Sentences with phrase «domestic electricity use»

Saudi water desalination is a huge part of its domestic electricity use, and the Kingdom's Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) plans to switch this entirely to solar operation.

This study shows that domestic electricity use can be reduced substantially by a switch from including unlimited electricity in the rent to making individual residents pay for their own individual use.

Not exact matches

The partnerships will enable about 90 million domestic customers to use Nest's thermostat to save electricity — and cash.

«We use natural gas to produce electricity, -LSB-...] water to cool the generators and then you subsequently use that hot water elsewhere in your process, whether that be domestic hot water or industrial processes.»

The term solar panel can be applied to either solar hot water panels (usually used for providing domestic hot water) or solar photovoltaic panels (providing electricity).

Last year, the government finally took advantage of those winds, installing 33 wind turbines manufactured by domestic company Xinjiang Gold Wind at the Guanting wind power field to harvest this energy and use it to supplement the electricity provided by polluting coal.

CONVERTING sunlight into electricity, rather than using it to heat water directly, could lead to cheaper domestic solar energy, say engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland.

Use this letter to help you negotiate with your domestic electricity or gas supplier to agree payments you can afford to cover your current energy bills and repayments on the energy debt you owe.

Society should move as quickly as possible away from using natural gas for water heating and domestic and commercial space heating — uses which are equal to the use of gas to generate electricity in the US.

Using natural gas could both hasten the return to coal for domestic heating and electricity, as well as help push Canada toward building more nuclear power plants.

Many people seem to have an irrational fear of nuclear power generation plants, just as people a century ago were fearful of domestic electricity supplies using alternating current.

The United States clearly is using less coal: Domestic consumption fell by about 114 million tons, or 11 percent, largely due to a decline in the use of coal for electricity.

When they're burning fuels, no matter how we «Green Wash» them, they're emitting carbon Once you have a «carbon free» electricity supply then using proven technology with either air source or ground source heat pumps is the only way to have «carbon free» space heating and domestic hot water.

When it nears the point of consumption, such as our homes, the electricity is transformed down to the safer 100 - 250 voltage systems used in the domestic market.

In the IEO2017 Reference case, among OECD member countries, gross domestic product (GDP) increases by 1.7 % per year, and electricity use increases by 0.9 % per year between 2015 and 2040.

Growth in economic activity (measured as gross domestic product) has tended historically to be coupled with increases in electricity use as populations grow and generate more goods and services.

This announcement means that CalCars» efforts to motivate auto makers to build plug - in hybrid vehicles that substitute cleaner, cheaper, domestic electricity for local travel — then evolve further to use fuel alternatives to gasoline for extended trips — will expand to incorporate a broader Cradle to Cradle approach where, as McDonough puts it, «materials are designed for continuous re-use as biological and / or technical nutrients.»

Using electricity produced from diverse domestic resources, PHEVs can reduce U.S. dependence on imported oil.

If Oregon, and the Northwest, truly wants a domestic - as in local - and renewable fuel source, we should be looking to build a cellulosic ethanol industry using waste from the large Northwest forestry and agriculture sectors to produce our liquid fuels (and a bit of electricity) as well as additional electricity from the Northwest's diverse and abundant renewable energy sources to power the electric component of a plug - in hybrid flex fuel fleet.

Further, we do not find evidence that Member States have used state aid to electricity - intensive firms to strategically support domestic industry.

The building is heated by a Dachs gas - fired condensing combined heat and power plant — which generates 5.5 kW electricity which is used to power lighting in the landlord areas, and a by - product of 14.8 kW of heat which is used for domestic hot water and — if ever required — space heating.

By focusing on generating clean electricity, the Kingdom can move away from a reliance on domestic consumption of fossil fuels for electricity and use the saved resources to strengthen its exports.

While DECC predict that climate change and energy policies will cause gas prices to go up by 18 % and electricity prices by 33 % by 2020, they estimate (as of July 2010) that because of reductions in energy use «compared to the counterfactual scenario in which climate change and energy policies do not have an impact on energy bills, on average, domestic energy bills will be 1 % higher in 2020.»

As domestic oil production increases and the United States becomes increasingly reliant on natural gas for electricity and industrial uses, it is essential to take advantage of proven measures to reduce methane emissions.

Development needs of the Estonian energy sector were assessed in order to prepare policy recommendations for enabling the shift from fossil fuel based electricity production to the use of 100 % renewable domestic energy sources and fuels on a national level.

By boosting the amount of renewable, domestic energy sources used to generate the country's electricity, the DOE may be aiming to accomplish two goals: (1) ensure that electric vehicles live up to their full, low - carbon potential, and (2) reduce net oil imports, which are significant.

What matters is the protection of the environment, which is served just as much by importing green electricity from other Member States as using domestic sources.