Sentences with phrase «to a power grid»

If consumers can economically produce, store, and swap electrical energy, they will not need the power grid.

In the United States, those systems, the backbones of our highways, bridges, levees, power grids and pipelines are crumbling.

Trump also downplayed the significance of rising global temperatures, which is likely to increase overall demand to power grids through increased use of air conditioning.

It's estimated that the technology has boosted revenue by 2 billion yuan ($ 315 million) at one power grid where the technology has been in use for several years.

Late last year, a group of hackers took down a power grid in a region of western Ukraine to cause the first blackout from a cyber attack.

A subsidiary of NGP, Veriown, is transforming the way people in rural India access the modern power grid.

National Mining Association President Hal Quinn said the commission's «disappointing lack of action» comes on the heels of a cold snap that demonstrated the value that coal provides to power grids.

As in much of the mainland US, the power grid in Puerto Rico is more of a patchwork than a unified network.

Those batteries can lower peak electricity demand on the power grid by 25 %, the companies said.

Tilcsik's research shows the failures happening in the cockpit of an airplane or the power grid have a lot in common with organizational problems seen in business.

PARIS (AP)-- Researchers say they've discovered a worrying breed of power grid - wrecking software, saying the program was likely responsible for a brief blackout that hit Kiev late last year.

Building owners are also interested in buying batteries so that they can run buildings off of battery power when electricity rates from the power grid are high.

This relieves some of the stress on the power grid during peak times.

That makes the country more reliant on its own resources and less sure it can tap into the European power grid.

With Hubbell's help, the most devastated communities will soon have renewed access to power grids, which should be a huge help in other relief efforts.

The research brought him to a town with a mayor and a basketball player who took its residents off the power grid, the founder of an online network which allows medical patients to swap treatment stories and share knowledge and the maker of an engine that runs on liquid air made from a lawn mower and a can of antifreeze.

Back in April, Musk presented the world with the Tesla Powerwall, a battery that collects energy from the power grid or from solar panels and stores it for later use.

Hashimoto (CEO) and Dadgar (CTO) use the metaphor of the power grid to explain their tools: Think of an app as an electronic device, and HashiCorp services as the transmission lines that carry power to it.

Water flowed into basement areas that housed critical mechanical centers and power grids that keep the buildings functioning.

A MPUC representative declined to comment and instead directed us to contact the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO)-- a nonprofit organization that oversees high - voltage power grid infrastructure and reliability across Minnesota, 14 other US states in the Midwest (in whole and in part), and parts of Canada.

While the most persistent threat is to our electrical power grids, a new mapping effort by the US Geological Survey (USGS) shows how the hazards of geomagnetic storms are not the same all over Earth.

They produce no tailpipe pollution and, in most provinces, drivers plug in to relatively clean power grids.

«Power grids are grounded, so they can pick up electric fields generated deep inside the Earth.

The darker the shade of red dot, the more electricity the ground will generate and conduct voltage into the power grid.

Sandy, whose ferocity is described by weather experts as a once every 700 years event, left in its wake a path of destruction that wiped out entire towns, squashed power grids, flooded regional transportation, and hobbled tens of thousands of small businesses, the economic lifeblood of New Jersey and New York.

Trend Micro identified Russian - speaking cyber militias as the group behind the Christmas takedown of the Kiev power grid and, more recently, the Kiev airport.

It's not too late to take the pulpit and set a goal of building infrastructure for a national power grid, maglev [magnetic levitation] rail trains or even an Arctic research station.

The report estimates that if hackers took control of the power grid from New York City to Washington, D.C., the damage could total $ 20 billion to $ 70 billion and cost the economy from $ 243 billion to $ 1 trillion.

The Tesla factory is already being used to build Tesla's Powerwall and Powerpack home batteries, which pull energy from solar panels and the power grid and store it for later use.

«Thinking about what happened in the Ukraine, when the power grid went down, imagine that happening in New York City,» says Boyer.

Distributed solar systems require additional upgrades to the power grid, including enabling the grid to operate in both directions, and most utilities are pushing back against covering those upgrade expenses.

A report by Lloyd's and the University of Cambridge, which studied the insurance implications of a cyber attack on the U.S. power grid, paints a financial, economic and public health nightmare.

In these sauna - like conditions, the power grid in these regions will likely be put to the test, as fans and air conditioners in homes and offices will undoubtedly be turned up full blast.

This week, Singapore announced that the country's commercial and industrial entities are now able to purchase solar - generated power from the national power grid in an effort to cut down on environmental emissions.

To handle the power and network challenges, we ran power grids on the ceiling.

Power grids maker ABB is buying GE's Industrial Solutions business for $ 2.6 billion in a bet it can improve the division's lackluster margins.

By his estimates, renewables make up perhaps 7 % of the power grid, with natural gas and coal making up the remaining majority.

NZ is the acronym for a separate operation called Nitro Zeus, which gave the US access into Iran's air defense systems so it could not shoot down planes, its command - and - control systems so communications would go dead, and infrastructure like the power grid, transportation, and financial systems.

Certainly, the logistics of maintaining a power grid have always been daunting; the regulations, suffocating.

Instead of today's AC power grid, we could have a bunch of networked DC microgrids that are super efficient.

Obviously people will wake up to the vulnerability of the power grid, and want to have backup power.»

ZURICH, Nov 6 (Reuters)- ABB is reorganising part of its global power grids operations as the Swiss engineering group responds to the division's sluggish profitability and falling orders.

But now, with the growing popularity of solar panels, those customers are now producing power on their roofs and sending it back onto the power grid.

«Moreover, much of our critical infrastructure — our financial systems, power grids, pipelines, health care systems — run on networks connected to the Internet.

The move comes as ABB seeks to justify its decision last year to reject calls from its second - largest shareholder to spin off Power Grids, the group's biggest but least profitable business.

And then there's Musk's Tesla, which hopes to pull everyone off the power grid with its home batteries.

The governor and NV Energy defend the regulator's decision because they say non-solar customers have been unfairly paying more than their fair share for maintaining the power grid.

Two separate attacks on the country's power grid were part of a «digital blitzkrieg» that had been waged against Ukraine for the past three years.

«It may not be a great technology for power grid storage, for example.

A flow battery might work in cars and power grid applications, but it will never work for a phone or laptop.