Sentences with phrase «on electricity transmission»

Not exact matches

Puerto Rico gets much of its electricity from large central power plants on the southern coast of the island and transmits power to load centers on its north side, as you can see on this map of the island's transmission system.

At that St. John's meeting, premiers signed on to the Canadian Energy Strategy, which was parsed predominantly for its stance on pipelines and action on reducing hydrocarbon emissions, but also included language on better co-ordination of clean - energy electricity transmission across Canada.

The cultural effect of inexpensive duplication of words on a page is wholly different from the cultural effect of inexpensive transmission of the moving image by electricity.

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.

Plus, local generation is more reliable than electricity transported over long transmission lines, a major plus on brutal winter days we often see in February.

Electricity Transmission Intermittent sources are less troublesome if they feed a bigger grid; a region with 100 scattered installations of wind and solar could count on some average level of input.

In his 2001 testimony to the congressional committee on energy, Peterson estimated that 10 % of the electricity generated in the United States is lost annually due to the resistance in copper and aluminum power - transmission cables.

This concept could also be extended to include a small charge on electricity usage, known as a «wires fee» that could generate additional funds for research and development of advanced power generation, storage, transmission, and demand response technologies.

Bell, William Paul (2012): The impact of climate change on generation and transmission in the Australian national electricity market.

(Cheap wind - generated electricity might be stuck on a Pacific coast far from the cities that need it without these transmission lines).

However, building the transmission lines that enable wind speculators to erect turbines on Maine mountains, and thus to generate electricity that actually goes to consumers in Connecticut and Massachusetts, gives license to developers to cash in on lavish ratepayer and taxpayer subsidies.

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

G2 Energy, one of a small number of companies in the UK authorised to make new grid connections to the country's electricity transmission and distribution networks, claims it has now surpassed the 100MW mark of battery projects worked on, as it announced the completion of connection works at a new 29MW battery storage facility in Kent, southern England.

A diagram of the major electricity transmission lines in Croatia is shown on the left.

Transmission / distribution networks and distributed energy build - out is picking up the pace in the 12th Five - Year Plan, with concerted efforts on: ultra-high voltage electricity transmission lines from west to east, an ambitious oil and gas infrastructure (as the graphic above shows), and distributed solar and natural gTransmission / distribution networks and distributed energy build - out is picking up the pace in the 12th Five - Year Plan, with concerted efforts on: ultra-high voltage electricity transmission lines from west to east, an ambitious oil and gas infrastructure (as the graphic above shows), and distributed solar and natural gtransmission lines from west to east, an ambitious oil and gas infrastructure (as the graphic above shows), and distributed solar and natural gas projects.

Demand response is a non-persistent intentional change in net electricity usage by end - use customers from normal consumptive patterns in response to a request on behalf of, or by, a power and / or distribution / transmission system operator.

Together, the Access Northeast developers serve 70 % of the region's electricity consumers and the pipelines involved already connect directly to 70 % of the region's gas - fired electric generation on their existing corridors,» said Bill Yardley, Spectra Energy's president of U.S. Transmission Storage.

Other factors include: generators» nonfuel variable operating costs, startup / shut down costs, emission rates and allowance costs, transmission constraints on the electricity grid, and reliability requirements.

Directs FERC to: (1) adopt, within a year, national electricity grid planning principles derived from such policy to be applied in transmission planning that may implicate interstate transmission of electricity; (2) encourage regional planning entities to cooperate and coordinate across regions and harmonize regional electric grid planning with planning in adjacent or overlapping jurisdictions; (3) seek to ensure that planning is consistent with the national electricity grid planning principles; (4) require regional planning entities to submit initial regional electric grid plans within 18 months of FERC promulgating such principles and to update such plans every three years; and (5) report to Congress within three years on the results of the initial regional grid planning process.

The challenge of ensuring environmental compliance, reliable generation and affordable electricity rests on states and regional transmission organizations that must consider the interests of electricity consumers as well as the overall well - being of the state economy.

Electricity at Gunning is generated at 12kV, stepped up to 132kV at a substation on the wind farm, then transmitted on a new line about 12 km to the Yass - Goulburn transmission line.

