Sentences with phrase «electricity gets to our homes»

See also Barbara Seuling's Flick a Switch: How Electricity Gets to Your Home (2003).

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Today, Kuby is also certified to install Tesla's Powerwall (a rechargeable battery used to store electricity in homes) in Western Canada, a relationship forged when one of Kuby's solar customers wanted to install a Powerwall in Inuvik, N.W.T. «Only one per cent of solar installers ever get that [Powerwall] contract [with Tesla].

More than 1,400 Ontario households may soon get an unexpected gift: the miracle of alternating current electricity, with which to heat their homes and roast their geese and snuggle up on the couch and watch The Muppet Christmas Carol.

As natural gas gets diverted for home and other heating this winter, the head of New England's electricity grid is warning about possible future risks to the region's power.

Financially it would great for us but I would love to know if there is a way to get solar panels and not add dirty electricity to our home?

«Getting a student with no electricity at home to engage in learning has more to do with intangible factors,» says Meinel, a fourth - grade teacher who is quoted extensively in a Janesville Gazette article.

Simple bungalows with sporadic, generator - supplied electricity soon sprang up like mushrooms, to cater to a crowd eager to get off the beaten track, and the islands became the best kept secret of a young, adventurous European crowd having way too much fun far away from home.

The transmission loss is the percentage of the electricity generated that is lost before it gets to your home; in general, the further you are from the power station the greater the transmission loss.

More specifically, how can we shift policy and regulation to scale up distributed renewable energy — for example, solar home systems or village - scale solar power systems — that could help many of the world's poorest get access to electricity for the first time?

When the electricity generated by your solar energy system is more than you use in your home, the energy gets exported back to the grid and your utility buys the excess electricity from you at a couple cents per kilowatt hour.

It also costs a lot less to charge an EV than it does to buy gas or diesel, and if you consider powering your EV with a home solar installation, you can even bring the costs down further — you can use Solar - Estimate's tools to learn more about that and work out the rates of return you would get from installing solar panels given your electricity usage and location.

Such as — Two out of three homes in the UK have it and are inaccessible to our green electricity if we can't supply gas — that's a large new audience to get our message to.

«We are committed to getting 50 percent of our electricity from clean energy sources within a decade, with half a billion solar panels installed within four years and enough renewable energy to power every home in the country.

Here's How to Do it in Style by Cat Johnson How to get electricity, water, and the Internet in your tiny home on the range.

c) home owner will maintain themselves, which consists of annual wash to get any dust / droppings off d) doesn't require a discount rate because homeowners generally don't think about «payback» periods for renovations, new kitchens / bathrooms, holidays, new TVs, etc. and in this case they are hedging against future electricity prices by locking in their prices for 20 - 30 years.

Finally we moved to Texas where I got on Green Mountain Energy's 100 % wind - generated electricity (&, of course, we bought our home close to work), so even though I spend maybe $ 5 or $ 10 more a month for electricity in our all - electric home, the $ hundreds in savings from my other measures, and our great reduction in KWHs over the years makes this more than feasible.

Integrated 4 kilowatt solar roof panels The homes» solar roof panels are a standard feature designed to provide most or all the energy and power a typical family would require, with a net metering system to feed excess to the grid when the sun shines as well as allow for owners to get all the electricity they need in winter and other low - sun periods.

You can either use it to power your entire home with electricity or you can use it just to get warm water.

Installing renewable technologies will now be a good investment for many homes - but farmers, businesses, communities and others will get little or no extra incentive to invest in clean electricity.

But I bet with a 35 mile range you're going to get home frequently for 30 - 60 minutes before heading out again and you're going to wish that you could cram in as much electricity as possible...

Add in data gathered by smart home appliances and other smart gadgets, and data on consumers» electricity consumption patterns gathered by smart meters, and it's possible to get a very granular picture of what's going on in someone's home.

Eco-minded consumers can get smart home features that automatically turn down air conditioners when no one's around, or allow them to closely monitor electricity use within their homes.

He quotes MidAmerican chairman and CEO David Sokol, «Almost everyone has bought a home and had the frustration of waiting two or three days to get their cable TV, phone, gas, electricity, meter read, the this, the that.