Sentences with phrase «new electricity grid»

«One of the most important infrastructure projects that we need is a whole new electricity grid.

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At an energy summit meeting Monday, the EU yet again watered down an initiative to end the regulation of electricity prices and gave grid operators powers to stop new entrants encroaching on their businesses.

Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy — a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.

(Reuters)- Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy — a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.

The program is currently supporting construction of new nuclear units that add emissions free electricity capacit to our grid, and help strengthen our diversity.

Tesla founder Elon Musk says he can build a new and more efficient grid that would use solar power to generate electricity.

The rollout of «smart grid» systems and new energy storage technologies can strengthen Canada's reputation as a leader in clean electricity.

The $ 127 million in new projects are dependent on upgrades to regional infrastructure, particularly energy, and Murray Goulburn is looking for government support for gas connectivity and to improve the electricity grid.

Together with our partners, we work to add new generation capacity, connect homes, hospitals and businesses to the electricity grid and deliver power to communities who live beyond the national grid,» remarked Mr. Hendrix.

NRG, Reliant and Brookfield can plan on earning big profits in New York because of the way the state's power grid buys electricity, Norlander said.

As natural gas gets diverted for home and other heating this winter, the head of New England's electricity grid is warning about possible future risks to the region's power.

Once the pipeline is complete, the Valley Energy Center will begin to reduce the region's overall emissions, protect and enhance the reliability of the region's electric grid, and start saving New York's energy consumers more than an estimated $ 600 million in electricity costs annually.»

«The issues that must be addressed include: grid reliability, electricity costs, toxic emissions and related air pollution, attracting major investors for new energy sources and helping the impacted communities,» said Jerry Kremer, the chairman of New York Affordable Reliable Electricitelectricity costs, toxic emissions and related air pollution, attracting major investors for new energy sources and helping the impacted communities,» said Jerry Kremer, the chairman of New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliannew energy sources and helping the impacted communities,» said Jerry Kremer, the chairman of New York Affordable Reliable Electricity AllianNew York Affordable Reliable ElectricityElectricity Alliance.

Hawkins» «New Green Deal,» a cornerstone of his last campaign, proposes an interconnected, state - wide green energy grid to lower electricity costs, create energy independence and boost employment.

The continuing demand for electricity in the summer's unrelenting heat wave is pushing New York's power grid hard.

We waste, I think, something like eight percent of our electricity in New York state alone just because of a faulty electric grid.»

Peculiarities of the electricity system in New York State, including its unusual independent status, would make it difficult and expensive to replace electricity from the Indian Point nuclear power plant if Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo succeeds in shutting it down, experts on the grid warn.

The line would bisect a national forest and (like any grid expansion) could also facilitate new deliveries of coal - fired electricity.

The benefits will include greater grid reliability, integration of solar rooftop generation and plug - in vehicles, reductions in electricity demand, and stronger cybersecurity, according to a new study by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).

A new study aims to find out how much electricity from wind and sunshine the aging power grid can support

After all, the 10 RGGI states are connected to a national grid for power that can allow, for example, cheaper, dirtier power from coal - fired power plants in Ohio to substitute for reduced electricity production at a coal plant in New York State.

The U.S. electricity infrastructure is sorely in need of modernization; whatever our choice for generation, we must invest in a newer, more efficient electricity grid.

With these homes making their own electricity, utilities lose their most lucrative customers and confront a dwindling base over which to spread big infrastructure costs, like building new power plants or maintaining the grid.

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

A new survey of consumer attitudes released today by Accenture indicates that U.S. consumers are more interested in smart grid applications that save them money and automate the management of their electricity use, rather than giving them direct control over heating, cooling and appliances as prices fluctuate during the day.

It has sent its first kits to off - grid villages in Africa, where they provide a new source of clean, affordable electricity after just 2 hours of assembly.

Other new technologies — such as micro grids that generate and store power for individual neighborhoods and automatic switches that can find open lines when some lines go down — can also help keep the electricity flowing.

