Or, better yet,
consume electricity generated from renewable sources.
It has also made it illegal for people to
consume electricity they generate from their own solar panels.
Not exact matches
According to the New York Times, the plant's two reactors
generate about one - fourth of the
electricity consumed in the city and in Westchester County.
Thermal power plants — those that
consume coal, oil, natural gas or uranium —
generate more than 90 percent of U.S.
electricity, and they are water hogs.
And on unusually sunny and windy days — such as on 8 May, when for about 4 hours wind and solar power
generated more than 90 % of the
electricity that Germany
consumed — they must swiftly order coal and gas - fired power stations to reduce their output lest an influx of power «congests» the grid and increases the risk of failures.
«It is more cost effective to
consume the self -
generated solar
electricity than to feed it into the public
electricity grid,» says Noeren.
The state - owned Nigeria Agip Oil Company plans instead to
generate electricity from the waste gas of its Kwale plant, displacing fossil fuels that might otherwise have been
consumed.
I think it's entirely possible that within a much shorter time frame than most people imagine possible, the overwhelming majority of the
electricity consumed in the USA will be
generated at the point of use, and large, centralized power plants will be a much less important part of the mix than they are today»
We traveled from Brussels to Copenhagen powered entirely by renewable energy (additional renewably -
generated electricity equal to that
consumed by the journey) was purchased and fed into the German national grid.
We are really approaching the point where it will be entirely «mainstream» for US suburbanites to live in solar - powered homes that will not only be «net zero energy» in the sense of
generating as much or more energy than the house itself
consumes, but will also
generate all the
electricity to operate an EV, which will be integrated with the house so its batteries can provide power to the house at night and during grid outages.
«Everybody agreed that if we were going to get more than half of our
electricity in our country from renewables by 2050 we were going to have to do things that we simply don't know how to do today at all and fundamentally change the way we use,
generate and
consume energy [relevant section here].
From the Pacific Northest National Laboratories: - «If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could
generate most of the
electricity consumed by plug - in hybrid
Building enough new solar and wind capacity to meet California's 33 percent renewables by 2020 mandate will not be easy — but reliably getting the
electricity generated by those resources to the places where it will be
consumed may be even tougher.
Most utility companies across the country have net metering programs to credit solar system owners for feeding solar
electricity to the power grid, when the system is
generating more than the home
consumes at the time.
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(Other
consuming sectors also use natural gas to
generate electricity.)
With 6,000 square metres of solar panels, energy saving lighting, natural ventilation systems and other green features, the office is designed to
generate as much
electricity as its 1,200 occupants
consume.
Aside from misplaced concern by the loony left about CO2 and climate change there's no incentive to change how
electricity is
generated and
consumed.
The system ensures that all renewable
electricity generated on - site is
consumed on site, with nothing exported to the grid.
One of the challenges of constructing one will come from the varying time - spans that different types of
generating machinery operate and different types of
electricity consuming equipment need power.
Green homes typically use more efficient lighting solutions, including fluorescent bulbs and light emitting diodes (LEDs), which
generate less heat and more light per unit of
electricity consumed.
RICHLAND, Wash. - If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could
generate most of the
electricity consumed by plug - in hybrid electric vehicles.
Herculean quantities of physical and mental labor power will have been expended, boundless physical resources (including vast tonnages of fossil fuels) will have been
consumed, and countless entire ecosystems across the Earth's surface will have been sacrificed to
generate more
electricity.
10) «Leaders of Large Organizations without a Low - / Zero - Carbon Strategy» — Besides electric utilities, much fossil energy or
electricity generated by combusting fossil fuels is
consumed by large corporations, non-profit organizations, and departments / ministries of various governments throughout the world.
Transmission refers to the power lines and infrastructure needed to move
electricity from where it's
generated to where it's
consumed.
note 9; «Spanish Wind Power Industry Attacks New Rules,» Reuters, 2 February 2007; «EWEA Aims for 22 % of Europe's
Electricity by 2030,» Wind Directions (November / December 2006), p. 34; a 1 - megawatt wind turbine operating 36 percent of the time
generates 3.15 million kilowatt - hours and the average U.S. home
consumes 10,000 kilowatt - hours per year; average energy consumption per U.S. home from DOE, EIA, Regional Energy Profile — U.S. Household
Electricity Report (Washington, DC: July 2005); capacity factor from NREL, op.
Of course, wind energy offers additional benefits that are not currently reflected in our incentive structure, including the ability to
generate electricity without producing carbon dioxide or
consuming water.
Emissions from fuels
consumed to
generate electricity within the commercial and industrial sectors are counted as CO2 from primary energy.
While almost all coal
consumed in the United States is used to
generate electricity (90 % in 2010), coal is not entirely homogeneous.
If renewable technologies such as a wind turbine and / or photovoltaic cells are used to
generate electricity, then it is possible to have a «net - zero carbon» home (where the amount of energy that you
consume per year is equal to (or less than) the amount of energy that you produce on - site).
I found that even if the car sat around in the sun all day, it would
consume the
generated electricity very quickly when it started to move.
For example, let's say your solar panels
generated 10 kWh of excess
electricity for the grid during a sunny day and then you
consumed 10 kWh of
electricity at night.
Target stores that have panels use the power they
generate for between 15 percent and 30 percent of the
electricity the stores
consume, said Target spokesman Lee Henderson.
The New York Generation Attribute Tracking System (NYGATS) will record and track information on
electricity generated, imported, and
consumed within New York State.
In 2000, Australia
generated 202.7 billion kilowatthours (BkWh) of
electricity and
consumed 188.5 BkWh.
If widely implemented, these scrubbers would
consume about one - third of the energy
generated by a power plant and this would substantially drive up the price of
electricity.
In some ways it is quite generous, give that, if you can afford to install the equipment then you will get money from your
electricity supply company, even for the power you
consume yourself that you have
generated.
Or can we just «not use»
electricity that we can't
consume and continue to
generate electricity from fossil fuel (methane) to fill the gaps?
The amount of
electricity generated in a power grid must always equal the amount being
consumed, so when wind turbines put power into a grid other generators, often fossil - fuelled,
generate less; so less fossil fuels are burned.
I think we will see much more sector coupling in the years to come and really a convergence of these different sectors which will enable integration of prior shares of renewables because then the electric vehicles can serve as storage for
electricity when it is
generated by the reliable sources, but when it is not
consumed at the same time.
The Energy Commission will conduct further analysis to identify solutions to integrate increasing levels of energy efficiency, smart grid infrastructure, and renewable energy while avoiding infrequent conditions of surplus generation, or overgeneration, in which more
electricity is being
generated than there is load to
consume it.
From
electricity consumers, who can obtain
electricity from our future solar farms, but also from potential customers, who want to both
consume and
generate electricity from solar power,» he said.
2 Small - scale solar photovoltaic systems are
electricity generators with less than one megawatt of
electricity generating capacity that are usually at or near the location where the
electricity is
consumed.
Amount of
electricity generated per unit
electricity consumed at my house (basically transmission losses)
Some states
generate considerably more
electricity than they
consume.
I plug the bike in every night to recharge, and this
consumes electricity that is
generated in part by fossil fuel combustion.
Cheaper renewable energy is reshaping how
electricity is
generated and
consumed.
That's enough to
generate thirty times more
electricity than is currently
consumed by all these bases.
California's Military Bases Could
Generate 30x More
Electricity From Solar Power Than They
Consume
The other 25 % of the energy inputs are nearly uniformly
consumed for operations and maintenance while the turbine is
generating electricity.