Sentences with phrase «on transmission lines»

It's exactly the same phenomenon that leads to reflections on transmission lines, when an impedance dicontinuity is encountered.

Both projects are aimed at helping to ease constraints on transmission lines in Western Victoria where energy generation from existing wind and solar farms is being curtailed.

Are you surprised that we spend so much time focused on pipelines and so little time focused on transmission lines?

Minister for Energy, Boakye Agyarko has hinted that Ghana will supply 100 megawatts of power daily to Burkina Faso, and works on transmission lines from Bolgatanga to Burkina Faso for the supply has already begun.

• 73 percent of ravens nests were located on artificial nesting substrates, of which, 53 percent were located on transmission line towers.

With wind forecasting, changes in wind energy output are factored into grid operations much like variations in demand — both change over a matter of 30 minutes or even hours (not a matter of seconds, such as when fossil - fuelled or nuclear plants experience an unexpected outage, or a tree falls on a transmission line).

Not exact matches

To start, you'll need a degree or diploma in a related field — electrical engineering for transmission lines, oil and gas engineering for natural gas, and so on.

It's been nearly two months since the hurricane made landfall on Puerto Rico and knocked out 80 percent of power transmission lines, leaving the entire island in the dark.

Whether it's fish farms and the dirty pact Campbell has with Alcan in the northwest, fish farms up and down the coast, proposed LNG plants on the north coast, the wiping out of the unique ecology at Eagleridge in West Vancouver, the transmission lines in Tsawwassen, the Gateway project, especially though not exclusively in Delta, the abandonment of the Cambie Street merchants, private power smashing the environment around the province or the stealthy but persistent privatization of BC Hydro, the premier has enraged British Columbians not just for what he's done, but for his callous indifference to the wishes of people.

It costs $ 174,000 per mile to run transmission lines above ground on average and $ 1.4 million per mile to bury them, according to a study from the Edison Electric Institute.

If our device could be moved close to where it is needed, but still on the energy producer's side of that equation, yet just outside the meter, then the energy producers could have millions of these small devices that they own and operate, because grandma doesn't want to become her own utility company because she has a solar panel, but if the utility companies and energy providers could compete with each other to have small units that are so close to the loads, they still get the full advantage of being a supplier of energy, except with just millions of little plants, they can avoid needing transmission lines, distribution lines, substations, et cetera, that everybody is talking about being expensive, unreliable, and subject to issues.

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No matter how powerful the generating station is on its own, these power grids become a supercharged network of transmission and distribution lines to help get things done.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP)-- An island - wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday after an excavator accidentally downed a transmission line, officials said, as the U.S. territory struggles to repair an increasingly unstable power grid nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria.

The company that owns the plant said a disturbance on the non-nuclear side of the plant was related to a high voltage transmission line.

-- Crews are currently focusing on repairing critical infrastructure, like transmission lines, substations and roads.

The state's action on CPV includes multiple levels of approvals for plant, as well as an approval for upgrades to the Marcy transmission line, which will connect it to the energy grid.

The project involves a multi-state construction of power transmission lines from power stations in Canada, that will impact on Stony Point and other towns in New York State and Rockland County.

DeFrancisco said that the state was behind on its replacement of transmission lines, part of the Cuomo administration's Energy Highway plan, which would become increasingly important under R.E.V.

Ormsby says the county's concerns include lakefront property values, the potential problems with locating transmission lines and the impact turbines could have on vistas that attract tourists to the area.

NRDC does not have a position on the Champlain Hudson transmission line.

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.

The Public Service Commission under the direction of Governor Andrew Cuomo is expected to decide Thursday whether high - voltage power towers will be put up on a route taking transmission lines through the Hudson Valley.

Once heralded by the governor as a transformative way to bring down energy costs for consumers while increasing jobs at upstate power producers, the plan announced more than three years ago has produced little progress on a core initiative: a nearly $ 1 billion project to run AC transmission lines around Utica or the Catskills and down the Hudson Valley to meet downstate's growing power needs.

