Sentences with phrase «of power grid operators»

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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.

At an energy summit meeting Monday, the EU yet again watered down an initiative to end the regulation of electricity prices and gave grid operators powers to stop new entrants encroaching on their businesses.

Police in the north China city of Tianjin confiscated 600 computers used to mine bitcoin cryptocurrency after the local power grid operator reported abnormal electricity usage, Xinhua reported Wednesday.

Firms mining bitcoin have also taken to moving to remote locations, not registering a company and engaging in the mildly illegal activity of purchasing electricity directly from power producers rather than grid operators.

Renewable energy accounted for 103.6 percent of mainland electricity consumption last month, the report by the Portuguese Renewable Energy Association and the Sustainable Earth System Association said citing data from power grid operator REN.

The generation and pricing patterns that occurred in March and that may continue through the spring highlight some of the issues California grid operators will face in integrating large amounts of solar into their power markets.

The authorities» attention was attracted by the abnormal surge of electricity usage by the local power grid operator.

«What appears to have happened [in Fukushima] is that after the first failure of the first cooling system, as a result of the power cuts from the grid, the back - up diesel generators began to work and began to operate but they were then hit by the tsunami and therefore back - up operators failed to work and it took the staff on site some time to re-establish and improvise cooling which they of course did with the pumping of sea water.»

«I guess he feels in the end this is an excellent scheme,» said Matthew Cordero, a former electric grid operator and a trustee of the Long Island Power Authority.

The idea is that many small power plant operators can feed their electricity into the grid but act as a single power plant using computers to control the level of power.

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.

Electric currents that flow into and out of the ionosphere, which AMPERE monitors, have various effects on it as well as the atmosphere in general that can cause problems with tracking LEO space debris, the use of GPS systems, and even terrestrial power plants — as was the case when a geomagnetic storm took down Quebec's power grid in 1989, Anderson says, adding, «The operators didn't know what was happening.»

If the pattern can be unraveled completely, it could give hours or even days of warning to telecommunications companies, electric power grids, and satellite operators to prepare for these dangerous storms.

«To operate the grid more efficiently and keep fossil reserves at a minimum, operators need to have a better idea of how much wind and solar power to expect at any given time,» says Malte Siefert, a physicist at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology in Kassel, Germany, and a leader on the project, called EWeLiNE.

While investment in China's power grid has risen substantially, the country still has some of the world's highest curtailment rates for renewable energy, meaning thousands of turbines are taken offline, even under optimum wind conditions, because grid operators lack the knowledge and skills to integrate the clean energy with other sources, including baseload power from coal plants.

The sudden loss of electricity supply forced grid operators to cut power to some offices and factories for several hours to prevent statewide blackouts.

New kinds of forecasts available in the demonstration platform help transmission system operators calculate precisely how much wind and solar power will be fed into which grid nodes.

Should there be an excessive peak in electricity demand, grid operators can select which areas of the country will have power cut off.

A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

We look forward to engaging with FERC, DOE, and grid operators in an examination of what resilience of the electric power system means and requires, and to demonstrating the contribution of our industries to ensuring reliable power for all.»

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.

While the DOE's reasoning for linking fuel stores to grid resiliency has been widely criticized for its vagueness and gaps in logic, its idea for a solution is clear: «full cost recovery» for those power plants now playing by the rules of the energy and capacity markets run by interstate grid operators serving about three - quarters of the country.

Meanwhile, distribution grids, which connect smaller renewables installations and conventional power stations, will also require considerable expansion and modernization, the scale of which will depend on specific tasks assigned to the nation's 800 - plus distribution grid operators when developing smart grids.

On a commercial basis, German energy storage provider Sonnen has already launched SonnenCommunity, an energy sharing and trading platform and has separately worked with grid operator TenneT to trial Blockchain - enabled balancing of renewable energy resources across long distances, for instance trading surplus wind generated power in northern Germany for solar generated in the south.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

Forecasting Predicting the power production of a PV plant offers a multitude of benefits to plant owners and grid operators.

Jose Ruiz - Arias looks at the challenges of accurate forecasting across different timescales and in different climate zonesForecasting Predicting the power production of a PV plant offers a multitude of benefits to plant owners and grid operators.

Many other countries also have requirements that grid operators priorities the dispatch of power from renewable sources, even if it is more expensive than coal - fired baseload plants.

