Essays Tagged: "Electrical grid"

Security Risk in Utility Management Workplace Security

en cover vast areas and serve millions of people. In the lower 48 states, a national electric power grid is divided into three independently operated regions: east, west, and Texas. Each region is sub ... on is subdivided into smaller units and electric power is traded between unities. The western power grid alone serves 65 million customers in 14 states, 2 Canadian provinces, and part of Mexico." (Gre ...

(7 pages) 187 0 0.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Madhu Chetty & Rajkumar Buyya, "Weaving Computational Grids: How Analogous Are They with Electrical Grids?"

Chetty and Buyya compare the emerging computational power grid and the developed electrical power grid and consider some of the issues involved in making the former as widespread as ... ease of use, that must be overcome in order to implement the computational grid on the scale of the electrical grid.Having said that, Chetty and Buyya do fail to carry to their analogy to its logical ... ail to carry to their analogy to its logical limits in one important aspect. The propagation of the electrical grid was not just a feat of technical engineering that automatically procreated itself li ...

(4 pages) 35 0 3.7 Oct/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Library & Information Science

The Solar Energy Conflict

h the night you would require a large and expensive battery bank. Most solar panels are tied to the grid and not directly to your house, so solar power is fed back into the grid, but you still use gri ... house, so solar power is fed back into the grid, but you still use grid power to power your house ("Grid Tie Kits"). The way that this works is you would pull electricity from the grid when needed whi ...

(3 pages) 1 0 0.0 Jun/2014

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science