Sentences with phrase «on grid electricity»

«Wind farms may be able to offer between a 10 and 12 percent discount» on grid electricity.

As Saunders and his colleagues observe in their journal article, «This was the case in the UK in 1700, is the case in the undeveloped world not on grid electricity in modern times, and is the case for the developed world in modern times using the most advanced lighting technologies.»

For PHEVs, the zero gram per mile value applies only to the percentage of miles driven on grid electricity

Not exact matches

It manages to turn a less - than - scintillating - sounding subject — our aging electricity grid — into compelling reading, he claims, writing that even those who have never spent a minute pondering how the lights come on will leave this one understanding «that the electrical grid is one of the greatest engineering wonders of the modern world» and «why modernizing the grid is so complex and so critical for building our clean - energy future.»

Those batteries can lower peak electricity demand on the power grid by 25 %, the companies said.

At an energy summit meeting Monday, the EU yet again watered down an initiative to end the regulation of electricity prices and gave grid operators powers to stop new entrants encroaching on their businesses.

Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy — a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.

Under her leadership, the company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal» by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.

BRUSSELS / COPENHAGEN, March 19 - EU antitrust authorities are investigating whether limits placed by German grid operator TenneT on cross-border electricity capacity with Denmark breaches EU antitrust rules.

BRUSSELS / COPENHAGEN, March 19 (Reuters)- EU antitrust authorities are investigating whether limits placed by German grid operator TenneT on cross-border electricity capacity with Denmark breaches EU antitrust rules.

(Reuters)- Solar power is on pace for the first time this year to contribute more new electricity to the grid than will any other form of energy — a feat driven more by economics than green mandates.

Up to this point, solar customers in Nevada were paid retail rate for electricity they back on the grid.

Among the biggest changes to the rate structure will be in how much customers are paid for the electricity they put back on the grid, though net metering.

Since electricity generated from solar and wind flows into the grid, Google simply has to invest in enough turbines and solar panels to cover its total energy consumption to make good on its goal.

This level of electricity reduced the metered demand on the grid by about the same amount, suggesting that the total solar share of gross demand probably exceeded 50 % during the mid-day hours.

Barton said the Canadian government should focus on projects that offer a clear payback, like transportation systems, electricity grids and pipelines.

Florida homeowners found out about this the hard way after Hurricane Irma, where the utility told residents with rooftop solar systems that they couldn't draw power from their panels while workers were restoring power due to the risks of sending errant electricity on the grid.

«This is grid - scale technology, meaning that it has the ability to store energy on a level that will significantly impact our electricity grid.

It reduces the strain on our electricity grid and lessens the impact on our planet.

The $ 127 million in new projects are dependent on upgrades to regional infrastructure, particularly energy, and Murray Goulburn is looking for government support for gas connectivity and to improve the electricity grid.

NRG, Reliant and Brookfield can plan on earning big profits in New York because of the way the state's power grid buys electricity, Norlander said.

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.

On the efforts by the President Muhammadu Buharu administration to improve electricity in Nigeria, Fashola said «Federal government is implementing off - grid renewable energy solutions such as rural mini-grids, standalone home solutions, IPP for Federal Universities, Teaching Hospitals and large - scale solar PV projects such as the Jigawa solar city.

Peculiarities of the electricity system in New York State, including its unusual independent status, would make it difficult and expensive to replace electricity from the Indian Point nuclear power plant if Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo succeeds in shutting it down, experts on the grid warn.

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

If this massive bubble of plasma and radiation is aimed right at Earth, it can pose a serious threat to satellite operations and even to power grids on the ground, along with modern civilization that depends on their electricity.

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.

The switches could be programmed to shut off when power demands on the grid (and hence electricity prices) peaked.

EPRI assumes that by 2030, 10 million plug - in vehicles will be on the road, and smart grid technologies will permit plug - in vehicles not only to take recharging power from the grid, but to feed power back in from their batteries to help meet sudden changes in electricity demand.

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,...

Several start - up companies aim to help people cut costs, flex their muscles as consumers to promote green energy, and usher in a more efficient energy grid — all by unleashing smart software on everyday electricity usage.

De Bedout focuses on integrating sustainable energy sources — such as wind and solar — into the electricity grid.

Next the scientists looked at the energetic cost of curtailment — the practice of shutting down solar panels and wind turbines to reduce the production of surplus electricity on the grid.

«As more and more renewable electricity gets put on the grid over time, you're going to have [surplus] issues.

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.

Public rail systems are harvesting and storing electricity from regenerative braking with the hope of making a profit on power sold back to the grid

And those five problems are climate change, petro - dictatorship — the rise of Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela — energy and natural resource supply, and demand constraints, and we see that from food to fuel today, biodiversity loss, the fact that we are right now in the middle of the sixth great extinction phase in the Earth's history that we know of; and finally something I call energy poverty, the 1.6 billion people on the planet we [who] still have no on - off switch in their life because they've no direct grid electricity.

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.

Chu highlighted the department's biggest new research initiative, a set of eight new Energy Innovation Hubs, each one focused on a different energy - related challenge: solar electricity; fuels produced directly from sunlight; batteries and other kinds of energy storage; carbon capture and storage; new technologies for the electrical grid; efficient buildings; extreme materials; and modeling and simulation.

India has connected an estimated 650 million people to the grid in the past 30 years, and Pachauri analysed government data on electricity use to find out what difference it made.

Right now, only about 2 percent of the electricity that can be generated can be stored on the grid.

When the device senses a lower frequency, signaling less available electricity on the grid, it reacts by turning off certain functions of the appliance: a dryer might keep tumbling clothes but switch the heating coil off; a fridge light could stay on while the cooling motor took a break.

The equalized cost of generating electricity on a rooftop, the report said, may lead many people to «defect» from the power grid.

And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power generated more than 90 % of the electricity that Germany consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.

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.

The wind turbines on these wind farms connect directly into power grids and produce 5 percent of the electricity that that entire state uses.

But keeping those lights on amid ever increasing demand and the rise of wind, solar and other alternative sources of electricity generation that are inherently intermittent is just one of the goals of a smart grid.

Here, software downloaded to our computers would allow a government to assemble PCs into a benevolent «national defence botnet» that can mount cyberattacks to counter, say, attacks on the electricity grid.

People with solar panels on their house will receive solar renewable energy certificates from their energy company in return for feeding a megawatt - hour of electricity back into the grid.