Sentences with phrase «make electricity grids»

Three conditions are critical for this structural shift to continue in India and globally: growth in energy demand, innovation to make electricity grids more reliable and adequate land for installing solar modules.

And it would make electricity grids unstable, leading to more frequent and widespread, costly and often fatal, brownouts and blackouts — events mercifully rare in wealthy countries but all too familiar to billions of people living in countries without comprehensive, stable electric grids supplied by stable fossil or nuclear fuels.

An era is coming in which artificially intelligent systems can manage your energy consumption to save you money and make the electricity grid even smarter

However, as the UK has shifted focus from coal - and oil - fired electricity generation to being more reliant on natural gas as the fuel of choice (irrespective of wind, solar, nuclear and other alternatives), this makes the electricity grid somewhat vulnerable to accidental and incidental problems with the flow of data and to malicious manipulation for the sake of sabotage, criminal or online military / terrorist action.

Not exact matches

• Gainline Capital Partners made an investment in Integrated Energy Services Corporation, a provider of grid relationship management software and demand response services to commercial electricity customers.

Since electricity generated from solar and wind flows into the grid, Google simply has to invest in enough turbines and solar panels to cover its total energy consumption to make good on its goal.

This allows him to sell back the electricity stored in his Powerwall to the grid at the optimum time to make the most profit.

Storage means solar could feed a steady stream of electrons into the grid, making it ever more valuable to the people whose job it is to maintain a reliable electricity supply.

The irregularities of the NYS electricity grid make shutting down Indian Point extra difficult, experts warn.

Restoring electricity is a high priority, but officials say it's important to make the grid more resilient to withstand major storms.

Peculiarities of the electricity system in New York State, including its unusual independent status, would make it difficult and expensive to replace electricity from the Indian Point nuclear power plant if Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo succeeds in shutting it down, experts on the grid warn.

Just how do we go about making our power grids smart and flexible enough to handle people generating their own electricity from renewable sources?

In effect, the college will be making more electricity from the sun than it needs and can send clean electricity back into California's grid.

If solar energy were to make up 10 per cent of the country's electricity mix, this difference would add an extra 0.23 per cent to overall grid emissions in the US — a small but significant amount.

In short, the analysis showed that storing solar energy today offers fewer environmental benefits than just sending it straight to the grid, because the energy lost to storage inefficiencies is ultimately made up with fossil - fuel electricity from the grid.

Public rail systems are harvesting and storing electricity from regenerative braking with the hope of making a profit on power sold back to the grid

«The U.S. society and economy are so critically dependent upon the availability of electricity that a significant collapse of the grid precipitated by a major natural or man - made EMP [electro - magnetic pulse] event could result in catastrophic civilian casualties,» Rep. Trent Franks (R - Ariz.)

«If we can demonstrate this superconducting - wire technology in a wind turbine, we think it's more likely that it will make its way into the power cables of the electricity grid,» says Selvamanickam.

Reciprocating steam engines simply could not produce enough spinning power to deliver the smooth current necessary to make large - scale electricity grids feasible; by the early 1900s, turbines had made them a reality.

Here's what happened: For the first century of the electricity business, the power plants were costlier and less reliable than the grid, so it made sense to build a bunch of big power plants backing each other up through the grid.

With these homes making their own electricity, utilities lose their most lucrative customers and confront a dwindling base over which to spread big infrastructure costs, like building new power plants or maintaining the grid.

India has connected an estimated 650 million people to the grid in the past 30 years, and Pachauri analysed government data on electricity use to find out what difference it made.

Interlinkage of the power and gas grids is planned to make electricity supply sustainable and robust in the future.

An analysis of the worm by computer security company Symantec makes it abundantly clear that a few lines of malicious computer code can trip electricity grids, burn out power - station generators, pollute water supplies and sabotage gas...

«It makes the lowest - cost electricity on TECO's grid,» Shorter says.

How do you make that boil water and spin a turbine and have that generate electricity that then goes out through the grid?

