The SeaGen project in Northern Ireland is the largest grid connected tidal turbine in the world.
The fastest-growing technology is grid-connected solar electric power, which saw a 53% increase in installed capacity during 2009.
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And I heard an interesting comment the other week from someone connected with grid issues - that the engineers like to have a bit of wind power in the mix because wind turbines are the easiest thing by far to switch on and off.
Fourteen years later, more than 90 percent of rural America was connected to the grid.
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In a "smart" grid, the meters allow the various information points to "talk" to each other, providing more transparent information to everyone connected to the grid.
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 society is also concerned because it says there are no details available on how the scheme will be connected to the grid and they fear extra pylons may have to be constructed locally.
When I asked him what kind of storage system he would use he told me that he did not need to have a bunch of messy and expensive batteries because he is connected to the grid.
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Customers (in this case the school district) pay no money up-front, paying only for the solar energy they use and typically seeing reductions on their utility bills as soon as the system is connected to the grid.
The HondaLink EV application will allow the user to remotely view the state of charge, initiate charging, and activate the air conditioning and heater to pre-condition the vehicle while connected to the grid to maximize battery range on start-up.
Only 1% of the amateur power is connected to the grid now, but Portland General Electric in Oregon has hooked up 21 large customers with 43 megawatts of generating power that can be turned on electronically and supplied to the grid.
The solar mission in its first phase focused on areas already connected to the grid and had a pricing system that bundled four units of thermal electricity with one unit of solar-based power, which reduced the average per-unit cost of solar electricity.
Under the new plan, 750 megawatts of new solar power plants will be built within the next 18 months, most likely in areas that aren't connected to the grid or in places that have grid connections but inadequate power supplies, Mr. Kapoor said.
Only 1% of the amateur power is connected to the grid now, but Portland General Electric (nyse: POR - news - people ) in Oregon has hooked up 21 large customers with 43 megawatts of generating power that can be turned on electronically and supplied to the grid.
It also has a half interest in a large pipeline connected to the Russian grid in Austria.
After dark, houses not connected to the electricity grid rely mainly on open-flame kerosene lamps for light.
Three out of four sugar mills are not connected to the electricity grid.
In addition, it is calling for new offshore wind farms to be connected to the National Grid using underground cables to existing substations.
The project on a six-acre site, currently the largest in Wales, was up and running and connected to the national grid within seven months.
Correspondents say that India urgently needs a huge increase in power production, as hundreds of millions of its people are not even connected to the national grid.
Most primary schools are not connected to the electric grid.
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.
People living in the Severn and Vyrnwy valleys are only beginning to wake up to the fact that existing wind farms and several other consented or planned sites, need to be connected to the National Grid.
It might not make sense to install solar panels on the roofs of suburban tract homes already connected to the power grid, but imagine remote bases in Afghanistan powered by lightweight, flexible solar panels built right into tent fabric, or unfurled as easily as extending an umbrella.
In the process of helping him find his family, we engaged the NGO world at large and discovered that refugee family tracing was predominantly carried out via pen and paper and physical archives not connected to a searchable grid, and with very little technology taken into account.
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This strategy also lends itself to distributed energy generation on local microgrids which can be smartly connected to the existing nation 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.
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.
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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Micro-grids are independent controllable and defined systems including electric generating and consuming assets that can be connected to or disconnected from the larger power grid, and they are becoming more popular.
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