Sentences with phrase «buys electricity they need»

The local utility either owns power plants or buys electricity they need from the wholesale market.

Not exact matches

But coal still accounted for something like 35 % of electricity generation in the United States and China was buying up massive amounts for its own needs.

More than US$ 1.18 billion is needed this year to buy fuel required to fire thermal power plants in order for the country to meet its electricity demands, Ghana's energy outlook report has said.

The less electricity you need to buy in from the grid, the lower your energy bills will be.

80 % means no car, minimum $ 10,000 expense to install geothermal heating, nearly 100 % renewable electricity sources and then after that you need to be very choosy about where you buy food from and what it is.

VPSE is a hair on the DVP leg; its job is to buy fuel and whatever else the utility needs to run its power plants and make electricity.

If you buy a system that meets 100 percent of your electricity needs today, you will have an extra $ 1,200 in your pocket a year from now.

Not even if taxpayers help you buy the equipment and pay most of what you would want for the electricity, which is largely worthless once society pays for the extra infrastructure required to utilize it when needed.

Utility customers have had three options for meeting their electricity needs: buy it, make it, or eliminate it.

Mr Gallant says that November 10 is emblematic of what's wrong with Ontario's electricity policy; we add, why buy more power Ontario doesn't need and inflict more damage on the natural environment and Ontario's rural communities, when the answer is so simple.

Pittsburgh is a US Department of Energy «Solar America City» and manages the Western PA Energy Consortium, a region - wide energy cost and consumption reduction program that has bought at least 25 percent of its electricity needs from green sources.

So if you buy in 1000 kWh of electricity over a month at times when your solar is either not generating (night time), or not generating enough energy to cover all of your needs (say a cloudy day) but you export 500 kWh of energy to the grid in the same month at other times when your solar is producing more energy than your house is using, then you would be billed for only 500 kWh.

Green Power is bought for all event electricity needs, while the office is solar powered.

Instead of a single or other simple (e.g. night and day) tariff, dynamic pricing and more complex tariff structures are expected to be introduced to allow «demand response», in other words, to allow customers to buy electricity at constantly changing prices, thereby cutting demand at peak times, and thus, resulting in a lower need for peak capacity as well as better integration of renewable energy sources.

You can also buy an external battery pack and take it with you, ensuring you'll always have a way to charge your iPhone if you need more battery power — even if you're out in the middle of the wilderness with no other sources of electricity.

When houses are bought and sold, the economy thrives on furniture sales, renovations, home decorating, communication tools, computer sales, software needs, transportation needs, oil, gas, electricity and so on.