One likely application of the eneGoon is storing electricity drawn from the power grid when prices are low and using the stored juice when the price of electricity on the grid is high.
By paying a few people to stop taking power off of the grid, DR programs reduce this stain on the grid, sparing all of us from a nasty blackout.
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Olivier Jacque was leading the race on the 500cc Yamaha at the only circuit where the remaining two-strokes on the grid had a realistic chance of beating the new MotoGP four-strokes.
What strikes one about both the National Academy of Sciences report on the power grid, and the World Bank report on the state of the world climate is that both are really talking about similar things: a deterioration and vulnerability of our infrastructure, whether it be man-made or a natural.
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The strain on the grid with summer approaching is raising concern in corporate Japan, which fears it won't have enough power to run production lines in the country.
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Their 2003 chassis, in particular, was very good - many consider it to be the best on the grid - and it made up to some extent for what remains a down-on-power radical wide-angle engine.
OnStar will allow researchers to develop services such as demand-response that would allow drivers that sign up to let the utility control when their Volt is charged to minimize the impact on the grid in exchange for receiving a lower electricity rate or other incentives.
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The energy generated is fed straight into the club's electricity control cabinet where a grid-tie inverter pumps energy back on to the grid.
The 2009 world champion came home nearly 14 seconds ahead of defending champion Sebastian Vettel, the Red Bull driver capitalizing on the chaos after starting a lowly 10th on the grid.
But even dewy-eyed optimists don't predict the addition of many more nukes on the global grid within the next decade.
Toyota's recent withdrawal from F1 had opened the door for the team to take up the 13th slot on the grid for 2010.
The London-based research company says solar is viable against fossil fuels on the electric grid in the most sunny regions such as the Middle East.
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Former world champion Jacques Villeneuve has joined forces with Italian race team Durango to submit an entry for the 13th slot on the grid next season, according to Durango team owner Ivone Pinton.
Hamilton, who will share the front row with Vettel's teammate Mark Webber, was delighted to have gotten the better of the Red Bulls, who have filled the top two on the grid for the last three rounds.
Raikkonen was given a drive-through penalty for having his tires fitted after the pitted time on the grid and his afternoon fell apart thereafter, hitting the back of Adrian Sutil's Force India en route to ninth.
Stoner on his Repsol Honda left it to the final moments to snatch first on the grid ahead Yamaha's Ben Spies and his own teammate Dani Pedrosa of Spain.
An agreement was reached on Thursday, with the contract subject to the condition the team has a starting place on the grid for 2010.
The Briton secured third on the grid but that was as good as it got.
Lotus, who are the most competitive of the three new teams on the grid this season, currently use Cosworth engines.
Kubica, who has two second-place finishes this season, also played down his chances of capitalising on his front row position on the grid.
Regardless of preseason statistics, Vettel will be the man every driver on the grid will be targeting when the lights go out at Melbourne's Albert Park.
The pair occupied the top two places on the grid before finishing first and second in their debut race in Australia and rivals fear a repeat this weekend.
Vettel held off the late charge of Rosberg, who was four seconds ahead of his legendary teammate to give Mercedes by far the best results of the four new teams on the grid.
The 24-year-old, who becomes the third British driver on the grid alongside McLaren duo Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, made a solid start to his first full season in F1, testing the 2010 car in Valencia last week.
World champion Hamilton, 24, struggled with understeer on a crucial sector of a flying lap in the first session of qualifying, from which five drivers are knocked out, and ended up among the last five drivers on the grid for only the second time in his career.
Interconnection with the grid remains a hurdle as well, despite utilities claiming that they want more solar on the grid.
Some manufacturers lay out a grid with price versus features, placing competitive products on the grid along with the proposed new product.
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