Sentences with phrase «plants over transmission»

It used to be that electricity was carried almost exclusively from big power plants over transmission lines, dumped into distribution grids, and then dumped into buildings, to be used by relatively dumb appliances.

Not exact matches

By exploiting a hole in a Jeep Cherokee's Uconnect Internet connectivity software, hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek were able to plant code into the car's head unit, ultimately gaining remote control over multiple vehicle functions, including the transmission and brakes.

The X6 is built in BMW's South Carolina plant, with the 3.0 - liter, 300 - horsepower inline six - cylinder engine and six - speed automatic transmission sent over from Germany.

Though the transmission will be initially supplied by ZF, Chrysler says that they will take over development of the eight - speed rower in their Kokomo, Indiana transmission plant sometime in the future.

Saying the country's grid would remain «controllable,» the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur) urged states to approve more than a dozen new coal and gas plants and transmission upgrades over the next several years.

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).

It is not surprising that there are many skeptics who like I am, are very knowledgeable in many of the over lapping fields, of gas chromatography, anthropology, radio graphics of X-ray and particle physics, biological plant and animal processes, agriculture, high power radio transmission and reception, and its attendant multiplexing of signals, mining, reforestation plans and progress realities, nuclear, gas, and coal power plant construction techniques, organic gardening, astronomy, stellar physics, global circulation pattern drivers, and have also spent considerable time out doors in a tent and sleeping bag.

The traditional energy grid system has been structured around one - way power flow from power plants traveling over transmission and distribution lines to homes and businesses.

In conclusion, industrial manufacturing and cargo transportation — both over land and over sea — could be run almost entirely on variable renewable power sources, with little need for energy storage, transmission networks, balancing capacity or overbuilding renewable power plants.

We will streamline federal permitting to accelerate the construction of new transmission lines to get low - cost renewable energy to market, and incentivize wind, solar, and other renewable energy over the development of new natural gas power plants.

Although variable renewable energy sources were critical to European society for some 500 years before fossil fuels took over, there were no chemical batteries, no electric transmission lines, and no balancing capacity of fossil fuel power plants to deal with the variable energy output of wind and water power.

Prior to Turkey's recent economic difficulties, projections by Turkey's Electricity Generating and Transmission Corporation (TEAS), a public company which owns and operates 15 thermal and 30 hydroelectric plants generating 91 % of Turkey's electricity, had indicated that rapid growth in electricity consumption would continue over the next 15 years.