National Grid Gas could not be expected to have known about the soil type, the report said.
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"HSE's investigation has concluded that National Grid Gas have correctly applied their gas mains maintenance procedures in relation to the low pressure main located at 1-5 Bridge Street, " the report said.
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The UK won't benefit from substantially lower prices unless the rest of Europe decides to back shale gas too, as Europe has a gas grid that allows gas to be traded to the highest bidder.
The bill would allow for the early payment of the winter fuel allowance to people whose homes are not connected to the mains gas grid and whose principal source of fuel is home fuel oil, liquid petroleum gas or propane gas.
The pattern partly reflects access to gas heating, with much of northern Scotland off the gas grid.
It is believed to be the first of its kind in the UK to feed biogas directly into the national gas grid.
Four million households in the UK are not connected to the mains gas grid and people in this situation generally have very little choice in their source of heating fuel.
In Germany biogas is already being fed into into the national gas grid and in Sweden and Spain, vehicles including buses are run on biogas, but they still use an awful lot of oil overall and most of the small number of gas-powered vehicles are run on petroleum-gas.
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In the case of the Siberian gas pipeline project, Moscow was well aware of the inordinate West European dependency on Soviet natural gas supplies -- ultimately projected to exceed 60% of total European gas consumption -- which would have resulted from the successful completion of both strands of the twin 3, 600-mile pipelines connected to the West European gas grid.
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Now GE sells wind turbines, smart grid systems and oil and gas technology around the world, as well as the big gas power turbines that made it an industry leader in the U.S. a long time ago.
Leveraging natural gas infrastructure, it can be distributed as CNG, LNG, or in pipelines via gas-to-grid injection.
One way to change this would be to turn the east-west gas pipelines into a grid, with interconnectors running north to south.
Grid parity is that Eden where renewable electricity (solar in this case) can compete with the combination of conventional sources of power already on the grid coal, natural gas and uranium.
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The pipeline's opening ceremony took place in the Geman town of Lubmin, where heads of state involved in the project opened a tap to release the first of the gas into the European grid.
From wind and solar, to waste and biomass to energy, fuel cells, co-generation, natural gas, and smart grid, speakers and attendees discussed a diverse portfolio of advanced energy technologies that are being developed and deployed in Ohio.
One of the primary benefits of a smart grid is its potential to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Research from the National Grid released ahead of the review showed gas supplies could be even tighter this winter as import facilities remain unfinished and information on supply and demand from the continent remain unclear.
Iran shut down its electricity grid several times last winter to conserve gas, says former energy official Fesharaki, and it plans to build at least 600 compressed natural gas stations this year to reduce demand for gasoline.
However, the National Grid has said there is "plenty of gas available", and the Department of Energy and Climate Change has said gas needs are being met.
National Grid operates the UK's national electricity and gas grids, as well as four of the country's eight regional gas distribution networks.
Allow early payment of Winter Fuel Allowance to pensioners whose homes are not connected to the mains grid, and instead use oil, liquid petroleum gas or propane gas for heating.
The way utilities now meet demand spikes is to attach an extra natural-gas-fired generator or two to the grid and let it sit idle for most of the year.
The rate hikes are designed to recover costs incurred by the company for grid modernization, upgrades in distribution systems, and manufacturing natural gas plants.
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According to Gramlich, conventional generation sources like coal and natural gas are occupying the full capacity of the transmission grid, leaving no room for wind.
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And her graph stacks the deck, because her conventional cars yielded 30 mpg, which is hardly average, and it assumes a coal-based grid, when most are a mixture of coal, natural gas and other things (including nuclear).
The Green Book, produced by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), says that in evaluating plug-in hybrids, it considers both the emissions from the gas engine and from the power plants that feed the grid.
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Did you know that new renewable energy capacity outpaced gas, coal, nukes and oil based additions to the grid since January in the USA?
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The researchers modeled their study on the electric grid in Illinois, which depends on a large number of coal and gas plants, and where the wind blows strongest at night, when demand is lowest.
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Coal and gas are still way bigger than oil or nukes in our grid, but my point is really just that an exponential curve can catch up with a linear one in a surprising way. 14% doubling every few years means we could be only a decade away from 100% clean energy.
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The subsea power grid encompass pumps and compressors and large variable speed drives to transport the oil and gas from the wellhead to a processing facility.
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