Many parts of Delhi were also plunged into darkness because of a breakdown in the power transmission grid.
The nation will need a huge and expensive new transmission grid to transport renewable electrons to where most Americans live.
It involves using cars to supply a reserve of electric power that can smooth out minute-to-minute shortages in the transmission grid.
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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Students like him may be keen on renewables, but this program is meant to prepare them to work on the aging transmission grid as well.
That's why I'm very proud, under Secretary Salazar's leadership, we're looking for new opportunities to ensure that you have a say in planning for access to the transmission grid.
Duke says that its 4.3 percent dividend yield is the method by which it attracts and retains shareholders who are financing its modern power facilities and upgrading its transmission grid.
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She now oversees the electricity transmission grid in Algeria.
At the other, the national transmission grid needs investment.
The alliance's manifesto calls for measures to reduce demand on the main electricity transmission grid, including smart meters, encouragement for community and small-scale local energy generation, and further research on methods of storage of electricity.
Finally, both of these changes are being enabled through the integration of smart grid technology in the power transmission and distribution grid, which moves not only electrons but also information effectively through our energy networks.
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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America's flawed deregulation has left its grid suffering from serious under-investment, which contributed to the recent blackout: transmission lines were old and overloaded, grid computers failed at critical moments, and so on.
We take off-the-shelf IT and Internet technology and transform the power grid and electricity transmission lines into an energy Internet.
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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Gerald Draper and his colleagues at the University of Oxford, and John Swanson of National Grid Transco, a power-transmission company, have looked at the distribution of childhood cancer along the power lines of the national electricity grid in England and Wales.
One of the biggest is that markets and regulators currently recognize just three types of businesses on the grid: generation, transmission, and distribution.
PreussenElektra is also a partner in four high-capacity, underwater power transmission cables linking PreussenElektra's German grid to potential customers in Norway and Denmark, as well as Sweden.
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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Adapting the electricity grid, for example, to use more alternative energy may require new transmission lines for which approval can take years.
Depending on how broadly transmission costs are spread, the coalition worries its customers may have to pay for grid upgrades that will have the effect of reducing power prices for others.
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Also, to advise on long-term planning development, grid investment and how to improve reliability as well as to minimize loss in transmission.
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TenneT, which operates the grid in Schleswig-Holstein, wants to extend the wind park idea to the transmission network, offering stakes in a line along the west coast.
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales (CPRW) is among an alliance of groups aiming to influence a government's plan for a 'smart grid' and a new national planning policy on the future of the nation's electricity transmission network.
Japan should end the regional monopolies, separate the generation and transmission of electricity and establish a tough regulator to oversee the terms under which incumbents allow newcomers to connect to the grid.
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