Sensors installed throughout the network send data about local grid conditions to a central computer, 30 times a second.
The electricity generated will be used by the mill's owner and the surplus fed into the local grid, which has been upgraded to cope with the extra power.
The gasoline engine serves as an on-board personal electric utility for when you forget to plug in to the local grid, or for ensuring a total range to match that of any conventional car you'd buy today.
Both of those wind farms were hit by hurricane Sandy with wind speeds of up to 110 miles per hour and neither of them had any major damage and continued to provide electricity for the local grid.
How resilient is my community, and especially my local distribution grid?
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There were Alabamans in town as well, and probably representatives from another 20 states, all helping the local crews from National Grid.
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It can work with smart grid devices if the local utility uses them.
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When the grid began, most local authorities did not have their own systems for collating or searching material - now they did.
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There were, however, assets in the form of approved permits to erect wind turbines, easements from landowners, and agreements to connect to the power grid and to other local windfarms.
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Before the grid, generation was local, unreliable and noisy.
In such circumstances, the Grid would be ideal for analysing local weather, soil models, water supplies and local demographics.
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And new entrants say it means they need a strong local partner to gain fair access to the electrical grid.
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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This strategy also lends itself to distributed energy generation on local microgrids which can be smartly connected to the existing nation grid.
For example, rebuilding the local water treatment plant, but forgetting to fix the electrical grid that powers the facility, should be a fail.
"The National Grid had mapped a viable underground route to miss Hintlesham Hall, the local community and woodland, and we believe they should have adopted that route, " Mr Foster said.
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The alliance's manifesto calls for measures to reduce demand on the main electricity transmission grid, including smart meters, encouragement for community and small-scale local energy generation, and further research on methods of storage of electricity.
However, there are worrying signs that some proposals for such standards (for example, rules on smart-grid protocols or electronic health records) are really covert attempts to produce rules favoring local technology firms.
Incorporate into the grid electricity from renewable resources like solar roofs and backyard windmills, allowing utilities to use local generation to meet renewable resource targets.
Local utilities here say that, at times, they are already producing more wind power than the electrical grid can handle.
Most utilities maintain that they will be unable to deal with local, renewable energy that provides more than 15 percent of the power supply because any more would destabilize the grid, according to Shalom Flank, the chief technology officer of Pareto Energy, a Washington, D.
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