Although Bennett believes in most cases that the market should decide appropriate technology paths, he makes an exception in the case of
the national electric grid.
The report measures investment in terms of how much wind energy capacity was built and connected to
the national electric grid.
He championed replacing older power grids with
a national electric grid that could easily ferry electricity from solar and wind farms across the country.
Solar is making a difference — But shouldn't America's utility industry be working hand - in - hand to help our solar industry prosper while building a sustainable
national electric grid infrastructure?
Not exact matches
To my mind, the main point of the new paper by Caldeira and team is: we can get 80 % of our
electric needs from solar, hydro, and wind power (if a low - loss
national grid is built for America).
Banking is part of the nation's financial infrastructure, which is to say that it's part of the overall
national infrastructure in much the same way the interstate highway system and the
electric power
grid are.
If the U.S.
electric grid operated as it did in the 2000s with coal as king then annual
national emissions would be 475 million metric tons of CO2 higher.
The next President must make a
national low - loss
electric grid an imperative.
He has made numerous regional and
national presentations on integrated resource planning, demand - side management, smart
grid and other
electric industry related topics.
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.
New white paper describes collaborative approach to
grid transformation Vote Solar, a
national nonprofit working to advance clean energy in state legislative and regulatory forums, released a white paper today on the critical role of policymakers in the transition toward a modern
electric grid.
Directs FERC to: (1) adopt, within a year,
national electricity
grid planning principles derived from such policy to be applied in transmission planning that may implicate interstate transmission of electricity; (2) encourage regional planning entities to cooperate and coordinate across regions and harmonize regional
electric grid planning with planning in adjacent or overlapping jurisdictions; (3) seek to ensure that planning is consistent with the
national electricity
grid planning principles; (4) require regional planning entities to submit initial regional
electric grid plans within 18 months of FERC promulgating such principles and to update such plans every three years; and (5) report to Congress within three years on the results of the initial regional
grid planning process.
-- Not later than 3 months after the date of adoption by the Commission of
national electricity
grid planning principles pursuant to paragraph (1), entities that conduct or may conduct transmission planning pursuant to State, tribal, or Federal law or regulation, including States, Indian tribes, entities designated by States and Indian tribes, Federal Power Marketing Administrations, transmission providers, operators and owners, regional organizations, and
electric utilities, and that are willing to incorporate the
national electricity
grid planning principles adopted by the Commission in their
electric grid planning, shall identify themselves and the regions for which they propose to develop plans to the Commission.
The North American
Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and regional
grid operators say U.S.
grid reliability is not at risk in the short term, but Walker said those entities may not «have the visibility or the proper information to determine if something is a
national security issue.»
Moving to the highly efficient gas -
electric hybrids with a plug - in capacity, combined with the construction of thousands of wind farms across the country, feeding electricity into a
national grid, will give us the energy security that has eluded us for decades.
Siemens AG, General
Electric Co. and ABB Ltd. make
grid - control gear and interconnections that link
national systems, allowing power from wind and solar farms to be spread over wider regions.
It would also be an excellent way to transfer some of the country's dependence on oil to the
national resources we use to power the
electric power
grid.
A new study by the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory looked at the impact that plug - in hybrids (and indirectly,
electric cars) might have on the US electricity
grid in the next few decades.
She has a small hydro -
electric plant developed on a stream in the estate forest that generates enough to supply electricity to the 1,000 residents in the area with the excess sold to the
national grid.