Sentences with phrase «electricity demand substantially»

But even if the country can reduce the growth in electricity demand substantially, it will still need new generation capacity, much of it to replace old, inefficient plants.

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Utilities can substantially reduce their disruption costs, as well as social costs, by continuing to supply at least a small amount of electricity to serve HP demands during outages.

But if the demand for electricity substantially increases in the coming years, especially with more hybrid gasoline - electric vehicles, Natan said, «it's not a huge stretch of imagination to see why these companies are going into renewable energies.»

But with heat waves becoming more intense and happening more often as the world warms, that air conditioner use on the hottest days will put substantially more demand on the nation's electricity grids, a new study finds.