Right now the nation has 760 gigawatts of power plants to meet current consumption, with another 154 in reserve capacity to maintain grid reliability.
Price transparency will also allow micropower plants to buy and sell power on the grid as demand dictates, so improving the grid's reliability.
And the people simply lack confidence in the grid's reliability.
Investment shifted to such aspects as improving system automation, digitalized grid construction, and reliability and safety.
This will be the first commercial wind farm in the U.S. to deploy, at scale, turbines that use permanent magnet generators tech-speak for evolutionary turbine technology that will improve efficiency, reliability and grid connection capabilities.
Simply put, in the context of the electric grid, resilience is not reliability.
In particular, the BPA has yet to offer a viable alternative to the rolling wind outages strategy, which would have ensured the grid complied with federally mandated reliability standards and protected salmon populations from the anticipated flood of freshwater.
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Also, to advise on long-term planning development, grid investment and how to improve reliability as well as to minimize loss in transmission.
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For more than ten years, NARUC has addressed critical issues arising from advanced metering and smart grid deployments, including ratemaking, reliability, cyber security, consumer education, consumer protection, and privacy.
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Unfortunately, it seems unlikely that Congress will tackle the root causes of the power cut namely, a deeply flawed deregulation plan, a weak federal regulator and inadequate reliability standards for the grid.
"Participating in this Institute allows us to utilize advances in predictive analytics to optimize the operation of our key assets and improve the reliability of our electric grid, " said Vince Dow, Vice President Distribution Operations, DTE Energy.
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To ensure the reliability of the electric grid after that date, TXU is planning on building 1500 megawatts of wind generation and is considering building multiple nuclear facilities, though these would not come on line by 2015 at the earliest--too late to resolve the looming power shortage.
In both scenarios, the amount of electricity supplied through the power grid is lower during peak periods, which improves reliability, reduces rates by avoiding the use of high-priced power plants during peak hours and delays capital intensive infrastructure investments needed to maintain the grid.
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These characteristics will allow the power grid to absorb large amounts of renewable energy without compromising reliability.
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The future will not be dominated by finding ways to add more renewables to a grid, but by ways to add more resiliency and reliability.
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ECoS enables local autonomous control decisions to be made in nearly real time for maximum reliability, survivability, and responsiveness of the electric grid.
According to the report, "the nation's power grid will be stressed in ways never before experienced" and reliability depends on building new power plants to cover the losses.
And we will modernize our electric grid, allowing us to better integrate renewable energy, increase efficiency and reliability, and empower families to make informed decisions about their energy consumption.
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.
The company provides hardware, software and services for connecting utilities with devices on a power grid, including advanced metering and faster detection of outages and tools to improve the reliability of electrical grids.
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Upgrading the grid would also have a direct effect on consumers by saving families money through increased efficiency and reliability, while also helping utilities avoid blackouts and restore power quicker when they occur.
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The Smart Grid will use automated meters, two-way communications and advanced sensors to improve electricity efficiency and reliability.
National Grid said it would also be eligible to receive incentive-based earnings by delivering customer savings and enhanced system reliability.
The grid makes the former Yugoslavia look simple: local municipalities, the individual state utility commissions, the North America Electric Reliability Council, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and other agencies all have a say.
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