Sentences with phrase «traditional grid electricity»

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Solar power is giving millions of people access to electricity for the first time — could they bypass traditional fossil fuel grids altogether?

In terms of infrastructure, such big solar fits as comfortably as a coal - fired power plant in the traditional electricity business model, which involves large plants transmitting electricity over a grid of conducting lines through transformers and into individual homes and businesses.

This makes multiple - unit based SMR - 160 electricity supply more resistant to natural disasters or acts of sabotage, and eliminates the need and cost of building traditional grid infrastructures.

In a recent UN-commissioned study I conducted with Dr. Feng An, Liping Kang and Robert Earley, my colleagues at the Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation, a policy center based in Beijing, we found that in only three of the seven electricity grid regions in China does an EV have a lower carbon footprint than a traditional internal combustion engine vehicle.

Designed to supply consistent and reliable renewable electricity that can help meet power demand in Australia, Kennedy Phase I can also shape a path forward for how Australia and other countries can integrate more renewable energy into their energy mix and address grid stability challenges that have been a traditional restraint to greater uptake of renewable energy.

Solar electricity floods the grid in the afternoon and then creates a huge problem in the evening when the traditional generation sources have to ramp up way faster than they're currently capable.

Residential solar power usually must be supplemented by traditional electricity from the power grid to provide additional electricity when the solar panels can not meet energy needs, such as when it is nighttime or extremely cloudy.

-- 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.

That plan, however, will increase electricity prices for Americans — both consumers of solar power and consumers of traditional energy that subsidize solar power's use of the electric grid.

According to Inhabitat, off - grid solar could help make electricity accessible to communities across Myanmar, as traditional alternative power sources like diesel generators are far too expensive for poverty - stricken areas in the country.

In summary, as more renewable energy is added to the grid, it gives us clean electricity, diversifies our energy mix, and can even help bring quick and affordable power to areas that fossil fuels and traditional grids may not easily reach.

The escalating battle centers over two ways traditional utilities have found to counter the rapidly growing solar market: demanding a share of the power generated by renewables and opposing net metering, which allows solar panel users to sell the extra electricity they generate back to the grid — and without which solar might no longer be affordable.

Allowing RTO / ISOs to use a dispatch system that gives wind and solar preference over traditional methods of generating electricity, which is driving nuclear and coal - fired generation off the grid, and which will ultimately also drive natural gas generation from the 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.»

Grid + allows the broader power grid to work with both traditional electricity sources and household solar panels.