Next year, if snowpack returns to normal levels, there will be plenty of spare transmission capacity.
Importantly, the study did not consider the availability of transmission capacity and proximity to load centers.
And the Web already provides lots of ready-made content, which can be tarted up as transmission capacity increases.
The costs of starting new television channels are falling, and will drop faster as digital compression packs more into the same transmission capacity.
That is why regulators in each country must ensure that there is enough spare generating capacity boffins say perhaps 20% above expected peak load and transmission capacity to be sure the lights stay on.
In some areas where the constraints are especially acute like Oregon and Washington State, the lack of spare transmission capacity could force wind farms that have already been built to shut down on a rolling basis in the near future.
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In other words, I do not believe this is ultimately a transmission capacity issue, but rather an ugly abuse of political power on the part of the BPA or some other entity who stands to benefit from selling extremely high-margin hydropower.
If there were insufficient transmission capacity to accommodate wind farms in Oregon that sold power to consumers in northern California, no developers would have proposed building those wind farms and no investors would have given them millions of dollars to do so.
With 4G, customers can use mobile broadband services with speeds up to ten times higher than with today's turbo 3G. 4G opens up new possibilities for customers to use and enjoy services on their laptops, requiring high transmission speed and capacity, such as web TV broadcasting, extensive online gaming, web conferences and advanced business solutions.
In normal years, snowpack levels are lower and there is spare capacity on transmission lines.
Moreover, the electric industry has a proven track record of adding additional generating capacity and transmission solutions when and where needed and of coordinating effectively to address reliability concerns.
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What would have been more interesting is to have the 4G spectrum administered in a similar way to other public utilities, where the actual backbone of the system is administered by one company, and the network providers would buy capacity and transmission from the network pool.
According to Gramlich, conventional generation sources like coal and natural gas are occupying the full capacity of the transmission grid, leaving no room for wind.
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Limitless fiber-optic capacity will slash transmission costs over the world's networks.
And in the next version of the National Infrastructure Plan, it might want to provide a proper vision for the development of the country's infrastructure networks covering energy generation and transmission, South East runway capacity, national and international freight connectivity and high-speed communication networks.
The need to modernize our transmission lines and to expand their capacity is irrefutable.
PreussenElektra is also a partner in four high-capacity, underwater power transmission cables linking PreussenElektra's German grid to potential customers in Norway and Denmark, as well as Sweden.
Lucent's 30, 000 techies work on such advances as plastic fiber flexible enough to wire your home, a new over-the-air laser system for local optical transmission and routers with mind-boggling capacity.
This patent portfolio is derived from over a decade of research, development, and testing, and covers methods for increasing spectrum utilization (network capacity), expanding coverage, improving uplink transmission speeds at the cell edge, and improving device battery life.
It offers significantly increased data transmission speeds, reduced latency, as well as improvements in capacity and quality.
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Exelon has generating plants and regulated utilities that it would surely like to protect from additional capacity, yet it also is trying to build a transmission company.
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By making better use of the UK's existing 16, 000 wi-fi hotspots, which are significantly underused at the moment, and introducing new transmission and compression technologies, Ofcom believes there will be plenty of new capacity to cope with the expected increase in mobile data usage.
Energy grids, however, are already near capacity, and creative solutions are crucial to cope with the anticipated vastly increased demand for energy transmission.
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