NOUN
- a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region
How To Use power grid In A Sentence
- In B.C., wind advocates are touting its potential, and the first wind farm feeding the power grid in B.C. could be up and running by October 2005.
- A large incinerator has been operating in south Bramalea for some years now, cleanly burning up garbage, all the while pumping electricity on to the nearby power grid.
- IBM's early efforts in "smart" infrastructure technology around the world have already decongested Stockholm, improved water management in Brazil and started work on an automated power grid in Malta. Undefined
- Hours after it arrived, officials said on Friday that there had been no reports of problems with power grids or other technology. Times, Sunday Times
- What's more, the canal can't even be thanked for providing all of the electricity for the city, because much of the wattage it generates gets fused into a power grid formed by a conglomerate of electricity production facilities downstate.
- The project consists of three components: construction and operation of a 67.5 MW heavy diesel-fuel plant based on a Build-Own-Operate contrac, the construction of a fuel supply pipeline (heavy fuel) connecting the plant to the fuel source, and a substation linking the plant to the SENELEC power grid. Energy profile of West Africa
- The reactive power variation of wind farm interconnected with power grid leads to voltage fluctuation grid.
- The short circuit current of large load center that excesses the regulation standard seriously endangers security and stability of power grid.
- The threat to power grids during bad solar weather is known as GIC, or geomagnetically induced current. Gizmodo
- The eventual physical effects of the storm were minimal - auroras were visible in Boston and other northern U.S. cities, but no satellites or power grids had major failures.