Sentences with phrase «on electric power supply»

In their article «Impacts of climate change on electric power supply in the Western United States,» they report that power stations are particularly vulnerable to adverse climatic conditions predicted to occur within the next half - century.

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Hydro - electric generators that supply about 70 % of Brazil's electricity were limited during the drought, sending spot power prices on Jan. 31, the peak of the Southern Hemisphere summer, to the maximum allowed by the government, or 822 reais ($ 362) per megawatt hour.

With the increasing power supply burden of electric cars on the road, I'm sure utilities will continue to do well.

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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.

And, in 1990, Plant Vogtle in Georgia lost all externally supplied electric power — just like Fukushima Daiichi's reactors — when a truck backed into a transmission line and the backup diesel generator failed, forcing it to rely on its last power source: batteries with an eight - hour life.

With reliable autonomy and collision avoidance, drones can begin to take on tasks too dangerous or remote for humans to carry out: checking electric power lines, for example, or delivering medical supplies in an emergency.

Mazda isn't hedging its bets on electric power just yet, believing that until the worldwide electrical grid is predominantly powered by renewable energy, an electric vehicle's tailpipe emissions are too far offset by the dirtiness and high CO2 values of the fossil - fuelled coal, oil, and gas power plants that supply their electricity.

The system included an electric air pump which was connected to the on - board power supply via the cigarette lighter.

A 9.2 kWh lithium - ion battery sits in the central tunnel and supplies power to the electric motor that sits on the rear axle.

The hydraulic assist allows a greater reduction ratio than with gears, while the small electric motor, which runs directly off the 12 - volt power supply (no converter) does not need to be mounted directly on the steering rack since a large reduction ratio is obtained.

By using an auxiliary power supply, the plug - in hybrid model can travel a designated distance on total electric power, then switch to a hybrid mode.

Power is transmitted via an eight - speed automatic transmission, with the electric motor positioned in compact confi guration between the combustion engine and the converter on the automatic transmission receiving its supply of energy from a lithium - ion battery developed especially for use in the automobile.

The Civic is also somewhat simpler than the Toyota Prius, in that the Civic Hybrid can't move on electrical power alone, and the Prius can — with the Civic, the electric motor is there to help out the 1.3 - liter four - cylinder gas engine, but the gas engine is running if the car is moving, though the gasoline supply can be cut off in certain «steady - state cruising» situations.

An adequate supply of electric energy to the on - board system is ensured at all times, since the alternator is activated again as soon as the engine's drive power is not in demand or the driver applies the brakes.

The gasoline engine doesn't start until the electric motor can no longer supply the power needed — it can creep along in rush - hour traffic on electricity alone, but once you need to accelerate, the onboard computer cranks up the gasoline engine.

' The focus is on plug - in hybrids with an even greater range, high - volume electric vehicles with a radius of up to 300 kilometers, a 48 - volt power supply system (mild hybrid).

The focus is on plug - in hybrids with an even greater range, high - volume electric vehicles with a radius of up to 300 kilometers, a 48 - volt power supply system (mild hybrid) as well as ever more efficient diesel, gasoline and CNG concepts.

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However, the charging process can take as little as three hours on a 240 - volt level 2 charger, which uses the same power supply connections as an electric dryer or other large household appliances.

And since the high - performance battery supplies electric power to the complete 12 - volt on - board network through a voltage converter regardless of the driving mode, all other power - consuming items such as the lights and the on - board entertainment system remain fully functional at their usual, consistent level.

With the increasing power supply burden of electric cars on the road, I'm sure utilities will continue to do well.

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National Times runs on energy supplied by FPL (Florida Power and Light), a privately owned power company that serves as the main electric utility provider in FloPower and Light), a privately owned power company that serves as the main electric utility provider in Flopower company that serves as the main electric utility provider in Florida.

The groups participating in the motion included the Advanced Energy Economy, the American Biogas Council, the American Council on Renewable Energy, the American Petroleum Institute, the American Public Power Association, the American Wind Energy Association, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, the Electric Power Supply Association, the Electricity Consumers Resource Council, the Energy Storage Association, the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, the Natural Gas Supply Association, and the Solar Energy Industries Association.

As a non-profit organization governed by its members, IMPA focuses on providing the 61 municipal electric utilities it serves with a wholesale power supply that is low cost, reliable and environmentally responsible.

But electric grid operators basically pull this off, balancing supply and demand every few seconds by turning power plants on and off.

Maybe on to a cheerier idea: Distributed renewable generation + power storage = disaster resiliency It's a good thing that this is gradually happening, and it's a point I was making two years ago in support of Silicon Valley cities banding together to buy their own electric power supply.

So it turns out, if you diversify renewables by type so they're not all affected by weather the same way, you diversify them by location, so they don't all see the same weather at the same time, and you integrate them with the resources on the grid, both power plants and ways to save or shift electric use, then you can have a largely, or wholly renewable electric supply system at very reasonable cost, with greater reliability and resilience than we have right now.

Your electric supplier sets your rates based on a variety of factors, in part through buying power from the larger wholesale electricity market.

Bullish on electric cars: Utility executives believe electric cars will eat up 7 % of the nation's power supply by 2025.

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Electric shock can occur as a result of ungrounded power supplies, a lack of safety gear on machines, wears or tears in machines or wiring, and contact with overhead or underground electrical cords.