Sector Briefing : Dtl Power Corporation

Although one would most likely envision the picturesque Lady Liberty, the lofty Empire State Building, or even a humble Sabrett Stand upon hearing “New York City”, nothing serves as a better icon of the grand city than power outages. Being born and raised in the South Bronx, Fordham Manor specifically, I have experienced a substantial number of power outages that would occur frequently not only in my neighborhood but various other communities of the Bronx as well. Yes, they were at first a rather terrifying reminder of the borough’s crumbling infrastructure, but as I grew older and more insightful, I developed a unique perspective on these so-called disasters and was able to perceive them for what they truly were: the happiest misfortune one

Support: Solar power has very little pollution, uses no greenhouse gases and is a renewable source.

FirstEnergy engages in generation, transmission and distribution of electricity and “produces approximately 80 million megawatt-hours of electricity annually from a fleet of carbon-free nuclear, scrubbed coal, natural gas, and hydro plants” (see Appendix B) (About Us, 2017). FirstEnergy is currently implementing the first phase of its “Energizing the Future” transmission upgrade project. This long-term initiative will receive a $4.2 billion investment from 2014 to 2017 is designed to increase service reliability and accommodate increased future demands (Transmission Projects, 2015). This project includes “replacing existing equipment with advanced technologies designed to enhance system reliability, meeting projected load growth driven primarily by sale gas-related activity in our region, and reinforcing the system in light of power plant deactivations” (Transmission Projects, 2015).

The U.S electric- power system provides power to over 300 million individuals and is comprised of more than 200,000 miles lines of transmission, its generating capacity is over one million megawatts and it is worth above $1 trillion (Markey & Waxman, 2013). The elements of the network are greatly interdependent and, as demonstrated by history, a system failure of a line of outage can result in fall in other areas. Markey & Waxman (2013) provides an example of a power failure that occurred on August 14, 2003 when four hanging high- altitude lines of power in northern Ohio clashed into trees and shut off. Together with an error in a computer system, the shut down lead to a flow of failures that finally left over 50 million people in Canada and

Non-renewable energy is produced from sources that cannot be replenished for thousands of years once its depleted. In short, it takes thousands of years for non-renewable energy sources to form. They are usually found buried deep inside the earths crust. Fuels like coal, natural gas, crude oil, and nuclear fuels. Coal, natural gas and crude oil are collectively called “Fossil

Last week thousands of people were out of power for days due to power lines being interrupted during a severe thunderstorm. These power outages have forced city officials to rethink how power is supplied.

There is solar energy which is energy that comes from the sun. You can collect solar energy be using solar panels. Then, the energy can be used to power things. There is wind energy. The wind energy can be collected by windmills. These windmills can convert wind into energy. There is also hydroelectric energy. Hydroelectric energy is water flowing that can be turned into energy. Usually, people use dams to store water inside of a reservoir. All of these types of energy can make electricity using natural resources.

The United States of America produces energy using every resource available. There are nonrenewable, renewable, and other energy resources being used. Nonrenewable resources such as coal, oil, and natural gas are created by fossil fuels over a hundred of million years ago. Hydroelectric, solar, biomass, geothermal and wind power are considered renewable resources as they can be constantly replenished in a short period of time. Nuclear energy is in debate whether to be renewable or nonrenewable as it uses nuclear fission and nuclear fusion to create energy. This can come from any atom that makes up the world; however, right now nuclear energy is mostly using uranium which leads people to say this is nonrenewable.

A nonrenewable energy resource is a resource of economic value that cannot be readily replaced by natural means on a level equal to its consumption. Most fossil fuels, such as oil, natural gas and coal are considered nonrenewable resources in that their use is not sustainable because their formation takes billions of years.

Energy that is not commonly used and is usually ecologically sound, such as solar or wind energy (as opposed to fossil fuels). Fuel sources that are other than those resulting from fossil fuels. Typically used interchangeably for renewable energy. Examples include: wind, solar, biomass, wave and tidal energy.

Energy is defined as the ability to do work that can neither be created nor be destroyed, can only be transfer from one form of energy to other. There are many kind of energy such as mechanical energy, potential energy etc. In our daily life we need different types of energy resource in each and every time to do our work such as we need electricity to run our electrical devices, gasoline to drive our vehicle and so on. Energy are produced from different source i.e. renewable source of energy and non- renewable source of energy. Renewable source of energy refers to inexhaustible source of energy such as solar energy,

Energy from a source that is not worn-out when used, such as wind or solar power, or from other natural movements and mechanisms of the environment. Renewable energy does not consist of energy resources derived from fossil fuels, discarded products from fossil basis, or discarded products from inorganic source

The models developed for this research focused on addressing the following question: What is the likelihood of an outage occurrence? Based on the expected effect of weather, demographics, and socioeconomic features on outages, some hypotheses to be tested are as follows:

Ever since the late 19th century, people have been trying to perfect energy sources to make their lives easier. An ideal Energy source is one that costs little to produce, little to maintain, and yields a high energy output. We found a temporary resource that we used for over a century, coal and natural gases. The problem with sources like these are that they will eventually run out. Renewable energy is energy that can be produced without depletion. Human have been using a form of renewable energy for hundreds of years, such as the watermill. Renewable energy is needed because it will never run out, it is more efficient than today’s methods, and it does not pollute the environment with greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide.

Renewable energy is energy generated from natural resources—such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides and geothermal heat—which are renewable (naturally replenished). Renewable energy technologies range from solar power, wind power, hydroelectricity/micro hydro, biomass and biofuels for transportation.