Sentences with phrase «creates more electricity»

Right now, when a customer with a solar roof creates more electricity than needed, it becomes available to the grid.
When China began exploiting their giant coal deposits and creating more electricity for their growing numbers of factories, they simply ignored many anti-pollution possibilities.

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On the other hand, he has striven to create something that is more «useful» than it is «exciting» — like electricity, for instance.
The PSC offered a truly staggering look at the electricity demand that cryptocurrency has created in the region, saying that in some communities cryptocurrency mining requires «thousands of times more electricity than an average residential customer would use» (emphasis PSC).
«While more remains to be done to optimize our electricity system — building transmission lines to carry more clean power to those jurisdictions still burning fossil fuels, investing in smarter grids in our towns and cities, bringing more clean power online — these regulations create a foundation as we transition to clean energy and an economy built to last.»
Certain matters discussed in this press release are forward ‐ looking statements, including that Everstream Energy Capital Partners, North Sky Capital and New Energy Capital are planning to invest more than $ 67 million in a fund to support utility ‐ scale projects in Central and Southern California developed by SunEdison; that the projects will generate over 320,000 MWh of electricity annually, and create hundreds of jobs or up to 250,000 hours for California electrical and construction union workers.
Solar power, which now generates almost 2 percent of the nation's electricity, has become popular among Democrats and Republicans alike, as people consider ways to have more control over their energy use and to reduce pollution as well as create jobs.
Better electrical engineers create more efficient power lines or light bulbs or heating elements etc, which reduce energy consumption across the board, which takes unnecessary electricity money and diverts it into more pure research, which gives bio and biotech more money to work with, which produces more bio and biotech work.
Watch along as they create a working volcano, generate electricity with a lemon, launch a vinegar - powered rocket and more!
In line with this, for 2018, we will continue to stabilize the economy, offer reliefs, including reducing electricity tariffs to make the private sector truly competitive and create more employment.
Building the clean energy system would create 4.5 million jobs while lowering electricity costs by more than half.
The privatisation of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will create more jobs, the US Ambassador to Ghana Robert P. Jackson has assured agitated ECG workers.
Senator Charles E. Schumer said: «By making solar power more affordable, this funding will help homeowners reduce their electricity costs, create jobs, and put Long Island at the forefront of the clean - energy economy.
Kept at minus 456 degrees Fahrenheit, a temperature at which niobium conducts electricity without losses, these cavities will power a highly energetic electron beam that will create up to 1 million X-ray flashes per second — more than any other current or planned X-ray laser.
The calculation leaves out major costs, such as expanding and strengthening the power grid to handle far more complex flows of electricity from millions of solar installations, and creating breakthroughs in energy storage technology to lengthen solar power's impact beyond the daylight hours and to deal with sudden drops in output when clouds arrive.
Harnessing the power of superconductivity, or the ability of certain materials to conduct electricity with zero energy loss, is one of the most exciting possibilities for creating a more energy - efficient future.
For the $ 5 billion cost of PurGen, Tittel says, «we could put more than 550 windmills off our coast, creating 1,600 to 1,800 megawatts of electricity.
Natural gas might still have an advantage over coal when burned to create electricity, because gas - fired power plants tend to be newer and far more efficient than older facilities that provide the bulk of the country's coal - fired generation.
Placed around a copper cylinder, the arrangement created the illusion that the cylinder was made of a dielectric, a class of materials including porcelain and glass that do not conduct electricity and are more transparent to radio waves.
Argonne researchers are working to create new, more powerful technology for long - distance transmission of renewable electricity, to balance rural supply and urban demand, and to integrate wind - and solar - generated electricity into the grid.
A lot of the things that make our lives more comfortable such as cars, electricity and heating, create bad gases which make the air dirty.
Check out this awesome mini investigation in which students can develop their understanding of electrical energy, and more specifically the build up of electrons creating static electricity.
Unlike other hybrids, like the Toyota Prius and even the Honda Civic Hybrid, the ILX is unable to operate on electricity alone; however it does employ a regenerative braking system that traps the kinetic energy created during braking and converts it to electricity in order to give the lithium - ion battery a little more zap.
I wonder if it creates any more / less static electricity than my cloth seats do.
The bookish retort that the e-readers take more energy to make, consume electricity, contain more chemicals, and create a greater waste problem when thrown away.
His first V - Trigger, Jungle Dynamo, powers up his ball and electricity so that they do more damage and create juggle states for additional hits.
