Sentences with phrase «national grid reported»

At one point after Tropical Storm Irene moved through upstate New York one year ago, national grid reported 156,000 customers without power.

Not exact matches

And it has been reported that the Nigerian government has had to budget N837m (around # 2.5 million) last year for fuelling and maintaining generators for its offices in 2014 as a result of being unable to rely on the national grid for power.

With growing risks to the nation's electrical grid from natural disasters and as a potential target for malicious attacks, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should work closely with utility operators and other stakeholders to improve cyber and physical security and resilience, says a new congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

As the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, at no time during the 5 - year span of the study did the winds die down completely along the hypothetical grid.

That massive impulse blacked out the entire power grid in Quebec in 92 seconds, giving operators «no time to even assess what was happening to the power system, let alone provide any meaningful human intervention,» said John Kappenman, author of a January 2010 report by Metatech Corp. prepared for Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

The CNA Military Advisory Board also released a report in 2015 on the national security grid.

He cited a collaboration between First Solar, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the California Independent System Operator which proved that inverters can be used to support the operation of the grid at a 300 - megawatt solar PV power plant in California, which GTM reported on last year.

Hydrogen Utility chief executive Attilio Pigneri was reported as saying that the project would provide balancing services to the national transmission grid and fast frequency response support to new solar plants under development on the Eyre Peninsula.

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.

The report noted nine alternative actions that local and national grid operators and policymakers in these countries had taken to ease the transition to renewable power.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine published a report last year, commissioned by Congress, on the grid's vulnerabilities, given cyber attacks and natural disasters.

(Some day, a definitive report whose assumptions everyone accepts will replace the multiple analyses that show electricity's well - to - wheel emissions on the national power grid are lower than gasoline, and we won't have to answer that one anymore either.)

Report discusses vehicle - to - grid, its forerunner, vehicle - to - building, and related topics in this major analysis by Ricardo and British - based international electrical distributor National Grid.

The April 3 — released report, «U.S. National Electrification Assessment,» is based on findings by EPRI's Efficient Electrification Initiative, which is exploring how electrification could affect grid operations and planning.

This document brings report the key messages that emerged from the Third International Off - grid Renewable Energy Conference (IOREC 2016), including the importance of (1) mainstreaming off - grid renewable energy in national rural electrification strategies, (2) creating an ecosystem to accelerate deployment, (3) designing dedicated policies and regulations for the off - grid sector, (4) unlocking capital for energy access, (5) identifying the right business models for deploying off - grid renewables, (6) innovating to improve accessibility, reliability and range of electricity services, (7) strengthening the sustainability of energy access efforts and maximizing benefits and (8) harnessing the cross-sector development impact of off - grid renewables.

The German report estimates that it will cost $ 1.1 bn to link Germany's existing wind farms to the national grid if it is to meet its target of producing 20 % of its electricity from renewable sources by 2015.

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

However, none of the three studies addressing the benefits of a US national HVDC grid have been reported as incorporating this factor, despite substantial discussion of their findings.

Announcement made in front of Senate Commission According to recent reports, the national laboratory has begun actively exploring the potential of blockchain applications, especially when it comes down to managing next - generation power grids in the country.

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