Sentences with phrase «cheaper than electricity»

The energy is fifty percent cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels and thus provides financial relief for the people of Senegal.

And solar is not going to be competitive in the market soon (the next 2 - 5 years)-- it will be competitive behind the meter — the so called «socket parity» — if the electricity produced from the roof PV is cheaper than the electricity brought from the grid... Guess what?

The result is the same; a customers» home is decked out with solar panels and powered by the sun, and thanks to lucrative tax credits, the electricity agreement is cheaper than electricity bills from the local utility.

That's been the goal of solar panel makers for a long time, because as those prices decline electricity from the sun costs the same as, or is even cheaper than electricity from burning fossil fuels.

Not exact matches

The cost of electricity from large - scale solar installations now is comparable to and sometimes cheaper than natural gas - fired power, even without incentives aimed at promoting environmentally friendly power, according to industry players and outside cost studies.

Electricity in Washington state is considerably cheaper than in most places in the U.S..

New electricity from solar and wind will be cheaper than coal in most parts of the United States by 2023, according to a new...

CCS really amounts to a combined GHG and natural gas hedge which, in a world of really expensive gas, allows you to maintain lower electricity prices than you perhaps otherwise would be able to as you can continue to use relatively cheap and plentiful coal while capturing and storing the emissions.

Between rifles, permits, ammunition, gas (to drive out of the burbs and into hunting territory) tents, camo gear, food / beer for the hunting trip, extra electricity to run the freezer etc, how can all this truly be cheaper than doing what most poor people in the cities do most of the time — fast food and making do with cheap grocery store food like peanut butter sandwiches.

Critics say the electricity sector must do more to meet Australia's economy - wide emissions reduction target because emissions cuts are easier and cheaper to achieve in electricity than in agriculture, transport or industry.

Birth centers tend to be cheaper than hospitals not only for the time that mothers spend but because hospitals use more resources, such as IV line, belly monitors, electricity, pain drugs, etc..

A large part of the electricity gap should be met by energy saving measures: the National Audit Office recently found that efficiency schemes cost 1.8 pence to save a kilowatt hour of electricity, cheaper than all known means of generating electricity.

Under the new rules, ESCOs won't be able to sell new supply to residential and small - business customers unless they are cheaper than the utility or if at least 30 percent of the electricity they sell comes from renewable energy sources like wind, hydro or solar.

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.

The DIST report shows that gas, water and electricity are already much cheaper in Australia than in most other countries.

CONVERTING sunlight into electricity, rather than using it to heat water directly, could lead to cheaper domestic solar energy, say engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland.

«We believe there is a pathway to make these TPV cells an order of magnitude cheaper than turbines for converting thermal energy to electricity.»

The U.S. Department of Energy aims to make electricity from the sun cheaper than that from burning coal or natural gas

The package of measures now introduced is based on calculations that show it is cheaper to improve the efficiency with which electricity is used than to build new power stations.

In comparison, storing that much electricity with today's cheapest batteries would likely cost more than a trillion dollars, although prices are falling.

Due to methane gas, as a primary energy source, having a noticeably lower cost than electricity, hydrogen could be a cheaper fuel for vehicles than electricity.

While there is a growing market for organic solar cells ¬ ¬ - they contain materials that are cheaper, more abundant, and more environmentally friendly than those used in typical solar panels — they also tend to be less efficient in converting sunlight to electricity than conventional solar cells.

While there is a growing market for organic solar cells --- they contain materials that are cheaper, more abundant, and more environmentally friendly than those used in typical solar panels — they also tend to be less efficient in converting sunlight to electricity than conventional solar cells.

If the cost of your personal loan ends up being less than your projected electricity savings and you can't line up any cheaper financing, you could still be saving money.

Sweaters and blankets are cheaper than gas and electricity.

A lot of the systems design that people are looking at — like Christopher Clack — even if you can get the renewables up to 80 percent, then you have a piece there probably natural gas «peakers» [power plants that run in periods of high electricity demand], at least based on current technology, are way cheaper than any [energy] storage.

