Sentences with phrase «old power grid»

A low - tech and decades - old power grid never had a chance.

He championed replacing older power grids with a national electric grid that could easily ferry electricity from solar and wind farms across the country.

Not exact matches

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.

Installing enough batteries to make most electrical grids fully reliant on wind power or even to take older natural - gas or coal plants off - line isn't cost effective yet in many regions.

The U.S. electric grid is so old and outdated it can't handle the influx of wind power and other intermittent renewable resources.

Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.

It's unfortunate that adding new power lines is expensive, but the current electric grid system is old and must be updated.

Using a millennia - old blueprint and two of the most abundant scrap metals in the US, scientists have developed a battery prototype that could one day offer a cheap and accessible way to store power off the grid.

Decade - old startup d.light has sold solar - powered lanterns and lights to millions of customers in off - grid rural areas like Sub-Saharan Africa.

Free markets would be preferred, but the US failed to create competitive power markets under deregulation because it awarded old coal and nuclear power plants all sorts of advantages including stranded cost subsidies, grandfather exemptions to environmental regs, preferential grid access, etc..

Yes, India is going to get rid of that horrible old fashioned thing called the electricity grid and be powered wholly by point of use PV — or not.

Such policies continue to make it unlikely the UK will experience power outages as the country moves from an old, fossil - fuel based system, to a new, low carbon grid.

Scientist have confirmed that unlike gasoline cars, plug - ins will get cleaner as they get older — because our power grid is getting cleaner.

And plug - in cars of al types get cleaner as they get older — because the power grid is getting cleaner.

That old saying «too much of a good thing» now may apply to solar power causing overloads on national power grids, at least according to this article from the Daily Mail anyway.....

It's also worth noting that many electric car owners and operators are investing in solar too, further driving down emissions per mile, and that some projects are exploring using old electric car batteries to help green the grid — meaning that when you get rid of your battery - powered vehicle, you could be helping to integrate more wind and solar into the grid so that your next car will be even greener still.

BMW supplemented the smart charging of these vehicles with a solar - powered energy storage system made from «second life» EV batteries — lithium - ion batteries from old BMW MINI E demonstration EVs — as a back - up to support the grid during these demand response events as necessary.

The creaky old electricity grid will soon morph into a system that looks more like the internet, driving big gains in efficiency and allowing for real - time pricing of a kilowatt of power.

True economic security in this completely off grid, passive solar hand built home, Old order horse powered community borders three sides.