Sentences with phrase «electricity consumed at»

Amount of electricity generated per unit electricity consumed at my house (basically transmission losses)

This doesn't count electricity consumed at the office, and rides in other peoples cars when I tag along.

Not exact matches

The difficulty of the crypto problems that mining solves starts to increase, and the older graphics cards become less efficient and slower at solving them, all while consuming the same amount of electricity.

Of course, the more time kids spend playing outdoors the less time they'll spend at video - game consoles — which consume an estimated 16 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity annually, about four times the output of Hoover Dam.

The Science Residential and commercial energy consumption accounts for 72 percent of all electricity and 13 percent of all fossil fuels consumed in this country, says Vivian Loftness, an architect at Carnegie Mellon University.

By looking at the plant's total annual utility use and the fraction of yearly operations needed to print a single issue of DISCOVER, David Hakenewerth, a manager at Quebecor's Jonesboro facility, determined that producing one month's edition of the magazine consumes 63,364 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 1,704 therms of natural gas.

At the present time, some 10 percent of the electricity in Germany is consumed by information and communication technologies, such as computers and smart phones of users, but also by the servers in large computer centers.

That's because electricity must be produced at the same second it is consumed and utilities must precisely match supply and demand.

Crunching the numbers, they concluded that a global network of land - based turbines could make 40 times more electricity than the world currently consumes — even if they only operated at 20 percent of their capacity.

At 1 p.m., 22 percent of all the electricity consumed in the Texas grid was coming from wind.

More importantly, the model consumes as little as 2.1 L / 100 km (134.5 mpg UK) and can travel up to 40 km (25 miles) on electricity alone at speeds up to 120 km / h (75 mph).

The exact wording is below: «Upon thirty (30) days written notice to Resident, Landlord may alter rental payment to cover additional costs in operating the premises incurred by Landlord because of any increase in ad valorem property taxes, charges for the electricity, heating fuel, and water consumed at the property, or increases in premiums paid for liability, fire or worker compensation insurance.

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»

I wish I could agree with Mander's routes to a solution (which are the same as Al Gore's) but I can't: When something like fuel or electricity gets consumed more efficiently, we just end up using at least the same amount for more of the same or for new kinds of consumption.

What I suggest isn't trivial nor impossible, though, just FYI a quick Google gave this magnitude: «At least 11 % of the electricity consumed in German households and offices is used by temporarily unused equipment running in stand - by mode.»

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].

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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These credits are used to offset electricity consumed by the customer at a different point in time during the same billing period.

If 10 000 water heaters are converted to using variable priced electricity (VPE), and supposing that the water in the heaters only needed a 15 °C boost, then up to 10 000 * 0.5 * 3.5 kWh = 17.5 MWh could be consumed at selected times each day to help stabilise the electricity distribution grid.

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Participants in this solar farm model pay an administrator or utility company for the solar electricity they consume, often at a lower rate than what they would normally pay.

How many backups were on standby (meaning consuming fuel despite not contributing electricity to the grid) at 12:00 CET on April 25th when wind and solar provided 48.8 GW to the grid?

But the utility shut down the carbon capture equipment in 2011 because it could not sell the carbon dioxide or recover the extra cost from its electricity customers, and the equipment consumed so much energy that, at full scale, the project would have sharply cut electricity production.

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.

Of the 39.6 quads consumed for electricity generation, 90 % is provided by the steam turbine (at 75 %) and combustion turbine (at 15 %) alone.

«Solar power is a prime choice in developing an affordable and feasible global power source that can substitute fossil fuels in all the world's climate zones... PV solar electricity can provide decentralised energy supply at the very place it is consumed.»

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.

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.

I don't have PV on my house yet... first has been a reduction to 60 kWh / mo of electricity, now is installing a 1.6 GPM shower head, and next will be a solar thermal collector to heat the house and water (I still consume at least 10 therms of gas each month in the cooler months).

Currently South Australia is exporting around 600 megawatts and at around 3 am EST the price of electricity is expected to go negative as SA demand falls around 400 megawatts below what it is now and presumably the state will be producing more electricity that will consume and can export.

For example, before we buy a new appliance that might consume a large amount of electricity, we should think not only of how much it will increase our power bill, but its contribution to the global climate change problem; look at the bigger picture.

If the demand for electricity caused by mining continues keeps at its current rate — mining will consume all of the world's electricity supply by 2020.

A mining rig that consumed 5 megawatts of electricity would have made $ 140,000 every day when bitcoin prices were at their peak in December 2017.

Standby power consumes 5 — 10 percent of all electricity in developed countries, but there is some debate whether consumption is growing, the folks at Lawrence Berkeley say.