We drove west on a broad grid-road, which abruptly became a narrow, gated street at a new development of boxy houses called Fairfield.
Parks and broad grid-roads are conspicuously lacking on MK's expanding periphery, which I explored with Henk van Aswegen, director of the City Discovery Centre, a charity that maintains the corporation's archives.
Some state legislatures and utility regulators have adopted rules, or are developing policies, that make it easier to integrate small-scale renewables systems into the broader grid.
The wind turbines, which are connected to the sea floor via steel foundations, are linked to the broader grid by transmission cables deep under the sea.
With the push for energy conservation, DR is becoming a vital tool under the broad smart grid paradigm.
Just as the Internet served as the foundation upon which applications such as Web browsers and e-mail were built, a broad smart grid based on intelligent meters would provide the foundation for the innovation of new applications that could fuel electric vehicles, manage distributed generation and use demand response to broadly reduce energy use and the production of climate change gasses.
In the scheme of the broader electrical grid, even getting to three megawatts is a small contribution, about enough to power 1,200 homes and businesses in Maine, the company estimates.
Generally, home systems like Mr. Antonio's are engineered to feed electricity from the roof array through an inverter and into the home's electrical panel, sending the excess to the broader electric grid.
The project, likely to take decades, is seen as a potential building block for a broader European grid that could eventually stretch from Ireland to the Baltic states and as far south as North Africa, carrying large power loads on highly efficient direct-current cables.
Duke and Appleton [ 29] developed a broader marking grid to score reflective reports.
She had the walls of the studio painted in a grid — broad stripes of salmon, gray, yellow, blue and hot pink — and there are vertical and horizontal axes on each yoga mat to help focus students on their body alignment.
