New focus Sharyland Utilities built a high-voltage line to connect Texas with Mexico's power grid.
The electric power grid depends on metering perhaps more than any other single factor.
Bradner: I expect some burps in the power grid over the first few hours and days.
By comparison, power plants typically take several minutes to respond to instability on the power grid.
After all, the phone network was built to carry information, the power grid wasn't.
Bad news for the electric power grid is usually good news for the fuel-cell industry.
He said the distributed generator should get the same price as the generator of the power grid.
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He's inherited a dysfunctional economy, a deteriorating power grid and one of the world's highest homicide rates.
Cold-ironing is when ships at berth connect via large cables to the shore-side power grid for electricity.
In some plants, as little as 30% of the energy created ends up in the power grid.
These characteristics will allow the power grid to absorb large amounts of renewable energy without compromising reliability.
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Foreign hackers have already demonstrated an ability to break into the U.S. power grid and other infrastructure.
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Wind farms will take a decade to implement as a major contributor to the electric-power grid system nationwide.
Information about the source, price and environmental impact of power is unavailable for most of the power grid.
In fact, a power grid operator is mandated to have 12% more available power than there is demand.
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Others have also shown that electricity can flow in both directions between a vehicle and the power grid.
The obvious answer is that there is an acute and long-neglected need to upgrade the nation's power grid.
What happens decades from now when the modern-day Goths fall upon our civilization and take out our power grid?
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The Texas power grid is usually only taxed in the middle of summer when air conditioners are in overdrive.
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Another is an effort to reduce uncertainty around future energy costs, and to gain independence from the power grid.
At least for now, these phenomena do not affect most residential customers using power provided from the power grid.
If you're near a larger landmass, you may be able to connect to the power grid and water system.
Such projects could include adding millions of sensors to the nation's power grid or digitizing every American's health records.
Mainstream Renewable Power has secured a power grid connection and have an Agreement for Lease with The Crown Estate.
This paradigm shift has especially important implications for how the electric power grid.
Much of America's power grid and telecommunications systems is vulnerable to EMP attack.
The electric power grid in the United States is vulnerable to attacks that have already begun, former CIA Director R.
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He is probably correct that if car batteries can interact with the power grid, that will be the first beachhead.
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Texas needs to know why this is happening and who is responsible for allowing this weakness in our power grid.
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