Sentences with phrase «regional electricity grid»

This tool calculates the average emissions from utility - scale electric generation at the regional electricity grid level.

It begins laying the groundwork for a regional electricity grid, which could make renewable energy more available throughout the West.

WHEN Arab energy ministers met in Cairo in April, there was one thing at the top of their agenda — plans for a regional electricity grid that would stretch more than 5000 kilometres from Morocco in the west to the Gulf states in the east.

The report evaluates regional electricity grids across the United States based on the global warming emissions produced from electricity generation, and then compares the emissions generated by charging an EV with those produced by gasoline - powered vehicles.

Not exact matches

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.

Two large - scale batteries connected to the Victorian energy grid will be installed in regional Victoria to help boost the state's electricity supply in a project worth $ 50 million.

Because Georgetown's electricity grid is managed by a regional entity, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the city is well - positioned for 100 percent renewable electricity, Edgar said.

The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.

The tool features nearly real - time demand data, plus analysis and visualizations of hourly, daily, and weekly electricity supply and demand on a national and regional level for all of the 66 electric system balancing authorities that make up the U.S. electric grid.

One aspect of this is the capacity to generate additional revenue by selling electricity into the frequency regulation segments of regional grid power markets.

Subtitle F: Transmission Planning -(Sec. 151) Amends the Federal Power Act to establish a federal policy for transmission planning that calls for regional electric grid planning that facilitates the deployment of renewable and other zero - carbon and low - carbon energy sources for generating electricity to reduce GHG emissions while ensuring reliability, reducing congestion, ensuring cyber-security, minimizing environmental harm, and providing for cost - effective electricity services throughout the United States.

Rather, area grid electricity tends to come from Clean Hydro - Electric resources, and regional Wind resources may have even more potential.

Montes notes that in the emerging age of dominant renewables, «access to and control over electricity grids will be the predominant determination of local, national and regional power.»

Directs FERC to: (1) adopt, within a year, national electricity grid planning principles derived from such policy to be applied in transmission planning that may implicate interstate transmission of electricity; (2) encourage regional planning entities to cooperate and coordinate across regions and harmonize regional electric grid planning with planning in adjacent or overlapping jurisdictions; (3) seek to ensure that planning is consistent with the national electricity grid planning principles; (4) require regional planning entities to submit initial regional electric grid plans within 18 months of FERC promulgating such principles and to update such plans every three years; and (5) report to Congress within three years on the results of the initial regional grid planning process.

-- Not later than 3 months after the date of adoption by the Commission of national electricity grid planning principles pursuant to paragraph (1), entities that conduct or may conduct transmission planning pursuant to State, tribal, or Federal law or regulation, including States, Indian tribes, entities designated by States and Indian tribes, Federal Power Marketing Administrations, transmission providers, operators and owners, regional organizations, and electric utilities, and that are willing to incorporate the national electricity grid planning principles adopted by the Commission in their electric grid planning, shall identify themselves and the regions for which they propose to develop plans to the Commission.

Ergon Energy, which operates the sprawling, regional electricity network that covers 97 per cent of Queensland, has suggested that within the next decade renewables and battery storage will be cheaper for domestic consumers than grid power.

-- In addition to the policy under paragraph (1), it is the policy of the United States that regional electric grid planning to meet these objectives should result from an open, inclusive and transparent process, taking into account all significant demand - side and supply - side options, including energy efficiency, distributed generation, renewable energy and zero - carbon electricity generation technologies, smart - grid technologies and practices, demand response, electricity storage, voltage regulation technologies, high capacity conductors with at least 25 percent greater efficiency than traditional ACSR (aluminum stranded conductors steel reinforced) conductors, superconductor technologies, underground transmission technologies, and new conventional electric transmission capacity and corridors.

(9) a robust, efficient, and interactive electricity transmission grid that will allow for the incorporation of clean energy technologies, distributed generation, and demand - response in each regional electric grid;

Administrators of regional electricity markets and balancing authorities are charged with ensuring that our nation's electricity grid is reliable.

Since electricity grids rarely follow state borders, regional or power pool emission factors are likely to be more accurate than those calculated by state organizations.

New York, with its Renewing the Energy Vision grid modernization and top - to - bottom re-imagination of electricity generation and distribution, is a clear national and regional leader.

FERC instead directed the regional transmission organisations and independent system operators - the bodies that operate the USA's power grid - to assess the resilience of the electricity grid and to recommend additional actions to mitigate any identified issues.

Choice # 1: - individual wood stoves providing heat only in the 30 - 75 % efficiency range (depending on stove design) and regional grid - delivered electricity produced in the 30 - 40 % efficiency range;

This is why planning for future electricity needs is critical, and this is the responsibility of regional grid operators — one they take quite seriously.

Bigger, cleaner supply: A regional grid makes it easier to access flexible generation from a larger pool of resources, which will make it easier to meet electricity demands when renewables are not as plentiful (like when solar generation declines in the evening).