Sentences with phrase «u.s. home electricity»

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The U.S. has been rocked by three massive hurricanes that have left millions of people without homes, electricity, and other critical infrastructure.

Renewable Properties has a rapidly growing pipeline of utility solar projects located throughout the U.S. and plans to bring approximately 75 MW DC of solar capacity online in 2018, which is enough electricity to power nearly 12,657 homes a year.

These improvements have led to an installed wind capacity of 74,821 MW in the United States, enough electricity to power nearly 20 million average U.S. homes every year.

To put things in perspective, the average U.S. home consumes about 10,656 kilowatt - hours (kWh) of electricity a year.

Using a simple alternator, six hours of pedaling can create and store enough electrical energy in batteries to light about six homes for 30 days (in areas where people use less electricity than in the U.S.).

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

Small reactors would have a maximum capacity of 300 megawatts of electricity, or enough to power more than 200,000 U.S. homes for a year.

Gas bills for heat typically total $ 150 for the year, meaning the owners» total annual outlay for heating, cooling and electricity is less than $ 600 — some $ 1,000 less than traditional homes in the same zip code are paying, according to data from the U.S. Department of Energy.

Philadelphia's mass transit system used more than 500,000 megawatt - hours (pdf) of electricity in 2011, equivalent to the annual consumption of around 46,000 average U.S. homes.

These, Warshay notes, are particularly popular outside the U.S., «where energy usage is significantly lower than here,» as the outsize electricity demands by American users would generally overtax the capacities of the first round of home - size heat and power models being marketed in Asia and Europe.

As part of its strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to prevent global warming from exceeding 2 °C (3.6 °F), the Obama administration unveiled a plan in September to build wind farms off of nearly every U.S. coastline by 2050 — enough turbines to generate zero - carbon electricity for more than 23 million homes.

In February, millions of viewers of 60 Minutes on CBS saw a laudatory profile (CBS, Discover) of the Bloom Box, a refrigerator - size device that could provide enough electricity to power 100 U.S. homes.

Monster GreenPower Surge Protector MDP 900 In the average home 75 percent of the electricity used to power electronics is consumed while they are turned off, says the U.S. Department of Energy.

The offshore wind power potential in the U.S. is huge, totalling more than 4,000 gigawatts if fully developed — about four times today's total U.S. electric power generating capacity and enough electricity to power about 800 million homes, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

When a security breach at Hoover Dam takes all the U.S. hydroelectric power stations offline the day after a category five hurricane hits the Gulf of Mexico, cutting off electricity to millions and threatening an already compromised fuel supply, Cash figures it's time to chase those white lines home to Tennessee.By the time he hits Chicago, the lights are out across the country, throwing America into a new dark age in which only the strong and the prepared will survive.READER NOTE: This is Part One of the (separately available) three - part novel Long Haul...

Once units 3 and 4 join the existing two Vogtle units already in operation, Plant Vogtle is expected to generate more electricity than any other U.S. nuclear facility, enough to power more than 1 million homes and businesses.

Just in the U.S., if waste heat recovery devices were used at every oil, gas and manufacturing plant, 11.4 million homes could be powered by the electricity produced and it would have the bonus benefit of offsetting the need for the same amount of energy to be produced using fossil fuels.

Over 80 % of U.S. homes have a clothes dryer, and they account for around 6 % of all residential electricity use.

In South Dakota, a wind - rich, sparsely populated state, development has begun on a vast 5,050 - megawatt wind farm (1 megawatt of wind capacity supplies 300 U.S. homes) that when completed will produce nearly five times as much electricity as the 810,000 people living in the state need.

The 10,900 megawatts of capacity installed worldwide generate enough renewable electricity to meet the needs of more than 6 million U.S. homes.

The plant, scheduled to open in 2013, will provide the utility company with more solar electricity per customer than anywhere in the U.S. Gila Bend, a small town about 70 miles southwest of Phoenix, is home to three similar facilities.

