Sentences with phrase «national electricity problems»

Prof George Gyan - Baffour touched on power supply to the factory in the face of national electricity problems.

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A future hydrogen economy could use the gas as an energy carrier As this method doesn't produce oxygen which needs to be kept separate from hydrogen, safety from explosion of the two gases is much less of a problem with electricity in the national grids carried by ageing cables, it would be useful to replace them by passing the hydrogen along gas pipes used currently for natural methane gas.

Lack of access to electricity is a problem that affects 1.3 billion people worldwide and 3 % of the Mexican population, more than 3 million people (National Census).

But he wholly fails to explain what the implications of the variability problem is (the need for overbuild of generation capacity and expensive / unfeasible large - scale energy storage), nor whether, if an effort is made to deal practically with these problems in real national electricity grids, the «increasingly cheaper» renewables will ever become cheap enough (when all relevant real - world factors are considered) and reliable enough (without natural gas «backup»), to actually substitute for and displace fossil fuels (or nuclear) at the scale required.

The UK's National Grid has agreed with its Norwegian counterpart Statnett to draw up proposals for a # 1 bn grid - interconnector grid link - up, to be funded on a 50:50 basis, which could help solve the problem of winds intermittency, given that Norwegian hydro could act as back - up for the UK, in return for electricity from the UK on windy days.

The only way to solve this problem is to allow the use of green electricity imports for the fulfilment of national targets.