The significant delays on the key energy highway decision make construction transmission lines less likely, he said.

Developers recently resubmitted reworked plans for power lines, but after months of community objections and local town boards passing resolutions against the transmission lines, the state Public Service Commission will hold a June conference on whether they're needed.

Last July, LIPA announced that an increased focus on solar power would «help defer, reduce or eliminate the need to invest hundreds of millions of dollars on building new generation, infrastructure, and transmission and distribution lines.»

The contract, awarded on Sept. 26 and amended this month, specifies a handful of transmission lines to be repaired by Whitefish.

The transmission lines upgrade was a related topic, voted on as Olive Resolution # 2 of 2014 with unanimous board support, though with some provisional stipulations.

The new Minnkota transmission line seeks to phase out all of Minnesota's dependence on the coal - fired Young 2 plant by 2024.

Weckerly said obstruction from the transmission line could drop the number of satellite links his equipment relies on from eight or nine to four.

Could these influences combine to put extra strain on the grid's transmission lines, enough to reach a tipping point?

Under the so - called «thunderstorm alert,» extra power - generation facilities are turned on to reduce the power flowing long distances on the state's transmission lines.

«So if you're the lucky landowner that gets the transmission line on your property, it's not possible to get wind turbines on your land.»

The commission released a new rule on June 17 that would require that mandates for renewable energy — enacted in 36 states nationwide — be taken into account when determining where and when new transmission lines get installed.

On Sept. 9, 2011, high temperatures tripped a transmission line near Yuma, Ariz., sparking a chain of events that shut down the San Onofre nuclear power plant, caused the release of untreated sewage and required San Diego residents to boil their drinking water.

«Geomagnetically - induced currents on system infrastructure have the potential to result in widespread tripping of key transmission lines and irreversible physical damage to large transformers,» a 2009 report by the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) and the Energy Department says.

The states involved could eventually figure out ways to cooperate on building transmission lines, giving out permits or filling out environmental impact analyses, he said.

In PALplus transmissions, only 432 of the lines are active, but on a PALplus TV set with a widescreen picture tube they will fill the screen.

It employs reclaimed water for its cooling and was built near existing transmission lines on what used to be farmland rather than the pristine desert areas nearby that have provoked opposition to some other planned solar power plants.

«Gauging attitudes and behaviors of those providers on the front lines with respect to PrEP is a key pressure point in moving towards the routine use of effective, safe and well - targeted biomedical interventions in the fight against new HIV transmissions in the US.»

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.

By contrast, federal policy on transmission is hogtied by regional conflicts over who pays for long - distance transmission lines for renewable energy, and local opposition to new lines and their skyscraping towers.

It focused on changes in axons — the fibers, the nerve signal «transmission «lines within the spinal cord that affect voluntary movement after stroke.

The book is studded with explanations of common but uncelebrated objects — those dumbbells that hang from the undersides of power conductors (to absorb wind - induced vibration); the odd holes in barns (for owls invited in to eat the mice); and the colorful globes on power transmission lines that cross rivers (to alert pilots of tall - masted boats and low - flying aircraft).

Reaching California, Oregon, and Washington may depend on access to unused capacity on existing transmission lines, or on being part of a multi-resource portfolio carried across new lines.

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April 18, 2018 - Justo Gonzalez, the power company's executive sub-director, told reporters that a private contractor removing a collapsed tower during unrelated power restoration efforts near the south coast hit the transmission line on Wednesday with an excavator...

EMMA strains produced from ES cells generated by the International Knockout Mouse Consortium (IKMC) are displayed on the EMMA strain list as soon as germ - line transmission has been achieved and the genotype of the pups has been confirmed.

Since the pretransmission ancestral line was included in both the pretransmission and posttransmission experiments, the effect of mosquito transmission (and its standard error) on the N - lines and I - lines, which was not measured directly (i.e., in a single experiment), could be estimated by reference to this line.