In the current context, they would not be compensated but simply inconvenienced as a result of a problem on the power grid that they did not cause in any meaningful sense.
How do you integrate with the grid to know there is a potential problem?
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Most roads still get grid-locked and Japan knows the cost of its problem.
Transphorm aims to solve the multi-billion dollar problem of power waste whenever electricity from the grid is converted into usable electric power.
He indicated that the problem was at the facility, not the grid.
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Pricing information aside, utilities and grid operators could more accurately pinpoint the location of a problem in the electrical network--eliminating the need for repair crews to scramble for hours to determine where a power failure has occurred.
Neither problem will see relief until Iraq's electrical grid is repaired.
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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Kempton first got the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) idea in 1996, while wrestling with a fundamental problem with renewable energy: Solar power peaks at noon, and wind power peaks at night, but demand for electricity peaks between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m.
This is the problem that has confronted engineers trying to make America's power grid less prone to the kind of load imbalances that plunged the north-east into darkness last month.
First problem: Most people have no way to store that electricity onsite, so if the grid goes dead, the solar panels do too.
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