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.
Both the Caucus and the SHIELD Act are intended to protect the U.S. national power grid from an EMP event generated by the Sun or by hostile actors.
Those of us who have dedicated careers to protecting the American people from an EMP catastrophe know that no actual technical work is yet underway to physically protect the national power grid from EMP.
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.
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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Both stations supply power to the National Grid at peak times when there is extra demand for electricity.
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.
There are further cost issues in upgrading the national grid to cope with power surges and the need to switch between different power sources.
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.
We are also encouraged by recent announcements in Asia, most notably in China and Japan, that governments are strengthening their commitment to solar energy and raising the target for solar power contribution to the national grid capacity.
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The CCS proposal at Grangemouth is led by Summit Power and involves Petrofac, National Grid and Siemens.
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She has an app on her iPad which shows how much power is generated for the national grid from the UK's renewables.
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What strikes one about both the National Academy of Sciences report on the power grid, and the World Bank report on the state of the world climate is that both are really talking about similar things: a deterioration and vulnerability of our infrastructure, whether it be man-made or a natural.
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"It was a technical fault in one of our power plants and not in the national grid, " he told Agence France-Presse news agency.
About 10, 000 customers were without power in eastern Long Island, a National Grid spokeswoman said.
Energy from the wind farm will enter the national grid in Cumbria, creating enough to power about 180, 000 homes.
National Grid is consulting over proposals to transfer power from offshore wind farms and Wylfa B to the electricity network.
National Grid announced an agreement Thursday to buy power from a small project set to be built by Deepwater Wind near Block Island, R.
As more turbines are approved, the National Grid is legally obliged to extend the power infrastructure - and that's why there are plans for pylons and a sub-station to be built in Powys so that the power generated by wind farms is taken to the rest of the country.
That means Powys council will decide planning on the 19 acre electricity sub station which the National Grid wants to build, but the power lines are to be decided by the IPC - the Infrastructure Planning Commission - set up by the previous Labour government to fast-track and speed up planning on nationally important projects.
The National Grid is obliged by law to deliver the power to where it is needed, and prepare and operate the infrastructure needed to do that.
It will consist of a network of 600 pylons and connect renewable power generated in the north of Scotland to the national grid.
The project will generate enough electricity to power 4, 500 homes annually and connect to the national grid via existing overhead lines.
He said power cables would carry the energy from the lagoon to the national Grid in Baglan.
Cuomo said he will end what he called the current, confusing relationship by empowering National Grid to act quickly and decisively in the event of major power outages.
National Grid, which took over storm preparations from the Long Island Power Authority after LIPA was lambasted for its Sandy problems, did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
It plans to build a slurry-fuelled power station that will generate enough electricity to power the farm, with plenty left over to sell to the national grid.
Working conditions for power companies was difficult due to high winds early in the day, according to National Grid.
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Solar power stations can currently earn 30.7p per kWh of electricity fed into the National Grid but, after subsidies are cut, new projects will earn a much lower rate.
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