Sentences with phrase «traditional grid power»

In addition this project generates renewable energy and displaces traditional grid power.

Properly planned and designed, community energy systems are more resilient than traditional grid power and take advantage of system efficiencies to offer smarter, more flexible, more affordable power.

Not exact matches

For example, when the sun sets, the systems switches from the traditional power grid to the solar power stored in the batteries.

After the sun goes down, the battery takes over, providing power independent of the traditional utility grid.

TRADITIONAL ANSWER Off - grid mines have typically bought and operated their own diesel or heavy fuel oil power generating facilities, as security of energy supply is an important factor in the mining industry

Meanwhile, a lot of the «clean energy» options (like hybrid / electric vehicles) still require the power grid, which — you guessed it — largely uses traditional energy sources (like natural gas).

The Policy The government should direct funds into initiatives to develop technologies for storing power from traditional and alternative sources on the nation's grid.

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.

MacDonald wondered whether the U.S. grid might be able to overcome intermittency problems if it added high - voltage, direct - current (HVDC) transmission lines — which suffer less energy loss than do traditional alternating - current transmission lines — to connect regional grids, so that power could be moved to where it was needed.

They see a market in servicing large electric utilities that want to incrementally expand their generation capacity, developing countries that can not afford or make good use of traditional reactors, and off - grid and hard - to - power sites.

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory believe that traditional power grid computation can be reformulated and converted to high - performance computing platforms.

Your electric bill goes up, or the grid goes down... traditional power generation has served us well over the years, but with an aging system and increased demand, relying on it for all our energy needs has drawbacks.

A battery built with the abundant and cheap material could be used to power big data centers, as well as provide a cheaper energy - storage option for microgrids and the traditional electric grid.

Meanwhile, a lot of the «clean energy» options (like hybrid / electric vehicles) still require the power grid, which — you guessed it — largely uses traditional energy sources (like natural gas).

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.

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.

The traditional energy grid system has been structured around one - way power flow from power plants traveling over transmission and distribution lines to homes and businesses.

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.

Since they can convert an average of 60 % electric energy from the grid into driving power, compared to roughly 20 % fuel conversion in a traditional gas - powered vehicle.

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.

Unfortunately, today's investments in energy access are heavily skewed toward traditional grid extension, with billions going to large scale centralized power projects which are often heavily polluting coal plants.

Also, traditional power plants ramp up to meet increasing power demands on the grid, and then adjust when it declines.

«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.