Sentences with phrase «of electric grids»

Still, this is an exciting step toward the inevitable disruption of electric grids as we know them.

And it is ratepayers and taxpayers that are actually doomed to end up footing the huge bill first for subsidizing the construction of wind and solar installations, then enduring the resulting unreliability of the electric grids, and finally for their huge disposal costs.

but I think the key technology for global electrification with non-carbon generation is increasing interconnection of electric grids via high voltage DC transmission.

Not only are fuel cells an eco-friendly option because they release almost no emissions, but they are also a self - contained, efficient and reliable source of energy, independent of the electric grid.

Chicago - based Intelligent Generation, one of the startups the Smart Grid cluster supported, has created a software program that connects to the hardware of the electric grid and allows a home or business to capture solar energy, store the energy in batteries and release it to the grid when needed.

A steadily increasing number of people will want to get in on the «new Bitcoin,» a bizarre paradox given that gold is as old as time, and will soon realize that gold possesses virtues Bitcoin does not, given that it is real, not digital and abstract; that owners can personally possess and store it in physical form; that it will survive any kind of electric grid or Internet disruption that might occur; that it can not ever be hacked; that it is the epitome of private, quiet wealth; that it is actually quite beautiful to behold; and that it was not and can not be made by man, only by God, who does not appear to have any interest in making any more of it.

The authority's staff has been reduced by half to fewer than 50, and most operational control of the electric grid has been turned over to PSEG Long Island.

Matthew Cordaro, a former Long Island Lighting Co. executive who is now a LIPA trustee, said the additional pension costs point to the potential pitfalls of the public - private partnership under which LIPA has operated since its 1998 takeover of the electric grid.

While the closure of FitzPatrick would be an economic blow to the region, it would also impact the reliability of our electric grid.

Summer here means finding relief in swimming pools and the air conditioned indoors, which also means squeezing every last electron out of the electric grid while our air conditioners hum.

You'll select from a wide combination of abilities to use against your opponents, where instead of dealing damage you'll try and push them out of the arena, to which the outside area is of an electric grid that would deal massive amount of damage.

Environmentalists will rejoice at this, but the trend is so swift that owners and operators of electric power systems are legitimately worrying about whether the decline of coal will undermine reliability of the electric grid and also make the nation too dependent on natural gas.

These few events point out the vulnerability of an electric grid — any electric grid, whether here in the so - called First World or other parts of the planet, whether today, twenty - seven years ago, or in the early part of the twentieth century.

«Without action that recognizes the essential reliability services provided by a strategically diversified generation portfolio, we can not guarantee the resilience of the electric grid,» Walker said in his opening testimony.

The enhanced currents can damage or destroy electrical transformers, causing a cascade of power failures across a large portion of the electric grid.

One of the attractions of the fuel cells is their reliability, which may be greater than that of the electric grid.

CCS is a real technology, but «it's real in the same way that stem cell medicine is real,» Maggie Koerth - Baker wrote in Before the Lights Go Out, a fine recent study of the electric grid.

«This is going to be a very, very lengthy restoration... what we think we'll see on the west coast is a wholesale rebuild of our electric grid.»

If Americans want to improve the reliability of the electric grid, lower electricity costs, and increase prosperity, then renewable energy subsidies must be eliminated.»

These changes, implemented through updates to «Rule 21,» require that inverters have certain capabilities to help ensure proper operation of the electric grid as more and more renewables are connected.

However, it also presents new challenges for the management of the electric grid, which was originally built for one - way flows of power from power plants to the grid and then to consumers.

Flood mapping of five major metropolitan regions suggests that if critical components of the electric grid are insufficiently protected, they risk inundation and the flood damage and failure that can ensue.

«They are not compensated for the high reliability that is created because they have many months of fuel on site, something that contributes greatly to the resilience of the electric grid.»

«What the Germans have done in converting almost 30 percent of their electric grid to solar and -LSB-...]

Smart grid technologies provide energy producers and consumers with real - time information and better control of the electric grid, improving energy reliability, reducing energy costs and minimizing greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change.

