We are also encouraged by recent announcements in Asia, most notably in China and Japan, that governments are strengthening their commitment to solar energy and raising the target for solar power contribution to the national grid capacity.
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With a smart grid, utility companies could respond by deferring, reducing, or even shutting down the charging of individual vehicles if the grid reaches capacity.
In 2007, nearly one-third of all the wind turbines in China were deliberately idled because a saturated power grid lacked spare capacity to carry any electricity the remote wind farms would have produced to consumer markets.
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If widely adopted, the Controller technology would reduce the spinning reserve capacity needed significantly and allow the grid to operate at a higher capacity.
Revenue-grade metering would encourage motorists to charge their cars overnight, rather than in the evening when the grid is at peak capacity.
Tom Leighton insists the Akamai grid can continue to double capacity, annually and easily--at the least.
But the real question is, can their grid keep up with the capacity?
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Right now the nation has 760 gigawatts of power plants to meet current consumption, with another 154 in reserve capacity to maintain grid reliability.
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The government had a target of adding 78.7 gigawatts of capacity to its grid in the five years ended March 31 but achieved only about 70% of the relatively modest initial target.
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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From 2002, the Luzon grid will have 2, 700 MW more capacity coming onstream - or, rather, up from the sea.
Other possible plans include rewarding firms for maintaining stand-by capacity to supply power to the grid in an emergency, and preventing the construction of new coal stations that do not have some way of capturing and storing their planet-heating emissions.
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It produced a beam with 300 terawatts of power (several hundred times the capacity of America's entire electricity grid).
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Already Jenkins has been doing some basic (by gas or electricity standards) arbitrage plays such as contracting for capacity at known chokepoints in the national telecommunications grid to take advantage of price spikes, as well as selling short in areas with a looming glut.
The other significant aspect and benefit of the UNESCO-HP project is related to building the capacity of faculty and students on the use of grid computing technology.
Electric vehicles may play a key role as well, as high capacity batteries could ultimately serve to provide regulating capacity, absorbing or supply power back to the grid to flatten out some of the intermittency associated with windpower.
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Those fiascos were the result not of a shortage of generating capacity, but rather of the failings of an antiquated grid.
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.
It was connected to the grid in 2011, and just six weeks ago Bushehr went to full capacity, firmly establishing Iran as the first commercial nuclear power producer in the Middle East.
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The fastest-growing technology is grid-connected solar electric power, which saw a 53% increase in installed capacity during 2009.
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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 pressurized water reactor plant is currently supplying 60 megawatts to the Iranian power grid, but will produce a whopping 1, 000 megawatts when operating at full capacity, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
It means SSE's Peterhead gas plant is operating at less than quarter its capacity, with the blame there placed on the high extra costs of accessing the grid from northern Scotland.
That way grid operators could, say, automatically lower the cost of transmitting power from a region with excess to capacity to one with a shortage, instead of letting the problem fester until the peaker plants turn on and phone calls and faxes fly.
Other factors that will increase storage capacity growth are the creation and sharing of user generated content and the growth of machine to machine communication (and thus information storage) such as smart grid networks, video surveillance, big science in astronomy and physics and other emerging automated users of storage capacity.
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