Sentences with phrase «cent of electricity used»

Health care conglomerate Kaiser Permanente announced an ambitious clean energy shift in February that will ensure 50 per cent of electricity used at its California facilities comes from renewable energy.

Alberta has a plan to phase out coal - fired electricity and have 30 per cent of electricity used by Albertans come from renewable sources like solar, wind and hydro by 2030.

Simple induction motors in industry and the home consume 43 per cent of the electricity used in Britain, so small gains in efficiency promise substantial cuts in the country's electricity bill.

Not exact matches

Today, Kuby is also certified to install Tesla's Powerwall (a rechargeable battery used to store electricity in homes) in Western Canada, a relationship forged when one of Kuby's solar customers wanted to install a Powerwall in Inuvik, N.W.T. «Only one per cent of solar installers ever get that [Powerwall] contract [with Tesla].

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.

Results achieved over hundreds of plants globally have achieved removal of organic waste from discharge water of between 70 - 99 per cent, with many of the plants installed by Global Water Engineering also capturing the organic waste converted to methane and using it to power boilers and electricity generators.

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.

In a recent test by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, simply giving employees wireless control of the three lights closest to their workstation, and allowing them to turn them on or off individually, reduced the electricity used by the building's lights by up to 72 per cent.

Prateek Chakravarty of Bidgely says customers typically use this information to save between 4 and 12 per cent on their electricity bills.

Even the energy - hungry US could in theory supply all of its electricity use, according to one study, using solar PV on an area equivalent to 0.6 per cent of the country — just a fraction of the existing developed and urban space.

«Using the average U.S. electricity rate of nine cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh), 30 miles of electric driving will cost 81 cents,» the group maintains.

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.

For example, programs like OPOWER's that compare electricity use among neighbors have been shown to reduce electricity use by 2 percent at a cost of 2.5 cents per kilowatt - hour.

There have been posited limits on what fraction of electricity can reliably come from variable renewables — that is photovoltaics and wind power, which vary according to the weather and the Earth's rotation and so on — and those limits used to be said to be a few per cent, five per cent, ten per cent, 15, 20, 25, 30 etc..

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.

Depending on the size of the system, this exported electricity is either measured or simply assumed (deemed) using an assumption of 50 per cent self ‑ consumption.

This plug - n - play LED night light is an easy - to - install safety light option for any standard outlet in your home, and uses just 10 cents of electricity per year.

It shows that the new fridge is cheaper to own (and use) per month, at least in our electricity price region (15 cents / kwh), even when the price of money is taken into account.

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.

Let's take a close look at an estimate for a home with a typical monthly bill of $ 150, which at 19.65 cents per watt, uses approximately 595 kWh of electricity per month.

* In the original June 2005 draft of this paper the reader would have seen an estimate that the cost of powering a hybrid with average (8.5 cents / kwh) residential electricity from the grid would be about one - quarter the cost of powering the same vehicle in its normal operating mode using $ 2 / gallon gasoline.

That would beat the average cost of 5.8 cents currently paid by the Government for the electricity it uses.

These net - metering customers would pay a $ 15 service charge or base rate, as well as 3.81 cents per kilowatt hour of all electricity used.

Because so little energy is required to cultivate crops such as switchgrass for cellulosic ethanol production, and because electricity can be co-produced using the residues of such cellulosic fuel production, reductions in greenhouse gas emissions for celluslosic ethanol when compared to gasoline are greater than 100 per cent.

Looking at the 6 US cents a kilowatt - hour concentrated solar thermal power can now apparently cost under good conditions, solar thermal heat may be competitive and if the cost of renewable electricity falls low enough at times that can be used.

Despite this undeniable progress, the UK's 63 million inhabitants (0.9 per cent of the world's population) use only about 1.5 per cent of the world's electricity.

Also, since the average residential electricity cost is 8.5 cents / kwh (and in many areas, off - peak nighttime cost is 2 - 4 cents / kwh) this means that, after taking account of the differential efficiencies of electric and gasoline power, much of a plug - in hybrid's travel would be on electricity that is the equivalent of $ 1 / gallon gasoline (or, off - peak, 25 - 50 cents / gallon) as contrasted with the same vehicle's use of today's approximately $ 2.50 / gallon gasoline.

Commercial businesses could cut even greater amounts, and even a car manufacturing giant like BMW could produce 490MWh of solar electricity per year using its own land, or 29 per cent of the group - wide electricity demand.

Because energy - rich California used to have electricity costs that were below the 1960 national average of 1.8 cents per kilowatt hour, the state was a large electricity exporter.

That means that Bullfrog Power's generators put clean, pollution - free electricity onto the grid to match the amount of conventional power used by 35 per cent of CrossIron Mills» common areas.

The partnership between the Canadian Red Cross and Bullfrog Power means that Bullfrog's generators put 100 per cent clean, pollution - free electricity onto the grid to match the amount of conventional power the Ottawa head office uses.

That means that Bullfrog Power's generators put clean, pollution - free electricity onto the grid to match the amount of conventional power used by 35 per cent of Southgate's common areas.

Going forward, we must continue and extend this momentum as we strive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by up to 80 per cent, moving away from the use of carbon fuels in transportation, building heating and cooling, and industrial processes and replacing them with clean electricity.

Through the agreement, Bullfrog Power's generators will put 100 per cent green electricity onto the electricity grid to match the amount of electricity used in the eight aforementioned Co-operators offices.

For normal commuters (not NYC, or anywhere else with a good metro system), a plug - in hybrid with a 40 mile range will almost completely eliminate the need for gasoline as the average commute is only 29 miles and the only time any gas will be used will be on the odd ski trip or other long trip, and with no demand for gasoline, gas will drop to 90 cents / gallon to compete with electricity which costs the equivalent of about 60 cents / gallon.

Buildings account for up to half of energy use and consume up to 72 per cent of electricity, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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.

Using timers to recharge batteries with electricity coming from wind farms during the low demand hours between 1 and 6 a.m. costs the equivalent of 50 cents - a-gallon gasoline.

«We are confident that our minimum - material design and use of commodity materials will cut the cost of photovoltaic electricity in a 1 megawatt installation to 29 cents per watt by 2010.

Through the partnership, Bullfrog Power's generators put 100 per cent clean, pollution - free electricity onto the grid to match the amount of conventional power that Your Credit Union's locations use.

Through the agreement, Bullfrog Power's generators put 100 per cent clean, pollution - free electricity onto the grid to match the amount of conventional power that the bullfrogpowered Simons locations use.

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.

By also making the effort to change lights to LEDs, install a smart thermostat, use more energy efficient appliances, unplug your old beater beer fridge and eliminate phantom power, you could dramatically reduce your electricity demand by 20 to 50 per cent, which would reduce the size of the solar system you require, saving even more money.

The three most important features of a recreational property are peace and quiet (58 per cent), access to electricity, sewage and plumbing, and four - season use (39 per cent).