The upshot is that utilities have accumulated huge losses and aren't in position to invest in grid upgrades.
Our examples assume an increase in grid electricity prices of 1% every year.
Finally, some invested in grid expansion, which is incredibly expensive and only benefits the wealthiest 10-20% of people in the extension areas.
These are one of the few ways (but not the only way, see article) that energy from transient sources like the wind can be stored in grid-filling quantities.
On their own, the opening of this new solar plant or the installation of new smart meters or the investment in grid modernization will not be enough to meet the challenges posed by our dependence on fossil fuels.
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Nor does anyone want a rerun of the overloading in early November of Germany's grid that left 10 million Europeans in five countries without power over a weekend, or of the collapse of the rickety North American grid in 2003.
Under the new plan, 750 megawatts of new solar power plants will be built within the next 18 months, most likely in areas that aren't connected to the grid or in places that have grid connections but inadequate power supplies, Mr. Kapoor said.
Coal and gas are still way bigger than oil or nukes in our grid, but my point is really just that an exponential curve can catch up with a linear one in a surprising way. 14% doubling every few years means we could be only a decade away from 100% clean energy.
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It was the German's first pole in five races and only the second time he has started a Grand Prix in first place on the grid in his home country.
Some experts agree that there's potential in the grid, but warn against getting hopes too high.
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Graham's poster was very standard: pictures of the bands laid out in a grid.
In New Orleans, I spent most of my time in a grid the size of Central Park.
Her research focuses on virtualization, policy-driven resource management, and various aspects of obtaining quality of service in the Grid environment.
If the price signal is right, people who own generating devices can make economic decisions to take part in the grid.
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In an off-grid village in India, for example, biogas from an anaerobic digester could be burned to drive the Stirling engine to generate power.
The nation's utilities have embraced the concept and are installing millions of automated meters on homes across the country, the first phase in Smart Grid's deployment.
Rather than showing up as a pop-up window, the Friends page now gets a dedicated section, where you can see them all displayed in a grid-like fashion.
In America, deregulation of the wholesale power market means ever larger quantities of power are travelling greater distances, yet investment in the grid has halved since the 1970s.
And the people simply lack confidence in the grid's reliability.
It is the pits, which are three-quarters of a micron in diameter, three microns deep and arranged in a grid four-fifths of a micron apart, that do the trapping.
For now, Stanway is buying just for Wal-Mart's Texas store needs while eyeing the potential for expanding the strategy to stores in power grid regions like Louisiana, California and, naturally, Arkansas.
"At the beginning of the year, frankly, we were too far back in the grid to be able to exploit the launch advantage that Kers should be giving us, " he said.
It could facilitate investments in electric grid improvements that enable long-distance transmission of renewable energy, as well as provide consistent long-term policy on grid upgrades and electric vehicle charging that makes utility investments predictably worthwhile.
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On the desktop side, Photostreams and Sets are cleaned up in proper grid fashion as well and a share button rests up top for easy sharing to Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, email and, of course, Tumblr.
This farm will be located 20 miles offshore so that the curvature of the earth will prevent it from being visible from shore and will contain 100 5MW turbines in a grid four by eight miles wide.
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Go through each square in this grid.
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Ferrari's world champion Kimi Raikkonen, three points behind Hamilton in this year's title race, took third place in the grid with one minute 18.735 seconds while Fernando Alonso of Renault will start the race alongside the Finn in fourth.
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.
It also has a half interest in a large pipeline connected to the Russian grid in Austria.
Escalating tensions over a proposal to impose rolling outages on wind-power farms in Oregon and Washington State to prevent the electric grid from overheating has convinced the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), which is responsible for operating the power grid in the Pacific Northwest, to pull the plug on the plan.
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