Sentences with phrase «buildings use less electricity»

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The system consumes about 40 per cent less electricity than current compressor - based air - conditioners used in homes and commercial buildings.

In July last year, in an attempt to reduce demand for elec - tricity, a group of power companies offered the prize to the first company to build a prototype fridge that would use at least 25 per cent less electricity than current standards demand while using no ozone - depleting CFCs.

Companies that produce solar - thermal chillers say that they use 30 — 90 % less electricity than the conventional air conditioners that operate in most buildings, depending on the type and size of the installation.

This means that as Duke Energy and other providers that are doing the same thing — building generation facilities with high capital costs relative to their probable return using our tax dollars, more or less directly transporting those dollars into their pockets — sell the electricity built with the resources we helped them build, they will charge us more money for all the electricity they sell.

Each dollar spent on a new reactor buys about two to ten times less carbon savings and is 20 to 40 times slower, than spending that dollar on the cheaper, faster, safer solutions that make nuclear power unnecessary and uneconomic: efficient use of electricity, making heat and power together in factories or buildings («cogeneration»), and renewable energy.

The system consumes about 40 per cent less electricity than current compressor - based air - conditioners used in homes and commercial buildings.

The money, to renovate a building at Sylvania Public School so it used less electricity, was spent on one in a series of projects that appear not to match the Climate Change Fund's main objective: cutting carbon emissions.

We're designing smarter grids that make it easier than ever to manage different forms of electricity, creating increasingly better batteries to store it, and improving the efficiency of our buildings and machines to use less of it in the first place.

The building is now eligible for LEED certification thanks to all of the upgrades, which include reducing water consumption by 30 %, using 15 % less electricity and using 20 % recycled content in building materials.

The country expects to use 10 % less electricity within a decade; all power stations are to be modernised; there's # 30bn for more renewables; railways will be further subsidised to lure people out of their cars and away from aeroplanes; plans for more wind turbines, photovoltaic electricity and biofuels will all be fast - forwarded; there is # 1,500 m to reduce CO2 in existing buildings; and the solar market is growing by 40 % a year.

Facebook built its state - of - the - art data center in Prineville, Oregon, where it invented ways to use less electricity.