Energy regulators are now grappling with how to ensure fair and open access to electric transmission lines.
The health center was only a few hundred yards from electric transmission lines, but nobody had ever bothered to connect it.
Scottish Hydro-Electric Transmission Limited (SHETL), a subsidiary of Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), put plans for the interconnector on hold last year.
Allowances would be given to electric transmission and distribution companies to pass on to ratepayers, a provision initiated by the Chicago utility Exelon.
The loan guarantee program at issue allows the Energy Department to help finance certain renewable energy projects, electric transmission systems and bio-fuels projects that begin construction no later than September 30, 2011.
It's pitching its electric transmission systems and its electricity-sparing motors to the dirtiest industries--utilities, mining, oil and gas, and heavy manufacturing--as a way of becoming a little bit cleaner and more efficient.
In Arizona, firefighters were building containment lines around a 3, 700-acre blaze on the Tonto National Forest to try to protect electric transmission lines that provide power to the state's major metropolitan areas.
The loan guarantee program discussed in the memo allows the Energy Department to help finance projects such as electric transmission systems and bio-fuel initiatives that begin construction no later than September 30, 2011.
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In their quest to root out inefficiencies and to produce competitive markets, federal regulators sought in the 1990s to create open access to electric transmission lines, allowing any generator to send its power to prospective customers.
We see consensus around our need to develop clean, affordable, domestic power resources while addressing our electric-transmission congestion constraints.
In the case of electric power transmission, the government has acknowledged the economic reality and concluded that recurrent bankruptcy filings would serve no public purpose.
For the first time in nearly half a century, utilities in Europe and North America face enormous demand for new construction of electric generation and transmission facilities.
The other main joint venture, Ford-led Ecostar, takes the machinery from Stuttgart and fits it into electric motors, transmission and control equipment to make a fuel-cell engine that can turn the wheels of a car or a bus.
Theres plenty of oil to smell at Regal-Beloit, a transmission and electric-motor company tucked away in Beloit, Wis.
At the top of the priority list must be improving the resilience of the nation's electric power generation, transmission, and distribution systems.
It could facilitate investments in electric grid improvements that enable long-distance transmission of renewable energy, as well as provide consistent long-term policy on grid upgrades and electric vehicle charging that makes utility investments predictably worthwhile.
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The northwestern Venezuelan states of Tachira, Merida, Barinas and Apure reportedly were affected by an unplanned electricity outage on April 12, when failures were reported in transmission lines at several electric substations.
American Electric Power (AEP) built a transmission line from West Virginia to Virginia in two years.
There is a better approach: true deregulation of the electric utility industry--generation, transmission and distribution.
The Edison Electric Institute funded a study on underground transmission lines in 2009.
In the mid-Atlantic, American Electric Power, Allegheny Energy, Dominion Electric and Pepco Holdings have all proposed massive transmission projects.
Given a free hand in the design, his team developed a continuously variable transmission system that allows the petrol engine and electric motor to work separately or in tandem.
In order to do that, General Electric -- which owns NBC -- had to interrupt transmission of NBC's Newschannel feed to its television affiliates.
Now there is growing concern that a really big storm might collapse much of the global electric grid, particularly in places with long high-voltage transmission lines such as Australia, Canada, China and the United States.
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The vibe in the Fusion Hybrid is one of abiding integration: the subtle slurring of ratios in the continuously variable transmission, the share-the-load cooperation between electric and gas engine (2.0-liter, 141-hp Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder), a sort of light, transparent flickering of power sources.
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Moreover, the electric industry has a proven track record of adding additional generating capacity and transmission solutions when and where needed and of coordinating effectively to address reliability concerns.
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American Electric Power plans to deploy Ti for the first time on a 765 kV transmission line in 2014.
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It involves using cars to supply a reserve of electric power that can smooth out minute-to-minute shortages in the transmission grid.
The Equinox, GM's fourth-generation fuel-cell car, has an electric motor which has no fuel injection, no pistons, no transmission, no motor oil.
The rest comes from Regals gears, gearboxes and other power transmission equipment for cars, trains, boats and irrigation systems, plus electric motors and generators.
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