SOEC can also be applied as a clean and highly efficient solution for storing excess power produced by intermittent technologies when their output exceeds the needs of the electric grid.

«As we look to the future, DOE will focus new solar R&D on the Secretary's priorities, which include strengthening the reliability and resilience of the electric grid while integrating solar energy.»

India's rapid economic growth will increase significantly the electricity demand during the next decades, therefore India needs to make massive investments in order to expand its current installed capacity and to improve the stability of its electric grid.

That plan, however, will increase electricity prices for Americans — both consumers of solar power and consumers of traditional energy that subsidize solar power's use of the electric grid.

As part of the Recovery Act, this Administration invested $ 4.5 billion in electricity delivery and energy reliability modernization, with total public - private investment amounting to over $ 10 billion To ensure that all Americans benefit from these smart grid investments, the Administration released a policy framework and a series of new initiatives in June 2011 that will empower consumers with tools to better manage their electricity and cut costs, improve the reliability of the electric grid, and help utilities recover from natural disasters faster.

What will happen as a result is quite predictable: Greatly increased rates for electric power, decreased availability of the electric power so vital to our way of life, decreased reliability of the electric grid, a lower standard of living, decreased competitiveness of US products in world markets since most countries do not have such regulations, and Communist - style central control of the electric generating industry by a Washington - based bureaucracy with no understanding of the industry.

This started with a expedited study of the electric grid whose conclusion that something needed to be done to protect coal and nuclear power plants from going offline was utterly unsupported in the body of the document.

«Whether «front of meter» or aggregated customer - sited (behind the meter) storage, energy storage solutions - as part of the electric grid «tool - kit» - not only provide benefits to the environment and the grid, but can also help customers manage electricity costs.»

California suffers from «single - fuel dependency» that could increase the state's vulnerabilities during «extreme weather conditions,» says the association of electric grid operators in a new report.

«States are building a new kind of electric grid instead of relying on an old - fashioned grid relying on coal,» said Richard Kauffman, New York's energy czar and one of the chief architects behind New York's Reforming the Energy Vision.

The question is affordability on the scale required to actually impact the nature of the response of the electric grid to added loads, not to mention the scale required to actually displace coal as the primary fuel that it is due to its great abundance and low cost.

The low carbon intensity of the electric grid in Canada and corresponding low embodied carbon of the cell would combine with the high mitigation potential in China to produce an optimized mitigation technology.»

Not exact matches

By 2030, solar - plus - storage could threaten the economic relevance of their distribution grids by making less necessary the connection with the local electric utility.

It's the result of an abused electric grid left to rot — and what's happening in Puerto Rico could happen in many other parts of America.

Rossello highlighted how the island's electrical grid, which was severely dilapidated even prior to the storms, was obsolete and working off of a generation system that was 28 years older than the average electric power utility in the United States.

The new solar farm will provide power to Sierra Pacific Power Co.'s electric grid that serves Apple's data center and when completed will generate about hours 43.5 million kilowatt of clean energy a year, Apple said in a statement.

Programming when electric car chargers start charging and how home devices make use of energy from solar panels versus the grid are two examples he mentioned.

We need companies to invest and people to look at small grid power systems, combinations of wind and diesel, thermal energy, hydro electric energy things that can be tailored for these individual villages depending on their location.

A lot of money is earmarked for renewable energy projects but almost half has been allocated to energy efficiency and an electric smart grid.

Imagine a world in which most of the vehicles are electric and yet they are powered off the grid by natural gas and solar.

The Midwestern state that launched the political careers of Presidents Lincoln and Obama isn't as well known for its leadership in electric grid technology.

Mining is big business in Canada — and the metals and minerals we're producing are essential to increase the global supply of solar panels, wind turbines, smart grids, LED light bulbs and electric cars.

Currently, households in Africa not connected to the electric grid can spend up to 20 % of their total budgets on kerosene, which is the primary source of light for many of these households.

Despite warnings from staff and ignoring input from lawyers, Puerto Rico's bankrupt utility signed a massive $ 300 million contract on October 17 with a tiny, inexperienced Montana company to rebuild its damaged electric grid in the aftermath of the Hurricane Maria disaster.

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