Therefore some sort of system operator or grid manager will always be necessary.
The Independent System Operator that coordinates the grid and schedules power will have to be able to accommodate thousands of megawatts of wind.
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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 New York Independent System Operator has defined short-term energy storage devices like flywheels and batteries as frequency regulators, allowing them to participate in regulated markets.
In northern California alone, the current power deficit averages 2, 000 to 3, 000 megawatts per hour, according to the California Independent System Operator, the agency set up to monitor the state's power grid.
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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In August, the New England Independent System Operator (ISO-NE) asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to penalize businesses and other ratepayers for producing clean electricity during periods of peak demand or high congestion.
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Gordon Brown, operations manager of California Independent System Operator, the state agency that oversees the power grid, told CNN Thursday night that the declaration triggered contingency plans to stop pumping water for two hours, during the state's critical power usage hour between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
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The investigation into last year's North American blackout revealed that during the precious minutes following the first outages in Ohio, when action might have been taken to prevent the blackout spreading, the local utility's managers had to ask the regional system operator by phone what was happening on their own wires.
Totzke advises all smartphone users to enable a password, quickly download security updates from their phones operator system and carefully consider the source of any applications they download.
Under the old system, if an operator misjudged a roll, causing a sheet break, it could take 15 minutes to get going again.
Investors in the so-called public-private partnership include Russian Railways, national power utility Unified Energy System and state-controlled pipeline operator Transneft.
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Complaints coming from the California Independent System Operation (CAISO) and the Midwest Independent Transmission Operator (MISO) sparked an investigation into how JPMorgan was potentially gaming the system to its own benefit.
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The system can be automated, although an operator is able to override it.
Specific to set-top boxes, Sony has announced a product dubbed Passage, which is a operating system that can link with any cable operator.
Hours earlier, the plant operator switched off a reactor cooling system after discovering rats near critical equipment.
In July 2012, Amor supplied Milan Malpensa operator SEA with a Bluetooth queue measurement system.
Helping Komatsu persuade the mine operator to switch was a new drive system that instead of the conventional mechanical axle and cogs uses rear-wheel-mounted electrical motors.
"We missed a great opportunity to bring a great charter operator to Nashville when our public education system is one of the lowest-scoring in the nation, " Mr. Harrington said.
MessageVine's server supports interaction via its own PC client or those of AOL's ICQ or Microsoft's MSN Messenger, and also from mobile phones using WAP, SMS, or Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo's I-mode system.
Nadeem Kashmiri, a data operator, was charged with hacking into the computer system which allegedly led to money being stolen from customer accounts.
Some train services were delayed Wednesday, said Holger Auferkamp, spokesman for national railway operator Deutsche Bahn, but Berlin's metro system, or S-Bahn, was not affected.
French operator Systel has been appointed as the supplier for the system, which will be in place in 2014.
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Carl Rhode of Entergy, the plant's operator, told WGNO that the threat to the intake system is not a matter of nuclear safety.
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As BlackBerry and your operator will make the new BlackBerry 10.1 operating system available on the BlackBerry Z10 in the near future, BlackBerry Z10 owners will also be able to enjoy Skype.
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The city expects the system to turn a profit, to be split between the city and the operator.
The city's emergency system works like this: Callers dial 911, and a New York Police Department operator answers.
It also sold its Chroma multi-airport operational database to Norwegian airport operator Avinor and supplied Milan Malpensa operators SEA with a Bluetooth queue measurement system.
Washington's public transit operator, the Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, increased the number of uniformed officers patrolling the system, said Metro spokeswoman Lisa Farbstein.
It took Schaeffer only five months to analyze the setup and write code that would let him, from his laptop, tell the Scada system to open and close enough breakers to bring down the mock utility--without letting the legitimate operator see what was going on.
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