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03 Sep 09

UK faces power cuts within eight years - Times Online

  • The UK faces widespread power cuts for the first time since the 1970s,
    according to the Government’s own predictions.



    Demand for electricity from homes and businesses is set to exceed the
    available supply within eight years.

17 Aug 09

Solar Panels - Can They Survive Bad Weather? | Mindzle - Living Green Smart - Sustainable Living Articles

  • The biggest question asked when planning to install solar panels is, “can they tolerate extreme weather conditions?” Every year many roofs are damaged by the weather extremes.  Is it really wise to put solar panels on a roof that has to withstand those kinds of weather extremes?  Here is some information to help you decide.
15 Aug 09

One in 10 home solar power panels replaced in first 10 years - The Mainichi Daily News

  • Around one in 10 household solar panel systems have been replaced for malfunctions within 10 years of installation, according to a survey released by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST).


    About 13 percent, or 34 of 257 households surveyed have had their solar panels replaced fully or partially within 10 years of installation, while output records from another eight systems suggested possible failure.

09 Jan 09

System Adequacy Forecast 2009-2020 released

  • Generation adequacy of the UCTE system should not be at risk up to 2015. About
    20 GW of diverse generating capacities would have to be confirmed and
    commissioned before 2020 to maintain the level of adequacy at an appropriate
    level.
04 Jan 09

Blackouts and Cascading Failures of the Global Markets: Scientific American

  • Cascading failures are an emergent phenomenon of a network, rather than the independent and coincidental failures of its individual components. Although it is true that many banks in the U.S. and Europe simultaneously overinvested in mortgage-backed securities (MBSs) to their peril, positive feedbacks in the global economic system amplified those errors. Bank regulators and macroeconomic policymakers have focused too much attention on the individual nodes of the network (that is, on each bank, and each national economy) without proper regard for the system-wide amplification.
22 Dec 08

Could the Electric Grid Support Far More Wind and Solar? | Wired Science from Wired.com

  • The commonly accepted wisdom in the energy industry is that the grid could only draw something like 20 percent of its power from wind and solar resources before encountering major reliability problems. But the new power flow simulation (.pdf), presented for the first time this week at the American Geophysical Union meeting, shows that, at least in California, the power grid might be able to handle three times that much renewable energy without encountering major trouble pushing electrons around the state.
26 Oct 08

Department of Energy - Smart Grid

  • “The Smart Grid: An Introduction ” is a publication sponsored by DOE’s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. It is the first book of its kind to explore – in layman’s terms – the nature, challenges, opportunities and necessity of Smart Grid implementation.

The Energy Roadmap - The future of electricity: A guide to the Smart Grid

  • The world runs on electricity. Demand for electron power in emerging economies is often 3-4 times greater than demand for oil. Because the old model of the electricity grid does not seem adequate in meeting the new demands of the 21st century, many energy pundits argue that access to electricity is the world’s biggest strategic energy issue.
25 Jul 08

Data Center University by APC

  • Data Center University™ (DCU) offers industry-leading education for IT professional‚ facilities managers‚ engineers‚ designers‚ consultants‚ and anyone involved in the critical decisions and infrastructure planning of data centers worldwide. The changing nature of data centers‚ and the technology that impacts the‚ makes it even more critical that employees remain up to date on the current theories and best practices for issues around topics of: power‚ cooling‚ management‚ security‚ and planning.
15 Apr 08

Will Wind Power Make the Grid Less Reliable?

  • My question is about the grid and wind power. If we were to add wind power into the generation mix, would the grid still be as reliable as it is today?
30 Jan 08

Hack Your Day Productivity | Productivity without electricity

  • OK - yet another of these, but I'm not averse to the idea of "going paper", at least in planning and production. - keulenae on 2008-01-30
  • If you feel adventurous try switching to a paper based productivity system for the time the power is off, perhaps you’ll come to love it, many swear that going paper is the best thing that’s ever happened to them.
17 Jan 08

Channel 4 - News - Plane suffered 'electrical failure'

  • A British Airways plane carrying 76 passengers suffered a major electrical failure just after taking off, an official accident report said.





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    In what accident investigators described as "a serious incident", the Airbus A319 lost a number of important systems having just left Heathrow for Budapest.





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    The crew reported an audible "clunk" and the flight deck suddenly became very dark as the aircraft was approaching 20,000ft, said the report from the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB).

09 Nov 07

Creating a 21st Century Grid

13 Jul 07

Electric Taxis Fail Test In NYC

  • In a pilot test, electric cabs often failed after about 40 miles. Many cab drivers go 100 or more in a day.
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