Large-scale electricity transmission usually uses alternating current, in which both current and voltage oscillate.
Electricity transmission will be a problem even when enough of the stuff is finally generated.
Manufacturing is almost entirely open to 100% foreign ownership, but electricity transmission remains highly restricted and thus uncompetitive.
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Electricity transmission and distribution are still overwhelmingly in the hands of government entities.
We take off-the-shelf IT and Internet technology and transform the power grid and electricity transmission lines into an energy Internet.
An upgrade of the U.S. electricity transmission system to enable wind energy to flow from the middle of the country toward the coasts.
Ms Khar said Pakistan was talking to Iran about some "important projects, such as the gas pipeline, the electricity transmission projects and upgrading trade partnership".
Each team will facilitate Federal field office coordination on regional infrastructure priorities including passenger rail, renewable energy, electricity transmission, oil and gas production, and drought mitigation.
In areas such as telecommunications, electricity transmission, media and banking, the Philippines imposes tighter caps on foreign investment than its peers, according to the World Bank's "Investing Across Borders" survey.
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In the UK, it already owns UK Power Networks, the electricity transmission network in London and the South East, gas distributor Northern Gas Networks and a 50% stake in Seabank Power.
She now oversees the electricity transmission grid in Algeria.
The alliance's manifesto calls for measures to reduce demand on the main electricity transmission grid, including smart meters, encouragement for community and small-scale local energy generation, and further research on methods of storage of electricity.
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW) is among an alliance of groups aiming to influence a government's plan for a 'smart grid' and a new national planning policy on the future of the nation's electricity transmission network.
Ken Lay was the only energy executive to meet privately with Vice President Dick Cheney to help shape the administration's new energy policy -- which included a recommendation to break up monopoly control of electricity transmission networks, a longtime Enron goal.
As Gittleman sees it, we are surrounded by electronic devices, electricity, transmission signals and wireless devices.
Instead it has ten regional monopolies (TEPCO is one), which hog 97% of the market for electricity generation and transmission.
These, in turn, connect to 132KV export cables carrying the electricity to a beach landing point at Pensarn for onward transmission to the new electricity sub station at St Asaph.
Japan should end the regional monopolies, separate the generation and transmission of electricity and establish a tough regulator to oversee the terms under which incumbents allow newcomers to connect to the grid.
There would be no more exclusive franchises for the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity within fixed territories.
They are also expanding transmission, even though electricity use has yet to recover to prerecession levels.
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Wind and solar power also require huge amounts of land and expansive transmission lines to deliver electricity from remote sites.
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Until then the BPA will be giving electricity away, and paying the transmission costs of utilities willing to take it.
It's pitching its electric transmission systems and its electricity-sparing motors to the dirtiest industries--utilities, mining, oil and gas, and heavy manufacturing--as a way of becoming a little bit cleaner and more efficient.
Analysts say outdated transmission lines and an unreliable electricity supply have been affecting India for several years now.
That coal- and oil-fired electricity powers our computers, enables the transmission of data between networks and, increasingly supplies the energy to servers that store and process an ever growing mountain of information.
Since power from CHP is generated on-site, CHP avoids transmission losses that typically result from moving electricity over power lines.
In order to transmit electricity around the country, there are 38 power transmission companies at the central government and provincial levels.
These changes will impact the production, transmission and, eventually, consumption of electricity.
Pols and power bureaucrats have been seized with the notion that the generation of electricity can be free of bureaucratic oversight but that the transmission and distribution of power must remain in a regulatory straitjacket.
The Federal Electricity Regulatory Commission (FERC) passed a rule last week, Order No. 1000, that aims to facilitate the building of transmission infrastructure, the wires that bring us electricity from the power plant or other generation device.
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