Sentences with phrase «cent of electricity generated»

IKEA says that the average home uses about 40 per cent of the electricity generated from solar panels, with the remaining 60 per cent being sent back to the grid.

For example, to give one example, back in 2000, 90 per cent of the electricity generated by utility American Electric Power (AEP) was from coal.

It means that during the second quarter 91 per cent of electricity generated by OPG was free of greenhouse gases and other smog - causing emissions, thanks to our hydroelectric and nuclear fleet.

Brown said 80 per cent of electricity generated in Canada is emission - free, versus about 20 per cent south of the border.

Not exact matches

The package includes a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity generation by 2030, a commitment to generate 30 per cent of Alberta's electricity from renewable sources by 2030, new financing for energy efficiency, and an economy - wide price on carbon pollution.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

It currently estimated that Ghana imports about 185 megawatts of power from Cote d'Ivoire and according to the electricity sector players, Côte d'Ivoire generates thermal power at the cost of 9 cents per kilowatt hour and sells it to Ghana for 11 cents.

Mertiny and Secanell predict that using a flywheel to capture the electricity generated by a train's deceleration and applying it for acceleration would produce an energy savings of 31 per cent and cost savings of 11 per cent on the Edmonton LRT system.

Thanks to a two cents per kilowatt - hour production incentive from the U.S. government, they are being built at a rate that will increase the amount of wind - generated electricity by nearly three gigawatts a year.

Back in 2000, the country generated barely 6 per cent of its electricity from renewable sources, mostly hydropower.

The US Department of Energy set a goal for the country to generate 20 per cent of its electricity from wind by 2030.

For example, he points out that the proportion of electricity to be generated by nuclear power plants in the year 2000 will, at 34 per cent, be almost double the previous forecast made less than three years ago.

In the past decade, the amount of electricity generated from renewables worldwide almost doubled, according to the International Energy Agency, and by 2006 they accounted for 2.3 per cent of the 19 million gigawatt - hours of electrical energy the world produced.

While France, which generates over 75 per cent of its electricity from nuclear sources, avoided blackouts, Italy did not.

At the same time, Vermont Yankee provides as much as one third of that state's electricity at a cost of 5 cents per kilowatt - hour, well below any other generating source, and it provides 220 jobs to the region.

Life - cycle study: Accounting for total harm from coal would add «close to 17.8 cents / kWh of electricity generated» In a groundbreaking article to be released this month in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Dr.

Aberdeen generates the greatest share of electricity from on - site renewables with eight per cent.

Thirty - eight universities buy green electricity from the grid (of which eight buy 100 per cent green energy), while 37 generate some of their electricity on - site, and the number with CHP installed is also 37.

The new school will generate 10 per cent of its energy requirements using a biomass wood pellet burning boiler to provide heating, and a photovoltaic array to generate additional electricity to the grid.

If 15 per cent of the UK roofs had solar, they would generate as much electricity as six existing nuclear power stations.

Environmentally speaking, the Model S is classed as a zero - emissions vehicle, but as most of the UK's domestic electricity is generated by fossil fuel - burning power stations (as of 2014, about 30 per cent gas and 29 per cent coal), every mile you drive still has a CO2 consequence.

The money would be generated by a carbon tax of 0.5 cents per kilowatt - hour, raising the cost of electricity (currently 6 - 10 cents per kWh) to 6.5 - 10.5 cents per kWh.

Paying 70 cents per kilowatt / hour for diesel - generated electricity — not at all uncommon on islands like Matinicus and Monhegan — is none of those things,» he said.

Wind - generated electricity to operate cars could cost the equivalent of 80 - cent - per gallon gasoline.

It's a similar story in the US, where oil generates about one per cent of electricity.

As a result, the proportion of electricity generated by coal fell from 16.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2015, to just 3.6 per cent over the same period in 2016.

To amortize the $ 300 million price of the wind farm, Deepwater Wind negotiated a contract with National Grid, the utility company that provides electricity for most of the state, that will increase the price of electricity generated by the turbines 3.5 percent annually to nearly 50 cents per kWh in 20 years.

