Alliander is a major Dutch energy distributor and specialist in renewable energy, sustainability, technical innovations, and complex power systems in the Netherlands, serving more than three million customers in the region.
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The more powerful a computer becomes, the more complex its power supply becomes too.
Making ever more complex and power-hungry processors to obey Moore's Law just limits how many chips you can fit in a given space, he said.
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In other words, any collection of human beings is a complex web of power and influence.
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Measurements at another nuclear-power complex in the prefecture of Ibaraki, halfway between Fukushima and Tokyo, showed elevated radiation readings, officials said.
Dr James Mitchell, head of business development for Atlantis in London, said the project could lessen the blow from workforce reductions at the former Dounreay nuclear power complex.
As the world watches the disasters in Japan continue to unfold, there is much criticism of the performance of the Tokyo Electric Power Company, operator of the Fukushima nuclear power complex.
Analysts saw the talks as part of a consolidation trend, as HP, IBM and Cisco Systems jostle for control of corporate data centers and compete to supply the high-end computers that power complex corporate transactions and networks.
Its coastline plays host to an international surfing competition and is the location of the Dounreay nuclear power research complex.
This amounts to roughly 2% of the office complex's monthly power consumption.
The football-industrial complex has too much power over our universities.
These were followed, more recently, by technologies of prosperity like the steam engine, the assembly line, and complex systems of communication, power and finance.
While it is possible to refine audio quality through software, Audience specializes in chips because it says hardware allows more computational power for its complex sound processing.
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Although they are decades from being practical, according to researchers, quantum computers may one day add previously unimagined computing power to such complex tasks as database-searching and breaking secret codes, tasks that now require powerful supercomputers.
Right now, the critical barriers to entry for an entrepreneur with a disruptive idea (read: technology which may scale exponentially and unpredictably) are gaining access to low-cost, efficient infrastructure, implementing extremely complex software to maximize compute power and storage, and minimizing maintenance concerns.
But unlike previous match-fixing probes that have targeted individual teams or leagues, this one depicts a complex global organization with the power to reach across continents and influence match results from the lower leagues of smaller countries to the world's most prestigious international competitions.
But unlike previous match-fixing probes that have targeted individual teams or leagues, Europol's current effort depicts a complex global organization with the power to reach across continents and influence match results from the lower leagues of smaller countries to the world's most prestigious international competitions.
The complex runs completely on solar power, courtesy of 150 Sanyo solar panels that provide round-the-clock electricity. ("We fire up the generator once a month just to see if it works, " Derek Joubert says.) Construction materials were chosen through an environmental audit: The furniture is made from Indonesian mahogany uprooted by the 2004 tsunami.
In the near term, this can mean helping consumers better understand password manager software, which gives users the power to set arbitrarily complex passwords that are website-specific, without forcing users to memorize them all.
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Restoring the electric grid after a severe power outage is a massively complex exercise that demands logistical expertise, highly-skilled technical workers and specialized equipment.
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For decades, businesses have labored to deploy complex, high-performance data centers to power their enterprise applications.
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The current wave of "always-connected, always-on" devices requires complex SoCs to achieve the performance and low power consumers demand.
This non-linear tendency is why complex systems are more likely to follow a power-law probability distribution than the more familiar bell-curve distribution.
More detail of the investment is expected to be announced when Mr Galan, accompanied by Finance Secretary John Swinney, officially open Scottish Power's Ochil House office complex in Blantyre, Lanarkshire.
Turkey is a more complex place than it was when the generals seized power in 1980.
At work, we have to regularly deal with power cuts, tax issues and hugely complex bureaucracy.
Eventually, when the pores closed completely, the primitive cells would have had a sodium pump that could power their cellular reactions, enabling more complex life to form.
It also won a contract to provide power equipment for the Emirates Aluminum smelter complex in Abu Dhabi, and another maintenance contract for a LNG project in Russia.
The Nellis project was developed through a complex arrangement between the Air Force and financial partners where power providers covered system construction costs in return for a guaranteed market along with substantial federal tax subsidies and other incentives.
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