Sentences with phrase «resilient electricity grid»

«The Clean Power Plan provides a national framework enabling states to ensure that renewable generation resources and more traditional forms of electricity generation are used in an integrated manner to support a reliable and resilient electricity grid.»

«We commend PJM, the largest grid operator in the U.S., for recognizing the importance of fuel security because it is the foundation for a reliable and resilient electricity grid.

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«The electricity grid could become less reliable and less resilient while more information is being collected,» Bailey said.

Restoring electricity is a high priority, but officials say it's important to make the grid more resilient to withstand major storms.

The focal points of our chat were recent papers in which Jacobson and others proposed how New York State could move entirely to renewable energy supplies by 2050, as well as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo «s ambitious Reforming the Energy Vision (or REV) initiative, aimed at making the state's electricity grid cleaner, more resilient and more affordable.

Adding more wind energy to the electricity grid makes the system more affordable and reliable because wind has no fuel cost and delivers valuable services that make the grid more resilient.

Concerns about the grid are linked to the fast - changing mix of electricity sources, particularly the loss of our most reliable and resilient sources of electricity, such as coal and nuclear power.

We do not need expensive new natural gas pipelines or to develop counterproductive bailouts to uneconomic fossil fuel generators, which would only raise electricity bills, bring more polluting energy into the region, exacerbate climate change, and slow New England's progress toward a clean, resilient, and fuel secure grid.

«Realizing such benefits is contingent on investment in a flexible, resilient, and integrated grid and clear electricity market signals.

One oddity about Perry's inquiry is that it comes even as Trump's «skinny budget» has proposed an unspecified cut to the department's Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, whose key purpose is to work on making the grid resilient.

There are efforts underway now to shift more electricity demand to times when renewables are most abundant, build more energy storage and local distributed resources to reduce congestion, make the grid more resilient, and reduce the need to rely on natural gas peaker plants, especially ones in disadvantaged communities.

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Across six regions, according to the report, coal provided 55 percent of daily incremental generation, and the study concludes that at least for PJM Interconnection (which manages the electricity grid across 12 Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states as well as DC), «coal provided the most resilient form of generation, due to available reserve capacity and on - site fuel availability, far exceeding all other sources» without which the region «would have experienced shortfalls leading to interconnect - wide blackouts.»