Sentences with phrase «new transmission lines»

So we are talking about potentially tens of thousands of miles of new transmission lines to ultimately move large amounts of wind, solar and other resources to loads.

As I travel around I see new transmission lines and generating plants coming up.

But even without new transmission lines, more wind farms are in the works.

Also the larger installation does not take into effect new transmission lines.

So, included in the cost calculation is the cost of this imported dispatchable solar, plus the cost of building new transmission lines from these sunny regions to Germany.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 granted the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission the authority to approve and issue siting permits for new transmission lines in areas designated by the Department of Energy as National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors (NIETC).

Yes, but probably not without the $ 60 billion investment in new transmission lines recommended by the American Wind Energy Association.

«Infrastructure changes such as new transmission lines have also allowed developers to install large wind farms and connect them to population centers,» Comstock said.

The new generation sources require new transmission lines as the sources of power are dramatically reconfigured based on «good wind» and similar locational characteristics that have not mattered before.

Perhaps the state's most striking advance was the approval by the Public Utility Commission of Texas in 2005 of a plan to build a matrix of new transmission lines across west and central Texas to tap the full potential of its wind power.

Electric generating units that produce electricity intermittently, such as windmills, would not justify the cost of constructing new transmission lines.

The state Public Service Commission has pursued a contingency plan to replace Indian Point's 2,000 megawatts of clean power with new transmission lines as well as plants fired with natural gas.

Utilities can install new transmission lines or rely on flexible natural gas, which is essentially the biggest competitor for energy storage.

Putting solar arrays on rooftops, parking lots, and urban brownfields need not contribute to energy sprawl at all while generating significant energy close to where it is needed, eliminating the sprawl precipitated by new transmission lines.

Canadian exporters are attempting to tap this market through six new transmission line projects that are in various stages of planning and construction.

The delay in building new transmission lines capable of moving upstate's surplus power downstate was putting jobs and tax revenue at risk, said Phil Wilcox, a spokesman for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

The idea is to expand the grid from the top down by adding thousands of miles of robust new transmission lines, while enhancing communication from the bottom up with electronics enabling millions of homes and businesses to optimize their energy use.

Such hang - ups make even President Obama's modest goal of adding 3,000 miles of new transmission lines look wishful.

The commission released a new rule on June 17 that would require that mandates for renewable energy — enacted in 36 states nationwide — be taken into account when determining where and when new transmission lines get installed.

Utilities like CMP will be happy to spend billions on unnecessary new transmission lines to accommodate the useless wind projects.

Figuring out these energy zones would help to determine where new transmission lines should go.

Expensive new transmission lines to disparate and remote areas.

Either all extra costs are allocated to wind power, or only part of the extra costs are allocated to wind power — grid reinforcements and new transmission lines often benefit also other consumers or producers and can be used for many purposes, such as increase of reliability and / or increased trading.

But the agency also said the costs of adding more renewable energy would be difficult to estimate because new transmission lines would likely be needed, and the state already rejected the Northern Pass transmission project.

While expanded eminent domain power was likely to be unpopular among some lawmakers, he expected the cost - sharing provision to ease opposition from states that otherwise would have had to shoulder the majority of the costs for new transmission lines.

There is growing evidence that the costs may be too high — that the price tag for purchasing renewable energy, and for building new transmission lines to deliver it, may not only outweigh any environmental benefits but may also be detrimental to the economy, costing jobs rather than adding them.

It's great to see a net - zero building code, a national zero - emission vehicle strategy, and plans to make Canada's clean power go further with new transmission lines.

Another big road block is resistance from local landowners and governments to placement of new transmission lines from high wind and solar, much of it in the central US, to high population areas of the east and west.

People are just waking up to the fact of the hidden costs, monetary and visual as new transmission lines are required beause these new rural power stations are nowhere near where the existing transmission lines are.

Large numbers of new transmission lines in politically unstable areas would have to be built to handle the massive power load, and the desert - generated power would have to travel thousands of miles to its destination, adding to its final cost.

Progress on Western Power's $ 443 million Mid West energy project is continuing after infrastructure group Downer was awarded a $ 175 million contract to construct a new transmission line to upgrade the

The Province of Quebec has boosted its installed capacity of clean hydroelectric power, but getting it to U.S. markets requires a new transmission line across New Hampshire that some environmentalists oppose.

New transmissions lines would be needed.

The administration is pushing for new transmission lines that will help bring additional power to the area to replace some of what will be lost if Indian Point's 2,000 megawatts are taken offline.

«Everything we're saying should be done if Indian Point should be shut down — should be done anyway,» he said, referring to proposals for cleaner and more efficient technology and new transmission lines.

He maintains that some combination of new generators and new transmission lines could be ready in time to cope with summer 2016, the first peak demand period that power - hungry New York City and Long Island would face without both reactors.

Cheap land, incentives helped fuel Texas boom Texas in particular is experiencing both a wind and solar boom, called a «land rush» by some, in part because of the completion of 3,600 miles of new transmission lines that can bring renewable energy from West Texas where it is being generated to the metropolitan areas in East Texas where it is in demand.

One - time payments are not enough Minnkota has offered some landowners a one - time payment of $ 37,000 a mile for the new transmission line, Weckerly said.

This demand would otherwise prompt construction of a new coal - fired plant, Minnkota contends, but the new transmission line makes this unnecessary.

Already, FERC is rewriting the rules for new transmission lines, potentially making it easier to permit new electricity - carrying capacity — and, as a result, unleashing the development of more renewable resources.

After the grid's privatization in the 1980s, new transmission lines were built catering to specific projects — particularly energy - hungry mines in the north.

They estimated that the cost of the new transmission lines required, for example, could be hundreds of billions of dollars.

Local resistance has prevented the building of new transmission lines to bring power from the north to New York City and its suburbs.

And wind turbines are hundreds of miles from electricity customers, so all those new transmission lines will really whack our light bills.

New transmission lines from Canada?