Sentences with phrase «local grids which»

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

Not exact matches

That includes the cost of labor, panels — which will be imported until local production capacity is up to speed — and an unprecedented network of batteries that will be able to store this energy for measured distribution over the Saudi 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.

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.

Paul Proulx, also a ranking member of the Fidi Neighborhood Association, said he joined the group specifically to advocate for much - needed city services and Downtown infrastructure improvements — most notably through upgrades to the area's colonial - era street grid, which locals have blamed for a whole host of quality - of - life and safety issues — that have been late catching up with the area's radical demographic shift.

The bottom line is Lower Hudson Valley capacity zone is working, encouraging upgrades to our local energy infrastructure, which makes the grid more reliable and at lower overall costs.

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.

Observation - based data sets, which focus mainly on local and regional climate, are obtained by taking raw climate measurements from weather stations and applying it to a grid defined over the globe.

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.

For example, the states were instructed to check boxes on a grid to signal which of their local school systems had signed a memorandum of understanding, or M.O.U., agreeing with the state to implement each of the many initiatives their plans promised if the state got the Race money.

In the mid-1850s, several prominent locals, including Julio Carrillo, son of Maria Carrillo, laid out the grid street pattern for Santa Rosa with a public square in the center, a pattern which largely remains as the street pattern for downtown Santa Rosa to this day, despite changes to the central square, now called Old Courthouse Square.

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.

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

This map can be obtained using gridded, multi-mission Ssalto / Duacs data since 1993, which enable the local slopes to be estimated with a very high resolution (1/4 of a degree on a Cartesian projection).

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.

Energy efficiency is a top priority at Sustainability Base, and the facility is expected to produce all its own power as well as surplus electricity which can be channelled into the local power grid.

A temperature gauge might be picking up topography effects (which will be influenced by weather pattern oscillations) as well as human influences at the local level that will then be mistakenly - or not - gridded to represent an entire region.

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 May 2015, Goyal announced the National Smart Grid Mission, which will provide grants covering up to 30 percent for upgrades to regional and local grids.

In many cases, DIY projects are not permitted to be tied into the grid by the local utility, which means if your system is not producing enough electricity, there's no back - up.

Embedded generators supply electricity to local distribution systems, which reduces demand on the transmission grid.

This, however, was pushed back and didn't happen due to the already - high penetration of solar on the local grid, which raised concerns.

In analysing the success of the mandate so far, Olinsky - Paul says that, among other things, California benefited from «co-ordination between state policymakers and regulators, and the single - state California Independent System Operator (CAISO, which operates the local transmission grid)» in establishing such an ambitious programme.

Another organization that leverages women's knowledge of and concern for their communities is Frontier Markets, which manages a distribution network of women entrepreneurs that sell off - grid solar lighting systems to their local communities.

What I was referring to is simply collecting the electrolyzed H2, and maybe even the O2 if it made sense, on site and then using it to run a local generator, which would simply hooked into the grid like any other generator plant.

Some modification of it is needed when stations do not have enough data in the reference period, and as E.M.Smith describes, GISS calculates anomalies at grid points, which involves a bit of local aggregating.

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)

Sounds like a win / win for both buyers and the local grid, because not only can the solar array be used to charge the LEAF directly during the day, which helps to reduce peak demand, but because the new LEAF includes a vehicle - to - home (V2H) feature, sometimes referred to as a vehicle - to - grid (V2G) system, it could potentially act as an electricity buffer by acting as a giant «personal» battery.

A Seattle educational non-profit hopes to crowd - fund a series of portable, off - grid shelters for some of the city's homeless, which local high school students will design and build with the help of professional architects and builders.

The main motive of Energo Labs is to create an energy trading platform which connects energy consumers with producers in a local area smart grid.