Distributed generation (DG) provides electricity directly to the building's electrical systems to offset loads that would otherwise have to be met by the utility grid.
This system produces electricity directly from a high-temperature, high-pressure electrically conductive fluid usually an ionized gas moving through a strong magnetic field.
Laser diodes are small, semiconductor devices that turn electricity directly into laser light.
The deal also allowed Paraguay to sell electricity directly to the Brazilian market.
The document signed Saturday allows Paraguay to sell its share of unused electricity directly into the Brazilian market.
But he also pointed to flaws in the British system that allowed generators to sell electricity directly to consumers.
The hydrogen fuel-cell works in a very clean way, producing electricity directly from the reaction between hydrogen and oxygen.
One crucial role of the plants will be complementing solar panels, which produce electricity directly from sunlight.
But an air-compressing windmill, while fine for storing energy, cannot transmit electricity directly to the grid.
At present, UK community schemes sell their electricity directly into the national grid, collecting a fee set by the government's energy regulator Ofgem.
Customers of the San Diego Gas and Electric Company and those who buy electricity directly from energy wholesalers like the California university system, are shielded from rate increases.
