Sentences with phrase «utility planning»

Originally, vertically integrated utilities planned for their own system reliability, with a few tie lines to neighboring utilities that might be helpful in some emergencies.

Fully integrating distributed solar into utility planning requires more tightly linking distribution, transmission, and resource planning.

The vote could have an immediate impact on utility plans in the state.

Long - term predictions can also help utilities plan new generators to meet future demand.

Our review and testimony has stopped billions of dollars of unnecessary investments and changed the way utilities plan in multiple jurisdictions.

Bringing forecasts of customer adoption of rooftop solar into utility planning is essential to realizing the full value of solar and ensuring reliable operation of the power system.

Staff Report: California Energy Demand 2016 - 2026 Revised Electricity Demand Forecast, Volume 2: Electricity Demand by Utility Planning Area Publication # CEC -200-2016-001-V2

California Energy Demand 2016 - 2026 Revised Electricity Demand Forecast, Volume 2: Electricity Demand by Utility Planning Area Publication # CEC -200-2016-001-V2

As utilities plan for the closure of large, dispatchable baseload coal and nuclear plants, Michigan's system will be forced to rely on a smaller suite of energy options — specifically natural gas, renewables, and conservation measures.

Mr. Biewald spoke about the practice of estimating a future CO2 price in electric utility planning, which is becoming increasingly common in the United States.

Projecting rooftop solar adoption can be difficult, but innovations in utility planning decisions can help to account for this uncertainty.

In Australia, Fortescue Metal and two Japanese utilities plan to build an LNG import terminal in New South Wales by 2020 to help alleviate an energy crunch in Australia's most populous state.

BOLINGBROOK — A reorganization of utility plans is expected to save the Park District up to $ 14,000 a year.

The Waukesha Water Utility plan to buy Lake Michigan water includes returning it to...

Nancy spent 3 years at the Colorado Public Utilities Commission as a clean energy advocate, pushing against utility plans to build «clean» coal power plant in Colorado and Arizona.

Not to mention, the natural gas delivery system is remarkably resilient and natural gas utilities plan throughout the year to prepared for the coldest days.

Thanks to damage from recent north Atlantic superstorms, a major New Jersey utility plans to spend $ 4 billion over the next ten years to make its grid less susceptible to storm damage.

After the last absentee ballot was counted, opponents of proceeding with municipal utility plans had 1,385 votes compared to 1,380 from supporters.

Research such as this is intended to help energy utilities plan for problems ahead.

EV owners are among the customers most likely to want rooftop solar, green premium utility plans, and solar - powered portable power devices, he explained.

A new report by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory surveys utility planning practices from roughly 30 studies across the United States.

Tuesday's outcome highlights a difficulty of the energy transition: Utility planning takes a long time, while new energy technologies move very fast.

This has made LACE popular in government and utility planning circles.

Energy Commission staff has developed forecasts of electricity and end - user natural gas consumption and peak electricity demand for each major utility planning area within California for the 10 - year period, 2010 - 2020.

Its deployment remains hampered by the current features of regional, state and federal regulatory frameworks, traditional utility planning and decision - making paradigms, electricity markets, and aspects of the technology itself.

NCSEA introduces energy efficiency into utility planning, and designs and implements the state's Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard (REPS).

Set up civil sheet sets such as utility plans, grading sheets, erosion control and plan and profile sheets sets.

The sponsors of I - 1631 included a similar but less stringent provision, requiring electric utility plans to include «a long - term strategy to eliminate any fee obligation» imposed by the measure, as a way to push utilities to use at least some of the retained revenue to directly reduce carbon from their electricity generating sources.

The utility plan for Underwood Creek will require approval from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, which considers requests for utilities to send water into waterways, Duchniak said.

Because there's confusion about the rules, he said, the utility plans to run an advertisement in the local paper in a few days cautioning people that even if they are buying systems with batteries, they need to first contact HECO.

Vehicle manufacturers and utilities plan to find ways to cut the U.S. transportation system's energy use in half by 2050

He began his career with the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities where he directed the regulatory effort making Massachusetts among the first states to incorporate energy efficiency into the utility planning, resource acquisition and ratemaking processes.

Moody's may not have known how the utilities plan to use electricity customers as a hedge for at least two planned pipelines, the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and Sabal Trail.

Utilities plan out their power mix changes decades in advance, so it's not surprising to see expectations for generation sourcing change little over five years of surveying.

Three solar projects at 74.5 MW - AC each will replace a 250 MW coal - fired power plant which the utility plans to shut down.

Over the next three years, utilities plan to build only eight new coal - fired generators compared with 91 new gas - fired generators, according to the EIA.

In this report, «Planning for a Distributed Disruption: Innovative Practices for Incorporating Distributed Solar into Utility Planning,» the researchers highlight these innovative planning approaches across nine methodological areas.

An innovative approach to incorporating these decisions into utility planning is to use a customer adoption model that accounts for the available rooftop space, the customer economics of rooftop solar, and the diffusion of new technologies into the market.

«For the commission to not acknowledge meant essentially that they had some pretty serious concerns with what's in the utility plans.»

Additionally, the utility plans to make sure that any new renewable energy procurement is covered in «non-bypassable» charges to its customers.

In Iowa, MidAmerican operates 4,400 megawatts of wind farms, having invested $ 7.5 billion, and the utility plans to add 1,600 megawatts of wind.

The utilities plan on building a system that will rely on a gigantic air compressor (as seen in the diagram) to pump air into porous layers of sandstone.

Manage projects including design and supervising the preparation of site construction plans, site layout dimension plans, paving, grading and drainage plans, utility plans and stormwater management plans.