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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For all the very real advantages of a smart grid, however, its number one vulnerability has still not been adequately addressed: cyber-security.
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And given the number of independent Grid initiatives, much of the work under way is going to be redundant in any case.
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It has brought solar panel costs down dramatically over just a few years, bringing grid parity within sight in a number of markets, and kicking off what many see as a potential long-term energy revolution.
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But the quiet manufacturer behind a growing number of solar, smart grid and solar inverter companies is Flextronics, the same company that makes Blackberrys, the Redbox DVD rental kiosks and desktop computers for Lenovo, to name just a few of its customers.
The researchers modeled their study on the electric grid in Illinois, which depends on a large number of coal and gas plants, and where the wind blows strongest at night, when demand is lowest.
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Other options for filling the energy gap would include making greater use of the large number of small generators that the National Grid can call on in time of shortage, and extending the use of contracts that allow the grid to interrupt supply to industrial customers at peak periods.
Beijing has since raised the technical bar for wind farms to connect to their energy grid, and now industry experts predict that a larger number of companies will be forced out of the sector altogether in the next three years, trade barriers or not.
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Recently, researchers writing in Physical Review B suggested that arranging a number of tiny cloaks in a two-dimensional grid could be put to use in biomedicine and sensing, as well as traditional camouflage.
First, we must include data center expansion in power management and growth plans (this is in addition to other demands for a smart power grid to support activities such as charging a possible expansion of the number of electric vehicles).
In the past decade, the number of small businesses and consumers substantially reducing their reliance on grid-based electricity has risen over 33% annually.
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But over the past couple of years a number of British issues, from the likes of Tesco and National Grid, have specifically targeted small investors.
The logistical challenges involved in sustaining military operations in remote areas where wars are commonly waged has convinced the U.S. Department of Defense to deploy a growing number of cutting-edge solar-energy technologies in off-grid combat zones.
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But the change shows that large-scale smart-grid initiatives may be much more costly than previously expected, and likely means that a smaller number of initiatives grab larger chunks of funding, says DOE spokeswoman Jen Stutman.
It has also started a number of efficiency and solar power projects that have taken select manufacturing plants off the power grid.
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This would help consumers save on their energy use, reduce the number of new power plants that need to be built, and provide more accurate information to grid operators about how to allocate electricity use.
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