Sentences with phrase «of transmission lines»

Not to mention the many, many miles of transmission lines necessary to carry the power to population centers.

The current and future construction of transmission lines is important, as they will ensure that renewable energy plants are reliably connected to the grid and contribute to the power supply consistently.

In addition, this would eliminate the requirement of transmission lines from remote locations to urban areas via the grid.

Category 4 winds destroyed the fragile power grid and knocked down about 80 percent of the transmission lines.

A part of the joy of marriage is this opportunity to develop an almost endless variety of transmission lines for the meanings that are important to each partner.

The study area has been subject to various alterations such as the addition of transmission lines, roads, and other human construction.

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has applied to the state Public Service Commission for permission to rebuild 86 miles of the transmissions lines in Northern New York.

Draft legislation from U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would radically expand the federal government's power to speed the siting of transmission lines from remote renewable energy zones to the nation's population centers.

While serving as governor, Rick Perry was quite instrumental in delivering strong incentives, innovative policies, and significant infrastructure investments for the wind energy industry, which included a $ 7 billion «Competitive Renewable Energy Zone» initiative that featured a 3,600 - mile network of transmission lines.

The upgrade of transmission lines is an increasingly urgent need, according to Wednesday's testimony.

E-mailing a copy of «Moyne Shire Council to write to wind farm companies to discuss impact of transmission lines»

Further expansion of transmission lines to the continent will enable the Nordic region to help meet Europe's demand for clean electricity, while simultaneously balancing the variable supply from Nordic and European wind and solar.

The summer peak forecast is critical because it drives the determination of future demand of New England's generating capacity needs from power plants and informs planning of transmission lines.

The siting of transmission lines needed to move wind power from high - resource areas to major load centers and the allocation of costs for new transmission capacity are also significant issues under consideration by the Administration, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the States.

The fact that energy - hungry cities like San Juan are so far away from the generators that power them means that workers will have to rebuild miles and miles of transmission lines through mountains with limited roads before power comes back, even though most generators survived the storm intact.

The PSC last month also endorsed proposals to upgrade 156 miles of transmission lines intended to improve the flow of power from Central and Western New York into Downstate areas, where supplies are limited.

Government has released an amount of GHC 2, 116, 322 for the payment of compensation to beneficiaries whose crops, buildings and structures were affected by the construction of transmission lines under the Bui Hydroelectric project in the Brong Ahafo Region.

DeFrancisco said that the state was behind on its replacement of transmission lines, part of the Cuomo administration's Energy Highway plan, which would become increasingly important under R.E.V.

The state is now studying whether the projects are even needed, a year after Cuomo announced a more streamlined plan for the approval of transmission lines.

The contract, awarded on Sept. 26 and amended this month, specifies a handful of transmission lines to be repaired by Whitefish.

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.

Thrill seekers can get their kicks with a canopy tour, which includes flying through the jungle via a number of transmission lines.

The planned web of transmission lines will carry electricity from remote western parts of the state to major population centers like Dallas, Houston, Austin and San Antonio.

Some 40 % of transmission lines worldwide need to be replaced with Ultra High Voltage lines.

IN ADDITION WATCH OUT FOR SOLAR PANEL FARMS SPRINGING UP EVERYWHERE ALL ALL BOTH SIDES OF THIS TRANSMISSION LINE - THERE WILL BE A WIND?

When electricity is generated on the Eastern Australian interconnected network it goes into a system of transmission lines.

Salazar said the BLM is looking at land for 5,000 miles of transmission lines while the U.S. Forest Service, also part of the interior department, is determining where 1,000 miles of transmission corridors should go.

For most European countries, the grid as we know it — the electrical power transmission network consisting of transmission lines, transformers, substations and much more — was built in the early 20th century.

In Texas, for example, wind farms don't have enough transmission lines to get their power to where it's needed, which has led to power producers paying grid operators to take their power at times (see Texas Wind Farms Paying People to Take Power and Texas Approves $ 5B Worth of Transmission Line Projects).

Look at the cost of renewables, the cost of the transmission, the need to back it up with a gas unit so that you can make the economics of the transmission line work.

By the mid 1990's it had become well known that vertically - integrated utilities — the owners of most of the transmission lines in the U.S. — were stifling competition and letting excess grid capacity go unused.

Southern California Edison work crews are upgrading a 35 - mile span of transmission lines on public land — moving from a single 115 - kilovolt line to two 230 - kilovolt lines, according to the article.

* Finding acceptable sites for the huge machines will be difficult in many parts of the US due to wind conditions, availability of transmission lines, distance from electric load, scenic and other environmental values and potential impact on property values.

It would ideally be within about a hundred kilometres of Adelaide to minimise the costs of transmission lines (about $ 1,000,000 per kilometre).

The article also devotes significant space to depicting the effects of a 2011 blackout in San Diego that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission attributed to a faulty response by grid operators following an outage of a transmission line.

Councillors voted unanimously at the monthly meeting for a workshop to be held with Global Power Generation, Windfarm Developments, Acciona and Tilt Renewable representatives to discuss the proposed route of transmission lines within the shire.

«Completing these two segments of transmission line will deliver reliable power to southern Idaho while also creating good paying construction and ongoing maintenance jobs,» said Senator Mike Crapo, Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee.

One of the greatest problems for future development of wind power in South Australia is the lack of transmission lines in many of the areas with good wind resources.

be too small relative to land value, ecological concerns, locations of transmission lines, and of course, the available solar resource itself).

Then there is the upgrade of transmission lines.

Moyne Shire Council will write to the heads of four wind farm companies with projects in the municipality, requesting a meeting to discuss the impact of transmission lines.

This is the least - cost option for the vast majority of the 1.6 million currently without access to electricity, although other forms of generation and an expansion of transmission lines are also planned to meet increasing demand from the region.