Sentences with phrase «small electric grids»

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We need companies to invest and people to look at small grid power systems, combinations of wind and diesel, thermal energy, hydro electric energy things that can be tailored for these individual villages depending on their location.

The Illinois Smart Grid Regional Innovation Cluster has used the funds to provide support to small startups developing technology to help modernize and update Illinois» electric grid, the network for delivering power from suppliers to businesses and consumers.

The director of Puerto Rico's power company resigned on Friday amid ongoing blackouts and scrutiny of a contract awarded to a small Montana - based company to help rebuild the electric grid destroyed by Hurricane Maria.

And while CNG vehicles would generate emissions from their tailpipes, the Argonne team believes that their overall emissions footprint would be smaller than that of an electric vehicle drawing power from the fossil - fuel - based electric grid.

That way, homeowners will be able to install smaller and cheaper solar power systems while being able to use electricity from the grid only as backup, reducing the electric power demand, or load, on the utility's grid.

When hooked up to an electronic sensor, the pad converts signals from the sensor into small pulses of electric current across the grid, which the tongue «reads» as a pattern of tingles.

FOSTER CITY, Calif. — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is trying to steer his electric car company's battery technology into homes and businesses as part of an elaborate plan to reshape the power grid with millions of small power plants made of solar panels on roofs and batteries in garages.

New York is set to join the ranks of a small but growing number of pioneering states that are setting targets for energy storage as wind, solar and other renewable energies supply increasing amounts of power to their electric grids.

Self - contained, small islands of electric generation, storage and distribution inside the existing grid — microgrids — could be the next big thing in electricity.

With upfront funding from NativeEnergy reducing turbine costs to an acceptable level, these turbines help farmers reduce their long - term electricity costs and help stabilize the electric grid with distributed, small - scale power generation.

America's first offshore wind farm just helped to shut down a small diesel - fired electric power plant on Block Island, R.I. Block Island officials on Monday switched on a connection between the island and a cable linking the wind farm to Rhode Island's mainland power grid.

For heating, most people use small propane heaters or electric space heaters if they have a utility grid connection.

Our grid connected and off grid wind turbine systems, which consist of our 2.4 kW and 10 kW devices and related equipment, are utilized for electrical power generation for applications and markets such as residential, micro-grid based rural electrification, agricultural, small business, rural electric utility systems, as well as other private, corporate infrastructure and government applications.

More efficient design of offshore wind sites will help maximize renewable energy output, delivering more clean energy to the electric grid in a smaller physical and environmental footprint.

When we talk about small wind turbines we're also talking about microgeneration — the small - scale generation of electric power by individuals — as opposed to the larger, grid - tied power production of commercial wind turbines, such as those found on wind farms.

Mr Lew said that the Republic is considered an ideal location for electric transport test - bedding because of its small size, compact urban environment, robust power grid, infocomm infrastructure, and research and development capabilities.

She has a small hydro - electric plant developed on a stream in the estate forest that generates enough to supply electricity to the 1,000 residents in the area with the excess sold to the national grid.