Sentences with phrase «of electrical power in»

These were sold to Vietnam after the introduction of electrical power in 1941, where they were in operation until the mid-seventies.

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The Bonneville Power Administration, which controls electrical transmission in the American side of the Columbia River basin (and supplies a chunk of B.C.'s power under the Columbia River Treaty), has over the past month ordered wind power producers to curtail their production so as not to overload the grid and harm Power Administration, which controls electrical transmission in the American side of the Columbia River basin (and supplies a chunk of B.C.'s power under the Columbia River Treaty), has over the past month ordered wind power producers to curtail their production so as not to overload the grid and harm power under the Columbia River Treaty), has over the past month ordered wind power producers to curtail their production so as not to overload the grid and harm power producers to curtail their production so as not to overload the grid and harm fish.

It's estimated wind can never supply more than the 19 % of electrical needs it does in the world leader, Denmark, until someone comes up with a way of storing the wind power that blows when we don't need it (for the times when it doesn't), or a way of transmitting electricity over huge distances with minimal line loss.

In July, WWF Scotland said that wind produced enough power to meet, on average, the electrical needs of 124 percent of Scottish homes between January and June of this year.

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.

Solar power still amounts to less than 1 % of the nation's electrical - generating capacity — coal produces about 40 % — and its proportion will stay in the low single digits until it becomes cheaper than fossil fuels.

Given the approach American political leadership has taken to the aftermath of the devastation in Puerto Rico, Musk provided a rare a glimmer of hope when he talked about rebuilding the destroyed electrical grid using solar power — though some have argued that his comments in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria may serve as a distraction from the enormous challenges the island faces.

According to a Georgia Power statement, the utility believes a piece of equipment in an underground electrical facility may have failed, causing the fire.

Engineering services company Thiess has been awarded a $ 125 million contract with Western Power to upgrade and maintain its electrical distribution network in parts of Western Australia.

According to a fascinatingly nerdy deep dive into the subject in the New Yorker, the current mania for the word «hack» all started way back in the 1950s at MIT, where members of the model railroad club were already warning those «hacking on the electrical system turn the power off to avoid fuse blowing.»

On March 24, Premier Shawn Graham stood in New Brunswick's legislative assembly and announced the death of a $ 3.2 - billion deal to sell the key assets of NB Power, the province's electrical utility, to Hydro - Quebec.

INCREASED EFFICIENCY, DECREASED COSTS The multiple preheater reduces electrical power consumption and increases the carbon content of the furnace gas in the smelting process

With a contract now in place between Tesla and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), the battery «will help solve power outages, reduce intermittencies, and manage summertime peak load to support the reliability of South Australia's electrical infrastructure, providing enough power for more than 30,000 homes — approximately equal to the amount of homes that lost power during the blackout period last year,» Tesla said in a statement.

Without limiting the foregoing, under no circumstances shall the Company be held liable for any delay or failure in performance resulting directly or indirectly from acts of nature, forces, or causes beyond its reasonable control, including, without limitation, Internet failures, computer equipment failures, telecommunication equipment failures, other equipment failures, electrical power failures, strikes, labour disputes, riots, insurrections, civil disturbances, shortages of labour or materials, fires, floods, storms, explosions, acts of God, war, governmental actions, orders of domestic or foreign courts or tribunals, non-performance of 3rd - parties, or loss of or fluctuations in heat, light, or air conditioning.

The research of scientists like José Delgado into the ways in which mental and emotional processes can be produced, controlled, or modified by electrical and chemical means raises profound practical questions about the possible use and misuse of such powers.

In the attempt to put a stop to further reactor construction, the antinuclear movement may be tempted to constipate the system — to plug up the radwaste outlet for the nuclear industry — hoping thereby to force a shutdown of electrical power generation.

Many women prefer getting both electrical and manual breast pumps in case of power failure.

CHICAGO — Thousands of Rogers Park residents were in the dark for nearly two hours on Sunday night when electrical power was interrupted in an area loosely bounded by Juneway Terrace on the north, Devon Avenue on the south, Honore Street on the east and McCormick Boulevard on the west, according to police.

Thousands of Rogers Park residents were in the dark for nearly two hours on Sunday night when electrical power was interrupted in an area loosely bounded by Juneway Terrace on the north, Devon Avenue on the south, Honore Street on the east and McCormick Boulevard on the west, according to police.

However, it is always wise to have a manual pump in case of a situation where your electrical power source is unavailable.

In the June 2017 materials, for example, there's an $ 11.5 million contract amendment that includes $ 10.2 million for «the modernization and architectural transformation of the Manhattan and Brooklyn Plazas» of the Brooklyn - Battery Tunnel, including «LED lighting and electrical power distribution upgrades.»

These include: • One of the most technically advanced and cleanest smelters in the world which captures 99.9 per cent of sulphur emissions and generates two thirds of the plant's electrical power • A US$ 10m combined heat and power system that will reduce emissions by 90 per cent compared with separate heat and power systems • A vehicle idling reduction programme that now covers 360 vehicles and has resulted in the avoidance of more than two million gallons of fuel and emissions • New, more efficient trucks with fewer emissions

Solar power is a slowly growing piece of the energy picture in New York while offering jobs possibilities for all of the electrical bits and pieces other than the actual solar panels.

