Sentences with phrase «voltage lines linking»

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The four interconnections are linked by short, high - voltage lines, but they do not provide nearly enough capacity to move sufficient power back and forth, much less to handle the additional burden of thousands of renewable sources with output that is intermittent and sometimes hard to predict.

These high - voltage lines also allow neighboring utilities to link their grids, thereby helping one another sustain a critical balance between generation supply and customer demand.

After a survey showed that the state had two strong concentrations of wind energy, one in West Texas and the other in the Panhandle, the Public Utility Commission coordinated the design of a network of high - voltage transmission lines to link these regions with consumption centers such as Dallas / Ft.

113 Already, major utilities and private investors are proposing to build highly efficient high - voltage direct - current (HVDC) lines to link wind - rich regions with consumption centers.

This investment in 3,000 miles of high - voltage transmission lines is intended to link 12,000 megawatts of wind capacity from North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota with the more densely populated industrial Midwest.

One possibility is to couple the gas pipeline with High - Voltage Direct Current power lines bringing PNG hydro power to Queensland, linking Australia's and PNG's electricity grids.