Electricity Powers — Players can now utilize the new Electricity Power set and use new types of healing powers and damage attacks in combat, including: â — ¦ Tesla Ball — Creates a floating ball of electricity that zaps nearby enemies â — ¦ The Shockwave — Shoots streams of electric bolts at enemies â — ¦ Ionic Drain — Drains energy from the environment to replenish a player's health while simultaneously damaging surrounding enemies • New Gear — Players can earn all - new gear sets including the new Zoom - inspired set for villains, and the new Black Lightning - inspired set for heroes • New Characters — Encounter new iconic DC Universe characters, includingLivewire, Black Lightning, The Top, The Trickster, Static andElectricity Powers — Players can now utilize the new Electricity Power set and use new types of healing powers and damage attacks in combat, including: â — ¦ Tesla Ball — Creates a floating ball of electricity that zaps nearby enemies â — ¦ The Shockwave — Shoots streams of electric bolts at enemies â — ¦ Ionic Drain — Drains energy from the environment to replenish a player's health while simultaneously damaging surrounding enemies • New Gear — Players can earn all - new gear sets including the new Zoom - inspired set for villains, and the new Black Lightning - inspired set for heroes • New Characters — Encounter new iconic DC Universe characters, includingLivewire, Black Lightning, The Top, The Trickster, Static andElectricity Power set and use new types of healing powers and damage attacks in combat, including: â — ¦ Tesla Ball — Creates a floating ball of electricity that zaps nearby enemies â — ¦ The Shockwave — Shoots streams of electric bolts at enemies â — ¦ Ionic Drain — Drains energy from the environment to replenish a player's health while simultaneously damaging surrounding enemies • New Gear — Players can earn all - new gear sets including the new Zoom - inspired set for villains, and the new Black Lightning - inspired set for heroes • New Characters — Encounter new iconic DC Universe characters, includingLivewire, Black Lightning, The Top, The Trickster, Static andelectricity that zaps nearby enemies â — ¦ The Shockwave — Shoots streams of electric bolts at enemies â — ¦ Ionic Drain — Drains energy from the environment to replenish a player's health while simultaneously damaging surrounding enemies • New Gear — Players can earn all - new gear sets including the new Zoom - inspired set for villains, and the new Black Lightning - inspired set for heroes • New Characters — Encounter new iconic DC Universe characters, includingLivewire, Black Lightning, The Top, The Trickster, Static and much more.
This vinyl compound was created to be more resistant to static electricity and was intended to help prevent records from accumulating dust.
Wind turbines are generally connected to a single home or building in order to create electricity for its occupants, however, there is an increasing number of wind farms being created that are connected to an electricity grid for the more widespread distribution of electricity.
A solar - wind future will create CHEAPER electricity, not MORE EXPENSIVE electricity.
In two posts in the last few days on Forbes.com, William Pentland, a writer who is also involved in a business developing such combined heat and power systems (he declares this interest up front), described the Co-op City storm response and, more generally, the merits of the gas distribution system as a means to creating a robust, distributed electricity supply:
Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.
The POUs should acquire more than the minimum amount of electricity required to meet RPS requirements to create a cushion in case some projects are delayed or fall through.
The coal industry, which last year created the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, has been equally busy priming Americans over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» sElectricity, has been equally busy priming Americans over the indispensability of coal (about half of all the U.S,'s domestic electricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» selectricity comes from it) and its evolution over time as clean - er than it once was («emissions have been reduced by more than one - third» since 1970).
The super-sized blades would create enough power to generate up to 50 megawatts of electricity, 25 times more than today's typical turbine.
It added $ 1.3 billion to the economy, created more than 14,000 new jobs and saved $ 460 million in electricity and heating costs between 2012 and 2014, according to a recent report from the economic - consulting firm Analysis Group.
We must ask: What other businesses could open their doors here and how many more jobs could be created if this village were given access to reliable, productive electricity?
Much of the additional needed electricity is projected to come from natural gas, creating more emissions in the process.
Using plants to create electricity to power electric vehicles wins out because electric engines are much more efficient than internal combustion engines.
A new study shows that burning crops such as corn and switchgrass to create electricity to power electric vehicles would actually yield more transportation miles than turning those crops into ethanol.
However, increasing DERs creates a more decentralized electricity system and changes the traditional dynamic between local distribution systems and the province - wide transmission system.
Fewer are needed in a wind farm, creating more benign aesthetic and habitat impacts while generating a lot more electricity.
Wind energy is helping to create a more modern, cleaner and flexible electricity system in countries around the world and here in Canada.
Perhaps more interesting, however, is the idea of the «supergrid,» where HVDC lines are used to interconnect entire continents with electricity so that electricity created in one place (such as solar power in the U.S. desert southwest or the Sahara Desert or wind power from offshore wind farms in the windy North Sea) is available wherever it's needed, no matter how far away that electricity is used.
The whole point of the FIT program, IMHO, was to make electricity production in Ontario more accessible to communities, homeowners, schools, farmers, etc... by creating a standard, long - term contract and process for selling green electricity into the provincial grid.
We can create a more reliable, less costly and environmentally responsible electricity system.
The landmark Electricity Act of 2003 instituted certain broad reforms, introduced elements of privatization, and created more consistent national rules governing the generation and transmission of power, but its provisions have been implemented spottily in some states and not at all in others.
More on solar power: if 15 percent of present world rooftop area were to be used to site photovoltaics with an assumed conversion efficiency of 20 %, the current global electricity power capacity would be created.
«Wind is producing enough electricity to power every household in northern BC,» he says, «and continues to help spread economic benefits to many more BC communities; creating permanent revenue streams and sustainable jobs in local communities and for First Nations interested in participating in the development and ownership of clean energy projects that will bring new revenues to their communities.»
Commitments don't need to come from the national or even the state level — every business, every town, every community can make a transition to 100 - percent renewable electricity and it gets us one step closer to creating a safer, more sustainable environment for us all.
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