Sentences with phrase «on electric grid»

TOU rates, which charge higher prices for electricity during periods of higher demand, encourage customers to adjust their consumption to reduce strain on the electric grid.

This is leading to the electrification of transportation, which puts pressure on the electric grid and causes prices to rise there, too.

It is interesting to note that in California Gov. Jerry «Moonbeam» Brown pushed legislative reform of the state's environmental law (CEQA) to fast track and streamline concentrated solar farm installations without regard for loss of bird life and the habitat the birds live on (e.g. insects); and more recently has fast tracked the installation of expensive batteries on its electric grid in record time without the usual delays for environmental clearances (see: «A Big Test for Big Batteries», New York Times, Jan. 14, 2017) but apparently did not even have on a back burner a project to fix the open and notorious Oroville Dam spillway defects and deficiencies.

The majority of community solar projects consist of a solar garden or solar farm located at a site determined by a utility or developer to maximize the amount of energy the system can produce and to not put too much stress on the electric grid.

It also asserts that distributed solar «places integration and administrative costs on the electric grid, including cost shifting to non-participants that results from net energy billing.»

If your home or business is on the electric grid, chances are you are connected to mountaintop removal in the Appalachian Mountains.

Ford Motor Company announced the C - MAX Solar Energi concept, a solar PV - powered vehicle to run electrically without depending on the electric grid for fuel.

For folks in urban and suburban areas, we typically rely on the electric grid for, basically, EVERYTHING!

All practical commercial power reactors must be capable of quickly adapting to the changing demand on the electric grid, more important today with increased grid contributions from unsteady (e.g., non-constant) solar and wind sources, and SMR - 160 ideally suits that need.

(Another connection: Nikola is named after Nikola Tesla, who among many other things is responsible for making alternating current dominant on the electric grid.)

We unpack the sizable impact Tesla's utility scale storage will have on the electric grid.

On top of this, the report notes that solar thermal cooling technology - in which the sun's heat is used to power thermally driven absorption chillers or evaporation devices to cool air - can reduce the burden on electric grids at times of peak cooling demand by fully or partially replacing conventional electrically powered air conditioners in buildings.

Not exact matches

We need companies to invest and people to look at small grid power systems, combinations of wind and diesel, thermal energy, hydro electric energy things that can be tailored for these individual villages depending on their location.

First, in America's innovation heartland and its largest solar market, California discarded its cap (i.e. removed the «net metering cap») on how many households and businesses can plug into the electric grid with rooftop solar.

It loads up on energy from the sun and from the electric grid during off - peak hours.

Currently, households in Africa not connected to the electric grid can spend up to 20 % of their total budgets on kerosene, which is the primary source of light for many of these households.

Despite warnings from staff and ignoring input from lawyers, Puerto Rico's bankrupt utility signed a massive $ 300 million contract on October 17 with a tiny, inexperienced Montana company to rebuild its damaged electric grid in the aftermath of the Hurricane Maria disaster.

We raise much of our food, burn wood for heat, water is gravity spring (no pump), private septic system, solar power I installed feeds grid back, no electric bill, wireless internet tower income pays our property taxes, so basically we can live on a vastly reduced income should it be needed, Much of our savings is in precious metals.

That gets to be a bit of a challenge to balance the electric load on the grid.

A steadily increasing number of people will want to get in on the «new Bitcoin,» a bizarre paradox given that gold is as old as time, and will soon realize that gold possesses virtues Bitcoin does not, given that it is real, not digital and abstract; that owners can personally possess and store it in physical form; that it will survive any kind of electric grid or Internet disruption that might occur; that it can not ever be hacked; that it is the epitome of private, quiet wealth; that it is actually quite beautiful to behold; and that it was not and can not be made by man, only by God, who does not appear to have any interest in making any more of it.

Building owners can agree to place Sun Electric panels on their sites and the power generated can be sold onto the electrElectric panels on their sites and the power generated can be sold onto the electricelectric grid.

Major car manufacturers can't seem to queue up fast enough to get a spot on the Formula E grid as in recent weeks both Porsche and Mercedes have confirmed that they'll be entering the all - electric series in 2019.

