Sentences with phrase «manage electricity grids»

We're seeing several more cases like that happening as the costs of these technologies drops and as we importantly learn how to manage electricity grids.

It was also a valuable lesson in how to manage electricity grids.

As California moves toward increasing renewable energy beyond the current requirement of 33 percent by 2020, the state's approach to managing the electricity grid needs to evolve to take full advantage of its low - carbon resources.

Across six regions, according to the report, coal provided 55 percent of daily incremental generation, and the study concludes that at least for PJM Interconnection (which manages the electricity grid across 12 Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states as well as DC), «coal provided the most resilient form of generation, due to available reserve capacity and on - site fuel availability, far exceeding all other sources» without which the region «would have experienced shortfalls leading to interconnect - wide blackouts.»

Not exact matches

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

«Most of the turbines are already feeding green electricity into the grid,» Pierre Lestienne, managing director and CFO of Nordsee One, said in a statement.

Because Georgetown's electricity grid is managed by a regional entity, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the city is well - positioned for 100 percent renewable electricity, Edgar said.

Recent studies conclude that while some tech - savvy consumers will line up for smart grid applications for the home, most residential customers are not eager to manage their daily energy use, particularly with electricity prices at relatively low levels.

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

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

Such a transition would require the development of advanced battery and fuel - cell technologies as well as modernization of the electrical grid to manage the increased demand for electricity.

Honda also revealed the Honda Power Management Concept, an integrated transfer system that can distribute electricity to the main grid and manage the power flow coming from renewable energy sources, as well as between a home and an EV.

Non-hydro renewables have not managed to do so to date in any large electricity grid, (hydro can not help; its capacity growth is limited so it will decrease its share of global electricity generation over future decades).

allows assessment of the potential yield of renewable technology to help countries manage electricity supply and plan grid connections.

At the time of the eclipse, California's electricity grid, managed by California Independent System Operator (CaISO) will have over 10,000 megawatts (MWs) of commercially operated, grid - connected solar, an additional 5,800 MW of behind - the - meter rooftop solar, plus hundreds of additional solar MWs located in other states that participate in CaISO's Western energy imbalance market.

Where a business has on - site solar PV systems, Stem's software and analytics tools will automatically manage those customers» use of grid - supplied electricity against their solar production.

It does tell us a couple things about what, where PG&E and also the people who manage the state's electricity grid think things are going to be 10, 15 years down the road.

As part of the Recovery Act, this Administration invested $ 4.5 billion in electricity delivery and energy reliability modernization, with total public - private investment amounting to over $ 10 billion To ensure that all Americans benefit from these smart grid investments, the Administration released a policy framework and a series of new initiatives in June 2011 that will empower consumers with tools to better manage their electricity and cut costs, improve the reliability of the electric grid, and help utilities recover from natural disasters faster.

One question that would remain to be addressed in the future is that of very high rates of solar power on the grid, and how PG&E and the California grid (Cal ISO) would manage the peaks and valleys of electricity production and demand.

«Whether «front of meter» or aggregated customer - sited (behind the meter) storage, energy storage solutions - as part of the electric grid «tool - kit» - not only provide benefits to the environment and the grid, but can also help customers manage electricity costs.»

Five utilities and grid operators have already joined the Energy Imbalance Market, a real - time wholesale power market managed by California's grid operator which allows electricity trading in intervals as small as five minutes.

Examples include refining ways to securely handle radioactive waste from nuclear reactors; testing repositories for carbon dioxide captured at power plants; and, perhaps more important, improving the electricity grid so that it can manage large flows from intermittent sources like windmills and solar panels.

The grid is a network of power plants and transmission lines that work together to deliver electricity to consumers across the U.S. Because electricity is always in demand, the grid is constantly operating, and grid operators carefully manage its energy output to meet demand by turning power plants on and off.

Allow assessment of the potential yield of renewable technology to help countries manage electricity supply and plan grid connections.

The Little Crow Solar Farm, earmarked for land adjacent to a steel works in Lincolnshire, will also boast a 50MW battery storage facility to help manage when electricity is distributed to the local grid.

We're designing smarter grids that make it easier than ever to manage different forms of electricity, creating increasingly better batteries to store it, and improving the efficiency of our buildings and machines to use less of it in the first place.

Cisco has made the smart grid a primary focus for the company, and has determined that they want to be the leader when it comes to technology used for managing electricity.

Tyler Hamilton at Clean Break thinks that the «momentum is on the side of battery technology and the infrastructure to support it needs to be extended and upgraded, instead of created from scratch» and «millions of «smart» electric cars plugged into the grid can offer an extremely valuable way of managing electricity supply and demand and smoothing out peaks.»

On their own, most people would probably recharge their EV at night, and with a smart grid, it would be easy to better manage and coordinate charging so that spare capacity is used first (which would also be good for drivers since - if there's a time - of - use rate - they would charge up when electricity is cheaper).

Earlier this year, the company announced a partnership with V2Green, which is developing the software for managing electricity flow between the grid and the cars (see Move to Greener Cars Accelerates).

First, in the case of electricity, only the power sources need replacement; power grids — the poles, wires and other gear that transport electricity — must be managed differently, but not rebuilt from scratch.

By installing more energy storage technologies like solar batteries, electric utilities and grid operators can more easily manage the flow of electricity from renewable resources.

With a growing expectation that EVs will someday represent a significant share of the car market, the government and utilities are using this study and others to learn how to manage growing electricity loads through maximizing the growing amount of renewable energy on the grid.

I recently wrote about the real - world applications of this, from managing smart electricity grids, to managing the flow of capital in crowd - funding projects, to disrupting social media.