Sentences with phrase «of national grids»

Dagva references the «Asian Super Grid,» the vision of Japan's SoftBank Chairperson and CEO Masayoshi Son for the interconnection of the national grids of Mongolia, China, Russia, South Korea, and Japan, powered by renewable energy.

Some local politicians have also come out in favor of the idea, backing the formation of a national grid company with public investment.

The bigger hurdle to realizing the study's vision of a national grid, however, may be persuading policymakers, utilities investors, and landowners that it's a good idea, says Susan Tierney, a former U.S. assistant secretary of energy under President Clinton who's currently an energy consultant at the Analysis Group in Boston.

The vulnerability was hinted at during last year's monsoon as a devastating landslide on Aug. 2 put five hydroelectric power plants out of commission, taking 66.5 megawatts of generation out of our national grid.

The issue has also prompted calls for the creation of a national grid company with public investment, and many — among them, power companies and pro-industry politicians — recognize its possible benefits.

Electrification occurs primarily through extension of the national grid.

On the topic of BS people should be aware also of the false statement made by show host Andrew O'Keefe, at approximately the 6:15 minute mark, that wind contributes about 7 % of national grid energy.

Not exact matches

Immediately, though, the companies are focusing on expanding a national grid of rental hubs.

National Mining Association President Hal Quinn said the commission's «disappointing lack of action» comes on the heels of a cold snap that demonstrated the value that coal provides to power grids.

It's not too late to take the pulpit and set a goal of building infrastructure for a national power grid, maglev [magnetic levitation] rail trains or even an Arctic research station.

(p. 154) That kind of planning will help Canada to take full advantage of our existing clean power resources, and we're going to need to make smart grid and transmission investments under a national climate plan.

Ontario is the latest customer to line up to purchase Newfoundland and Labrador's growing supply of hydroelectricity in a move that could one day lead to a «national grid.»

My two greatest passions are getting off the grid (camping adventures are my jam — I kind of have a thing for national parks), and creating delicious, wholesome recipes to share with you.

In an echo of Gordon Brown's decision to grant independence to the Bank of England, Balls wants to hand long term planning and infrastructure projects (the national grid, high - speed broadband, that sort of thing) to a non-governmental body.

Under the Rural Electrification Programme, 289 out of a targeted 2,185 communities were connected to the national grid with other projects at various stages of completion.

The materials were supplied under the Self Help Electrification Project (SHEP) somewhere mid last year (2016) for purpose of getting some villages within the Chereponi district connected to the national grid of which works were started to a greater magnitude but were subsequently halted after last December elections.

The aim of the event was to enhance the capability of the Ghanaian power sector to address the challenges of integrating renewable energy resources like wind, solar and hydropower in the national grid.

In 2018, a total of 1,796 communities will be connected to the national grid

However, the country has seen some stability in the power sector since the arrival of an emergency power barge from Turkey and some independent power producers (IPPs) which contribute to the national grid.

He said the completion of the phase will see the addition of three hundred and 60 megawatts of gas fired power to the national grid.

He outlined a number of projects being undertaking by the district and mentioned that about 36 communities in the district have been earmarked to be connected to the national grid.

GRIDCo during the arrival of the barge on November 28 promised to connect the plant to the national grid within a week.

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Sagnarigu, Alhaji A.B.A Fuseini has promised to connect every town in his constituency to the national power grid before the December 7 general elections.

Chief Executive of GRIDCO, Engineer William Amuna in a Citi News interview said his outfit is ready to feed into the national grid with power generated by the barge since the various tests needed on the facility have been carried out.

And it has been reported that the Nigerian government has had to budget N837m (around # 2.5 million) last year for fuelling and maintaining generators for its offices in 2014 as a result of being unable to rely on the national grid for power.

Addressing the government's pledge to supplement the national grid with solar energy, Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper Kwesi Pratt noted on Peace FM's «Kokrokoo» that the initiative is long overdue.

Speaking, General Manager, Siemens, Mr Nasir Giwa said the collaboration would enable the state generate power and become a net exporter of power to the national grid.

In supporting the President's call for the introduction of solar energy to augment the national grid, Mr. Pratt, in an openly unpleasant and carping remark, took a swipe at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).

He said the 26 out of the 140 Krobo communities that were left out in the rural electrification project in some parts of Upper Manya, Yilo Krobo and the middle belt are being connected to the national electricity grid.

The first unit of the phase two project officially came on stream on the national grid on February 16 this year.

Chief Executive of GRIDCO, Engineer William Amuna in a Citi News interview said his outfit is ready to feed into the national grid with power generated by the barge since the various tests needed...

«I am aware that in the last two weeks, the national grid collapsed a number of times.

Designed and constructed by the New York State Power Authority (NYPA) and Office of General Services (OGS), the power grid would run independently — able to provide power in a city - wide blackout while alleviating dependence on the national grid — and will be part of the governor's statewide initiative in Reforming the Energy Vision (REV).

When hooked onto the national grid, the power generated by this barge will help and that will be a good thing, But a lot of work remains to be done including the determination of how much the consumers will pay for the power to be produced by the barge.

With growing risks to the nation's electrical grid from natural disasters and as a potential target for malicious attacks, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) should work closely with utility operators and other stakeholders to improve cyber and physical security and resilience, says a new congressionally mandated report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

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

As of March, according to USAID figures, Power Africa has helped close deals accounting for 4,100 MW of electricity in places like Rwanda, where East Africa's largest solar array began sending 8.5 MW of electricity to the national grid late last year, boosting the country's electricity generation capacity by 6 percent.

The process of circuit design can cover systems ranging from national power grids all the way down to the individual transistors within an integrated circuit.

It all comes down to balancing supply and demand, says mechanical engineer Rob Pratt, who runs the smart grid program at the U.S. Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington.

As the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, at no time during the 5 - year span of the study did the winds die down completely along the hypothetical grid.

That massive impulse blacked out the entire power grid in Quebec in 92 seconds, giving operators «no time to even assess what was happening to the power system, let alone provide any meaningful human intervention,» said John Kappenman, author of a January 2010 report by Metatech Corp. prepared for Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

A team of scientists from the National Institutes of Health has discovered biological mechanisms that appear to prevent damage to the heart muscle's «power grid,» the network of mitochondrial circuits that provide energy to cells.

Much of this flow has now been diverted into Israel's national water grid.

FERC will work with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on the $ 500,000 study to validate the preliminary frequency - response tool developed by the commission to gauge the grid's reliability if large quantities of renewable energy are sent to the system.

Some 25,000 people, from deer hunters on horseback to National Guardsmen, carved the countryside into a grid, wading through briars and swamps to collect more than 84,000 pieces of debris, about a third of the shuttle.

Large - scale storage of low - pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid - scale energy applications offers several advantages over above - ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office.

Stabilizing a future national grid that draws the majority of its power from renewable sources may seem like a tall order for a technology that delivers megawatts, not gigawatts, of power as it is used today, but some industry insiders are confident batteries can rise to the challenge.

Or is the ornery independence of the Texas grid a telling example of how regional differences confront the search for national policies on energy?

This year's milestone shows that renewables are becoming a major source of electricity in the U.S. and can no longer be considered «alternative» energy, said Christopher Clack, CEO of the power grid modeling firm Vibrant Clean Energy and a former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researcher.

Most of the Jordan's flow was redirected by Israel in 1964, when it linked the Sea of Galilee to its water grid, the National Water Carrier.