Sentences with phrase «average national electricity»

The optimal design configuration at this site produced electricity at a cost 10 percent lower than the average national electricity unit price.

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That includes electricity, heating, water and garbage, at a price that's 23 % lower than the national average.

In 2016 hydroelectric power accounted for 39.9 percent of South Dakota's net electricity generation, allowing residents to enjoy electricity prices significantly lower than the national average.

The analysis assumed each car drove 15,000 miles — roughly the national average — at a rate of 30 kilowatt hours of electricity per 100 miles, based on the median mileage rate for Tesla Model 3 and Model S vehicles, according to figures reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Like the rest of New England, Maine has residential electricity rates that are above the national average.

In New York state, the average price of electricity is above the national average of 12 cents per kilowatt hour, coming in at 17.5 cents per kilowatt hour.

Only 2.4 per cent of households have access to electricity and only 18 per cent of the residents can read and write, compared to the national average of 66 per cent.

Under the Solar Community Initiative administered by the World Wildlife Fund and executed by solar firm Geostellar, employees of the four firms can install rooftop solar PV at prices that average 35 percent below the national average for solar and nearly 50 percent less expensive than average grid - delivered electricity, according to WWF and Geostellar.

With that happening, wind power fell back to 17 % of the electricity mix — still a none - too - shabby amount, based on the national average.

The US household average electricity consumption is roughly 11,000 kWh per year, so I'm using roughly a quarter of the national average.

James Taylor — Forbes — February 27, 2014 A newly published paper by the American Wind Energy Association illustrates that electricity prices are rising more than four times the national average in nine of the 11 states with the most wind power consumption.

A newly published paper by the American Wind Energy Association illustrates that electricity prices are rising more than four times the national average in nine of the 11 states with the most wind power consumption.

Current batteries for these cars can easily store the energy for driving the national average commute — about 33 miles round trip a day, so the study presumes that drivers would charge up overnight when demand for electricity is much lower.

Electricity prices in California have increased faster than in the rest of the United States and they are over 40 percent higher than the national average.

My research uncovered that electricity prices in all four states rose much more rapidly than the national average after the states enacted their renewable power mandates.

California's electricity rates were then 44 percent higher than the national average.

From 2012 to 2016, California's industrial electricity prices rose 14 %, while national average prices rose one percent.

For refrigerators, freezers, water heaters, dishwashers, clothes washers, televisions, and room air conditioners, the range shows estimated annual energy cost based on typical usage and national average electricity and / or natural gas prices.

3) Again, if you define it «normal» to have 36 to 100 hours per year of prices above $ 5,000, then the minimum annual price for 36 hours at $ 5,000 / MWh would add $ 189 / MWh to the annual price which is many times what it has averaged for any full year for any state in the national electricity market.

To put a perspective on the current comparative cost burdens that the state's families and businesses suffered last year, Californians paid 62 percent higher electrical costs than the national average for electricity.

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.

Between 1990 and 2009, the retail price of electricity in Minnesota was, on average, 18.2 percent lower than the national average.

Since the law was enacted, Washington's electricity rates have grown only half a cent per kilowatt hour, slower than the national average.

That's far below the average cost of California's residential electricity, which is 15.29 cents / kWhr, and is lower than the 11.52 cents / kWhr national average cost of residential electricity.

We assume a solar panel life span of 30 years, a decline in panel production of 0.5 % per year, inverter replacements at years 10 and 20, and retail electricity rates increasing 2.18 % per year (National average utility bill increase of 2.18 % based on EIA data for the last reported 20 years, nationally (1997 - 2017).

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; 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; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

In Oregon, where gasoline is 18 percent more expensive than the national average and electricity is 16 percent lower, an electric Fit will save $ 121 per month in fuel.

Heartland Institute's James Taylor claims that because electricity prices in Ohio have risen slightly faster than the national average since 2008, the state's clean energy standard is the culprit causing a spike in electricity prices.

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.

Furthermore, from 2009 - 2011, the average cost of coal (in dollars per short ton) increased 7.5 percent in the United States, much faster than the 3.2 percent national average electricity price increase cited by Taylor.

And Californians pay twice the national average for residential electricity.

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

A U.S. carbon tax at that level would raise petrol prices by approximately 23 cents a gallon and national - average electricity prices by around 1.7 cents a kilowatt - hour.

In constant dollars, and when expressed in equivalent gasoline prices, the national average price of electricity as a vehicle fuel has remained around $ 1 per gallon ($ 0.88 to $ 1.17 per gallon) over the last 15 years.

It is based on the national average electricity use per square foot for each housing type listed.

NRDC Response # 2: «California's electricity costs slightly more per kilowatt hour than the national average.

By comparing average local electricity costs with the projected average national price of an installed rooftop solar system, we can estimate the percentage of states that may have — or may soon have — competitive rooftop solar power.

But residential and industrial electricity bills — what customers actually pay each month — are well below the national average.

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.

According to those studies, national average retail electricity rates may decline by as much as 7 percent, or increase by as much as 7 percent, relative to business - as - usual.

Generally, electricity prices were around 18 % lower in Minnesota than the national average.

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 price of electricity in Minnesota is below the national average at $ 0.12 this combined with lots of snow sitting on Solar Panels at different times of the year means that payback times on a average 5kW system are out past 10 years.

A study sponsored by the US Department of Energy, and overseen by a board of outside advisers from the wind power industry, projects that it is possible to expand the average national output of wind generated electricity from the present 1.0 + % - to the 20 % - level over the next 22 years: an order of magnitude more wind power in the USA, in two decades.

In California, where electricity rates are almost twice the national average, Walmart's solar and fuel cell contracts are cheaper than relying exclusively on the grid.»

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.

Looking at the average wholesale spot price for June for the National Electricity Market the states in order of most expensive to least expensive are SA, TAS, VIC, NSW, QLD.

Further, Nissan estimates the cost of a full charge is $ 2.40 (based on current national averages for electricity).

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).

In some states, homeowners are paying nearly twice as much as the national average for electricity.