Sentences with phrase «national electric grids»

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?

He championed replacing older power grids with a national electric grid that could easily ferry electricity from solar and wind farms across the country.

The report measures investment in terms of how much wind energy capacity was built and connected to the national electric grid.

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.

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.