The electric power grid depends on metering perhaps more than any other single factor.
Bad news for the electric power grid is usually good news for the fuel-cell industry.
This paradigm shift has especially important implications for how the electric power grid.
The electric power grid in the United States is vulnerable to attacks that have already begun, former CIA Director R.
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He even wondered if it might be possible to make computers for the poor in countries without an electric power grid.
The electric power grid should be a catalyst for long-term economic growth.
Phasor measurements track the amount of stress placed on the electric power grid by providing granular data about frequency, voltage and phase angle conditions in real-time.
The same cannot be said for the electric power grid.
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The SEEView platform prevents disruptions to the electric power grid.
According to a recently de-classified report by the U.S. Navy about the vulnerability of the electric power grid, commercial construction expenditures have lagged behind asset depreciation for nearly two decades.
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What does that mean for our electric power grid?
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In 2009, this newspaper reported that the control systems for the U.S. electric power grid had been hacked and secret openings created so that the attacker could get back in with ease.
If it proves to be as promising as some people suspect, the new battery design developed by MIT researchers may create compelling synergies between electric vehicles and the electric power grid.
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By unleashing a massive pulse of electromagnetic radiation sweeping over the planet, a severe solar storm could potentially knock out the electric power grid, silence radio and satellite communications and disrupt GPS navigation systems.
"They (computers) run our electric power grid, out telecommunications network, they run our railroads, our banking system, and all of them are vulnerable, at some level, to some degree to information warfare, or cyber-terrorism, " Clark said.
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Given this context, I am saddened to report that those responsible for operating the electric power grid in New England are pursuing a radical proposal to push power prices up, prevent businesses from growing and kill clean-energy in the process.
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Wind farms will take a decade to implement as a major contributor to the electric-power grid system nationwide.
Cell-towers are dependent on electric power from the grid, but many of them have backup batteries, and in some cases generators that can power the antennas independently for longer.
Wind and Solar: Forget both of them for furnishing any significant electric power to the grid.
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And the White House has been urging Congress to authorize greater government action to protect infrastructure such as the nation's electric grid and power plants.
Escalating tensions over a proposal to impose rolling outages on wind-power farms in Oregon and Washington State to prevent the electric grid from overheating has convinced the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), which is responsible for operating the power grid in the Pacific Northwest, to pull the plug on the plan.
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Transphorm aims to solve the multi-billion dollar problem of power waste whenever electricity from the grid is converted into usable electric power.
Yet these two large software companies did not have many users in the electric power industry, especially any focused on power generation and grid management.
One candidate is providing backup power for the electric grid.
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The devastation caused by Sandy on the East Coast last October presented a huge challenge for utilities to repair damage to the electric grid and restore power to their customers quickly.
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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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In a bid to help the struggling solar companies, the grid operator unveiled a number of measures last week to ease pressures facing solar project operators in connecting power plants to the electric grid.
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Adding wind power to the existing electric grid may not have the effect of reducing carbon emissions as much as expected, according to a new study published by researchers at Argonne National Laboratory.
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Chu, a 60-year-old Nobel prize winning physicist from Stanford University, came to Washington with a mandate from the president to increase the nation's production of clean, renewable power, make the electric grid more intelligent and improve overall energy efficiency.
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.
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