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- verb Present participle of
island . - noun The condition of a distributed generation (DG)
generator continuing topower a location even though power from theelectric utility is no longer present.
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Examples
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Faster than most humans could respond, power grids across the region began "islanding" themselves, disconnecting automatically from the overloaded system.
What Went Wrong 2008
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The isolation of a PV source is called "islanding," and the goal is to control when islanding should occur.
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I went off on a summer trip about a week later, up to a remote island off the coast of Washington State, and while happily islanding without a thought to the technical world left behind, got a phone call.
Lorraine Devon Wilke: My Good Steve Jobs Story Lorraine Devon Wilke 2011
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The power was technically off in the tunnel but maybe this was a case of islanding or backfeed, if she remembered what Sommers had told her.
The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010
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The power was technically off in the tunnel but maybe this was a case of islanding or backfeed, if she remembered what Sommers had told her.
The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010
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In fact, Reichardt filmed these scenes on location in a suburb of Portland, and her detachment of the sub from the urb, islanding it amid woods and water as a dismal stand-alone community, is a clever piece of artifice that is strikingly true to the character of the region, where so many towns look a lot like this, but none is quite as perfectly centerless and accidental as this one.
Metronatural America Raban, Jonathan 2009
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Dozens of streams leapt from either side of the great gorge and crisscrossed, occasionally islanding the floor of the pass into hillocks.
Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005
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A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of skyline, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand; and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.
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Labor, islanding the air with clouds of incense more grateful to the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Various
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A rim of the young moon cleft the pale waste of skyline, the rim of a silver hoop embedded in grey sand; and the tide was flowing in fast to the land with a low whisper of her waves, islanding a few last figures in distant pools.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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