Sentence examples for a grid failure from inspiring English sources

"During a grid failure, it's difficult to get through to people," Mr. Wurtzel said.

Oyster Creek faced the additional problem of a grid failure, a problem that hits reactors around the country intermittently and requires plants to start up their emergency diesel generators.

They have modeled electricity microgrids for the waterfront energy district as well as for South Ithaca and the Cayuga Medical Center Hospital Complex, that provide energy from distributed generation in parallel with the regional grid but can also function in "island mode" during a grid failure.

In addition to generators, most large data centers contain banks of huge, spinning flywheels or thousands of lead-acid batteries — many of them similar to automobile batteries — to power the computers in case of a grid failure as brief as a few hundredths of a second, an interruption that could crash the servers.

In order to provide a resilient power benefit to our local facility, we add special switches that can isolate (or 'island') the PV/storage system in case of a grid failure.

A power grid failure caused a blackout in 2003.

That means that any loss of power, either due to a system error or an electrical grid failure, will set off the motor brake.

A rolling bump is not the same thing as a high-speed brake failure, just as the theft of a credit card is not the same as the theft of corporate data, or a catastrophic grid failure.

NEW DELHI, July 30 (Reuters) - A massive grid failure in Delhi and much of northern India left more than 300 million people without electricity on Monday in one of the worst blackouts to hit the country in more than a decade.

After a player was penalized $100 for a "Bernout power grid failure on a cloudy, windless day," some complained about the card's confusing insinuation.

The drill, organized by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, is to explore how the country would respond to an enormous grid failure that interrupts supplies of water, food and fuel and creates disruptions on a scale far beyond those of Sept. 11, 2001.