Sentences with phrase «cost per kilowatt»

So when we were looking at that cost, and the cost per kilowatt hour for electricity from Duke Energy, my accountant just said that there was no way in hell we could justify that.

Water consumption can be cut dramatically by using «dry - cooling,» but this change increases the cost per kilowatt - hour (kWh) of power generated from concentrating solar power (CSP).

RenewableEnergyWorld.com took a look at the numbers and found that solar panels installed on residential rooftops in Los Angeles as part of the Open Neighborhoods community solar program will generate a cheaper cost per kilowatt - hour of electricity delivered than the most cost - effective, utility - scale concentrating solar power plant in the world.

«Your cost per kilowatt you generate is going to vary significantly from state to state.»

The cost per kilowatt hour of electricity generated by wind in 2010 was 14 cents and in 2016 it had increased to 17.5 cents, despite downward adjustments to the contracted values between 2010 and 2016.

Since the 1980s, the cost per kilowatt - hour of wind has dropped 80 percent; it is approximately 2 cents cheaper per kWh than coal - powered electricity on the U.S. market as of June 2012.

In the second quarter of 2013, Bloomberg New Energy Finance reported the global average cost per kilowatt hour (kWh) of new onshore wind to be neck - and - neck with the average per kWh cost of new coal plants.

As one of the largest module manufacturers in China, Trina Solar (NYSE: TSL) provides some of the most efficient panels based on cost per kilowatt.

At home, the driver can schedule the Focus to delay its charging until off - peak utility hours when the cost per kilowatt hour drops, or schedule the climate control system to power up in the morning to cool or warm the cabin before you unplug and hit the road.

But Volkswagen spokesman Mark Gillies, a former editor of this magazine, offered guidance on cost per kilowatt - hour.

Vanadium is used in the most commercially advanced flow battery technology now in development, but its cost sets a rather high floor on the cost per kilowatt - hour at any scale.

«If you look at cost per kilowatt - hour, renewables, in some parts of the country, are already cheaper [than fossil fuels].»

The customer cares about their cost per kilowatt hour.»

Already, between 2008 and 2012, the cost per kilowatt - hour of lithium ion batteries dropped by half to roughly $ 500.

«The cost of financing for U.S. and [European Union] production accounts for one third of the cost per kilowatt - hour,» Fthenakis notes.

Electricity rates (cost per kilowatt) have been among the fastest growing items in my household budgets.

«Advanced gas turbine technology gives customers one of the lowest installed costs per kilowatt,» said Joe Citeno, combustion engineering manager for GE Power.

The storage costs per kilowatt hour are estimated at $ 0.10 for hydrogen and $ 0.15 for methane.

Not exact matches

And companies like Tesla have helped drive down the per - kilowatt - hour cost of batteries.

Its profitability depends greatly on energy costs and, while Fundstrat's model uses a global average of 6 cents per kilowatt hour, Chinese miners apparently only have to pay 4 cents or less.

Enter what your utility charges you per kilowatt - hour, and it will project the cost of running the equipment per month and per year.

The biggest immediate cost - advantage comes from savings in energy costs: fully loaded, the Tesla Semi consumes less than two kilowatt - hours of energy per mile and is capable of 500 miles of range at GVW and highway speed, accommodating a wide range of shipping applications given that nearly 80 % of freight in the U.S. is moved less than 250 miles.

The government's Energy Star program reports that on average, supermarkets use 50 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 50 cubic feet of natural gas per square foot per year for an average annual energy cost of more than $ 4 per square foot.

The company paid $ 15 million in electricity costs alone last year; energy costs in Puerto Rico average more than 25 cents per kilowatt - hour, versus the 12 to 15 cents per kilowatt - hour paid on average in the United States.

Multiply this by the cost your power company charges per kilowatt - hour for a rough estimate of expected cost.

It currently estimated that Ghana imports about 185 megawatts of power from Cote d'Ivoire and according to the electricity sector players, Côte d'Ivoire generates thermal power at the cost of 9 cents per kilowatt hour and sells it to Ghana for 11 cents.

The plant has a tariff of 15 cents per kilowatt hour, but the same power is sold to the Electricity Company of Ghana at a cost of 5 cents per kilowatts hour, leaving a deficit of 10 cents per kilowatts.

The amount the county pays for the electricity will increase 2.9 percent per year for 20 years, to a final cost of 10.35 cents per kilowatt hour.

They showed that not only does it hold more energy than a conventional flow battery, but the cost of the quinone battery is much lower than other flow batteries — less than $ 27 per kilowatt - hour of energy stored, compared with $ 81.

Mui said EV battery costs are now $ 270 per kilowatt - hour, down from $ 1,000 per kWh in 2010.

The average cost of generating nuclear energy in the United States was less than two cents per kilowatt - hour in 2006, according to the Atlanta - based utility data provider Ventyx, which puts it on par with coal.

The Energy Department's Vehicle Technologies Office has estimated that large - scale manufacture of electric vehicle batteries with today's lithium - ion technology costs about $ 800 per kilowatt - hour of energy.

In our model, achieving battery costs of $ 100 per kilowatt hour (kWh) with vehicle ranges of 300 miles could lead to 90 percent penetration of EVs, Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) and PHEVs [in new vehicle sales in 2030].»

At a cost of less than 3 cents per kilowatt - hour, tornado energy is cheaper than burning coal (which rings up at 4 or 5 cents per kwh) and produces no additional greenhouse gases.

For the consumer, the extra cost of carbon capture would therefore amount to about $ 0.04 per kilowatt - hour.

All told, that means thermal energy storage at Andasol 1 or power plants like it costs roughly $ 50 per kilowatt - hour to install, according to NREL's Glatzmaier.

A downside of fuel cells, however, is that they have a capital cost in the thousands of dollars per kilowatt of capacity, and the round - trip efficiency through the electrolyzer to the fuel cell and then back into current is less than 50 percent — meaning that for every two kilowatt - hours put in the bank, only one comes back out again.

«Using the average U.S. electricity rate of nine cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh), 30 miles of electric driving will cost 81 cents,» the group maintains.

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.

A study published by The Carbon Trust in July estimated the cost of energy harvested from waves at 43 pence per kilowatt - hour, or almost three times the cost of offshore wind.

The mass conversion of the U.S. to solar power might involve an incremental cost of roughly four cents per kilowatt - hour, with overall electricity costs on the order of eight to nine cents per kilowatt - hour.

The weapon uses just 30 kilowatts per shot, which means it's also cost effective.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

He estimates that electricity from the process would cost around 3 pence per kilowatt - hour, comparable to the price of generating it from coal, gas and nuclear stations.

«In China the cost for a nuclear power plant is as low as $ 1,500 per kilowatt,» he said.

The price at which «everything becomes possible» If solar units could be installed for $ 1 per watt, the cost of solar energy would fall to 5 to 6 cents per kilowatt - hour, less than half the current average retail price in much of the country, according to DOE.

The organic aqueous flow battery, described in a paper published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials, is expected to cost $ 180 per kilowatt - hour once the technology is fully developed.

2 Fusion On Tap Plasma physicist Eric Lerner has a dream: a form of nuclear energy so clean it generates no radioactive waste, so safe it can be located in the heart of a city, and so inexpensive it provides virtually unlimited power for the dirt - cheap price of $ 60 per kilowatt — far below the $ 1,000 - per - kilowatt cost of electricity from natural gas.

The cost of extracting and burning coal is about 0.64 kilograms of CO2 per kilowatt - hour of energy we get from it.

High up - front expenses plus relatively low efficiency makes the cost of geothermal electricity about double that of coal, which sells for around five cents per kilowatt - hour.