Today, the electricity we use is carried along a grid of lines and wires that dates back to Thomas Edison, a grid that can't support the demands of clean energy.
We take off-the-shelf IT and Internet technology and transform the power grid and electricity transmission lines into an energy Internet.
The project will generate enough electricity to power 4, 500 homes annually and connect to the national grid via existing overhead lines.
Today, our society is networked by the power grid, satellites and phone lines, all vulnerable to the impact of a large electromagnetic storm.
After a brief spray of notes, a white scrim fell, revealing the band members, each wearing a skintight bicycling outfit covered with luminescent white lines in a grid formation, as if they were being tracked on a green screen for later animation.
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.
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.
Main.net's system skips the high-voltage lines, injecting data into the grid further downstream, on medium-voltage (4, 000 to 25, 000 volts) lines.
He had to hold what he saw and felt, here and now, within a grid of potential brushstrokes or possible lines, without employing memory or imagination, for both were cheating.
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And, by the way, we can put a lot of people to work, doing the work that America needs done -- rebuilding roads and bridges, but also broadband lines and a smart grid and high-speed rail.
It meant that we invested in infrastructure that would lay the groundwork for a 21st century economy -- not just roads and bridges but also broadband lines and a smart electric grid that could make us more energy efficient.
That means Powys council will decide planning on the 19 acre electricity sub station which the National Grid wants to build, but the power lines are to be decided by the IPC - the Infrastructure Planning Commission - set up by the previous Labour government to fast-track and speed up planning on nationally important projects.
Monday when an electrical fault occurred on power lines used to send power to the grid.
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Founded in 2000, the HomePlug Powerline Alliance, Inc. is an industry-led initiative with 70 member companies that creates specifications and certification logo programs for using the power lines for reliable home networking and Smart Grid applications.
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That's because this grid -- which is made up of everything from power lines to generators to the meters in your home -- still runs on century-old technology.
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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.
Tessa Munt has urged the National Grid (NG) to consider using the new technology in its plans to install new electricity lines in Somerset.
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The problem is this: we have a highly complicated electricity grid with approximately 3, 500 utilities, thousands of power plants, 200, 000 miles of lines, and tens of thousands of transformers.
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Electricity in power lines above a fire at a Hertfordshire recycling centre should be back by Thursday evening, National Grid has said.
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