Yeloha, which bills itself as a peer - to - peer solar sharing network, will allow anyone to receive the benefits of solar energy at home through the purchase of a solar subscription, which is said to be cheaper than the cost of electricity from their utility.

If we should have luck here in Germany, and the EEG does not fail, it would mean that in 20 years we'd have a grid mostly powered by renewable energy, paid by the private households alone, that will produce cheap electricity for the industry at a time when oil, gas and coal will be much more expansive than today.

Providing public transportation, as well as housing, electricity, water and sanitation for a densely settled urban population is typically cheaper and less environmentally damaging than providing a similar level of services to a dispersed rural population.

Electricity from wind is already cheaper than from nuclear (11 centers per kwh compared to 15), and solar thermal power is rapidly dropping.

The big task ahead for Alphabet is to get the technology to an efficiency and at a scale where the cost of generating electricity from waste heat is cheaper than the cost of retail electricity.

1c: Nuclear is the ONLY source of electricity that is cheaper than coal on a per kilowatt hour basis.

The biggest drop was in emissions from coal — which is primarily used to generate electricity — as power plants switched to cheaper natural gas and as the use of carbon - free wind energy more than quadrupled.

Generating enough energy to power neighboring Bordeaux, France, this solar park can deliver electricity cheaper than nuclear

They are much cheaper to operate than gasoline powered cars, and much of Iceland's electricity is generated from geothermal power.

«Since August, wholesale power prices in South Australia have been consistently cheaper than Victoria, and in September and October, SA had the cheapest wholesale prices of mainland states in the National Electricity Market,» he said.

To achieve this, the cost of electricity from nuclear will have to become cheaper than from fossil fuels.

With a similar goal, Google launched a project in 2007 known as RE < C (Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal)-- which «aimed to develop renewable energy sources that would generate electricity more cheaply than coal - fired power plants do.

In more than 30 countries, electricity produced through solar and wind energy is the same price or cheaper than any new fossil fuel capacity, the report, released last Wednesday, noted.

I know of none that show non-hydro renewables can provide even 50 % of electricity in industrial economies cheaper than with a large proportion of nuclear power.

However, you don't want to argue for a rational solution — i.e. cheap nuclear power (which also happens to be 10 to 100 times safer than our currently accepted main source of electricity generation, fossil fuel) and also happens to be a near zero emission technology (in fact much lower than renewables given they need fossil fuel backup, and given solar needs about 10 times as much material per TWh on an LCA basis).

Installing solar panels for individual homes in the villages of developing countries is now often cheaper than it is to supply them with electricity by building a central power plant and a grid.

The cost of production of electricity through utilization of solar energy is outpacing other alternatives as the cost accrued in investing in the installation of solar panels is turning out to be comparatively cheaper than a comparable investment in coal, natural gas or other options, according to a new World Economic Forum (WEF) report.

For example, an EV driver could save nearly $ 13,000 on fuel costs and use 6,100 fewer gallons of gasoline over the life of the vehicle relative to today's average compact gasoline car.Driving on electricity is cheaper than driving on gasoline.

But not enough to make renewables an obviously cheaper source of electricity than fossil fuels.

DES can help speed up universal access to electricity, as it can be implemented faster and cheaper than major infrastructure projects.

If you want to get polluting sources of electricity out of your generating portfolio, it helps to have a lot of hydroelectric power: It's cheap and it's less intermittent than the wind and the sun.

Electricity is far cheaper than the cheapest oil — plug - ins generally run on the equivalent of 75 cents a gallon.

I heard rumours of studies during the Californian electricity crisis that showed it was cheaper per watt to subsidise or give away energy efficient appliances to homeowners and businesses, than to build new generation capacity, I apologise for having nothing more concrete on this, but perhaps another commenter is aware of this or similar research.

In its place, the work of innovation to decrease energy consumption is taken up by researchers and startups with many promising solutions like biofuel paved future roads that are cheaper than petroleum, sustainable and environmental friendly, or the creation of high speed system of transportation that runs on air and electricity, made by a company called HyperLoop.