Sentences with phrase «electricity consumption needs»

For residential use, the most common panel is 65 inches by 39 inches and the average home will need around 20 to generate enough power to meet their electricity consumption needs.

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That day, total electricity consumption in Scotland — including homes, industry and businesses — was 41,866 megawatt hours, WWF Scotland said, meaning that wind power produced the equivalent of 206 percent of the nation's needs.

They found that human needs, such as employment, utility consumption and housing, correspond directly with the population: As the number of people doubles so does the need for housing, jobs and electricity infrastructure, which encompasses the number of roads, gasoline stations and the like already in place and does not necessarily keep pace with individual growth — the ratio of user to facility simply rises.

We still use electricity, businesses find it possible to make money, lights burn in homes when needed, in fact all sorts of things prove possible in spite of the dour predictions of Cassandras in other places more amenable to needless consumption.

Under EROEI, the primary energy inputs to the economy (the raw energy sources) are valued the same as the energy services (refined and delivered products, piped gas, and electricity) needed for final production and consumption activities.

And even though the state's residential home electricity consumption ranks among the lowest (due in part to those high prices and generally lower air conditioning needs in summer and the use of gas and oil for heating loads in the winter rather than electricity), the average monthly electric bill in 2016 was just over $ 142 per month, third highest in the nation.

Lastly, in a grid with 100 % renewable power production, the generation capacity would need to be ten times larger than the peak load, and excess electricity would surpass the EU annual electricity consumption.

In the case of a grid with 80 % renewables, the generation capacity needs to be six times larger than the peak load, while the excess electricity would be equal to 60 % of the EU's current annual electricity consumption.

However, more efforts are needed to inform customers on their electricity consumption habits and to regulate activities of energy consumers and suppliers.

Until recently consumption of electricity has risen steadily (in Australia and world - wide), this has led to a need from the building of expensive new electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure.

Turbines in Scotland provided 39,545 megawatt - hours (MWh) of electricity to the National Grid on Sunday while the country's total power consumption for homes, business and industry was 37,202 MWh — meaning wind power generated 106 % of Scotland's electricity needs.

«Firstly, businesses need to appreciate that they represent half of the world's electricity consumption — collectively they can make a real difference through their own purchasing power.

A single 8 - MW turbine is capable of generating enough electricity for about 8,000 European households, so that the power generated by this complex will cover the annual power consumption needs of about 1.3 million homes.

Pittsburgh is a US Department of Energy «Solar America City» and manages the Western PA Energy Consortium, a region - wide energy cost and consumption reduction program that has bought at least 25 percent of its electricity needs from green sources.

Even though we plan to add over 60 billion square feet of new buildings to our building stock (a 23.3 % increase) over the next two decades, and renovate as much or more, Building Sector operational energy consumption — which accounts for 75.7 % of electricity use — will be low enough to prevent the need for any new power plant capacity in the U.S.

Need for LEED It certainly makes sense to focus on sustainable facility design since buildings in the US are responsible 72 % of electricity consumption and 39 % of CO2 emissions.

♦ «In fact, the characteristics of electricity consumption reinforce the need to burn fossil fuels to satisfy the demand for electricity.

Ways to reduce fossil fuel inputs to food systems include the use of farm machinery powered by renewable electricity or farm - produced biofuels; the localization of food systems to reduce transport (perhaps entailing vertical urban agriculture); the adoption of organic and ecological production practices to reduce the need for nitrogen fertilizer, pesticides, and herbicides; and an overall reduction in the consumption of highly processed foods.

Hence, this implies that the greater the electricity consumption peaks, the larger the capacity for generation from natural gas plants must be and, consequently, the longer and larger the capacity needed on stand - by status.»

Scotland's total electricity consumption for that Sunday was 37,202 MWh, meaning wind power generated the equivalent of 106 % of Scotland's entire electricity needs on the day.

With more than 80 countries now harnessing the wind, there is enough installed wind power capacity worldwide to meet the residential electricity needs of 380 million people at the European level of consumption.

The more we reduce our electricity consumption, the less coal we need to burn.

It feels like a big task with a lot of industry politics and opinion attached to it, but the fact is if CEA wants to green up CES, it needs to figure out more ways to cut down on electricity consumption.

Interior daylighting isn't simply a way to reduce lighting electricity consumption, although that's certainly one application, but could be a method of addressing and mitigating the «winter blues» or seasonal affective disorder (SAD) in some people, as well as serving as a full - spectrum light source for artists, photographers, plant lovers, and anyone else who needs or prefers the natural warmth of sunlight.

Like Still Light, Olla helps demonstrate the green power needed to replace consumption of fossil fuels for electricity — and what it takes to produce it.

Even though our daily electricity consumption is much higher than can be handled by small renewable energy devices, our most frequent need seems to be for charging our mobile devices, which is probably why we're seeing a virtual explosion in new charging options for personal devices.

Power Compare further notes that Bitcoin's current estimated annual electricity consumption stands at 29.05 TWh — the equivalent of 0.13 percent of the world's overall electricity needs.

Curiously, the research points out that, assuming Bitcoin's electricity needs continue growing at this rate, the global mining consumption could be greater than the UK's entire electricity supply by October next year.

According to the Digiconomist Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, the total volume of electricity needed for bitcoin mining is now equivalent to 0.14 percent of total global energy cConsumption Index, the total volume of electricity needed for bitcoin mining is now equivalent to 0.14 percent of total global energy consumptionconsumption.

Of course, this doesn't factor the cost of electricity, power consumption, hardware, manpower and other fees needed to operate a mining operation.