Sentences with phrase «electricity consumers without»

Coal is not subject to the vagaries of windless or sunless days, and can easily meet base - load demands of electricity consumers without interruption.

Not exact matches

Without it, America would have 4.3 million fewer jobs and consumers would be paying 31 percent more for electricity and 43 % for gasoline.

A very large portion of consumers want smart grid applications that will conserve electricity and lower their bills without their active involvement.

That means, for a coal plant, we'd have to burn — and so pay for — an extra 10 - 40 % more coal with CCS than we would without it, and the electricity from that extra energy / coal consumed is not available to consumers for electricity.

The U.S. experience suggests that a more efficient gas market, marked by flexible pricing and fueled by indigenous unconventional resources that are produced sustainably, can reduce coal use, CO2 emissions and consumers» electricity bills, without harming energy security.

Even though people without electricity access often pay a lot for their energy sources, such as kerosene and candles — sometimes more than they would pay for the same service if they had electricity access — the upfront costs for off - grid systems may still be higher than most consumers are willing or able to pay.

Lost in this apparent green energy triumph is one inconvenient truth: California couldn't have doubled renewable electricity at relatively low cost to consumers without the advanced hydraulic fracturing techniques — fracking — that came into widespread use a decade ago.

A system based on price - responsive - load would be able to remove this insurance component from at least some of the electricity supply and thus provide lower prices to consumers without reducing income to generators.

Electricity planners often confront the energy access gap by increasing supply, without considering how consumers actually use and pay for eElectricity planners often confront the energy access gap by increasing supply, without considering how consumers actually use and pay for electricityelectricity.

But, one of those policies has been found to treat consumers of electricity without solar panels on their roof unfairly.

In recent years, the state of Minnesota has pursued a series of increasingly aggressive renewable energy and «clean energy» policies that cost electricity consumers billions of dollars, without achieving its ambitious environmental protection goals.

While China and the U.S. get most of the attention, India - where 300 million people still live without electricity - is the globe's third greatest emitter of greenhouse gases, and one of the globe's fastest - growing coal consumers.

They said that the subsidies come at the expense of city dwellers without solar - ready roofs, low - income electricity consumers, and investments in other forms of renewable energy.

Committing to a new target to generate 60 % of electricity via solar power by 2020, and reducing electricity emissions by 80 % without putting up the cost of power to consumers

Without additional fast - response balancing facilities, significant numbers of UK electricity consumers could regularly experience interruptions or a drop in voltage.»