In fact, a battery system can perform more than a dozen tasks, from sending short bursts of power to stabilize the electric grid to releasing a steady supply of electricity over a longer period of time when there is a lot of demand for power.
Magnetic tapes can degrade within a decade, while hard disks are expensive and need a constant supply of electricity.
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However, Keidanren, the lobby for big business, opposes deregulation on the ground that TEPCO and its ilk ensure a stable supply of electricity.
The first carries compressed air, water, communications and a constant supply of electricity to power lights that are intended to simulate daytime and nighttime.
Among today's data-storage devices, magnetic tapes can degrade within a decade, while hard disks are expensive and need a constant supply of electricity to hold their information, creating huge need for power for the "data farms" behind cloud computing.
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However, because of a different system of electricity supply in the UK, electromagnetic fields are generally less intense, resulting in only a few children found to be exposed to levels greater than 0.2 micro-Tesla.
Micro-grids are an important solution: a combination of a generator and hardened distribution system can supply reliable and larger quantities of electricity to a small circuit of users including emergency services, shelters, gas stations and grocery stores.
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In an earlier report, the Royal Academy of Engineering had mapped out the scale of the task involved in moving to a low-carbon electricity supply - with a mix of energy efficiency, renewables, nuclear and clean coal.
The devastating Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake of July 16, 2007 caused all units at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station to be shut down, and left us with a mountain of challenges in maintaining stable supply of electricity, making ends meets, and addressing environmental impacts.
Mr Arditti said a States debate on the security of Guernsey's electricity supply was needed as a matter of urgency.
"The UK has incredible offshore wind resources and this sector will play a key part in improving security of supply and decarbonising our electricity generating system, " said a spokesman for the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc).
But if the legislation succeeds in reducing emissions, the reduced supply of electricity will necessitate a rise in retail prices to reduce demand for the reduced supply.
"It is important all our equipment is in service so we can maintain a good quality of electricity supply to all of our customers who depend on our service, " he said.
Leonhardt said it would be more practical to use solar power to help charge a car's battery and use the more efficient panels mounted on a roof or over a parking area to supply the rest of the electricity needed to drive the engine.
Another of the report's authors, information technology specialist Will Stewart from Southampton University, highlighted the total dependence of IT on a reliable electricity supply.
But even in Malaysia, it is not just at the top of the ladder that rungs are missing 15% of schools lack a stable electricity supply, let alone access to the Internet.
In the right location, a 10-kilowatt turbine could supply the entire electricity needs of an average American household.
With Enernoc, Brewster and Healy are pioneering a business idea that may save the U.S. from wasting a lot of capital on the power plants used to supply electricity during seasonal peaks.
And this only builds on the work of your governor, who has endeavored to make Massachusetts a clean energy leader -- from increasing the supply of renewable electricity, to quadrupling solar capacity, to tripling the commonwealth's investment in energy efficiency, all of which helps to draw new jobs and new industries. (Applause.) That's worth applause.
The Bill will also set up a "capacity market" aimed at ensuring continuity of electricity supply during periods of peak demand.
As a consequence, the Danes have a realistic shot at moving from having wind supply 25% of their electricity to 50% within the next decade.
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This entirely avoidable calamity was caused by a distracting debate about the role of the private sector in electricity supply.
Those not harmed, but living in the flood-ravaged area, still face plenty of challenges such as no electricity, a disrupted water supply, damaged roads and faulty communication.
E. for the 60-odd wind turbines that will go into the 99 mw wind project, which has a 20-year contract to supply electricity for the Public Service Company of Oklahoma.
With a planned hydropower capacity of 5.25 gigawatts and a flooded canyon twice as voluminous as the country's largest lake, it is the centrepiece of a plan to increase the country's electricity supply fivefold by 2015.
Earlier this year, areas in the Pentland Firth and around Orkney were leased to seven companies, which aim to generate enough electricity to supply 750, 000 homes by 2020 from a range of wave and tidal devices.
Sean Neeson from the Alliance party asked Mr Graham if he thought the proposed takeover of NIE by the Electricity Supply Board (ESB) would be a good thing.
It is a hard question to answer in Britain, where the new Labour government is poised to levy a windfall tax on privatised utilities, where the electricity regulator will impose a tighter cap on electricity distribution charges in 2000, and where competition in the supply of electricity to domestic consumers is due to start next year.
Solar panels will supply the electricity at Supercharger stations, with a 500-kilowatt-hour supersize version of its car battery as backup storage.
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On taking office Mr Jonathan vowed to fix three of Nigeria's biggest problems: electoral fraud, a woefully unreliable electricity supply and a violent insurgency in the oil-rich southern Delta.
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