Sentences with phrase «electricity consumption because»
As with carbon dioxide emission rankings, less developed nations tend to score better on electricity consumption because access to electrical power is not as widely available.
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The main reason the US ranks so poorly on carbon dioxide emissions is because its per - person consumption rate of electricity is so high; all of that energy comes primarily from fossil fuels.
The article reported that the IEA in its 2016 Oil Market Report forecast rising consumption because half a billion people in places like sub Sharan Africa still don't even have electricity.
In fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.»
What I'd like to know is, taking all of these factors into account, how much extra we, the consumers, will have to pay for a kilowatt - hour of coal - fired electricity 5, 10, 20 and 30 years from now (a point in time which even WV's own Nick Rahall says will be when the most productive coal seams have been mined out) because our leaders today decided to facilitate an increase in the consumption of coal through the laughably mis - named «climate bill.»
I tend not to over launder my clothes anyway because a) water use & electricity consumption is incredibly bad for the environment although I do use Ecover tabs which aren't harmful to our oceans.
The CO2 Scorecard report, by contrast, examined changes in electricity at the regional level using data from grid operators, which showed researchers greater detail about where natural gas had replaced coal or renewables; where renewables replaced coal; and where electricity consumption simply declined because of reduced demand.
But California has low per - capita consumption of electricity mainly because California has a temperate climate — for residents near the coast — while relying heavily on natural gas for residential heating.
«Because saturation levels for most major appliances are achieved only minor increases in electricity consumption [will] occur.»
RISE suggests an important role for utilities in meeting efficiency, as well as access, objectives because of utilities» in - depth knowledge of electricity consumers» habits and because of their own power consumption.
We've been surprised at all the attention Todd's new fridge has gotten recently — including comments saying the comparison against African per capita electricity consumption isn't fair because many of those people don't have refrigerators.
Second, because remaining unelectrified households are largely extremely poor, their electricity consumption is likely to be very low following connection.
«The underlying energy consumption trends that resulted in these changes — mainly because more electricity has been generated from natural gas than from other fossil fuels — have helped to lower the U.S. emissions level since 2005 because natural gas is a less carbon - intensive fuel than either coal or petroleum.»
Because Ontario is contractually obligated to pay for most of the production costs of curtailed and exported energy, OSPE believes it would be better to find productive uses for the surplus clean electricity to displace fossil fuel consumption in other economic sectors.
This is because the damages caused over the life cycle of a vehicle are caused not only by gasoline consumption, which is reduced with plug - in vehicles, but also by emissions from battery and electricity production, which are increased with plug - in vehicles.
That's because computerized controls in one's home and on appliances can be set to respond to signals from energy providers to minimize electricity consumption at times when the power grid is under stress from high demand.