high self - sufficiency could be worth the investment, especially if the costs associated with an outage are high.

The report noted nine alternative actions that local and national grid operators and policymakers in these countries had taken to ease the transition to renewable power.

In this model, local governments and grid operators can coordinate the output of independent solar arrays and wind farms — which operate intermittently and at different hours — with hydropower, biogas, and other low - carbon resources, thus simulating the output of a 24 - hour power plant.

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.

A: Enbridge Gas installed a fuel cell system beside its head office that generates 2.2 megawatts of low - emission electricity for the local power grid.

It is worth noting that much of that $ 50 billion was spent acquiring wind and solar generation and its associated spending on transmission, plus gas plants (to back them because the power is intermittent), and distribution assets to hook them into the grid or embed them with the local distribution companies.

The Chinese market was again in the crosshairs after the National Energy Administration announced solar capacity was idled due to concerns of stability of the local power grids.

When it comes to supplying your house with electricity, your two primary options are to design your own renewable energy system with solar panels and wind turbines, or to tie your house to the local power grid.