Sentences with phrase «avoid electricity consumption»
His mother ensures that the machine does not turn by itself with a timer that can also adjust the temperature of the dryer to avoid electricity consumption.
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Important improvement potentials have been identified during shopping, in the reduction of electricity consumption for food storage or preparation and by avoiding wasting of food.
OhmConnect is a free service that acts somewhat like a virtual power plant, except that instead of generating energy, it works with the user's devices to reduce demand at times when electricity consumption is at a peak, which can help utilities to avoid having to bring a «peaker plant» online to cover the extra demand.
Since North Carolina does not have any laws requiring virtual net metering for cooperatives or investor - owned utilities, these bill credits are nearly always based on the utility's avoided cost of energy as opposed to a credit calculated at the full retail rate of electricity (in other words, the per kWh credits are less than the per kWh price customers pay for their electricity consumption).
The company pays the owners of commercial and industrial buildings to let it periodically reduce their power consumption when the grid is overburdened, or to avoid high electricity prices.
According to this http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/deaths-per-twh-by-energy-source.html nuclear energy avoids about 60 fatalities (global average) per TWh from electricity consumption, 90 in China, and 15 in USA.
For some periods during August 2015, for example, industrial customers had to curtail electricity consumption during the day, in order to avoid blackouts and other supply problems.