Bradner: I expect some burps in the power grid over the first few hours and days.
There are already over 90 smart grid pilots under way around the world and expectations are high.
On his screen is a single frame of the character Alex the Lion with a mathematical grid over his face and a big, bulging eyeball.
The U.S. grid connects over 6, 000 power plants to users around the country through more than 350, 000 miles of transmission lines, transformers and substations that are mostly past their expected forty-year lifespans ( Department of Energy, 2012).
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National Grid is consulting over proposals to transfer power from offshore wind farms and Wylfa B to the electricity network.
It is precisely because such undertakings would be a nightmare to negotiate over the Internet that the Grid has come into being.
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It may not be as straightforward as simply selecting a letter from a grid, but over time users who learn to Daisywheel might find sending messages without a keyboard downright tolerable.
The physicist Edward Teller estimated that a constellation of satellites providing continuous atmospheric measurements over a one square kilometer grid worldwide, which is currently cost-prohibitive, would only improve long-range forecasts from the current five days to approximately 14 days.
Eventually, though, a really big solar storm will deliver its full fury on the American heartland, and then the accumulated design decisions that have been made as the domestic electrical grid expanded tenfold over the last half-century will lead to disaster.
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Announcements by National Grid and NRG Energy over the past few weeks have boosted prospects for offshore wind.
It plans to build a slurry-fuelled power station that will generate enough electricity to power the farm, with plenty left over to sell to the national grid.
National Grid, which took over storm preparations from the Long Island Power Authority after LIPA was lambasted for its Sandy problems, did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
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.
Led by artificial-intelligence expert David Waltz, CCLS has created a clutch of compelling smart-grid systems for Con Edison over the past five or six years.
The Defense Science Board Task Force report on DoD Energy Strategy emphasized that fuel cells present an enormously compelling strategy for avoiding the risks associated with over-reliance on the national electrical grid.
It has brought solar panel costs down dramatically over just a few years, bringing grid parity within sight in a number of markets, and kicking off what many see as a potential long-term energy revolution.
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In the past decade, the number of small businesses and consumers substantially reducing their reliance on grid-based electricity has risen over 33% annually.
The restructuring of the electricity sector has been repeatedly delayed, as competing interests fight over who will control power stations and the grid.
Healy stopped Brewster in the hallway one day after class, with the seedling of an idea for selling electricity back to a grid, something he had chewed over with his father.
The Compass Computer he designed for Grid Systems with the screen folded over the keyboard appeared in 1981, flew on the space shuttle, and inspired virtually every notebook design since.
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The following year, Ryan qualified fifth fastest and was next to Steve Plater on the grid, posting a lap at over 121mph, but the bike was plagued with electrical problems and two blown engines on raceday made it a miserable weekend.
As interoperability and cyber-security standards become increasingly established over the next year, it will be easier to pick winners and losers in the smart-grid space and perilous for multinationals to sit on the sidelines as their competitors corral control over a promising growth industry.
In fact, a battery system can perform more than a dozen tasks, from sending short bursts of power to stabilize the electric grid to releasing a steady supply of electricity over a longer period of time when there is a lot of demand for power.
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The reason for that is it would, over a much wider area, take out things like the National Grid, on which we all rely for almost everything, take out the water system, the sewage system.
One challenge would involve creating a magnetic head that could hover over those dots, read their signal and write new data onto the grid.
Or they may increase the efficiency of the grid by consuming off-peak load and pushing more kilowatt-hours over the same infrastructure.
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By unleashing a massive pulse of electromagnetic radiation sweeping over the planet, a severe solar storm could potentially knock out the electric power grid, silence radio and satellite communications and disrupt GPS navigation systems.
Before the collapse, Rana was little known outside of the few blocks of his tiny empire, a grid of poorly paved streets in the crowded industrial suburb of Savar, built up over the past decade or so around hundreds of garment factories.
In this fresh light, the relevance of centralized grid infrastructure as a means of distributing energy loads becomes more, not less, pronounced over time.
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