In fact, a power grid operator is mandated to have 12% more available power than there is demand.
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Nathaniel Bullard of Bloomberg New Energy Finance has been looking at photovoltaic projects registered with California ISO, the state's grid operator, since 2007.
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In fact, according to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state's grid operator, more than 150 new generation facilities are in the development stage.
LIPA's grid operator, National Grid, has assumed communications responsibilities from LIPA, following harsh critiques of LIPA by New York state and residents for the utility's communications during Sandy.
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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GE, which supplies the National Grid operator in the U.K., would dearly love to outfit the U.S. network with control software and thousands of sensors to report voltage and other information on a second-by-second basis.
An AP1000 is designed to continue cooling, without grid power or operator action.
In the 11-state Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator grid, coal-plant utilization has fallen to 45 to 55 percent from 70 to 80 percent in 2010-11, according to RBN, a Houston-based energy market-research firm.
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California's main power grid manager, the Independent System Operator, reported that turbines spinning within the ISO grid produced a record of 4, 196 megawatts Sunday.
Therefore some sort of system operator or grid manager will always be necessary.
Cuomo said that even if the transition from LIPA, and its currently contracted operator, National Grid, isn't done in time for the summer and fall hurricane season, Long Islanders will still be better served.
The Independent System Operator that coordinates the grid and schedules power will have to be able to accommodate thousands of megawatts of wind.
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Gordon Brown, operations manager of California Independent System Operator, the state agency that oversees the power grid, told CNN Thursday night that the declaration triggered contingency plans to stop pumping water for two hours, during the state's critical power usage hour between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
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In northern California alone, the current power deficit averages 2, 000 to 3, 000 megawatts per hour, according to the California Independent System Operator, the agency set up to monitor the state's power grid.
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