Sentences with phrase «power during blackouts»

By maintaining power during blackouts and thus preventing production losses, the battery reportedly paid for itself in six months.

With a contract now in place between Tesla and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), the battery «will help solve power outages, reduce intermittencies, and manage summertime peak load to support the reliability of South Australia's electrical infrastructure, providing enough power for more than 30,000 homes — approximately equal to the amount of homes that lost power during the blackout period last year,» Tesla said in a statement.

Not exact matches

Anyone who has worked in the defence engineering industry will know that financial risks start - out as innocuous looking technical risks on the Defence Contractor's premises, where selected ones are deliberately concealed by the Contractor during the design and development phase, then skilfully transferred to MoD Abbey Wood, Bristol where they morph into «show stopping» risks and come to the fore immediately after the main investment decision has been taken (as they have done so spectacularly on the Type 45 destroyers with total power blackouts), ultimately ending up as an additional cost burden on the Front Line Commands, who have recently been given responsibility for the defence equipment budget — resulting in sleepless nights for many other people too!

New York lies in darkness during the 2003 Northeast blackout, which left 50 million people without power, some for up to a week.

The pair of papers, «Assessing the cost of large - scale power outages to residential customers» and «Providing limited local electric service during a major grid outage — A first assessment based on customer willingness to pay,» examined residential power users» willingness to pay (WTP) for full or partial backup services during a theoretical 24 - hour blackout and then determined the investments required by the electrical provider to implement these services.

«If the storm is severe enough, operators have ways of islanding the system,» he added, just as rolling blackouts have been used in extreme power emergencies like the Texas winter storm during this year's Super Bowl week.

When a frigid cold wave knocked out 50 power plants in Texas during February's Super Bowl week, utilities had to impose rolling blackouts across entire communities with a «blunt ax,» said Robert Shapard, CEO of Dallas - based Oncor, the state's largest transmission company.

And superstar «Blade,» «Batman Begins» and «Man of Steel» writer David S.Goyer's «Zig Zag» has at least one champion among us, but we couldn't track down a copy in time to watch, while David Koepp's («Mission: Impossible,» «Panic Room») «The Trigger Effect» is an underrated little B - movie thriller documenting relationship and societal breakdown during a power blackout.

Cash — If the power is out in your area, you won't be able to access ATMs or use your credit cards (unfortunately, working during a blackout is not among the list of credit card benefits).

But while a blackout left football fans in the dark, millions of dog lovers flocked to Animal Planet for the Puppy Bowl, and ratings during the 34 - minute power outage shot up, according to Forbes.

The first is modeled on extreme weather conditions based on a long heat wave and devastating drought during the summer of 2011, an event that forced the grid operator to cut power to large industrial users to avoid rolling blackouts.

To deal with this, utilities can adopt a regime of rolling blackouts during periods of peak demand — a common feature of Third World power systems, and a feature of the First World if environmentalists have their way.

• Ensure reliable backup power — make it easier for buildings to use backup generators and solar energy; require buildings to keep stairwells and hallways lit during blackouts; add hookups for roll - up generators and boilers.

Power grid operator Amprion has said German networks came close to blackouts during settled and overcast conditions in January when renewable plants produced almost nothing.

Synology offers comprehensive instructions to install the NAS on your network, but you should also use a UPS to maintain power and prevent data loss during a blackout.