Sentences with phrase «national utility grids»

While it might have been possible for Nest as a stand - alone company to be an acceptable vendor in this market, there is no way in Hell any local, regional or national government in any country in the post-Snowden world outside the USA will allow Google to go anywhere near their national utility grids.

As we develop new sources of energy and electricity, we will also need to modernize our national utility grid so that it's accommodating to new sources of power, more efficient, and more reliable.

Not exact matches

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.

The bigger hurdle to realizing the study's vision of a national grid, however, may be persuading policymakers, utilities investors, and landowners that it's a good idea, says Susan Tierney, a former U.S. assistant secretary of energy under President Clinton who's currently an energy consultant at the Analysis Group in Boston.

Our national grid (and our local utilities) are not set up to handle distributed, intermittent generation.

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?

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.

-- 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.

IMPACTS ASSESSMENT OF PLUG - IN HYBRID VEHICLES ON ELECTRIC UTILITIES AND REGIONAL U.S. POWER GRIDS PART 1: TECHNICAL ANALYSIS Michael Kintner - Meyer Kevin Schneider Robert Pratt Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Operated for the U.S. Department of Energy by Battelle Memorial Institute under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830

The EEG required utility companies to plug all renewable power producers, down to the smallest rooftop solar panel, into the national grid and buy their power at a fixed, slightly above - market rate that guaranteed a modest return over the long term.

The California - based provider of off - grid solar power in Africa rounded off an excellent 2016 for the company with a further $ 7.5 million in debt financing and a partnership with Rwanda's national utility company, off the back of further expansion plans across Africa.

When the plan was drawn up in 2010, solar was limited to a few isolated panels on domestic rooftops, and until recently contributed nothing to the national power grid operated by the state - owned utility Eskom.

Net metering requires your utility to only bill you when your solar system outputs less to their grid than what your home pulls from the grid and surplus energy is credited at the National grids retail rate.