Many other issues — from climate change to nuclear power to using «smart» electricity grids — also require accurate, understandable scientific communication so that policymakers and the general public can make informed decisions.

A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a new type of battery that could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar far more economical and reliable.

Haile's team will also investigate making the fuel cells reversible, which would transfer electricity back into hydrogen for placement on grid backup.

This makes multiple - unit based SMR - 160 electricity supply more resistant to natural disasters or acts of sabotage, and eliminates the need and cost of building traditional grid infrastructures.

The key proposition made to the UK Government and the NDA is that PRISM could work on a «payment by results» model, involving payment per ton of plutonium dispositioned, supported by a secondary revenue stream from the sale of low carbon electricity onto the grid.

And yet, in terms of greenhouse - gas emissions, grid - charged cars are still cleaner than their gasoline - powered counterparts, and that's particularly true in California, where we rely largely on natural gas to make electricity.

Brazil has expertise in biofuels, Chile in geothermal, Mexico on energy efficiency, El Salvador is connecting grids in Central America to make electricity more reliable.

Gamers can now scavenge materials from their surrounding to make new weapons, armor and even survivor settlements, complete with electricity and defense grids to ward off the random raider attack.

Not only will the converted Komatsu HD 605 - 7 dump truck be able to export electricity to the grid each day, but it will make for a much quieter and cleaner vehicle than anything else on the site.

Presently a electric car plugged into the grid is only around 40 % efficient overall due to the generation of grid electricity from coal, nuclear and gas mainly (here in the UK) and that makes them a lot less efficient than you say.

The focal points of our chat were recent papers in which Jacobson and others proposed how New York State could move entirely to renewable energy supplies by 2050, as well as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo «s ambitious Reforming the Energy Vision (or REV) initiative, aimed at making the state's electricity grid cleaner, more resilient and more affordable.

The FireBee Power Tower can make use of some of the heat produced for cooking food or warming a home to yield an additional harvest of clean electricity for keeping small electronics charged up, either for off - grid, home use, or both.

you CO2 generating treehuggers are unbelievable hypocrits unless you are 100 % off grid you are very likely a huge contributer to the coal problem (by using electricity) you are making Peabody money!

Wondering if the grid fed electricity from Farley makes its way back to Atlanta?

In turn, this reduces the investment cost in the supply of electricity required to deliver universal energy access, making off - grid renewable solutions more affordable to households.

And yet, in terms of greenhouse - gas emissions, grid - charged cars are still cleaner than their gasoline - powered counterparts, and that's particularly true in California, where we rely largely on natural gas to make electricity.

Like other analysts, BCG hasn't understood that within a decade, the choices for these nations with soaring vehicle populations will not be electricity from coal vs. imported gasoline but rather electricity from a evolving power grid vs. fuel made by liquefying domestic coal, with 2 - 3x the CO2 of coal - fueled plug - ins.)

G2 Energy, one of a small number of companies in the UK authorised to make new grid connections to the country's electricity transmission and distribution networks, claims it has now surpassed the 100MW mark of battery projects worked on, as it announced the completion of connection works at a new 29MW battery storage facility in Kent, southern England.

If the government is to make meaningful progress toward its national goal to extend a constant supply of electricity to every household in the coming years, it will need to learn from and adapt its current financing structures for off - grid solar (and other renewable energy) technologies.

This post is framed around «limitations,» but as I said above, if wind and solar both reach global grid penetrations equal to their capacity factors, that would make VRE cumulatively around half of all global electricity.

They set in motion the ability for people who had solar collectors or wind generators to run their meter backwards and put their locally made electricity back into the grid and get paid for it.

The tool features nearly real - time demand data, plus analysis and visualizations of hourly, daily, and weekly electricity supply and demand on a national and regional level for all of the 66 electric system balancing authorities that make up the U.S. electric grid.

It begins laying the groundwork for a regional electricity grid, which could make renewable energy more available throughout the West.

Small plants will make that possible for more countries and more electricity grids.