Sentences with phrase «modern electricity grids»

Just as mosquito nets are no replacement for hospitals, solar lanterns are no replacement for modern electricity grids.

There are important reasons natural gas is the United States» primary fuel for electricity generation — and will be in the years to come, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA): 1) Natural gas is abundantly available — thanks to America's energy renaissance; 2) Natural gas» affordability has made it competitive in the marketplace; and 3) Among all the fuels used for power generation, natural gas is the definition of reliability — uniquely positioned as a fuel to furnish key attributes that ensure the health of the modern electricity grid.

3) Among all the fuels used for power generation, natural gas is the definition of reliability — uniquely positioned as a fuel to furnish key attributes that ensure the health of the modern electricity grid.

**** Promoting Parasitic Power Producers carbon-sense.com Viv Forbes 17 July 2014 Wind and solar are parasitic power producers, unable to survive in a modern electricity grid without the back - up of stand - alone electricity generators such as hydro, coal, gas or nuclear.

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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.»

If this massive bubble of plasma and radiation is aimed right at Earth, it can pose a serious threat to satellite operations and even to power grids on the ground, along with modern civilization that depends on their electricity.

«A smart grid is a complex modern electricity system which utilises sensors, monitoring, communications, and automation, to improve the electricity system,» the team writes.

Writes Gates: «Even if you have never given a moment's thought to how electricity reaches your outlets, I think this book would convince you that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world.

But mark my words, right - wingers will start screaming about compensation when all those shiny new gas - fired power plants they're building are threatened with closure when we start thinking seriously about building a modern grid that can shuttle electricity instead of curtailing renewable generation in one area while simultaneously turning on fossils in another.

Modern biomass - to - energy technology means that locally - sourced biomass can be a clean, reliable and renewable energy source for the future, replacing fossil fuels in local industries and reducing their reliance on electricity grids.

As the legacy electricity grid becomes more modern, flexible, and renewables - focused, even greater carbon reductions will be possible.

This Carbon Tracker report shows how rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks.

LONDON, 13th November 2014 — Rural communities in Africa and India suffering most from a lack of modern energy can exploit the falling costs of renewable power, to access electricity without the need for expensive grid transmission networks, new research by the Carbon Tracker Initiative (CTI) shows.

What these critics fail to recognize is that the contribution made by conventional sources of electricity generation represent a historical legacy — they do not reflect modern investments in the electricity grid.

As Saunders and his colleagues observe in their journal article, «This was the case in the UK in 1700, is the case in the undeveloped world not on grid electricity in modern times, and is the case for the developed world in modern times using the most advanced lighting technologies.»

An excellent study by Joe Wheatley of the relatively isolated all Ireland grid, EifrGrid, which has negligible hydro, negligible interconnectors to UK, no nuclear and a mix of modern CCGT, coal, peat and CHP plants, and 17 % of electricity generated by wind power in 2011, found that wind was just 53 % effective at reducing CO2 emissions per MWh.

Rooted in core knowledge of modern turbines and wind parks, combined with wind and irradiation resources and / or electricity storage, Vestas possess the know - how necessary to right - size hybrid power plants relative to project business case, while fulfilling grid requirements.

Our electricity grid is at once an incredible modern marvel and a staggeringly vulnerable piece of critical infrastructure.