Sentences with phrase «of electricity transmission»

Arizona Public Service (APS) announced Wednesday that rather than rebuild miles of electricity transmission lines, it will install two battery storage systems totalling 8MWh in rural Punkin Center, Arizona — making it one of the first electricity companies in the US to utilise batteries instead of traditional infrastructure.

All this, also on November 4, led TSOs to operate the system closer and closer to its limits according to current security criteria based on system physics that will therefore remain of decisive relevance for a secure operation of the electricity transmission infrastructure.

Unbundling the electricity industry has resulted in the establishment of various arrangements of electricity transmission ownership and system operation.

(3) substantial increases in the efficiency of electricity transmission, distribution, and consumption;

The views from the top over the surrounding countryside is impressive, save for a couple of electricity transmission towers.

Not exact matches

The pair split the gas and electricity sectors so we got a monopoly, Western Power — the former SECWA's electricity transmission / distribution, generating and sales arms — and, initially, two separate publicly - owned monopolies, Alinta Gas, owners of the gas distribution across Perth, and the Dampier - to - Bunbury natural gas pipeline (DBNGP).

To give one example, the U.K.'s National Grid — which operates the electricity transmission network in England, Wales and Scotland — says its networks are made up of approximately 4,474 miles of overhead line, 932 miles of underground cable, and 342 substations.

• Elliott Management Corp, is making an offer of $ 18.5 billion for Oncor Electric Delivery Company, a Dallas, Texas - based regulated electricity transmission and distribution company, according to Reuters.

The European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO - E), which runs the grid powering 25 separate European countries, disclosed recently that «frequency deviations» in power supply have been experienced across the network since mid-January.

And there has been no more fundamental, epoch - making modern innovation than the large - scale commercial generation, transmission, distribution and conversion of electricity.

Alternatively, as has also been an issue in the context of the switch to smart electricity grids, where the transmission system owner remains part of a vertically integrated firm, it has an incentive to implement network upgrades in a manner that excludes third parties from the competitive segments.

It's a small change that speaks to the larger shifts that he's pushing through, including the partial sale of Hydro One, Ontario's electricity and transmission and distribution utility.

Think of an app as a toaster, and HashiCorp's services as the transmission lines that carry power to the toaster — except, instead of connecting electronics to electricity, HashiCorp helps the internet of things stay connected to the cloud servers that keep products and services running.

Instead, the net metering rate will be set at wholesale prices — even though the utility doesn't have to pay for any of the solar panels» hardware or maintenance, and transmission costs are negligible, since the electricity is being generated close to where it is used.

Energy Future Holdings Corp. manages a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries consisting of TXU Energy, a competitive electricity retailer, Luminant, a competitive power generation business, including mining, wholesale marketing and trading, and construction, and Oncor, a regulated electric distribution and transmission business.

The most recent data from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) finds that a cost - shift does not occur until distributed solar penetration reaches 10 % of electricity sales, and even then that the impact is minimal compared to other drivers of rate increases, like new gas plants or transmission lines.

TransGrid is the manager and operator of the major high voltage electricity transmission network in NSW and the ACT, connecting generators, distributors and major end users.

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

At that St. John's meeting, premiers signed on to the Canadian Energy Strategy, which was parsed predominantly for its stance on pipelines and action on reducing hydrocarbon emissions, but also included language on better co-ordination of clean - energy electricity transmission across Canada.

CUPE Ontario president Fred Hahn says the suit is aimed at stopping the sale of any more shares in the giant electricity transmission utility while the province is still the majority shareholder.

The cultural effect of inexpensive duplication of words on a page is wholly different from the cultural effect of inexpensive transmission of the moving image by electricity.

As a consequence, 1,650 MW of unanticipated electricity became available in addition to the transmission accommodations, which were already in place.

The technical advantage is that local generation eliminates the enormous losses of wasted heat and long transmission that consume more than half the energy used in electricity generation by fossil fuels or nuclear.

An official of Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), who preferred anonymity, told newsmen that electricity generation had been dwindling due to challenge of accessing gas by generation companies.

Ofgem to tackle market exploitation where companies take advantage of constraints in the electricity transmission grid.

The budget proposes to end a sales - tax exemption for commercial transmission and distribution of gas or electricity bought from energy service companies.