On September 14, 2017, academics, policy makers, representatives of Independent System Operators / Regional Transmission Organizations and other stakeholders engaged in a discussion of the future of electricity markets over the next two decades, with an emphasis on the potential for high penetrations of zero and low marginal cost generation, and various options for organizing wholesale electricity transactions in the face of rapid technological changOn September 14, 2017, academics, policy makers, representatives of Independent System Operators / Regional Transmission Organizations and other stakeholders engaged in a discussion of the future of electricity markets over the next two decades, with an emphasis on the potential for high penetrations of zero and low marginal cost generation, and various options for organizing wholesale electricity transactions in the face of rapid technological changon the potential for high penetrations of zero and low marginal cost generation, and various options for organizing wholesale electricity transactions in the face of rapid technological change.

Even including electrical losses from transmission, distribution, and battery charging, running a car on electricity from a natural gas power plant is more than twice as efficient.

And with the early - 2014 completion of state - funded transmission projects linking windy West Texas and the Panhandle to population centers to the east, Texas can accommodate even more clean electricity on the grid.

«Support for expansion of electricity generation and transmission facilities — on a vastly increased scale — as part of a deliberate national «export driven» strategy is either limited or all too often met with derision or outright hostility,» Nathwani wrote.

And I've done posts on the generation mix and additional transmission requirements to meet the National Electricity Market's (NEMs) demand profile in a given year.

Could I urge you to look Figures 5, 6 and 7 (compare the options on the basis of CO2 emisisons intensity from the entire grid, capital cost, cost of electricity, CO2 abatement cost and cost of additional transmission system: http://oznucforum.customer.netspace.net.au/TP4PLang.pdf

The NBN seeks to break the «chicken or egg» cycle of inertia in new internet services on the premise of «build it (ie «the NBN,» or for electricity, the transmission infrastructure) and they (ie «new internet services,» or for electricity, innovative renewable energy) will come.»

The guidelines specify basic guiding principles on the wheeling service of electric power by general electricity transmission and distribution companies, and electricity transmission companies, as well as on the implementation of operations in terms of transforming, transmitting, and distributing electricity.

SEMINAR ON ENERGY: ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION A presentation to the KENYA — SPAIN MULTILATERAL PARTNERSHIP MEETING By Dr. (Eng.)

Then a mechanism of information disclosure on operators of electric power production, transmission, and distribution, as well as on the wholesale electricity market, has to be put in place.

Existing electricity transmission lines have limits on how much electricity that they can carry and are often called on to deliver more.

Embedded generators supply electricity to local distribution systems, which reduces demand on the transmission grid.

Many recent transmission investments, as well as proposed transmission projects, focus on delivering electricity generated from wind power to load centers where there is strong electricity demand.

The power grids in the U.S. — there are actually three of them — are enormously complex, but they're traditionally based on a simple idea: Electricity moves in one direction, from a power plant to homes along high voltage transmission lines and lower voltage power lines that distribute electricity to individual homes and neiElectricity moves in one direction, from a power plant to homes along high voltage transmission lines and lower voltage power lines that distribute electricity to individual homes and neielectricity to individual homes and neighborhoods.

The impact of microeconomic decisions in electricity market modelling on load flows in transmission grids.

A more resilient energy infrastructure: Because CHP systems produce power on site, they eliminate the need for transmission lines to get that electricity from the power plant to the customer and can keep the lights, heating and cooling on during a storm.

The grid is a network of power plants and transmission lines that work together to deliver electricity to consumers across the U.S. Because electricity is always in demand, the grid is constantly operating, and grid operators carefully manage its energy output to meet demand by turning power plants on and off.

Working with the policy team from 2012 to 2015, Ben worked on legislative, budgetary, and regulatory issues related to electricity generation and transmission, fossil fuel transport, and transportation fuels at the state and federal level.

Conclusions When placed in remote areas, «wind farms» may face little, if any, public opposition, despite the higher costs of electricity from wind energy, the environmental disadvantages, and the adverse operational impacts on other electricity generating units and transmission systems.

