Sentence examples for modernizing the grid from inspiring English sources
The prospects for modernizing the grid seem dim -- Friday's New York Times quotes a former federal energy regulation as saying that calling the grid "Balkanized" is "an insult to the Macedonians".
While household decarbonization may end up being relatively straightforward, the work required in factories, office buildings, mass transit systems and in modernizing the grid itself will present engineering, logistic and other operational challenges.
Perhaps most important of all to the clean energy project, Bryson also has shown he understands the importance of modernizing the grid which the administration is also making a high priority.
Three quarters could be devoted to modernizing the grid and improving infrastructure for all customers, and the remaining quarter used to create a safety net for workers, communities and pensioners at risk, as well as to clean up the legacy of strip mining, coal ash dumping and environmental devastation left behind by coal.
Congress must defeat this measure and, instead, promote the commission's efforts to modernize the grid.
Mr. Rudden estimates that it will require $30 billion to $50 billion over the next five years to modernize the grid.
Storage is often referred to as the holy grail of energy technology, because it can modernize the grid by more efficiently matching demand for power with the generation of electricity.
Last year, President Obama offered billions of dollars in grants to modernize the grid in the United States, but it is not clear that such a piecemeal effort will be adequate for renewable power.
It will be missed because there is a vast shortage of skilled utility industry workers that can modernize the grid.
Under different circumstances, Virginia might have an open bidding process in which contractors compete to modernize the grid and integrate more renewable energy resources, he said.
They will not save as much money, but they still come out comfortably ahead, while helping green and modernize the grid.