This proposed transmission facility would bring 1000 megawatts of electricity generated from Canadian mega-dams to Queens, NY, where it would power about 1 million homes.

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Many parts of the region have been without electricity supply since 4 pm yesterday due to a fault at one of the GRIDCo transmission stations at Aksosombo, an official of the ECG told Starr News.

The bill would require sponsors of border - crossing oil pipelines and electricity transmission facilities that cross the U.S. borders into Canada and Mexico to receive a «certificate of crossing» from the relevant federal agency in order to build or modify their projects.

Don Jessome, president and CEO of Transmission Developers Inc., the company that would build the line, said in a statement that his firm «looks forward to working with all stakeholders to further the development of the fully - permitted... project to deliver clean, low cost electricity generated from renewable resources to southeastern New York.»

A study by the New York Affordable Reliable Electricity Alliance found that New York's wholesale electricity market prices (that is the price of fuel itself) went down by nearly 30 percent since 2008, but state energy taxes shot up 168 percent and transmission fees rose 55 percent over the exact same tElectricity Alliance found that New York's wholesale electricity market prices (that is the price of fuel itself) went down by nearly 30 percent since 2008, but state energy taxes shot up 168 percent and transmission fees rose 55 percent over the exact same telectricity market prices (that is the price of fuel itself) went down by nearly 30 percent since 2008, but state energy taxes shot up 168 percent and transmission fees rose 55 percent over the exact same time period.

Kemenanabo said efforts were being made to achieve the target including upgrading of existing electricity transmission stations from 40 to 90 megawatts and ensuring the optimal performance of the second mobile transformer.

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.

Say we do build out wind power in the Dakotas and Wyoming, right along the seam of the eastern and western grid, and build transmission to get that wind -LSB-- generated electricity] to cities?

Offshore wind turbines will line the Atlantic coast; vast solar arrays will cover swaths of the southwestern desert; transmission towers will cradle high - voltage direct current lines and take electricity from the windy Great Plains to the populated coasts.

What kind of scale of transformation are we talking about in order to — as far as the electricity generation transmission goes — effect this change?

The bill's major provisions would, among other things, impose a national renewable electricity standard, overhaul federal financing for «clean energy» projects, establish a suite of efficiency measures, mandate new federal electricity - transmission siting power, and allow wider oil and gas leasing in the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

FERC [the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission] regulates interstate transmission of natural gas — plus oil and electricity — from the standpoint of commerce.

Electricity Transmission Intermittent sources are less troublesome if they feed a bigger grid; a region with 100 scattered installations of wind and solar could count on some average level of input.

The material is a member of a family of copper - oxygen - based superconducting compounds - the cuprates - that are prime candidates for numerous potential high - impact applications, including extremely efficient electricity generation, storage, and transmission across the nation's power grid.

Because the supply is so unreliable, few invest in appliances for heating or cooking, using wood - fired stoves instead, which harm the environment much more than the generation and transmission of electricity would.

In the last week, half the country's 10 general electricity utilities have announced that they would suspend reviews of proposals for new generation from renewable energy producers or take measures to ensure that the addition of that energy does not compromise their transmission and distribution networks.

The largest is the Eastern Interconnection, an extensive complex of transmission lines that stretches from Halifax to New Orleans, with substations that step down the high - voltage electricity to lower levels so that it can be distributed locally along smaller wires.

The result — part of the DOE's exploration of how to get 20 percent of U.S. electricity from wind by 2030 — was a plan for a national, high - voltage transmission backbone.

Transmission lines surrounding the failure spot, already fully taxed, were forced to shoulder more than their safe quota of electricity.

In his 2001 testimony to the congressional committee on energy, Peterson estimated that 10 % of the electricity generated in the United States is lost annually due to the resistance in copper and aluminum power - transmission cables.

This means that best mix of renewable energy generation, storage and transmission components can be found to cover the electricity demand, leading to total electricity cost roughly between 55 and 70 euros per megawatt - hour for all 9 major regions in the world.

Similar bodies, such as Europe's Union for the Coordination of Transmission of Electricity, exist around the world.

Synaptic transmission Electricity signals the release of neurotransmitters, which exit the axon in packets of about 5,000 molecules (lower right).