They include the difficulty of integrating large amounts of renewable energy into the electricity system; uncertainty on the timeline for meeting Renewables Portfolio Standards goals; environmental concerns with the development of renewable facilities and associated transmission; difficulty in securing project financing; delays and duplication in siting processes; time and expense of new transmission development; the cost of renewable energy in a fluctuating energy market; and maintaining the state's existing baseline of renewable facilities.

The National Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires the United States Department of Energy (DOE), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and U.S. Forest Service (USFS), in cooperation with the Departments of Commerce and Defense, to designate new right - of - way corridors on federal lands for electricity transmission and distribution facilities, and oil, gas, and hydrogen pipelines.

SB 1059 provides a bridge between the transmission planning process and the permitting process by designating transmission corridor zones (transmission corridors) on state and private lands available for future high - voltage electricity transmission projects, consistent with the state's electricity needs identified in the biennial Integrated Energy Policy Report (Energy Report) and Strategic Transmission Investment Plan (Stratransmission planning process and the permitting process by designating transmission corridor zones (transmission corridors) on state and private lands available for future high - voltage electricity transmission projects, consistent with the state's electricity needs identified in the biennial Integrated Energy Policy Report (Energy Report) and Strategic Transmission Investment Plan (Stratransmission corridor zones (transmission corridors) on state and private lands available for future high - voltage electricity transmission projects, consistent with the state's electricity needs identified in the biennial Integrated Energy Policy Report (Energy Report) and Strategic Transmission Investment Plan (Stratransmission corridors) on state and private lands available for future high - voltage electricity transmission projects, consistent with the state's electricity needs identified in the biennial Integrated Energy Policy Report (Energy Report) and Strategic Transmission Investment Plan (Stratransmission projects, consistent with the state's electricity needs identified in the biennial Integrated Energy Policy Report (Energy Report) and Strategic Transmission Investment Plan (StraTransmission Investment Plan (Strategic Plan).

By reducing the demand for electricity, energy efficiency programs also play a major role in increasing reliability of the electricity system by reducing stress on existing power plants and the transmission system and reducing the demand for new power plants and transmission infrastructure.

In 2012, the continuing SONGS closure put pressure on the electric power grid operator, the California Independent System Operator (CAISO), to adjust both generation and transmission in order to meet summer demand for electricity, and in general, continues to change the generation profile in the area.

All this, also on November 4, led TSOs to operate the system closer and closer to its limits according to current security criteria based on system physics that will therefore remain of decisive relevance for a secure operation of the electricity transmission infrastructure.

Development of high voltage direct current cables and transmission systems — Although initial loss of electricity of DC cables is higher than for AC, there is no incremental loss of electricity as the length of the cable increases, making it possible to build offshore wind farms in very windy areas and transmit the energy over vast distances to areas with poor wind regimes, and to combine wind generators from different areas to reduce the impact of low - wind days and the need to use backup hydrocarbons on those days

Construction is slated to begin on the backbone in 2013, but even before there are wind farms to plug into the grid, the transmission backbone will serve a purpose — carrying electricity from Virginia, where it's relatively cheap, to places like New York and New Jersey, where it's far more expensive (looks like the project won't be entirely coal - free...).

As far as unstored, untransmitted electricity goes, rooftop solar PV and other local PV sources have greater value per kWh in that they require less transmission (at least on average — of course grid connected rooftop PV could sometimes be used elsewhere)(this is after the inversion, so inverter costs have to be factored in — unless a house has both AC and DC outlets — perhaps air conditioners in particular could run on either and switch to DC to reduce use of the inverter when possible?).

Based on wind - speed measurements, researchers at MIT, led by Stephen Connors, director of the Analysis Group for Regional Electricity Alternatives, calculated that large turbines located far offshore could ultimately cost less per power generated than either land - based turbines or near - offshore ones, even factoring in extra costs, such as much longer underground electricity transmissElectricity Alternatives, calculated that large turbines located far offshore could ultimately cost less per power generated than either land - based turbines or near - offshore ones, even factoring in extra costs, such as much longer underground electricity transmisselectricity transmission cables.