Sentences with phrase «utility grid so»
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.
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Several states — including California, New York, and Connecticut — are rewriting their utility rules so individuals or companies can sell electricity (from a fuel cell or other private power source) back into the grid.
The rooftop solar thermal panels produce hot water that flows through radiant tubing in the floors to heat the house; the rooftop photovoltaic panels are net - metered so that during the week when we're in L.A. and the house is empty and the energy goes unused, it is pumped directly back into the grid and creates a credit at the local utility.
«The utilities, PUC, and ISO are tasked with meeting our RPS and GHG reduction goals while balancing the grid, so they are all crucial partners,» he said.
Virtual net metering (also called virtual net energy metering, or VNEM) uses the same compensation structure as net energy metering (NEM): utilities pay customers the retail rate for the energy that their solar system feeds back to the electric grid, so that they pay only for the net amount of energy they consume.
These strong annual fluctuations in each country's demand for utility - scale storage solutions illustrates that the demand was typically ignited by short term market opportunities (the auctioning of grid service capacities in the UK for instance) but that so far only a limited self - sustaining market demand for these large scale storage systems has emerged.
When a utility shifts from kWh to flat charges, this acts as a incentive to do nothing and flies in the face of the so - called smart grid.
The company is one of the biggest load control device manufacturers in the US, and so can play a big role in working with utilities on smart grid conversion.
The so - called smart grid — a digital network enabling utilities, consumers and alternative sources of renewable energy to «talk» to one another instantaneously — steers electricity to where it is needed most.