From the Indus to the Urals, the Mississippi to the Amazon, governments either built and ran these vast plants and grids themselves, or granted exclusive rights to private utilities within specified territories.
International agencies such as the World Bank, as well as private-sector operators and non-governmental groups, are devising "microfinance" schemes to help bring electricity to the poor in such countries as Mongolia and India.In time, micropower may also change the way electricity grids themselves operate turning them from dictatorial monopolies into democratic marketplaces.
The grid paintings themselves hang either side of a window with great views over the Mersey.
The vowels are not only not stuck in the middle of a common letter pattern, they've been set loose to run amok in the grid by themselves.
Grid cells themselves can't be imaged directly with fMRI, but recent advances in the technology have allowed scientists to capture "grid-cell-like representations" which can be used as a proxy.
Not only does this normative state of affairs influence the position of grid operators themselves but also it conditions the possible governance modes of regional cooperation with other parties, some of which are intrinsically private.
WASHINGTON — When experts on power grid reliability asked themselves recently how a cleaner energy future would look, seven of eight regional councils imagined how their systems would work with 10percentt wind power.
Arising at the intersection where the elements (wind, water) are harnessed by man's toolbox and plugged straight into his grid, they present themselves to the literary mind as symbols of technology in its most concentrated form: its birth, its architecture, its entire logic.
David Hockney used multiple prints to create large, faceted images — a kind of Polaroid Cubism — articulated here in a wonderful meta-portrait from 1982 of Bill Brandt and his wife, Noya, looking down at a grid of Polaroids of themselves, together creating a portrait-within-a-portrait.
Examples are CHP units that serve heat as well as electricity grids or biogas units that either serve CHP (in themselves already grid overarching) or may even serve gas grids when coupled with gas cleaning units.
