Once in the applications view, tapping any icon launches the associated app (or bookmark), while holding any icon lets you move it to another position on the grid (or remove it by pressing a little red X, if present).
Right now the nation has 760 gigawatts of power plants to meet current consumption, with another 154 in reserve capacity to maintain grid reliability.
There is also likely to be another burst of consumer outrage as America's overloaded and decaying electricity grid succumbs to blackouts, like the one that plunged parts of Silicon Valley into darkness a few weeks ago.
As noted by Peter Wilson in the American Thinker, Cape Wind has entered into a separate agreement with another utility, National Grid, to sell them their electricity for 18.7 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) with a 3.5% annual increase over the next 15 years.
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The ability to move power from one region to another for competitive markets further exacerbates the issue and stresses the grid.
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RTOs are one mechanism by which to achieve that goal while enforcing existing laws that ensure grid access is another.
Another portfolio company, smart grid company Silver Spring Networks, filed to go public in July.
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We also covered several off-grid devices that we'd like to have in the event of another storm of Sandy's magnitude -- Nokero's compact SunRay Pro solar charger, Berkey's super-versatile and effective water filter and Eton's hand-crank cellphone charger.
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Another is an effort to reduce uncertainty around future energy costs, and to gain independence from the power grid.
My view on where to place blame is summarized in an OpEd ( Our Gridlocked Grid) my colleague and I wrote for another New York newspaper.
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My colleague William Pentland writes about another consequence of excess hydropower: wind farms in the Pacific Northwest are being forced to disconnect from the power grid out of concern their added electrons with overload the system.
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