National Transmission Grid

The owner of the national transmission grid is Transpower, a state-owned enterprise.

Its statutory tasks included management of the national transmission grid and maintaining the balance between electrical supply and demand.

Crucially, the CEGB was to lose the ownership of the national transmission grid.

At the same time, the project was criticized by the Finnish national transmission grid operator Fingrid and also by some Russian energy companies.

At the federal level, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had issued Order 888, opening access to the national transmission grids.

Each turbine turns a 32 MW generator, and the electricity from the generators is fed into Transpower's national transmission grid.

The backbone of the national transmission grid consists of 200,000 miles of high-voltage lines that carry electricity across the United States, most of Canada and northern Mexico.

In the US, advocates such as T. Boone Pickens have promoted the idea of a national transmission grid in order to promote United States energy independence.

The term off-grid refers to not being connected to a grid, mainly used in terms of not being connected to the main or national transmission grid in electricity.

The Kazakhstan Electricity Grid Operating Company (KEGOC) is a national transmission grid operator of Kazakhstan.

A high school civics class, presented with this problem, would allocate to the federal government the role of solving this problem by building out a national transmission grid to connect urban customers with green power.

Unit V was added to the existing four units of the Agios Dimitrios plant to be connected to the 400 kV outdoor switchgear, to increase the supply energy to the Greek national transmission grid.

To reach the necessary scale of emissions-free energy will require big clean coal or nuclear power stations, wind farms and solar farms, all connected to a national transmission grid, not to mention clean fuels for our cars and trucks.

On 31 May 1999, Terna was established within the Enel Group, by way of implementation of Italian Legislative Decree No. 79/99 which within the context of the process for the deregulation of the Italian electricity sector, sanctioned the separation between ownership and management of the national transmission grid.