Think of your electricity supplier like your grocery store: it doesn't grow its own food or have its own food processing plants, rather it buys the groceries that it sells to you from wholesale food suppliers.
Not exact matches
It's kind
of crazy if you
think about it: There's no information sent to consumers about when it's expensive to
supply more
electricity and when it's not.
Twenty years from now, what would you
think the odds are
of having a working fusion reactor that's actually
supplying electricity to households in 50 years?
@ogrote: I don't
think it runs out
of battery when plug in, tablet pc system is like car battery system, the external plug in source will
supply electricity when plug in, while same time partially charging the battery.
I
think, to spur its development, we need
electricity pricing that encourages investment in load - shifting, a guaranteed return for delivering a megawatt - hour at peak demand for more than it costs at the time
of peak excess
supply.
At the next Future PV Roundtable event, solar industry experts ranging from EPCs, cell and module manufacturers, and component
suppliers will present their snappy elevator pitches about the technologies they
think will accelerate solar's march towards reducing levelized cost
of electricity (LCOE).
Increase energy efficiency and the use
of renewable energy «We
think that whatever
electricity supply option Switzerland chooses, and whatever measures to reduce CO2 emissions the country applies, a stronger focus on energy efficiency should always be part
of the process.
* The process
of decarbonizing
electricity supply is well under way and, I
think, just about unstoppable.
She said, «Mr. Musk, what do you
think about the fact that Norway, while we have a very green
electricity supply, our sovereign wealth fund is all from oil revenue, from the oil that we're selling to the rest
of the world from the Bering Sea?
Tyler Hamilton at Clean Break
thinks that the «momentum is on the side
of battery technology and the infrastructure to support it needs to be extended and upgraded, instead
of created from scratch» and «millions
of «smart» electric cars plugged into the grid can offer an extremely valuable way
of managing
electricity supply and demand and smoothing out peaks.»
A broader
thought: There is a tension between the public interest and the interests
of electricity companies (at all points along the chain
of supply).
According to the Australian - based
think tank Long Future Foundation, if bitcoin price goes up and reaches $ 1 million, bitcoin mining would consume 60 %
of global
electricity supply.