Sentences with phrase «as electricity points»

Shower and toilet facilities, as well as electricity points, are available.

Spacious enough for a caravan with a tent, each of the stands has adequate lighting, and they are equipped with braai facilities as well as an electricity point with a tap.

Not exact matches

As Bitcoin's price has soared, so too has the energy consumption to produce it — to the point that Bitcoin mining now guzzles more electricity than all the electric cars in the world.

We typically focus on initiatives and activities that can have the greatest impact given the specific nature of our operations, such as our wind and solar farms to generate electricity and our frustration - free packaging initiatives, but we also have innumerable large and small initiatives underway at any point in time, as we seek to constantly invent across the company.

«New generation equipment, such as Bitmain's model S9, has the ability to quickly add hashrate which, absent changing other factors, would increase difficulty to the point where older generation miners are no longer profitable at most electricity price points.»

Moulton pointed to a study released by the Ministry of Energy that states large commercial suppliers in Ontario cities such as Toronto and Ottawa were paying 8.35 per kWh for electricity as of May 2015, the most recent month for which the province has statistics.

If Indian Point in Westchester County is closed down, as Schreibman advocates, the cost of electricity will increase for everyone, Gibson said.

«We recognize that broadband service has become as essential as electricity and water and sewer for economic development and that if we want to attract high - tech jobs, if we want to provide students opportunities for education and provide equal access to services to people across the county, having high - speed broadband is absolutely critical at this point.»

She provides Mary a tour of the school, which stands many stories tall, containing devices as ordinary as elevators (Mumblechook points out that electricity is, after all, a form of magic) and as fantastic as bubbles that carry students to their classrooms (In one of the classes, the filmmakers fit in a small homage / jab at a famous, British child wizard, who's tormented by a flying broomstick that he can't control).

At different points the headmistress states that «electricity is a kind of magic» and «potions are nothing but chemistry,» proclamations that seem written to elicit an mind - blown reaction GIF but kind of fall apart as soon as you start thinking about them.

The Scots have a target of generating all their electricity from renewables inside the next five years, and at which point each Tesla there will effectively be running clean, whereas any petrol or diesel equivalent will always be as dirty as the day it rolled out the showroom.

Even without seeing the mantas, just savouring this location as a viewpoint is reason enough to scooter along the bone - jarring road to get here — we came via the highest point of the island, where nine wind turbines help supply some of the island's electricity grid.

A braai area, electricity outlets, and a water point is provided for each site as well.

Use the strong lines in this electricity tower (photographed from below) as the starting point for a geometric abstract painting.

As New York's aging Indian Point nuclear power plant comes up for relicensing, a new report shows that its electricity simply isn't needed.

«And it was only a few weeks ago when I pointed out that your single - minded reliance on comparing capital costs misses the fact that nukes need fuel and solar and wind don't, and that goes into electricity costs as well.»

The focal points of our chat were recent papers in which Jacobson and others proposed how New York State could move entirely to renewable energy supplies by 2050, as well as Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo «s ambitious Reforming the Energy Vision (or REV) initiative, aimed at making the state's electricity grid cleaner, more resilient and more affordable.

We are really approaching the point where it will be entirely «mainstream» for US suburbanites to live in solar - powered homes that will not only be «net zero energy» in the sense of generating as much or more energy than the house itself consumes, but will also generate all the electricity to operate an EV, which will be integrated with the house so its batteries can provide power to the house at night and during grid outages.

Third, the focus of my comment was also on climate, not on electricity prices, although the two (with respect to this subject) are very interlinked, as you've pointed out in the past and as your own point about competitiveness with respect to coal in China underscores.

But they also point to divides on condom use and access to electricity, as well.

The Worldwatch Institute and Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors recently analyzed the full greenhouse impacts of natural gas and coal — from the well or mine to the power plant — and the work supports other studies pointing to a large and clear climate advantage from gas as a source of electricity.

Although in and of itself, as Revkin points out, this won't really reduce greenhouse gas emissions as long as so much of our electricity is generated by burning coal, it is at least a doable step in the right direction that reduces our reliance on oil from antagonistic regimes.

Although you state you support nuclear, you seem to have a much better understanding of the anti-nuclear talking points than of the facts about nuclear — such as safety and costs (compared with other electricity generating technologies).

As a result, a TPO solar lease customer in some instances could wind up paying more over the 10 - or 20 - year term of a residential solar lease than they would have paid a utility for electricity over the same period of time, pointed out Stanley Fishbein, the co-founder and one of two managing partners of CleanView Capital, a solar energy finance company focused primarily on the commercial and industrial segments of the solar energy market.

That's disappointing: from Australia's point of view, a cheap, safe method of CCS would have resolved the climate change problem, at least as regards electricity, with no adverse impact on our coal industry.

