The company successfully completed a grid connection of a wave energy device in the US a year ago.
Mainstream Renewable Power has secured a power grid connection and have an Agreement for Lease with The Crown Estate.
Scotland has lots of wind, but it blows above deep water, and the cost of grid connection is much higher.
One example is Path 15, the chief grid connection linking the northern half of the state with the southern half.
The competition is due to run from 2015 until 2017, one year before the upgraded grid connection will be available.
One measure is free grid connection for small-and-medium-scale solar power producers.
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The same is still true of both onshore and offshore windmills (most certainly it is when you add in hte costs of backup generation and grid connection).
But in situations where there is no grid connection, it and other renewables can be a significant aid to development, contributing to meeting the Millennium Development Goals, the IPCC concludes.
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Another recommendation from the committee is that with many of the best sites in remote locations around northern and western Scotland and in the Orkneys and Shetlands, finance for grid connection needs ramping up.
This will be the first commercial wind farm in the U.S. to deploy, at scale, turbines that use permanent magnet generators tech-speak for evolutionary turbine technology that will improve efficiency, reliability and grid connection capabilities.
Any wind farm larger than 50 megawatt of power, and any large scale energy development such as the proposed grid connection in mid Wales comes under the authority of the Department of Energy and Climate Change in London.
Clearly, trying to produce such an extraordinary product as a laptop that is kid-proof and capable of working in jungles, deserts or the bush, miles from the nearest grid connection, and all for the cheapest possible price, has concentrated minds remarkably.
Even many houses right underneath the grid cannot afford connection fees, a meter, and household wiring expenses.
The undersea connection to the national grid was funded by the UK Government and European Union.
Official figures indicate that 25% of the power generating capacity of new solar plants in 2011 went unused because the plants could not maintain a connection with the electric grid.
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All the park managers want to do is create a microgrid with a few solar panels and a battery pack to meet a few humble power needs with no connection to the larger grid.
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