If a reader has the $ / kW (stated), discount rate (assume 8 %), capacity factor (missing) and projected years of operation (stated) one can use my worksheet «A Financial Worksheet for Computing the Cost (US cents / kWh) of Solar Electricity Generated at Grid Connected Photovoltaic (PV) Generating Plants» that was published in the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, August, 2002, Vol.

Despite the sale of Bruce Power, in the prior year, for 2002 OPG managed to generate and sell 125.3 terawatts (TWh) of electricity at an average price of 4.3 cents per kilowatt (kWh).

One reason is that Arizona utilities make far more money running old, polluting coal plants that generate electricity for around 3 cents / kWh, than risking a loss of sales to solar energy.

Stanwell said the past year had been the most difficult since the inception of the National Electricity Market in 1997, and the next two years would also be difficult.But it was hopeful it could generate returns of 8 - 10 per cent in it coal and gas fired generation business by 2017/18.

But since today only about two per cent of our electricity is oil - generated, a shift in the way we produce electricity would have almost no effect on the transportation or oil market.

Vanguard As Nigeria grapples with inadequate power supply, focus appears to be shifting towards wind power which capacity is estimated to reach 2,110 Giga Watts, GW, globally and generate up to 20 per cent of the world's electricity by 2030, while attracting around 200 billion euros in annual investment, the Global Wind Energy Council, WEC, biennial Wind Energy Outlook, report...

Right now, the price of electricity generated from PV solar is about 12.2 cents per kilowatt - hour in the U.S., only slightly higher than the average cost of retail electricity at 12 cents per kWh across the country.

Net - metering customers are refunded for each kilowatt hour of electricity they generate themselves, which the utility says averages out to it paying 10.6 cents per kilowatt hour for customers» solar power.

Solar customers would be credited 3.81 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity generated by their arrays.

According to Wind Power in Europe, wind energy was not only the leading source of new electricity generation in 2014 (representing 44 per cent of new installed capacity), it has been the largest source of new electricity generating capacity in Europe over the last 15 years.

NGCC plants generate electricity at around 6 cents per kWh, compared with the Crescent Dunes plants reported long - term contract price of 13.5 cents per kWh.

Led by Professor Gail Taylor, and funded by the UK Energy Research Centre, the report looked at energy crops such as poplar and willow and concluded that England is able to produce enough biomass to generate approximately four per cent of current UK electricity demand.

With plug - in hybrids and all - electric cars coming to market that can run on local wind - generated electricity at a gasoline - equivalent cost of 80 cents per gallon, why keep burning costly fuel at four times the price?

He emphasized nuclear's anchor role in the US electricity mix, with 12 % of US generating capacity contributing around 20 % of the electricity supply at a cost of 2 cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh).

Last year, there was enough wind power capacity in the European Union to generate six per cent of its electricity, according to the European Wind Energy Association.

There is enough wind energy capacity in the European Union to generate more than six per cent of its electricity, a new report shows.

The cost per kilowatt hour of electricity generated by wind in 2010 was 14 cents and in 2016 it had increased to 17.5 cents, despite downward adjustments to the contracted values between 2010 and 2016.

«Solar radiation is the largest renewable resource on earth and, if harnessed by existing technology, approximately 1.5 per cent of the world's desert area could generate the world's entire electricity demand,» the report says.

It also would involve increasing renewable electricity output (excluding hydro) up to 50 per cent of the generating mix by 2040.

Export customers paid only about 3 cents / kWh to 4 cents / kWh for Ontario power; electricity ratepayers of Ontario paid more than 8 cents / kWh for this power to be generated 27.

With US coal plants generating about 2 billion Gigawatt hours annually, the expenditure of an additional $ 40 billion would raise the cost of electricity by about two cents per kilowatt hour.

As risk consultant Edgar Gaertner has pointed out, Europeans are compelled to pay 20 cents per kWh of offshore wind electricity generated, plus an additional 5 cents per kWh for transmission, regardless of whether the electricity is needed at the moment it is generated.

By the end of the decade brown coal was used to generate 90 per cent of Victoria's electricity supply, with all of the coal sourced from open cut mines under SECV control.