Sentences with phrase «transmission lines from»

Moreover, although one of the growth limiting factors is the need to construct transmission lines from areas where wind power potential is highest to where demand currently exists, that need is not uniform, and will be addressed in step with other resource and policy factors.

In addition, this would eliminate the requirement of transmission lines from remote locations to urban areas via the grid.

Concern is mounting about the impact of several power transmission lines from new and planned wind farms in the south - west.

Electricity from wind farms also increases the cost of electricity by adding to the burden of keeping the grid in balance and makes it difficult to keep transmission lines from being overloaded.

Another big road block is resistance from local landowners and governments to placement of new transmission lines from high wind and solar, much of it in the central US, to high population areas of the east and west.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's office has released a draft of legislation that would give the federal government power to speed the siting of transmission lines from remote zones to population centers.

Draft legislation from U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid would radically expand the federal government's power to speed the siting of transmission lines from remote renewable energy zones to the nation's population centers.

Transmission / distribution networks and distributed energy build - out is picking up the pace in the 12th Five - Year Plan, with concerted efforts on: ultra-high voltage electricity transmission lines from west to east, an ambitious oil and gas infrastructure (as the graphic above shows), and distributed solar and natural gas projects.

New transmission lines from Canada?

For example, to increase the U.S.'s renewable energy capacity to 17 % would require installing 162,000 megawatts of power — a six-fold increase in our existing capacity.14 This would also require the installation of thousands of miles of new transmission lines from the upper Midwest to the South, costing as much as $ 93 billion and taking decades to complete.15 Given the scope of this task, narrowing policy options to renewable energy alone creates an unnecessary obstacle to a transition to clean energy.

One of the greatest impediments to the development of sustainable energy in Australia, especially wind power, is the lack of high - capacity transmission lines from the areas where the renewable resources are, to the markets.

The new rules could slash the typical permitting time for transmission lines from four to two years, he said.

Minister for Energy, Boakye Agyarko has hinted that Ghana will supply 100 megawatts of power daily to Burkina Faso, and works on transmission lines from Bolgatanga to Burkina Faso for the supply has already begun.

The project involves a multi-state construction of power transmission lines from power stations in Canada, that will impact on Stony Point and other towns in New York State and Rockland County.

That project would have cut a broad swath across upstate New York for a 190 - mile - long, 2,000 - megawatt overhead transmission line from Utica to New York City.

An imaginative government committed to sustainable energy might rather build a 5GW transmission line from Mid North SA through Broken Hill to Sydney (1200 km), with a branch to Brisbane to cater for expansion in the SA sustainable energy industry.

Not exact matches

Prices for Internet fax services range from $ 10 to $ 15 per month per fax line and 6 to 12 cents per transmission for a home - based or small business to $ 6 to $ 9 a month and 4 to 8 cents per transmission for larger companies with dozens or hundreds of fax users, according to Davidson.

Environmentalists have long urged Ontario to import more clean power from Quebec's hydro - electric dams, but officials always said that would require huge and expensive upgrades to the transmission lines linking the two provinces.

It costs $ 174,000 per mile to run transmission lines above ground on average and $ 1.4 million per mile to bury them, according to a study from the Edison Electric Institute.

Perhaps the worst blow from Maria was the 150 mph winds that knocked down 80 percent of the island's power transmission lines and 85 percent of its cellphone towers, leaving people in the dark and struggling to contact each other.

The most recent data from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) finds that a cost - shift does not occur until distributed solar penetration reaches 10 % of electricity sales, and even then that the impact is minimal compared to other drivers of rate increases, like new gas plants or transmission lines.

It used to be that electricity was carried almost exclusively from big power plants over transmission lines, dumped into distribution grids, and then dumped into buildings, to be used by relatively dumb appliances.

But power won't start flowing west from Newfoundland for years to come as both projects and associated transmission lines are still years away from coming online.

«If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future.»

At the Ginna nuclear plant near Rochester, for example, the PSC ordered subsidy payments to keep Ginna running - but only for 18 months while the local utility finishes building a transmission line to bring in power from elsewhere.

It also included the construction of 111 - kilometre transmission pipelines from Atuabo to the Aboadze Power Enclave in the Shama District, as well as the construction of a metering station at Esiama and another line to the northern part of the region.

