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Get Used To Blackouts and Higher Electric Bills As the Climate Changes
2016-01-04 17:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vice: Climate change could put at risk thousands of the world's power plants by the middle of the century, leading to outages and forcing countries to find alternative sources of energy, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. Researchers evaluated the likely impact of more frequent and more severe heat waves on 24,515 hydropower and 1,427 thermoelectric power plants around the world. They found that as many as 86 percent of those hydro facilities could see notable...
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Non-Intrusive MV Couplers negate blackouts, grid disconnections.
2015-04-06 14:31:06| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Supporting PRIME and G3 PLC (power line communications) networking standards, MICU-300A OH/LF series feature >24 kV insulation and are suited for installations in outdoor bare overhead power lines. Water-resistant (IP67) solution supports CENELEC band up to 150 kHz (Europe) and FCC (USA), which permits use of frequencies <500 kHz for narrow band PLC. These series are customized for Maxim G3 PLC modems and compatible with Enverv PLC modem Chipsets.
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Blackouts still happen in America
2015-03-03 14:20:34| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
In recent research, it's reported that blackouts cause about $150 billion in annual damages to the U.S. economy. That includes everything in costs that hit small businesses to large multi-national corporations.
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The 10 worst blackouts of the last 50 years
2015-01-14 01:00:00| Power Technology
A majority of the worlds top 10 worst black outs in the last five decades occurred due to technical faults and human errors but natural calamities have also taken their toll. Power-technology.com lists the top 10 worst blackouts over the last 50 yea
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Power blackouts 'threat to economy'
2014-11-27 01:00:20| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The UK would face "severe economic consequences" if there was a significant disruption to the supply of electricity, says the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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