Sentences with phrase «consume electricity they generate»

It has also made it illegal for people to consume electricity they generate from their own solar panels.

Or, better yet, consume electricity generated from renewable sources.

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.