While some neighborhoods have a grid system and street signs, many Costa Ricans ignore them.
Manhattan's Commissioner's Plan of 1811 established its grid system, which is rotated 29 degrees from true east-west.
Wind farms will take a decade to implement as a major contributor to the electric-power grid system nationwide.
NVIDIA's hoping Shield will replace your average controller as well -- perhaps with that newly detailed Grid system?
While New York has its grid system and Paris its grands boulevards, London has evolved in a higgledy-piggledy fashion.
In Yemen, dozens of tiny private generators have sprung up to service households not reached by the inadequate grid system.
The fourth pillar of the plan would make everyone a stakeholder in the scheme by overhauling the outdated power grid system.
Rather, the entire building envelope will be able to put it to use, allowing the structure to produce its own power and feed additional power into the grid system.
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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.
Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.
If you're near a larger landmass, you may be able to connect to the power grid and water system.
The Earth System Grid is part of another American academic initiative.
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It is still early days but as bitcoin bypasses traditional banking and financial institutions, it is a currency off the grid just as System D.
The problem that forward thinkers on cyber security like Kendall, Alexander, and former deputy defense secretary Bill Lynn face is that the existing information grid and acquisition system have spawned constituencies with deep roots in the political system.
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The attack built by Giannetsos and his colleagues has a wider target than the power grid: any system that uses sensor mesh networks, from buildings that use the sensors to monitor for weaknesses in their architecture to sensors distributed in forests to detect wildfires.
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California's main power grid manager, the Independent System Operator, reported that turbines spinning within the ISO grid produced a record of 4, 196 megawatts Sunday.
The Smart Grid enables a market system that provides cost-benefit tradeoffs to consumers by creating opportunities to bid for competing services.
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In the 11-state Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator grid, coal-plant utilization has fallen to 45 to 55 percent from 70 to 80 percent in 2010-11, according to RBN, a Houston-based energy market-research firm.
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Since November, IBM Chief Executive Sam Palmisano has been making futurist statements about the need for a "smarter" national infrastructure, using information technology to upgrade the nation's roads, electric grid and health care system in a bid to increase their efficiency -- and to make America more internationally competitive and to create thousands of jobs.
To be able to offer frequency regulation service to the grid, cars need a bidirectional power system, so energy can flow both from the grid and to the grid, and software to allow the car to communicate with the grid.
It is a hybrid because it uses software algorithms to combine two separate requirements: one is to ensure that the grid is capable of operating continuously, while the second is the ability to deal discretely with any system changes on the grid.
Therefore some sort of system operator or grid manager will always be necessary.
They argue that extra rations or medical supplies are of limited use without improvements to Iraq's debilitated sanitation system, electricity grid and transport network.
To come up with the MPRI , we looked at a range of factors, including the broader economy, banking system, telco grid and regulatory structures.
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Just this week the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) passed a resolution endorsing the continuing modernization of the electric system with smart grid technologies.
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Altair Nanotechnologies is working with the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute and the University of Hawaii to supply a 2 megawatt energy storage system to maintain grid stability, all using its nano-scale processing technology that it says provides rapid charging.
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The solar mission in its first phase focused on areas already connected to the grid and had a pricing system that bundled four units of thermal electricity with one unit of solar-based power, which reduced the average per-unit cost of solar electricity.
Investment shifted to such aspects as improving system automation, digitalized grid construction, and reliability and safety.
The Smart Grid independently identifies and reacts to system disturbances and performs mitigation efforts to correct them.
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They say that terrorists could shut down chunks of the Internet, the phone system or the electric grid by hacking into computers.
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