In Germany, where wind covers 8 percent of
national electricity use, four northern states each boast impressive wind power shares of more than 40 percent.
Within the United States, the Rocky Mountain Institute calculates that if the 40 least efficient states were to achieve the electrical efficiency of the 10 most efficient ones,
national electricity use would be cut by one third.
The Rocky Mountain Institute calculates that if the 40 least - efficient states were to reach the electrical efficiency of the 10 most - efficient ones,
national electricity use would be reduced by one third.
Not exact matches
As Igwebike Dominic, assistant general secretary of the
National Union of
Electricity Employees (NUEE), which has been fighting the privatisation programme, puts it: «Can you imagine a landlord sells their property to someone else, and then
uses the money from the sale to paint, furnish and upgrade the house for the new owner?
The 30 - second ad highlights Ms. Teachout's opposition to New York's property tax cap, which in 2015 saved taxpayers $ 4.5 billion, and her support of a
national energy tax — something she flippantly calls a «fee» — that would cost New York families roughly $ 1,761 a year for
using propane,
electricity or fueling up their automobiles.
It revolves around investing # 1 billion in a «hi - tech
National Grid» which would see «smart meters» being installed in every home - meaning that energy companies would be able to tell consumers when it is cheapest to
use electricity.
In a report in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences, researchers calculate that U.S. wind turbines could produce 16 times the
electricity we now
use.
The series, produced by Detroit Public Television, will explore how transformation is coming to how we
use and produce
electricity, impacting the environment,
national security and the economy.
If they were, gaming computers worldwide might well be consuming billions of dollars less in
electricity use annually, with no loss in performance, according to new research from Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Researchers at Oak Ridge
National Laboratory hope that piped - in sunlight will put a serious dent in the amount of energy
used to light commercial buildings, which accounts for about 10 percent of all
electricity consumption in the United States.
AN ARTICLE about the world's top 500 supercomputers on The Inquirer website informed reader George Neil: «The Chinese
National University of Defence Technology houses the 3.12 million core Tianhe - 2 cluster, which has 1 petabyte of RAM,
uses a proprietary interconnect dubbed the TH Express 2 and consumes 17.8 GWatt [gigawatts] of
electricity.»
«The electro - chemical stability of the electrolyte we are
using here can withstand three volts, whereas many solid electrolytes previously studied are damaged at the same voltage,» says Arndt Remhof, a researcher at Empa and leader of the project, which is supported by the Swiss
National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Swiss Competence Centre for Energy Research on Heat and
Electricity Storage (SCCER - HaE).
CONVERTING sunlight into
electricity, rather than
using it to heat water directly, could lead to cheaper domestic solar energy, say engineers at the
National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland.
The series, produced by Detroit Public Television, will continue to explore how transformation is coming to how we
use and produce
electricity, impacting the economy, the environment and
national security.
Engineers at Sandia
National Laboratories, along with partner institutions Georgia Tech, Bucknell University, King Saud University and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), are
using a falling particle receiver to more efficiently convert the sun's energy to
electricity in large - scale, concentrating solar power plants.
This
electricity can be converted to alternating current (AC) power for
use in the building or if more power is generated, the surplus will be exported to the
National Grid.
[166][167] A 2010 study conducted at Argonne
National Laboratory reached similar findings, concluding that PHEVs will reduce oil consumption but could produce very different greenhouse gas emissions for each region depending on the energy mix
used to generate the
electricity to recharge the plug - in hybrids.
In another sign that things are changing fast back in Blightey, the
National Grid just announced that it had its first 100 % coal - free day since coal
use for
electricity began:
A new
National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light - duty vehicles — cars and small trucks — via a combination of more efficient vehicles; the
use of alternative fuels like biofuels,
electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies to overcome high costs and influence consumer choices.
The US household average
electricity consumption is roughly 11,000 kWh per year, so I'm
using roughly a quarter of the
national average.
A future hydrogen economy could
use the gas as an energy carrier As this method doesn't produce oxygen which needs to be kept separate from hydrogen, safety from explosion of the two gases is much less of a problem with
electricity in the
national grids carried by ageing cables, it would be useful to replace them by passing the hydrogen along gas pipes
used currently for natural methane gas.
For this analysis, we compared estimates of the technical potential for rooftop solar systems in each state (as estimated in a GIS - based analysis by the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory) with residential
electricity use (from the most recent EIA Residential Energy Consumption Survey or RECS).
Using the latest available
national data on power generation, this most recent look at data on annual and quarterly
electricity generation nationwide from the Energy Democracy Initiative at ILSR illustrates how small - scale, distributed solar energy stacks up against its big, fossil fuel and utility - scale renewable energy competitors.
Electricity emissions factors were
used from the
National Inventory Report Canada (2011): Part 3.
The report's wider appeal is the techniques and methods
used to model the Australian
National Electricity Market's (NEM) demand and wholesale spot prices for the lifetime of the proposed plant.
Many people living in remote areas are not linked to the
national electricity grid, and
use batteries or run their own generators to supply their power needs.
Because energy - rich California
used to have
electricity costs that were below the 1960
national average of 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour, the state was a large
electricity exporter.