The budget also includes a request to fund three new Energy Innovation Hubs, which would focus on electricity storage, smart - grid technologies and critical energy materials such as rare metals used in solar panels.

Not only would major new wind farms and photovoltaic arrays have to be constructed there, but the entire electric grid would have to be upgraded and reconfigured to bring that electricity to the population centers where it is needed.

Several states — including California, New York, and Connecticut — are rewriting their utility rules so individuals or companies can sell electricity (from a fuel cell or other private power source) back into the grid.

A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a new type of battery that could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy sources such as wind and solar far more economical and reliable.

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

Alex Morgan, Wind Energy Analyst at Bloomberg New Energy Finance, will be presenting BNEF's New Energy Outlook for 2017 and the vision for the electricity grid of the future at this year's CanWEA Annual Conference and Exhibition.

Argonne researchers are working to create new, more powerful technology for long - distance transmission of renewable electricity, to balance rural supply and urban demand, and to integrate wind - and solar - generated electricity into the grid.

The new school will generate 10 per cent of its energy requirements using a biomass wood pellet burning boiler to provide heating, and a photovoltaic array to generate additional electricity to the grid.

«In sharp contrast to the glacial pace with which the levees were repaired and the electricity grid brought back online, the auctioning - off of New Orleans» school system took place with military speed and precision,» writes Naomi Klein in her landmark 2007 book The Shock Doctrine.

Using V2G - technology, peak demand on the electricity grid can be better balanced, by allowing electric vehicles to not just take power from the grid, but also return it to the network and expect to introduce a new potential earnings model for electric drivers.

Gamers can now scavenge materials from their surrounding to make new weapons, armor and even survivor settlements, complete with electricity and defense grids to ward off the random raider attack.

I myself have been accused of being a paid shill for the coal industry, because I argued that rapidly deploying solar and wind energy technologies, along with efficiency and smart grid technologies, is a much faster and much more cost effective way of reducing GHG emissions from electricity generation than building new nuclear power plants.

But mark my words, right - wingers will start screaming about compensation when all those shiny new gas - fired power plants they're building are threatened with closure when we start thinking seriously about building a modern grid that can shuttle electricity instead of curtailing renewable generation in one area while simultaneously turning on fossils in another.

The ONLY way they will ever have electricity is with distributed renewable energy, principally photovoltaics — which are vastly less expensive than building a whole new grid - based electricity generation and distribution infrastructure.

643 SecularA said,» when 100 percent of new electricity generation capacity added to the USA's electric grid is wind and solar.»

We need a new grid, a smart grid, an electricity Internet that is capable of intelligently integrating diverse, centralized and distributed, large and small, baseload and intermittent electricity consumers and providers.

The focal points of our chat were recent papers in which Jacobson and others proposed how New York State could move entirely to renewable energy supplies by 2050, as well as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo «s ambitious Reforming the Energy Vision (or REV) initiative, aimed at making the state's electricity grid cleaner, more resilient and more affordable.

Now, some readers will think this is far - fetched, but I think that in the not - too - distant future the day will come when 100 percent of new electricity generation capacity added to the USA's electric grid is wind and solar.

In the early 2000s, 50 miles from the MO I was helping my good mate (rip) install his self - sufficient solar power system w a battery pack unit which then was big as a car on a trailer, and helped out planting out his small plantation of Olive Trees into the ex-cow paddocks... he and his wife bought a 120 acre ex-cattle farm to regenerate that along the lines of New Age Healing Greenie Principles of Self - Sufficency and Self - Responsibility... they disconnected from the electricity grid as well.

The cumbersome process of providing electricity access through grid extension alone is becoming obsolete as new business models and technologies enable the development of off - grid markets.

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.

The gas industry, the electricity generators and the Independent System Operator — New England, which runs the grid, all say there is a problem, although they are not quite in agreement on how to solve it.

Over the period to 2030, new connections to the grid bring electricity to over half of those that gain access, and offer the most cost - effective means of access in urban areas, but decentralised systems are the most cost - effective solutions for over 70 % of those who gain access in rural areas.