Sentences with phrase «conventional electricity»

Consumers, businesses, and organizations may purchase green energy in order to support further development, help reduce the environmental impacts of conventional electricity generation, and increase their nation's energy independence.

As concerns about climate change and water scarcity mount, wind becomes increasingly attractive compared to conventional electricity sources.

From being an expensive curiosity in research labs and on satellites in the 1980s, solar power or PV has become a major challenger to conventional electricity generation technologies.

But a combination of cheap conventional electricity and the lack of robust renewable - energy incentives has so far kept the state from realizing its full solar potential.

This programme aims to advance the technology to enable AD to compete with conventional electricity delivered to the grid.

When the cost of required backup production and subsidies is calculated, industrial wind energy ends up costing consumers a great deal more than conventional electricity production.

European wind and solar power are subsidised, have no fuel costs, and get priority grid access, meaning that when the sun is shining and wind blowing wholesale power prices can fall to near zero or even go negative, destroying the margins of gas and coal - fired power plants run by conventional electricity utilities.

Bullfrog Power ensures renewable electricity is put into the grid to match the amount of conventional electricity used by homeowners.

Yet the reality is that solar power producers still can not compete with conventional electricity generators without state and federal help, particularly in a U.S. energy market dominated by the availability of cheap natural gas.

Grid parity is when the cost of solar equals the cost of conventional electricity alternatives.

This solution replaces conventional electricity - generating technologies such as coal, oil, and natural gas power plants, and is considered a «bridge solution» to a 100 % clean, renewable energy system.

The reduction of ~ 10 % of the total installed conventional electricity will lead to cost increases that could easily exceed 10 %.

Renewable electricity receives first priority, following which conventional electricity producers get to feed their electricity into the grid, with the cheapest offer coming first and the rest following in the order of their ascending prices.

Splinter also said on Thursday that Applied's goals include driving down the cost of solar electricity to make it competitive with conventional electricity sources, and speeding the adoption of solar technology in homes and businesses.

Lakeside Dairy in California's central valley has installed a big solar power system that will cut its use of conventional electricity by 75 percent.

Such a cost cut would offer «a pathway to bring photovoltaic electricity into the conventional electricity price range,» the report concludes.

The lower costs would offer «a pathway to bring photovoltaic electricity into the conventional electricity price range,» the report concludes.

Despite recent changes in U.S. trade policy, the cost of photovoltaic (PV) technology continues to fall dramatically, and in many places solar is cost - competitive — without subsidy — relative to conventional electricity.

Mr. Konigsberg is an expert at developing innovative business models and implementing associated leadership and operational changes in a variety of renewable energy, conventional electricity, gas, oil and water settings.

The question that the NETL study correctly raises is whether the conventional electricity sector in the US will be of sufficient scale in the future to guarantee security of supply as it did this winter.

«Wind power is three times more expensive than conventional electricity.

It claims that it can supply power at less than the cost of conventional electricity, with a guarantee of lower electricity prices for up to 30 years.