Sentences with phrase «state grid electricity»

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The current electricity providers and the electricity grid have failed a number of times over the extremely hot summer, leaving the entire state without power.

Small - scale solar panels generate electricity more cheaply than buying from the grid in certain parts of the United States.

Energy regulators in the state are battling utility companies over net metering, which is the process through which solar customers get a credit for a certain amount of electricity that they send back to the 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.

But the state's power grid pays every generator the same price for electricity.

NRG, Reliant and Brookfield can plan on earning big profits in New York because of the way the state's power grid buys electricity, Norlander said.

The main argument against the plant's closing is that the state's power grid is inadequate to handle the extra electricity that would be needed from Upstate and Canada.

Regarding electrical power, we must move beyond limiting states to generate, transmit and distribute electricity to areas not covered by the national grid.

Hawkins» «New Green Deal,» a cornerstone of his last campaign, proposes an interconnected, state - wide green energy grid to lower electricity costs, create energy independence and boost employment.

We waste, I think, something like eight percent of our electricity in New York state alone just because of a faulty electric grid.»

Peculiarities of the electricity system in New York State, including its unusual independent status, would make it difficult and expensive to replace electricity from the Indian Point nuclear power plant if Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo succeeds in shutting it down, experts on the grid warn.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

To that end, the United Kingdom in December signed a memorandum of understanding with nine other northern European states — Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ireland, Luxembourg and Norway — to study the possibility of building a $ 30 billion ($ 41.4 billion) grid in the North Sea that could be producing 100 GW of electricity within 20 years if all current plans come to fruition.

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.

After all, the 10 RGGI states are connected to a national grid for power that can allow, for example, cheaper, dirtier power from coal - fired power plants in Ohio to substitute for reduced electricity production at a coal plant in New York State.

The system was the first commercial, grid - connected tidal power system in the United States, and ORPC expects to expand in the coming years to provide electricity to roughly 2000 homes and businesses.

The wind turbines on these wind farms connect directly into power grids and produce 5 percent of the electricity that that entire state uses.

Several states — including California, New York, and Connecticut — are rewriting their utility rules so individuals or companies can sell electricity (from a fuel cell or other private power source) back into the grid.

«The rule's restructuring of nearly every state's electric grid would exceed even the authority that Congress gave to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the federal agency responsible for electricity regulation,» they wrote in a filing.

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 affordState 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 affordstate's electricity grid cleaner, more resilient and more affordable.

Solar energy is better able to compete with electricity from conventional sources in those states where grid electricity is relatively expensive.

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.

Wind energy will be an important player in cleaning electricity grids in Alberta and Saskatchewan and across Canada clean electricity grids will be needed for reducing fossil fuel use in other sectors through electrification and in the United States through clean energy exports.

Fourth, the most cost - effective and significant avenue for emissions reductions is through fuel switching in the electricity grid, but state and local governments do not control the grid.

In Mississippi this winter, for instance, after the state Public Service Commission for the first time offered rules allowing net metering for solar owners — that practice enables solar owners to get a fair price for excess electricity they export to the grid — legislators introduced bills that would remove the PSC's right to regulate 70 percent of the state's electricity service, including creating net metering rules.

: The current Federal, State and private sector policies that are now increasing the fraction of electricity generation from Intermittent Renewables must be stopped / reversed in order to avoid / mitigate very severe micro and macroeconomic impacts and National Security ramifications involving skyrocketing electricity prices as well as dramatically reduced power grid reliability and resilience.

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.

About Energy Upgrade California ®: Energy Upgrade California ® is a state initiative to help Californians take action to save energy and conserve natural resources, help reduce demand on the electricity grid, and make informed energy management choices at home and at work.

The fact that the United States has a much dirtier electricity grid that relies more heavily on fossil fuels for electricity generation means that short - term opportunities for new wind energy development will be larger in the U.S..

In most states the systems provide your power needs throughout the day and if your system produces more electricity than your home is using, it sends the excess back to the electric grid, selling your extra solar power back to the utility where it can be used by your neighbors and others.

The advances in wind turbine design that offer cheap electricity from wind help explain why some 22 states now have commercial scale wind farms pumping electricity into the local grid.

PJM, the independent grid operator for all or parts of 13 US states produced a report that confirmed that wind energy is decreasing both the price of electricity and emissions of harmful pollutants.

New York State, California, and Chicago are leading the charge to modernize the electricity grid and energy regulations.

«Deep decarbonization requires not natural gas and fuel - efficient vehicles, but zero - carbon electricity and electric vehicles charged on the zero - carbon electricity grid,» Sachs and his coauthors state.

-- 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.

In many states, the homeowner pays less for the solar electricity than if they were purchasing it from the power grid, but some solar shoppers may be leaving money on the table.

-- 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.

As California moves toward increasing renewable energy beyond the current requirement of 33 percent by 2020, the state's approach to managing the electricity grid needs to evolve to take full advantage of its low - carbon resources.

The existing commercial biomass power generating industry in the United States, which consists of approximately 1,700 MW (megawatts) of operating capacity actively supplying power to the grid, produces about 0.5 % of the U.S. electricity supply.

At the time of the eclipse, California's electricity grid, managed by California Independent System Operator (CaISO) will have over 10,000 megawatts (MWs) of commercially operated, grid - connected solar, an additional 5,800 MW of behind - the - meter rooftop solar, plus hundreds of additional solar MWs located in other states that participate in CaISO's Western energy imbalance market.

The subsidies don't stop there either as many if not all states pay residential consumers retail rates for electricity they «sell» back into the grid, as opposed to wholesale rates that utilities pay to other suppliers.

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which monitors and regulates grid stability in Canada and the U.S., estimated in a report last April that net Canadian electricity exports under the Clean Power Plan could grow three-fold between 2020 and 2030 as demand for renewable power grows in states such as Ohio, Michigan, New York and jurisdictions in New England.

And with the early - 2014 completion of state - funded transmission projects linking windy West Texas and the Panhandle to population centers to the east, Texas can accommodate even more clean electricity on the grid.

With an RPS mandating 33 - percent renewable electricity by 2020, California has 60 percent of the total 1,260 megawatts of grid - tied PV in the United States.

The state's ample clean energy resources — including a relatively clean electricity grid and substantial room for producing biofuels that don't compete with food supplies — mean that oil - reducing solutions are available and affordable, but need strong policies to successfully scale up.

Currently, he focuses on the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states and the New England electricity grid.

Elsewhere in Asia, State Grid is operating and upgrading the Philippine electricity grid under a 25 - year contract.

It does tell us a couple things about what, where PG&E and also the people who manage the state's electricity grid think things are going to be 10, 15 years down the road.

This could be done through building much higher capacity electricity transmission capacity between the Mekong States and China's southern electricity grid nexus in the city of Kunming.

-- Nothing in this section diminishes any authority of a State or political subdivision of a State to adopt or enforce any law (including regulations) that increases electricity grid efficiency, smart grid and distributed generation deployment, dynamic peak management control, demand response and distributed storage, or the regulation of load - serving entities.