Sentences with phrase «cheap as grid»

Even the electric utility industry recognizes that where residential electricity costs reach 15 cents per kilowatt - hour — or roughly 16 percent of the U.S. retail electricity market — solar is already as cheap as grid electricity.

Not exact matches

But batteries for grid storage will have to be very cheap to compete with fossil fuels as an on - demand energy source.

Joy: But at least in that situation, you know, when we're reaching, we're starting to come to an inflexion point where distributing renewable energy will be as cheap or cheaper than the grid; because solar and batteries and small - scale wind will start crossing over.

Micro-grids may not be the cheapest option in the long run, as electricity from small grids tends to be three or four times as expensive per unit than that from centralised sources.

That way, homeowners will be able to install smaller and cheaper solar power systems while being able to use electricity from the grid only as backup, reducing the electric power demand, or load, on the utility's grid.

And the power grid could be modernized to use cheaper, greener fuels such as sunlight or wind even on days when the sun doesn't shine bright enough or the wind doesn't blow hard enough to meet electricity demand.

A battery built with the abundant and cheap material could be used to power big data centers, as well as provide a cheaper energy - storage option for microgrids and the traditional electric grid.

As stated in Mr. Johns's revealing conversation with the painter Terry Winters in the show's catalog, these works stem from a relieflike SculptMetal grid of the numbers zero through nine that Mr. Johns made somewhat hurriedly and a bit on the cheap as a commission for Lincoln Center in 196As stated in Mr. Johns's revealing conversation with the painter Terry Winters in the show's catalog, these works stem from a relieflike SculptMetal grid of the numbers zero through nine that Mr. Johns made somewhat hurriedly and a bit on the cheap as a commission for Lincoln Center in 196as a commission for Lincoln Center in 1964.

Composed of grids, lines, and geometric shapes, the structures form a volumetric drawing within the space of the gallery, referencing cheap commercial constructions as well as the serial patterning of paintings and sculptures made by Minimalist artists such as Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin.

Running along side the grid on the floor are industrial orange extension cords plugged into cheap dorm room desk lamps, as though we have stumbled into a student's studio.

Where I live, a good alternative to air conditioning is to blow nighttime air into the house from about midnight to 6 am; this is way less expensive, but as you guessed from the time frame, not an ideal application for solar power, and electricity from the grid is cheaper at night anyway.

These findings align with PJM's broader assessment of its future grid reliability as more and more coal and nuclear plants find themselves economically uncompetitive in the face of flat demand, cheap and plentiful natural gas, and a rising share of zero marginal - cost clean energy.

Plummeting power prices as a result of cheap wind and solar generation is causing a growing crisis among the owners of the costliest conventional power stations, which are first to be squeezed off the grid by cheaper renewable output.

As batteries and residential renewable energy become cheaper, many residents may willfully follow Mr. Boyd's footsteps, and begin to fully opt - out of the Virgin Island electric system by going off grid.

The context of this is, as we know, that Germany is building new grid connections to Belgium (BeDeLux interconnector) and desperately seeks to displace nuclear of its neighbours, stabilise the swings of renewable energy but most importantly, sell cheap high carbon (lignite coal derived) baseload electricity.

In fact, Deutsche Bank has found that the cost of energy from solar will as cheap or cheaper than the cost of energy from fossil fuels — a state known as «grid parity» — in up to 80 percent of the global market within two years.

Green, a longtime proponent of a technology - led response to global warming, demonstrated the effectiveness of a policy of government investment in R & D aimed at developing new low - carbon technologies, making current technologies cheaper and more effective, and expanding energy - related infrastructure such as smart grids.

As well as selling the Leaf, we've seen residential energy storage using recycled EV batteries, while a trial is currently underway allowing Leaf owners to charge their cars using cheaper off - peak power before feeding it back into the grid during peak timeAs well as selling the Leaf, we've seen residential energy storage using recycled EV batteries, while a trial is currently underway allowing Leaf owners to charge their cars using cheaper off - peak power before feeding it back into the grid during peak timeas selling the Leaf, we've seen residential energy storage using recycled EV batteries, while a trial is currently underway allowing Leaf owners to charge their cars using cheaper off - peak power before feeding it back into the grid during peak times.

But solar advocates believe that, even without state incentives, solar now may have reached «grid parity,» the point at which power generated from panels is as cheap or cheaper than power available from the utility companies.

The radiator from Lancey Energy Storage is described as a plug - and - play space heater, which means that even though it integrates a lithium battery and can allow users to charge it during times of cheaper electricity, and then use that electricity when grid prices are higher, no additional wiring is necessary to install it, and it can cost up to 75 % less than installing a gas heater.

Utility customers in states such as Hawaii, California, Massachusetts, and New York — where electricity is the most expensive — see faster returns than those in cheap - energy states such as Idaho and Washington, especially in places where the local utility allows residential meters to spin backward, sending excess energy to the grid and lowering power bills in the process.

Nissan LEAF, Chevy Volt, soon the Ford Focus EV, etc), and while they are still a bit rough around the edges, many car makers are working on the second and third generations of EVs and PHEVs which will no doubt be better and cheaper, and as the electrical grid gets progressively cleaner, they'll do better environmentally.

China's power supply is not dictated by markets as it is in the west, where the grid buys from the power plants that produce the cheapest energy (after subsidies).