Sentences with phrase «traditional utility grid»

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

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«Disagreements exist about whether recovery of a utility's smart grid costs should be restricted to the «traditional» rate - base method, or whether a «non-traditional» method... should be used.

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.

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.

The traditional regulated utility business model allows for generation and distribution, but as more grid - connected rooftop solar (and other Distributed Energy Generation (DEG) sources) come on line, the utility will not be getting as much revenue for generation, yet still has to maintain and upgrade on the grid distribution side.

One is to have big utility - scale units that are sitting out like traditional generators that provide regulation and different services to the grid.