Sentences with phrase «utility grid»

For many, many decades, demand for electricity followed a fairly predictable daily course, allowing utility grid managers to become experts at predicting and satisfying it.

Researchers have used the compound to create a high - performance «flow» battery, a leading contender for storing renewable power in the electric utility grid.

There have been a few high profile entries in the energy storage market, including Tesla whose Powerwall series offers some degree of independence from utility grids in addition to being an emergency backup system.

Should you continue to doubt that the cloud is the natural progression of, and the next stage of, computing and that it will soon be commonplace, you need look no further than our current electrical utility grid for proof, as explained in Appendix C.

Villages in Salingyi are among 31,000 villages in Myanmar that are not connected to the main national utility grid but are powered instead by diesel generators, solar home systems, car batteries or other sources of electricity.

These microgrids can separate or «island» off of the main utility grid to continue providing service when during times of widespread outages.

Kenya, for instance, overcame its lack of banks simply by introducing a mobile e-payment system (M - Pesa), while China's Rizhao leverages rapidly improving solar energy tech over a centralized utility grid.

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

Governments have explored using cyber weapons to destroy utility grids, undermine airline networks, interrupt Internet connectivity, confuse radar systems and remove funds from bank accounts.

As we develop new sources of energy and electricity, we will also need to modernize our national utility grid so that it's accommodating to new sources of power, more efficient, and more reliable.

«These are actual tools that are worked on collaboratively all the way across the value chain, including with the end - user utility grid operator.»

Nexamp Community Solar projects generate clean, renewable electricity that feeds into the existing utility grid.

A transformation is underway in the energy sector where utility grid infrastructure is evolving to produce more energy from renewable...

This Homestead House is designed to function off of the standard utility grid but it would be able to generate its own electricity with photovoltaic cells and with a small vertical axis wind turbine.

In Hawaii, state rules prohibit many new rooftop solar generators from sending power to the local utility grid.

The short answer is that I don't think anyone who lives in a state that has a net metering law and is connected to the public utility grid should consider battery storage for their excess solar power.

Utility grids in particular cost billions of dollars up front and take decades to pay back, but the situation in Puerto Rico presents a moving target and makes it difficult to plan.

These factors, combined with financial and operational pressures on utilities to meet an ambitious reform agenda, have created a deep distaste for Japan's renewable energy push, experts say, especially in regions where new solar capacity exceeds customer demand and where integration of those resources has created headaches for utility grid managers.

While it might have been possible for Nest as a stand - alone company to be an acceptable vendor in this market, there is no way in Hell any local, regional or national government in any country in the post-Snowden world outside the USA will allow Google to go anywhere near their national utility grids.

The microgrid can disconnect from — and reconnect to — the main utility grid.

Because it's looking at a neighborhood and not just a typical developer's parcel, Sidewalk Labs can play with all the infrastructure that connects those parcels — the utility grid, the street network, the sidewalks.

The company has one Connecticut service station, in Milford, and five super-charging stations that can provide up to 170 miles of range in as little as 30 minutes, though the charge rate depends on weather, demands on the utility grid, and other factors.

The Powerwall battery is charged with electricity generated by solar panels or from the utility grid.

In fact, storing solar energy for nighttime use actually increases both energy consumption and emissions compared with sending excess solar energy directly to the utility grid.

Utility grid integration — integrates the energy produced by wind into a utility grid.

Power hardware - in - the - loop (PHIL) allows for high fidelity testing by simulating the unfeasible components (utility grid) with a model while simultaneously operating hardware (electrolyzer) that feeds data to the model.

Solar has become a mainstream technology that Massachusetts residents, businesses, and institutions can own and operate; a technology that produces local clean energy, saves money, and lightens the electric burden on the utility grid while reducing the use of fossil fuels» said William Stillinger, President of SEBANE.

ORPC is the first, and so far only, company that has successfully delivered power to a utility grid that was harnessed from ocean waves.

For heating, most people use small propane heaters or electric space heaters if they have a utility grid connection.

-RRB- programs whereby home and building owners with solar or other renewable power generation capacity are compensated for the energy they send on to the utility grid

In addition, LADWP runs both solar and renewable energy net metering and feed - in tariff (FiT) programs whereby home and building owners with solar or other renewable power generation capacity are compensated for the energy they send on to the utility grid

Net metering laws require power companies to bank excess credits for solar electricity fed to the utility grid for later use by the homeowner.

CCSA is working to bring optimally priced, advanced, solar - power technology to electric customers through the utility grid, and looks forward to working with electric customers, utilities and policy - makers to advance this high - value market.»

Commercial solar will transform your rooftop or property into a reliable and durable asset that will generate power for your enterprise at a much lower cost per kWh than from the utility grid, while allowing you to sell your excess electricity back to the utility.

«Advanced solar technology optimally sited on the utility grid offers secure, clean electricity at a lower fixed price with no compromises.

Remote microgrids like the one found at the ranch are less common in the U.S. than grid - connected microgrids, which operate in concert with the utility grid — they exchange services with the grid based on optimal cost, emissions, or other parameters set by the microgrid controller.

«envisions affordable, factory - built energy efficient mobile home units that meet International Residential Code for housing with structurally - sound foundations, demountable for easy relocation, and can function in a place with a limited infrastructure or no utility grid in - place....

In 2015, Bankymoon created the world's first blockchain smart metering solution for power and utility grids in South Africa by enabling users to top up their utility meters with bitcoin payments.