East Hampton Town has joined a lawsuit brought by a citizens group in 2014 against the Long Island Power Authority and PSEG - Long Island over the installation of high - voltage transmission lines and poles along a six - mile route from East Hampton Village to an Amagansett substation.

The 72 - megawatt array would benefit from existing transmission lines and a substation built for the never - used nuke plant.

An underground transmission line running from the CPV site to an existing New York Power Authority line would also need to be constructed.

It is going to be a one - way transmission where the line comes down from the centre to individual members,» the Glasgow South MP told BBC.

Don Jessome, president and CEO of Transmission Developers Inc., the company that would build the line, said in a statement that his firm «looks forward to working with all stakeholders to further the development of the fully - permitted... project to deliver clean, low cost electricity generated from renewable resources to southeastern New York.»

However, the state continues to delay a key piece of Cuomo's energy highway, which would run transmission lines down the Hudson Valley from the Albany area to the larger New York City metropolitan area.

One major source of power may be the Hudson Transmission Partners line that runs from New Jersey to Manhattan.

BEEKMANTOWN — The developers of a proposed electric transmission line running from Beekmantown to New Haven, Vt attended a Feb. 17 town board meeting here to layout details of the plan and how it might affect local residents.

Weckerly said obstruction from the transmission line could drop the number of satellite links his equipment relies on from eight or nine to four.

But pushing a transmission line through protected public land would almost certainly provoke outrage from environmentalists.

The team used cells lining brain capillaries called endothelium, and cells from placenta, which represent Zika's route across the blood - brain barrier and the transmission path from mother to child, respectively.

The idea is to expand the grid from the top down by adding thousands of miles of robust new transmission lines, while enhancing communication from the bottom up with electronics enabling millions of homes and businesses to optimize their energy use.

As with any heavily loaded transmission line, the heat from the current heats the metal and it expands.

Offshore wind turbines will line the Atlantic coast; vast solar arrays will cover swaths of the southwestern desert; transmission towers will cradle high - voltage direct current lines and take electricity from the windy Great Plains to the populated coasts.

In its new iteration, Widows Creek, with its extensive network of transmission and distribution lines, will become an importer of clean energy from outside the state, according to Patrick Gammons, Google's senior manager for data center energy and location strategy, who made the data center announcement yesterday in a blog post.

The hodgepodge of connections evolved over 100 years from a patchwork of local networks, interstate transmission lines, and ad hoc fixes.

Case in point, Gallagher says, is «smart grid» technology that's designed to integrate renewable power coming from wind turbines and solar cells with the nation's 9000 conventional power plants and 300,000 miles of transmission lines.

The largest is the Eastern Interconnection, an extensive complex of transmission lines that stretches from Halifax to New Orleans, with substations that step down the high - voltage electricity to lower levels so that it can be distributed locally along smaller wires.

The book is studded with explanations of common but uncelebrated objects — those dumbbells that hang from the undersides of power conductors (to absorb wind - induced vibration); the odd holes in barns (for owls invited in to eat the mice); and the colorful globes on power transmission lines that cross rivers (to alert pilots of tall - masted boats and low - flying aircraft).

The Berkeley Lab study is the first of its kind for Africa, using multiple criteria - such as quality of the resource, distance from transmission lines and roads, co-location potential, availability of water resources, potential human impact, and many other factors - to characterize wind and solar resources.

A 31 percent decrease in the likelihood of nesting by ravens was observed for every one kilometer increase in distance away from a transmission line when compared to unaltered areas.

Because type III cells appear to integrate information from other receptor cells (Tomchik et al., 2007) and use the 5 - HT3 system to transmit information, these previous nerve recording studies may have inhibited transmission of integrated cross-modal information from type III cells, leading to the appearance of strict labeled - line, modality - specific transmission of information.

The authors believe their findings can be used by land managers to predict likely outcomes related to forthcoming disturbances occurring as a result of grid development, and that protecting unaltered landscapes from fragmentation by transmission lines, roads, crested wheatgrass plantings and the invasion of other non-native vegetation is integral to stemming range expansion by ravens.

We are currently raising funds for the next part of our Phase 2 research: resuming germ - line transmission research in spring 2018, drawing upon lessons learned from our previous research and making the appropriate modifications.