The study, entitled «State of Charge: Electric Vehicles» Global Warming Emissions and Fuel Cost Savings Across the United States,» points out that charging an electric vehicle with coal - based electricity yields the same carbon impact as at conventional car that gets 30 miles per gallon (mpg).

One, as the energy companies pointed out to DECC, is that it will be amazingly costly and wildly uneconomical, since the dedicated power plants will often have to run at a low rate of efficiency, burning gas but not producing electricity.

As he points out, electricity consumption is one of the key drivers behind a corporate carbon footprint and switching to green energy and committing to RE100 or Science Based Targets goals can be an important part of an emissions reduction strategy.

The point was not about electricity being hazardous as you well know.

These flexibility needs are rapidly expanding as a result of numerous industry trends: (a) recognition by policymakers that renewable energy resources are needed to meet long - term emissions reductions goals; (b) customers» increasing desire to voluntarily procure renewable energy or generate electricity on - site; and (c) substantial technological improvements that have driven down the cost of renewable resources to the point where, even before accounting for tax incentives, they are the lowest - cost option for new generating plants in some regions of the country.

This guide is intended as a starting point — individual factors such as equipment and installation costs, electricity rates and grid stability will vary depending between countries and depending on the year.

When it nears the point of consumption, such as our homes, the electricity is transformed down to the safer 100 - 250 voltage systems used in the domestic market.

As I pointed out in the list, there are many other benefits of low cost electricity, especially for the poorest people on the planet.

However, as the team points out, it's important to look beyond the installed capacity and examine how much electricity is fed into the electric grid to displace conventional, polluting power sources.

Analyses of these measures by the American Council for Capital Formation, which studies economic and environmental policy, show that they will raise electricity rates as well as gas prices - costing jobs and hurting the economy - even as the EPA admits that these choices will have an insignificant impact on global climate change (a point former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson confessed during a Senate hearing in 2009).

However the temperature of the air around the Earth is set by the combination of both the power of the solar energy reaching the Earth (the electricity supply) and the greenhouse effect (or rather the resistor effect) of the entire atmosphere and at this point readers need to recall my earlier contention that for greenhouse (resistor) purposes the oceans must be included as part of the «atmosphere».

That was the point of coal power — a great leap in the wonder of human potential that would make electricity as much of staple as bread and water.

Germany's electricity sector faced a renewed, violent shakeup in March as two of its biggest utilities, E.ON and RWE, announced a complex asset exchange that experts said points to the death of the integrated model.

Many public policies seek to promote energy efficiency, but as the authors of the Electricity Journal paper — Keith Dennis of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and Ken Colburn and Jim Lazar of the Regulatory Assistance Project — point out, energy efficiency isn't precisely what we want.

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Just as I stated a few comments earlier with BaustinB, the WHOLE point of driving hybrid and alternative vehicles is to reduce pollution in addition to less consumption of fuel whether it be petroleum or electricity.

However, when you think about specific sources of emission such as power generation and transport emissions there are far more effective ways of reducing these emissions that avoid the need for increasing the price of fuels and / or driving up the average price of electricity to the point where investment in clean electricity is justified.

It was therefore agreed that feasibility should be assessed by reference to the amount of PV required, taking this as a proxy for all LZC electricity generation technologies and assumed that an area equivalent to 40 % of ground floor area was the appropriate reference point for feasibility.

If the cost of solar electricity is higher than the wholesale price, but lower than the retail price then point of use solar capacity will be installed as it saves people money on their electricity bills.

As for point of use solar in Germany, get back to me when it generates as much low emission electricity as the nuclear capacity that has recklessly been shut down or is on death roAs for point of use solar in Germany, get back to me when it generates as much low emission electricity as the nuclear capacity that has recklessly been shut down or is on death roas much low emission electricity as the nuclear capacity that has recklessly been shut down or is on death roas the nuclear capacity that has recklessly been shut down or is on death row.

As we have pointed out just once or twice — the need for 100 % of wind power capacity to be backed up 100 % of the time by fossil fuel generation sources means that wind power can not and will never reduce CO2 emissions in the electricity sector (see our posts here and here and here and here and here and here and here).

This point of use solar capacity reduces demand for grid electricity and so reduces the wholesale price as lower demand results in lower prices.

Through the purchase of Renewable Energy Certificates (also known as Renewable Energy Credits or RECs), your business can affordably purchase the environmental benefits of renewable power generated from facilities throughout the U.S. Balance your electricity use, supply your green power program or earn LEED ® project points.

As discussed in point 4 above, the national electricity grid is carbon intensive; in addition there are also losses in generating and distributing the electricity.

Distributed generation, also called on - site generation or decentralized generation, is the term for generation of electricity from sources that are near the point of consumption, as opposed to...