Energy companies and regional grid operators filed comments in the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's grid resilience docket on Wednesday, dividing over the role of the federal agency in securing the nation's power infrastructure.

BEIJING (Reuters)- A new Chinese law requires power grid operators to buy all the electricity produced by renewable energy generators, in a move that will increase the proportion of energy that comes from renewable sources in coal - dependent China.

The selected projects address three topics: one project will build a testing framework giving industry and academia the ability to evaluate and compare the performance of solar irradiance and solar power forecasting models; four projects seek to improve solar irradiance predictions; and three projects will examine how to integrate solar forecasting technologies with grid operators» energy management systems.

The August 21 eclipse cut a path across the US, causing concern for power grid operators — especially those with significant amounts of solar power generation.

Enabling wind farm owners and operators to more efficiently and cost - effectively convert wind energy into electricity and supply it to power grids improves the economics of utility - scale wind power.

ERCOT, the grid operator for most of the state, said there should be enough power to go around this summer, even with less room for error.

According to a recent Wall Street Journal op - ed, this is so generous that during hours of low demand wind producers actually pay grid operators to accept their power, just to get the tax break (which can be «carried forward» and used against future tax liabilities for up to 20 years).

-- Not later than 3 months after the date of adoption by the Commission of national electricity grid planning principles pursuant to paragraph (1), entities that conduct or may conduct transmission planning pursuant to State, tribal, or Federal law or regulation, including States, Indian tribes, entities designated by States and Indian tribes, Federal Power Marketing Administrations, transmission providers, operators and owners, regional organizations, and electric utilities, and that are willing to incorporate the national electricity grid planning principles adopted by the Commission in their electric grid planning, shall identify themselves and the regions for which they propose to develop plans to the Commission.

The PJM independent system operator (ISO) said there is no imminent danger to the grid when it was asked about the First Energy bankruptcy filing and First Energy's request of FERC for cost recovery for its nuclear and coal - fired power plants.

In this model, local governments and grid operators can coordinate the output of independent solar arrays and wind farms — which operate intermittently and at different hours — with hydropower, biogas, and other low - carbon resources, thus simulating the output of a 24 - hour power plant.

FERC asked regional grid operators to advise whether there should be additional action to bolster the resilience of the bulk power system.

For rooftop solar to be economically feasible, the owner / operator of a panel needs to be able to sell the power (or excess power) to the electric utilities running the grid.

While the system operators urgently tried to get a second unit warmed up, the frequency of grid power fell from its normal 60 hertz (Hz) to 58 Hz.

Wind often supplies about 20 percent or more of the power in Texas during the windiest parts of the day, according to grid operator Electric Reliability Council of Texas.

What's more, grid operators will need to work with new types of organizations as automakers, retailers and others «with little or no experience in interfacing with the bulk power grid» start to take on the role of aggregator (grouping together 800 - 1,000 plug - in vehicles to provide services like scheduling battery charging based on pricing information and total grid load, or stop charging and reduce load on a targeted basis).

The group of U.S. and Canadian power grid operators who make up the ISO / RTO Council (IRC) and manage most of North America's bulk electric grid, expect 1 million plug - in vehicles could be deployed on the continent within five years to a decade — and they aim to be prepared.

Figure 1 (Left): Example of a coal combustion power plant («Actual Generator Output») poorly following the grid operator's automatic generation control («AGC Command»).

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rightly voted to terminate the rulemaking, instead requesting information from grid operators and the public about how to address the undervaluation of coal and nuclear power generation in electricity markets.

By interfacing with CAISO and PacifiCorp systems across the Northwest, the Idaho Power system will create a stronger link between EIM participants in the the region, facilitating the trade of electricity across greater distances in conjunction with the California grid operator.

The first is modeled on extreme weather conditions based on a long heat wave and devastating drought during the summer of 2011, an event that forced the grid operator to cut power to large industrial users to avoid rolling blackouts.

One problem grid operators face when the grid begins to absorb more wind and solar is that there are times — especially sunny or windy times — when renewables generate more power than the grid can use, and other times when they generate only a fraction of what the grid needs.

Because transmission and distribution grids that operators of power transmission and distribution develop systematically as their equipment formation will serve as infrastructure for the whole of society.