It works to smooth power demand on the grid and effectively lowers electricity costs to the customer.
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Residential power demand is on track to fall for the third straight year, according to the government.
Duke helped fund the project in part to see how they can manage avoidance of peak power demand.
Demand response programs were pioneered in the industrial sector and, as evidenced by the effort in Sheboygan Falls, have been enormously successful at reducing peak power demand.
But such capital outlays will be required not just to meet the expected upswing in power demand but also to satisfy utility regulators at both the national and state levels.
Unocal produces some 20, 000 barrels per day of oil and 1 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas and supplies the gas to generate 75% of the nation's power demand.
In times of low power demand, Schmitz says the the system gradually re-stores the battery power so it is able and ready to be used when the customer again needs power.
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Multiply that by millions of customers in a metro area, and a smart grid can produce a data set large enough to monitor power demand in real time and predict probable outages before they occur.
This could cut power demand by 10-15% during peak hours, estimates Ahmad Faruqui of the Brattle Group, a consultancy more than twice the reduction likely to be achieved by just giving customers real-time information about their usage.
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While the Kingdom is the world's largest oil exporter, power demand is growing approximately 8% per year, prompting authorities to investigate alternative sources of power, that can ease the demand on its primary source of income.
In effect, the end of Earth Hour is actually more detrimental to climate mitigation because simultaneously turning on so much equipment all at once creates a surge current that results in a sudden spike in power demand.
It is meant to push companies out of the so-called valley of death where private equity or debt investors are reluctant to cover huge construction costs on unproven technology given the sluggish growth outlook for power demand.
It works to smooth power demand on the grid and effectively lowers electricity costs to the customer, says Schmitz, who was formerly Chief Operating Officer of UltraLife (ULBI), a worldwide designer and manufacrturer of power and communictions systems.
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The glut exacerbates the inefficiency by forcing the utilities to rely on dirtier and less efficient sources of power to meet peak demand rather than simply redirecting surplus power from low demand to high-demand markets.
Whether a ceremonial gathering or an unceremonious departure, the artfully twisted responses state power and demand respect.
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The current wave of "always-connected, always-on" devices requires complex SoCs to achieve the performance and low power consumers demand.
Sir Thomas, whose final report is expected in December, does not have the power to demand that they repay money.
Is America descending into a dependency state, where the majority uses its voting power to demand government services from taxpayers?
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The lender will have power to demand a sale or purchase if they do not believe that the speculator can complete the deal profitably.
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For example, in many places, winds are stronger at night, which means local wind farms produce most of their power when demand is lowest.
Such curve-based modelling has been a dream of games designers for years, but the mathematics behind the curves, and the processor power they demand, are daunting.
In essence, the Power on Demand system, which Arista has installed in several of its small-business customers, is a storage and power management unit rolled into one.
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In essence, the Power on Demand system, which WindTamer has installed in several of its small-business customers, is a storage and power management unit rolled into one.
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That's foreign policy in the post-bureaucratic age - enabling the free flow of information to give people power so they can use that power to demand change.
Since the Thatcher government's tussle with the unions, workers have much less power to demand wage increases, which means that inflation is less likely to get out of control.
In a speech to Parliament, Mr. Cameron welcomed the call for a new regulator "with the power to demand upfront apologies and impose million-pound fines, " but expressed concern about underpinning the organization in law.
"We remain concerned about proposals pending in several countries that would give public agencies greater power to demand access to encrypted keys or plain text, " David Sobel, EPIC general counsel, said Monday in a phone interview.
Mark Matthews, one of the designers of the Power on Demand system, says the system is being tested for use as an alternative to the more expensivge diesel generators now being used in various military locations.
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One WindTamer customer is the U.S. Army, which purchased last year a mobile trailer-mounted turbine and renewable energy storage unit containing the Power on Demand system that the military would be able to move around even in battle zones.
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Thanks to the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2010, which gives the FDA much more power to demand food safety testing (and reduce the need for recalls after people become ill), I think the demand for NEOG products will increase dramatically over the next five years.
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