Sentences with phrase «where utility grid»

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

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The building boom is biggest on the East Coast, where the grid operator PJM has a new market that incentivizes utilities to add energy storage, followed by California.

Florida homeowners found out about this the hard way after Hurricane Irma, where the utility told residents with rooftop solar systems that they couldn't draw power from their panels while workers were restoring power due to the risks of sending errant electricity on the grid.

This tail - wagging - the - dog scheme is approaching a critical test in Boulder, Colorado, where Minneapolis - based utility Xcel Energy is rolling out one of the first systemwide installations of a smart grid.

Even the electric utility industry recognizes that where residential electricity costs reach 15 cents per kilowatt - hour — or roughly 16 percent of the U.S. retail electricity market — solar is already as cheap as grid electricity.

At our utility, the engineers were saying someday you might theoretically reach a point where you could get 20 percent of the grid powered by wind.

The main problem will be commercial / political inertia I suppose: i.e moving from a centralised generating and distribution system over to a dispersed generating system where the utility companies supply, install and lease the generating and connection equipment in homes and workplaces and discount the surplus energy sold back into the local grid...... one day perhaps.

However, Microsoft envisions a future where it and other customers bring their own assets to utilities, whether new renewables, energy storage or even cloud technologies that optimize customer usage patterns, to help create a lower - cost, more efficient and cleaner energy grid.

As utilities continue to adopt mechanisms like time - of - use charges (where electricity costs more during certain parts of the day — usually during peak - use hours) your energy storage system can make sure you're using its power instead of the power from the grid.

In most states the systems provide your power needs throughout the day and if your system produces more electricity than your home is using, it sends the excess back to the electric grid, selling your extra solar power back to the utility where it can be used by your neighbors and others.

Also, a place where utilities, such as water lines, electrical panel, heating and or off - grid systems are located.

By contrast, Lazard calculates that utility scale solar power costs only about 20 % more in the Southeast than it does in the dry, sunny Southwest, where utility - scale solar has reached grid parity.

Another example is where power utility companies water down the system connection rules, which require utility companies by law to allow PPS companies to connect to their power grids based on the principle of open access.

Last month, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. held its biennial GridEx exercise, where utilities and grid operators run through their crisis plans, coordinating responses and reassuring customers as they rush to respond to a simulated attack.

Craven said that he hoped recent problems in California, where the company successfully campaigned to have grid interconnection charges levied on its customers installing storage lifted, would not be repeated elsewhere and described storage as an «opportunity» for utilities to rethink their business model in the wake of disruptive challenges from solar and other renewable technologies.

State renewable portfolio standards require utilities to bring new renewable capacity onto their grids no matter how much it depresses markets, and renewable subsidies further erode electricity prices, especially in Midwestern states where subsidized wind farms bid very low — even negative — prices for their power.

Some states such as Rhode Island offer solar feed - in tariffs well above the retail rate of power but in many other states and in specific utility territories there are what is known as avoided cost solar feed - in tariffs where an amount is paid for solar energy exported to the grid that is less than the retail rate of power.

It does three main things: First, it can store solar energy if you have solar panels; second, it can store energy from the grid off - peak when power is cheapest (in places where utilities have time - of - use dynamic pricing) and release it when power is most expensive, saving you money and smoothing out the demand peak, which is good for the grid overall.

Utility customers in states such as Hawaii, California, Massachusetts, and New York — where electricity is the most expensive — see faster returns than those in cheap - energy states such as Idaho and Washington, especially in places where the local utility allows residential meters to spin backward, sending excess energy to the grid and lowering power bills in the pUtility customers in states such as Hawaii, California, Massachusetts, and New York — where electricity is the most expensive — see faster returns than those in cheap - energy states such as Idaho and Washington, especially in places where the local utility allows residential meters to spin backward, sending excess energy to the grid and lowering power bills in the putility allows residential meters to spin backward, sending excess energy to the grid and lowering power bills in the process.

The chosen few were invited to an introductory event at the Toronto Smart showroom; It was a fascinating evening, where we learned that it is not just about testing the cars, but about the infrastructure, about how the utility will cope, what it will do to their grid.

After the system is installed you'll be entitled to net metering.This agreement with your utility gives you full retail value for excess power exported to the grid, where this incentive draws the most importance is in the middle of the day when solar is producing the most power and most people are out of the house.

The utilities might, for example, achieve capital efficiencies by encouraging more distributed energy, demand response or energy efficiency in areas where the grid is congested.

«In markets where kWh [i.e. kilowatt hour] costs are high, utility grids are questionable — resulting in blackouts, or the market has accepted solar PV as a feature they want, it may add value.»

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.