The Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth shut down after losing off-site power.
In order for a microgrid to continue operating in island mode, it has to include some form of on-site power generation.
But now it wanted to be a player in the legislative battle to make it easier to build small, on-site power plants.
During Sandy, hospitals that had on-site power generation continued to provide critical care to their patients, and offered safe haven for those hospital patients that were evacuated from flooded areas.
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Rep. Tom Davis and Rep. Frank Wolf, both Virginia Republicans, have drafted a bill that would effectively abolish the federally designated transmission zones by giving states the full power to site power lines.
Being an on-site power system allows users to run independently of the public utility grid, ensuring that, no matter what happens to the grid, a company will not lose power and will continue to operate.
State regulators have never been to happy about the prospect of ceding their authority to site power lines to federal officials, but they have learned to live with the guidelines set forth in the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
The first phase of construction includes early earthwork and concrete foundations for a mill and on-site power plant, expansion of the existing water-supply system, construction and operation of the initial phase of a new tailings facility, and expansion of camp facilities by approximately 6, 600 additional beds for workers.
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Irish betting site Paddy Power had him moving up to 7-2 odds of getting the top slot, trailing only Iain Conn.
Even with the Energy Department's designated transmission zones, the idea is that utility companies will first seek approval from state authorities to site a power line.
The firm, which has nine similar facilities in the region, said the gas would be burnt on site to create power for more than 5, 500 homes.
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Yet, the entire petabyte of data is backed up, moved to a disaster recovery site, consuming additional power and space used to store it all.
The site has harnessed the power of collaborative consumption to match available car seats with willing riders, efficiently and in real time, using a mobile app.
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The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is adding nearly 23 megawatts of on-site solar-generated power at five state prison facilities in southern California.
All of the new start-up reactors are tiny compared to the 104 old ones, each of which was custom designed for and constructed at the site of its utility power plant.
But the real power of this site is in its screening tools and fundamental data.
"To constrain the power of the site, we're splitting submissions from publication, " he says.
Apple has now come back with plans to power the entire site with renewables.
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On Friday Mr Jones visited the construction site of a new nuclear power plant and called on British company to seize opportunities to invest in the nuclear industry.
What if you could log on to your electric company's Web site to find out when power is cheapest so you could can plan your energy use accordingly?
Meanwhile, the IAEA said it would send a team of experts to the site of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant from 15 to 22 April to review the government's decommissioning plans for the plant.
But with the help of some high-tech tracking devices, a fan-friendly Web site and a little star power, conservation officials are hoping a contest among 11 leatherback tortoises will raise awareness, and some money, for the critically endangered species.
Since power from CHP is generated on-site, CHP avoids transmission losses that typically result from moving electricity over power lines.
As such wind velocity at a site determines the economics of wind power generation.
Honda says it wants to install the new power source on its site to reduce its environmental impact.
Picture a world where compute power is generated off site, available in quantities when and where you need it.
"What I have to say counts, " says Mike Kelley, a site safety coordinator for a Dynegy power plant in Minooka, Ill.
Workers struggled to contain a burning reactor at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant as the site emitted small but worrying amounts of radiation.
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