That was enough to meet the electricity needs of 1,513,703 average U.S. homes, and represented about 0.4 percent of the nation's electricity.

That's enough electricity to power about 422,000 average U.S. homes every year.

A standard two - megawatt (MW) wind turbine in the U.S. generates enough electricity to power more than 550 average American homes, nearly twice the productivity of wind turbines in China and Germany.

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4:40 PM ENERGY TECH AND SYSTEMS SOLUTIONS This panel will feature American businesses that are implementing solutions to reduce GHG emissions and increase resilience in the electricity grid, the built environment, transportations systems, and in homes and communities in the U.S. and abroad.

note 9; «Spanish Wind Power Industry Attacks New Rules,» Reuters, 2 February 2007; «EWEA Aims for 22 % of Europe's Electricity by 2030,» Wind Directions (November / December 2006), p. 34; a 1 - megawatt wind turbine operating 36 percent of the time generates 3.15 million kilowatt - hours and the average U.S. home consumes 10,000 kilowatt - hours per year; average energy consumption per U.S. home from DOE, EIA, Regional Energy Profile — U.S. Household Electricity Report (Washington, DC: July 2005); capacity factor from NREL, op.

Above: The five turbines at the Block Island Wind Farm have enough capacity to supply 17,000 U.S. homes with electricity.

The power grids in the U.S. — there are actually three of them — are enormously complex, but they're traditionally based on a simple idea: Electricity moves in one direction, from a power plant to homes along high voltage transmission lines and lower voltage power lines that distribute electricity to individual homes and neiElectricity moves in one direction, from a power plant to homes along high voltage transmission lines and lower voltage power lines that distribute electricity to individual homes and neielectricity to individual homes and neighborhoods.

[From Wind Energy Weekly:] U.S. wind energy installations now exceed 10,000 MW in generating capacity, and produce enough electricity on a typical day to power the equivalent of over 2.5 million homes, AWEA announced August 14.

It is based on national average electricity use per square foot of U.S. homes in general.

Recycling 1 million laptops saves the energy equivalent to the electricity used by 3,657 U.S. homes in a year.

That's enough electricity to power about 422,000 average U.S. homes.

By the end of the year, there were a total of 440,000 operating solar electric systems in the U.S., generating enough electricity to power 2.2 million homes.

Our state added enough new turbines to produce 571 megawatts of electricity, bringing the amount of wind power we can produce to 1.68 gigawatts, or enough electricity to power about 422,000 average U.S. homes each year.

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.

The U.S. wind fleet now totals nearly 47,000 megawatts across 38 states, enough to meet the electricity demand of more than 10 million homes.

A solar power plant near Seville, Spain, provides electricity to 200,000 homes — promising news for the sunniest place in the world, the deserts of the U.S. Southwest, where solar energy could provide for 80 % of Earth's current use.

Combined, the extensions will spur more than $ 73 billion of investment and supply enough electricity to power 8 million U.S. homes, according to BNEF.

27, no. 1300 (1 August 2008); 1 megawatt (MW) of installed wind capacity produces enough electricity to supply 300 homes from AWEA, «U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone,» press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); 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, with population from Census Bureau, op.

The average home in the U.S. consumes about 11 megawatt - hours per year, which works out to about 3 million homes worth of electricity consumption.

According to Jay Gregg, director of marketing for Pillar To Post, a leading provider of home inspection services to homebuyers and real estate professionals in the U.S. and Canada, there are a plethora of red flags besides the home's electricity and gas bills.

Sources: «Shocking: Average Residential Electricity Bills in the U.S.,» Builder Online (Dec. 4, 2013) and Average Monthly Electric Bill by State, National Association of Home Builders (Dec. 2, 2013).

Generally, estimates for a home in the U.S. put electricity use at around 1 kW per hour (kWh).

In 2013, Intel will increase its green power purchases to nearly 3.1 billion kWh, equivalent to 100 percent of the company's projected U.S. electricity use for the year and equal to the annual electricity use of more than 320,000 U.S. homes.