Sentences with phrase «gigawatt hours annually»

With US coal plants generating about 2 billion Gigawatt hours annually, the expenditure of an additional $ 40 billion would raise the cost of electricity by about two cents per kilowatt hour.

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This chart shows the major sectors of the power - generation portfolio of the US in gigawatt hours generated annually: note the dynamic between coal (black line) and natural gas (red line).

GE said that, based on wind conditions at a «typical» site in the German North Sea, one turbine could produce as much as 67 gigawatt hours (GWh) annually, enough power for as many as 16,000 European households.

NYSERDA's 2014 study, Street Lighting in New York State: Opportunities and Challenges, found that if street lights statewide were changed to LEDs, an estimated $ 97 million and 524 gigawatt hours of electricity would be saved annually, the equivalent of powering 74,000 homes.

But if it kept Diablo open and did not build any new renewables, it could reduce natural - gas generation by 25 percent to 18,000 gigawatt - hours — with a reduction of 2.4 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.

By 2015, Brazil Pellet plans to reach 520,000 tons a year of pellet production, an amount that would produce 2,420 gigawatt - hours annually.

For perspective, the farm referenced above will produce about 380 gigawatt - hours of electricity annually, enough to cover 34,000 American households.