New York state announced Thursday it was sending 28 additional utility experts to assist in the restoration of electrical power, along with a team of accountants to help residents file federal recovery assistance applications.

After last year's announcement that Indian Point, which provides 25 percent of New York City and Westchester's electrical power, will start to close in 2020 and close entirely in 2021, Gov. Andrew Cuomo promised that «the state is fully prepared to replace the power generated by the plant at a negligible cost to ratepayers.»

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.

On hand at the Upstate New York Power Producers, Inc. power plant in Somerset to oppose the Canada - New York City power deal were local representatives from every level of government as well as the local Barker Central School District, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Niagara USA Chamber of CommPower Producers, Inc. power plant in Somerset to oppose the Canada - New York City power deal were local representatives from every level of government as well as the local Barker Central School District, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Niagara USA Chamber of Commpower plant in Somerset to oppose the Canada - New York City power deal were local representatives from every level of government as well as the local Barker Central School District, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Niagara USA Chamber of Commpower deal were local representatives from every level of government as well as the local Barker Central School District, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and the Niagara USA Chamber of Commerce.

Indian Point produces 2,000 megawatts of electrical power — about a quarter of the power used in New York City and Westchester County.

PSEG, who took over from LIPA, then attempted to convince the Shelter Island Town Board that building an electrical substation here was in the best interests of the Island for reliable back up power.

In much the same way that power lines are affected, long connected structures can experience large voltage differentials from one area to the next, leading to the flow of unwanted electrical current.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

These neutral hydrogen atoms might also signal the approach of solar storms — gusts in the solar wind that can disrupt satellites, radio communications, and electrical power grids.

To keep up with the rise of wind and solar power, Europe's electrical grid needs to get stronger and smarter, a demand that will be difficult to meet in an era of weak economies and tight budgets

The disability score ranged from 0 (no disability) to 88 (severely disabled) and incorporated measurements of sensation, muscle power, tendon reflexes and electrical activity in the leg nerves.

Within these countries, nuclear energy contributes on average 24 percent of their total electrical power, ranging as high as 72 percent in France.

The intense light pulses, with a peak power that briefly exceeds the electrical generating capacity of the entire United States, also sparked fleeting bits of antimatter in their wake.

To explore a future in which the United States powers itself both independently and cleanly, DISCOVER teamed up with the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to organize a series of briefings on Capitol Hill.

This is an illustration demonstrating a vehicle driving over a series of charging plates in the road to draw electrical power.

Now in its fourth round of awards, ARPA - E allocated $ 156 million to 60 projects grouped in five focus areas: Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO), Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies for Energy (REACT), High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS), Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) and Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (Solar ADEPT).

Backup power was needed at Fukushima after the magnitude - 9.0 quake struck and the six power lines bringing in offsite electrical power to Fukushima Daiichi were severed, says Michael Weightman, Britain's chief nuclear installations inspector and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency's International Nuclear Safety Group.

«Right now, we're in the range of tens to hundreds of microamperes [the basic unit for measuring an electrical current], which is too low to power most electronic devices,» Guha said.

When electrical power is not available, the rapid milk chiller can cool up to 500 liters of milk using only the thermal energy stored in the battery.

For several years, a team of researchers at The University of Texas at Dallas has investigated various materials in search of those whose electrical properties might make them suitable for small, energy - efficient transistors to power next - generation electronic devices.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In the tests, the amount of electrical power generated is small: Voltages are about 0.2 volts, and currents about 2 milliamps, Nicolau says.

Wireless power transfer technology may find use in a wide range of applications beyond powering electric vehicles, said Xiaofang Yu, an electrical engineer and postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University who led the research.

In his system, Krupenkin runs this process backwards, using the changing physical form of liquid drops between dielectric - coated plates to generate charge and therefore electrical power.

Former Vice President Al Gore's vision, for example, of creating 100 percent carbon - neutral electrical power in the next decade might be one such challenge — and something Gore specifically likened to a «moon shot» — requiring commitments, coordination and funding at every level of the public and private sectors.

In this work, we present a new kind of light source that is more efficient than what's available today in terms of power consumption and speed,» said Babak Bahari, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student in Kanté's lab and a co-author of the studIn this work, we present a new kind of light source that is more efficient than what's available today in terms of power consumption and speed,» said Babak Bahari, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student in Kanté's lab and a co-author of the studin terms of power consumption and speed,» said Babak Bahari, an electrical engineering Ph.D. student in Kanté's lab and a co-author of the studin Kanté's lab and a co-author of the study.

Finally, Yoichi Ando and colleagues at the Central Research Institute of the Electric Power Industry in Tokyo, Japan, report that in nonsuperconducting LSCO and YBCO, the electrical resistance is smaller for current flowing in the direction in which the stripes are thought to run.