Battery requirements for electric buses are so dramatic that electric buses are traditionally connected to overhead electricity and often run diesel engines when disconnected from power.
Finally, we are witnessing a dramatic reconfiguration of electricity systems, with wind power and photovoltaic electricity increasingly becoming game changers for markets and infrastructure.
"The size and scale of this thing are dramatic," said an electricity industry expert, Peter S. Fox-principalrincipal of the Brattle Group.
They also found that a new coal plant is far more expensive than policymakers had planned, risking dramatic increases in electricity rates and 1 billion euro (about $1.3 billion U.S). in debt at a time when the financial crisis is raging across Europe.
The wind energy boom, with its recurrent surges of surplus energy, has led to a dramatic decline in electricity prices in spot market trading at the European Electricity Exchange, with the price per kilowatt hour falling by as much as 50percentt in the last five years.
Dramatic increases in electricity demand during heat waves can lead to brownouts or blackouts, as experienced during the Chicago, Illinois, heat wave in 1995 (Changnon et al. 1996).
In the "Coriolan" Overture, which opened the concert, the ensemble's playing crackled with fierce electricity and dramatic urgency.
Information technology has long been viewed as the power behind a new economic revolution — an evolving set of tools that has made workers much more productive than ever before, powering a step change as dramatic as steam or electricity.
Experiences in Europe have demonstrated that well-designed FITs can drive rapid and dramatic growth in renewable electricity markets, promote strong manufacturing industries, and create thousands of new jobs in a cost-effective manner.
I haven't seen a dramatic increase in my electricity bill, but I will be doing a full review next March.
