grid
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“It also exacerbates the pressures facing America’s electric grid by forcing critical existing power plants into early retirement and severely restricting the operation of new natural gas plants,” Matheson said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Second, industry needs power, and Susanville doesn’t have a lot of power on the grid, nor the infrastructure to support it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
But most of the power generated leaves the country and, combined with an ageing grid, that results in frequent outages and sometimes having to import electricity to meet demand.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Sainz's Williams edged out Aston Martin's Alonso by just 0.076secs but faces an investigation into impeding Cadillac's Valtteri Bottas that could result in a three-place grid drop.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
You have to sketch out a grid of converging lines.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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The future of China's workers is uncertain in the industrial revolution the world has been watching: gleaming solar grids, peak hours made noiseless by electric vehicles, machines that run faster than Usain Bolt.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
Management sees significant opportunities across renewables, flexible generation, storage, and grids, they add.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
These massive sites, which are proliferating across the country, produce loud noise and pollution, rely on enormous amounts of water and electricity, tax power grids and inflate utility bills.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
Meanwhile, Europe has been in the grips of its own heat wave—with far less air conditioning to temper it—that has closed schools and strained electrical grids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
But Livingston had just had his brainstorm about removing the grids from the dees, and taking a respite at such a moment fit neither his personality nor Lawrence’s calendar.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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