Gerald Draper and his colleagues at the University of Oxford, and John Swanson of National Grid Transco, a power-transmission company, have looked at the distribution of childhood cancer along the power lines of the national electricity grid in England and Wales.
The deal has been helped along by the courts, which have recently upheld a power purchase agreement it had with National Grid to buy half of the power that it would generate.
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We can generate clean, renewable electricity (often in low-demand regions) and get it to where it's needed by building a national smart grid to distribute clean power -- like a high-voltage Internet.
For example: An Internet-jacked kettle that alerts us when the national power grid is overloaded (a prototype has been developed by U.K. engineer Chris Adams) doesn't prevent us from boiling yet another cup of tea, but it does add an extra ethical dimension to that choice.
About 10, 000 customers were without power in eastern Long Island, a National Grid spokeswoman said.
UES, which runs Russia's national power grid, the government installed a 29-year-old chief executive and told him to shake the firm up.
"It was a technical fault in one of our power plants and not in the national grid, " he told Agence France-Presse news agency.
National Grid announced an agreement Thursday to buy power from a small project set to be built by Deepwater Wind near Block Island, R.
Today these two firms are one, which gets its wool from Australia and its power from the national grid, and its boss chafes at the restrictions a narrow valley places on floor space in his factory.
It will consist of a network of 600 pylons and connect renewable power generated in the north of Scotland to the national grid.
Electricity in power lines above a fire at a Hertfordshire recycling centre should be back by Thursday evening, National Grid has said.
Correspondents say that India urgently needs a huge increase in power production, as hundreds of millions of its people are not even connected to the national grid.
Nanogeneration is not reliant on government subsidies, nor a national grid system, and represents an affordable way for people to play a role in the generation of green power.
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