Sentences with phrase «building the heat grids»
Nevertheless, building the heat grids (polypropylene pipes) would involve some short - term local disruption to pavements and roads during the pipe / conduit laying.
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The Sidewalk Labs proposal in the competitive bid for the project floated all kinds of technological dreams: a thermal energy grid that would be carbon neutral, sensors that separate waste from recycling, modular buildings that convert from retail to housing, monitors that track noise and pollution, self - driving transit shuttles, shared - ride taxibots, adaptive traffic lights, delivery robots, heated bike paths and sidewalks that melt snow on their own.
Like older models, they will use uranium fission to heat water and drive a turbine, but these reactors will be smaller, simpler to build, and each will add more than 1100 megawatts of capacity to the region's power grid when they come online in 2016 or 2017 — without emitting carbon dioxide.
Off - grid power capability, Passive Haus building techniques, and New Zealand's first renewable distributed heating scheme all ensure the retreat treads lightly on the local environment.
Can we build for example a non-intermittent solar infrastructure with heated salt storage and sufficient grid capacity without pricing power beyond the means of ordinary citizens and businesses?
The E.C.P. will include collaborative projects on renewable energy, smart grid, clean transportation, green building, clean coal, combined heat and power and energy efficiency.
The association said that while it was pleased the European Commission has committed to looking into ``... rules to integrate thermal storage [in buildings and district heating] into flexibility and balancing mechanisms of the grid,» there are still a few necessary actions for the technology to thrive in a real - world setting in Europe.
The thermal inertia of buildings and hot - water storage allows electricity demand from heating and cooling equipment to be shifted in time to suit the needs of the grid at low cost without compromising user comfort.
«Government must set out the role of hydrogen for buildings on the gas grid in the next parliament... It will have to decide on whether there is a role for hydrogen... alongside other technologies such as heat pumps.»
This means that a poorly insulated building with an inefficient heating system can achieve an excellent BER, provided that the high energy demand is offset by a sufficiently large solar PV array, for instance — even if that PV array was discharging all of its power into the grid or — in apartments, the landlord areas — and providing no appreciable benefit to the occupant.
The costs of moving to a low - carbon energy system (based on wind, solar and other low - carbon power; electric vehicles; heat pumps for buildings; smart grids and efficient appliances; and so on) are falling very rapidly, and would most likely be less than 1 % of income.
The gradual decarbonisation of our electricity grids — as renewable energy is phased in, while coal and peat are phased out — coupled with the proliferation of new buildings with very limited heat demand, has some experts asking if heating our homes and offices directly with electricity is starting to make sense again.
Started up the Solar Shed for heating season... Home built grid - tie with battery backup PV system... Update on Lee's solar lawn mower... Update on Marc's heat from compost furnace — first year performance...
Our advancements in real - time communication and reaction for the smart grid will reduce our energy consumption overall, creating highly networked and streamlined transportation networks of efficient vehicles for moving people and things all over the globe can radically reduce our oil use, and so too can creating and running smarter buildings that minimize the need for heating and cooling.
On top of this, the report notes that solar thermal cooling technology - in which the sun's heat is used to power thermally driven absorption chillers or evaporation devices to cool air - can reduce the burden on electric grids at times of peak cooling demand by fully or partially replacing conventional electrically powered air conditioners in buildings.
Energy storage can save power generated from clean energy systems such as solar, wind and combined heat and power (CHP) for later use, enabling buildings to reduce their reliance on the power grid during peak demand periods when electricity rates are the highest.