Sentences with phrase «only over grid»

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«In the haphazard sprawl of a city, only the astronomically rich and walled - off can pretend that our human ideas of order — like the geometric grid of roads laid over the Great Plains, or the forced cleanliness of suburban shopping centers — are stable.

Over the last few years, ridiculous grid penalties have become part and parcel of Formula 1 (especially for McLaren) to the point where it's become easy to forget how stupid it is to have a 30 place grid drop in a field of only 20 cars.

The companies know nearly precisely when and how much electricity consumers need over the course of the day — but they know only approximately how much photovoltaic systems and wind farms will feed into the grid.

Traffic races next to us at a distance of only a few meters with 100 k.p.h., the steps are open (grid) and beneath us, over 70 meters lower, the water moves restlessly.

For over 40 years, Agnes Martin (1912 — 2004) created spare paintings composed only of grids and stripes.

Will broader tax credits when it comes to smart grid tools start moving things along with advancing the grid, or will they only put a band - aid over implementation issues that need to be more directly addressed?

Over on VOX, David Roberts explains in greater detail how it can be used not only as storage, but to smooth out power fluctuations in the grid.

As detailed in appendix A, only records that were significantly (p < 0.05) correlated with temperature variations in at least one grid cell within 500 km of the proxy's location over the 1931 - 90 period were selected for further analysis.

-- modelling procedure requires crude approximations over large grid cells, ignoring local climate and weather phenomena as large as hurricances — model projections are demonstrably unreliable at regional and local level: even those that appear to simulate the evolution of global temperature do so only by averaging hundreds of more or less wrong results for the grid cells.

So if you buy in 1000 kWh of electricity over a month at times when your solar is either not generating (night time), or not generating enough energy to cover all of your needs (say a cloudy day) but you export 500 kWh of energy to the grid in the same month at other times when your solar is producing more energy than your house is using, then you would be billed for only 500 kWh.

As you dig deeper it becomes apparent that price support for the rest of the electric system not only becomes more likely but because solar and wind don't support grid services it becomes increasingly likely that another layer of support has to be added at some point over 30 % renewable penetration.

While Advanced Metering Infrastructure, which allows wireless communication between utilities and meters, has been going in across the country for over a decade, it is only recently that they have been developing into smart grid systems.