The small contribution of electricity Comparison of
Estimated Electricity Output from Planned «Wind Farms» with Actual 1999 Output from Some of Reliant Energy and TXUís Newer, Existing Generating Plants * Company & Generating Plant Generating Units Capacity In MW ** Fuel Unit Type Generation (kWh) # TXU - FPL Wind Farm 242 160.0 Wind Wind Turbine 500,000,000 Reliant Wind Farm 160 208.0 Wind Wind Turbine 455,520,000 to 637,728,000 *** Reliant?
Not exact matches
Of course, the more time kids spend playing outdoors the less time they'll spend at video - game consoles — which consume an
estimated 16 billion kilowatt - hours of
electricity annually, about four times the
output of Hoover Dam.
It runs entirely on
electricity and doesn't require gas,
outputs zero CO2 emissions, and gets an EPA -
estimated 115 miles on a single charge.
Because the chief renewable technologies, wind and solar, fluctuate continuously in their
output and regularly drop to zero
output, they must be backed up with large supplies of «base load»
electricity if all demand is to be met without interruption; no studies managed this without ecologically destructive levels of biomass burning or wildly unrealistic
estimates of hydroelectric
output.
* The annual
electricity output estimated above for the Reliant project (455,520,000 to 637,728,000 kWh) would be equal to.13 % to.18 % (i.e., 13/100 to 18/100 of 1 % of total Texas 1999
electricity production.
The U.S. Department of Energy recently
estimated that the widespread replacement of incandescent and fluorescent lights by LEDs in the U.S. could save
electricity equal to the total
output of fifty 1GW power plants.
To address this threat to competitiveness, the Leach panel recommended that some of the revenues collected through the carbon tax — at least $ 2.5 billion, by some
estimates — be returned to big emitters by way of a subsidy tied to how much they produce, whether it's barrels of oil or kilowatts of
electricity or some other sector - specific
output.