The Army Corps of Engineers is ending its work to rebuild Puerto Rico's electric grid despite fears the island's government won't be able to restore power on its own to more than 16,000 people who remain blacked out eight months after Hurricane Maria.

Her focus throughout that period has been largely on the technical, infrastructure and economic issues underpinning the electricity industry, covering topics related to generation, transmission and distribution, smart grid / smart homes and the prospects for electric vehicles.

The director of Puerto Rico's power company resigned on Friday amid ongoing blackouts and scrutiny of a contract awarded to a small Montana - based company to help rebuild the electric grid destroyed by Hurricane Maria.

The comprehensive redesign and reconstruction will incorporate the latest hands - on interactive technologies and reflect the transformative changes occurring in New York State's electric power industry under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo from the increased use of clean renewable power resources, smart grid technologies and energy efficiency.

The State, through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA), awarded LIPA $ 6.7 million in Federal stimulus funding which will allow LIPA to connect the solar panels installed on the carports to the Long Island electric grid.

«Under such a scenario, PSEG, the New Jersey company that won the bidding to manage LIPA's electric grid starting in 2014, would be the outward face of LIPA, while other state agencies, such as the New York State Energy Research and Development Agency and the New York Power Authority, could take on renewable energy and power purchasing decisions,» the Newsday report said.

In December 2009, the LIPA Board of Trustees approved power purchase agreements with BP Solar International Inc. and enXco Development Corporation, thereby creating the State's largest source of solar power on Long Island by introducing approximately 50MW of clean renewable energy generated on Long Island onto LIPA's electric grid.

Taking FitzPatrick off our electric grid could force New York to rely on more expensive generators that create more pollution.

That certainly becomes true when we look beyond electric cars to an even more pressing energy problem: how to store electricity on the grid.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

Safety Gutter: All of the electric mosquito killers on our list feature safety cages or gutters to shield you from the electrical grid.

People in Texas will plug in electric vehicles to their wind - powered grid, while Northeasterners might rely on nuclear - generated electricity.

Plug - in cars come in two forms: electric vehicles fully reliant on a battery and the electricity grid,...

The pair of papers, «Assessing the cost of large - scale power outages to residential customers» and «Providing limited local electric service during a major grid outage — A first assessment based on customer willingness to pay,» examined residential power users» willingness to pay (WTP) for full or partial backup services during a theoretical 24 - hour blackout and then determined the investments required by the electrical provider to implement these services.

The Frankenstein - like virus infected a type of industrial controller that is ubiquitous — used around the world on everything from pipelines to the electric grid.

Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed

Entire electric grid The research is funded by the German Federal Ministry of the Environment and is aimed at showing that the entire electricity grid could be run on renewable energy.

But because the Trump White House doesn't appear to have a «strong view» on climate change, Korsnick said, NEI's federal lobbying is now focused on emphasizing baseload nuclear power to support the electric grid.

In contrast, the U.S. grid relies predominantly on steam electric generation, making restoration much more difficult, and a recovery as fast as Quebec's «is highly unlikely.»

This enables them to draw conclusions on how many electric vehicles can be connected to the grid without pushing it to its limits.

The rising number of electric vehicles on the road is putting grid operators under pressure.

The success of electric vehicle networks depends on economical vehicles — and efficient power grids.

It also floods the space around our planet with radiation that can incapacitate satellites and sicken astronauts, and can trigger electric currents on Earth capable of knocking out power grids.

The scenarios focused on 10 to 20 years in the future, when battery and fuel cell vehicles are expected to be in much wider use, and when solar power and electrolyzers are cost competitive with the electric grid.

Those pixels are converted to an electric current that is sent to the business end of the plastic strip — a 12 - by - 12 grid of electrodes that rests on my tongue.

That way, homeowners will be able to install smaller and cheaper solar power systems while being able to use electricity from the grid only as backup, reducing the electric power demand, or load, on the utility's grid.

Japan's electric utilities are putting the brakes on the country's fast - growing renewable energy sector as concerns mount that the addition of large amounts of solar power is creating oversupply problems for some regions while stressing the country's decentralized power grid.

He adds that Missouri S&T provides «a unique contribution to the information assurance field with our focus on developing ways to protect the nation's electric power grid, oil, gas and water distribution systems; and transportation systems from terrorist attacks.»