The electricity can then be used in the building, or sold back into the national electrical grid.
And with Chambers County knocked off the electrical grid, no fuel means the generator won't be running.
Nuclear shut down its Indian Point Unit 3 in New York due to external electrical grid issues.
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And new entrants say it means they need a strong local partner to gain fair access to the electrical grid.
That is to say nothing about the negative impact of our inadequate airports, broadband and electrical grid on economic growth.
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Local utilities here say that, at times, they are already producing more wind power than the electrical grid can handle.
For example, how often and for how long owners would plug in to the electrical grid, or a solar supply.
He focuses on the necessity of fixing infrastructure, including the electrical grid, so it can better deal with Mother Nature.
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Both extremely hot and cold temperatures stress our electrical grid to the breaking point, and there is precious little in reserve.
Then there is the mother of all threats to the electrical grid: a naturally occurring phenomenon known as geomagnetic solar events.
In a first for the United States, power from the ocean was harnessed and fed into the electrical grid late last week.
Fortunately, many of the concepts and tools needed to mitigate the consequences of solar storm activity for the electrical grid exist today.
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The bigger picture is that the Zenros Solar Touch panels are ideal for appliances or locations that have no electrical grid nearby.
And it can prepare America to run on clean energy by helping us upgrade to a smarter, stronger, more secure electrical grid.
The county lacked the electrical grid to supply cell towers with power.
That means the viability of those wind turbines may depend on the eagerness of these students to help upgrade the electrical grid.
For example, rebuilding the local water treatment plant, but forgetting to fix the electrical grid that powers the facility, should be a fail.
Late that morning, as the mercury hit the mid-90s and air conditioners cranked on across the region, electrical grid operators anxiously watched the demand needle.
Neither problem will see relief until Iraq's electrical grid is repaired.
"GE is playing a leadership role in the transformation to smarter transportation solutions and a smarter electrical grid, " said Luis Ramirez, CEO, GE Energy Industrial Solutions.
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Should some of the roughly 300 transformers that are the backbone of our electrical grid be damaged or destroyed, the interruption to the electrical grid will not be brief.
And yet, to realize the full potential of this plant and others like it, we've got to do more than just add extra solar megawatts to our electrical grid.
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An EMP wave a million times stronger than the most powerful radio transmitter would damage or destroy the electrical grid and unshielded electronic devices upon which our society utterly depends.
The rapid expansion of the electrical grid in recent decades, coupled with the growing reliance of society on relatively fragile electrical devices, has greatly increased the danger posed by solar storms.
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The governor there dispatched the National Guard to assist rescue efforts, and Connecticut Light and Power had begun dispatching crews to repair the electrical grid now that winds had subsided.
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Other infrastructure components have been compromised in the past, including a case in which hackers planted potentially disruptive software programs in the U.S. electrical grid, according to current and former national-security officials.
Last year, Republicans defeated a White House-backed bill that would have established voluntary cybersecurity standards for companies running critical infrastructure such as the electrical grid, citing concerns about a government role in cybersecurity.
But final approval for the 787 also was contingent on Boeing, among other things, designing an automatic system able to disconnect the batteries from the plane's electrical grid in case of unexpected problems.
For example, the creation of coupled-predictive models allow for understanding, days in advance, the impact that a storm would cause on the electrical grid and preemptively position crews and resources to facilitate restoration efforts.
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