This post http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/08/16/solar-power-realities-supply-demand-storage-and-costs/ provides a limit analysis of the cost to supply the Australian
National Electricity Market (NEM) with electricity to meet the demand using either nuclear only or solar PV and energy st
Electricity Market (NEM) with
electricity to meet the demand using either nuclear only or solar PV and energy st
electricity to meet the demand
using either nuclear only or solar PV and energy storage only.
Less than 2 % of U.S.
electricity is generated from oil, so
using electricity as a transportation fuel would greatly reduce dependence on imported petroleum, thus contributing to our
national security.»
National GHG emissions from industrial sources (
electricity generation, transportation, buildings, etc) and Land
Use, Land -
Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) 2000
The Wind Vision report updates the Department of Energy's 2008 20 % Wind Energy by 2030 through analysis of scenarios of wind power supplying 10 % of
national end -
use electricity demand by 2020, 20 % by 2030, and 35 % by 2050.
This grid would not only aid in realizing Europe's huge offshore wind potential, it would link
national grids with each other, thus facilitating more - efficient
electricity use throughout the continent.
In reality, Ohio
uses less natural gas (5 percent) for
electricity generation and more coal (82 percent) compared to the
national average according to data from the Energy Information Administration.
5 % of total funds must be
used to create a clean
national transportation low emissions plan, which would establish an electric vehicle strategic deployment goal for 2020 and project the near - and long - term infrastructure and standardization needs for EVs,
electricity providers, vehicle manufacturers, and
electricity purchasers.
A study by the U.S. Department of Energy's
National Renewable Energy Laboratory found that the U.S. can generate 80 percent of its
electricity from renewable energy by 2050,
using available technology.
The NAS
National Research Council calculates that the health costs from fossil fuel combustion are in the billions: «WASHINGTON — A new report from the
National Research Council examines and, when possible, estimates «hidden» costs of energy production and
use — such as the damage air pollution imposes on human health — that are not reflected in market prices of coal, oil, other energy sources, or the
electricity and gasoline produced from them.
Like the proposed U.S.
national grid, the Europe - wide grid would
use high - voltage direct - current lines that transmit
electricity far more efficiently than existing lines do.
It is based on
national average
electricity use per square foot of U.S. homes in general.
It is based on the
national average
electricity use per square foot for each housing type listed.
The
National Center for Public Policy Research released a report that tells us Al Gore's swimming pool
uses the same
electricity as six average US homes.
For example, wind and hydro can be very complementary so having a more
national approach to our planning and our
use of
electricity will benefit the country and help us reduce our greenhouse gas emissions as a whole.
Modeling low - carbon US
electricity futures to explore impacts on
national and regional water
use.
The manager of the energy portfolio for the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory discusses the benefits of evening out our day's
use of
electricity and how future appliances will decide when they can spark up most cheaply.
Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2008 Report (Brussels: 2009), pp. 3, 56; Erik Shuster, Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants (Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),
National Energy Technology Laboratory, January 2009); «Nuclear Dips in 2008,» World Nuclear News, 29 May 2009; 1 megawatt of installed wind capacity produces enough
electricity to supply 300 homes from American Wind Energy Association, «U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone,» press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); number of homes calculated
using average U.S. household size from U.S. Census Bureau, «2005 — 2007 American Community Survey 3 - Year Estimates — Data Profile Highlights,» at factfinder.census.gov / servlet / ACSSAFFFacts, viewed 9 April 2009, and population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & Country QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.
For example, Daniel Schwartz of Carnegie Mellon University and co-authors reported in the Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences that residents
used considerably less
electricity when told they were participating in a study of household
electricity consumption.
In the traditional model of a
national electricity system — widely
used for more than 50 years — large conventional gas, coal and nuclear generation plants supply large centres of demand.
On behalf of the Quadrennial Energy Review (QER) Task Force, the
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop on February 8 - 9, 2016, titled «
Electricity Use in Rural and Islanded Communities.»
According to the authors, the U.S.'s spare nighttime
electricity capacity could power a large fleet of PHEVs; since they require about 10 hours of nightly charging, Joe Sullivan of the Argonne
National Laboratory, one of the authors, nighttime
electricity could allow PHEVs to replace up to 34 % of today's light - duty fleet - and only consume 13 % of the fuel
used nationally for
electricity generation in the process.Michael Kintner - Meyer of the Pacific Northwest
National Laboratory - in a separate study - found that 43 % of the fleet could be replaced by PHEVs with existing nighttime capacity.
More than a quarter of US commercial and industrial (C&I)
electricity users could potentially
use energy storage to lower premium rates they are charged during periods of high demand, the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has found.
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), Crude Oil Production, electronic database, at tonto.eia.doe.gov, updated 28 July 2008; American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), «Installed U.S. Wind Power Capacity Surged 45 % in 2007: American Wind Energy Association Market Report,» press release (Washington, DC: 17 January 2008); AWEA, U.S. Wind Energy Projects, electronic database, at www.awea.org/projects, updated 31 March 2009; future capacity calculated from Emerging Energy Research (EER), «US Wind Markets Surge to New Heights,» press release (Cambridge, MA: 14 August 2008); coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of
electricity per year; residential consumption calculated
using «Residential Sector Energy Consumption Estimates, 2005,» in DOE, EIA, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2005 Status Report (Washington, DC: 2007), with capacity factor from DOE,
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Golden, CO: August 2006); population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.