Sentences with phrase «electricity from»

«(ii) 4 megawatts in capacity, in the case of a facility that is placed in service after the date of enactment of this section and generates electricity from a renewable energy resource other than by means of combustion.

California's Renewable Portfolio Standard, which requires utilities to get 33 percent of their electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind, is widely credited with accelerating the state's cleantech economy.

«We must... move toward running new vehicles on electricity and to generating that electricity from clean, renewable sources like solar and wind power.»

Currently, the relatively high - cost of electricity produced by solar cells compared to electricity from other energy sources is an inhibitor to a more widespread adoption of solar energy.

Benjamin Franklin, one of America's beloved founding fathers, collected electricity from lightning in 1752 by standing outside in a thunderstorm holding a kite — or so the legend goes.

Earlier this week, India broke its own record for the lowest bids for electricity from solar power.

He notes that unlike electricity from many other renewable sources, power from the batteries could be held back and used at times of peak demand.

The ships would sail to a suitable location, drop anchor and start generating electricity from wave energy.

SHIPS that harvest energy from the waves and store it in batteries could one day generate electricity from the world's oceans more cheaply than today's wave - power devices.

«However, if electricity is generated from coal to charge an electric vehicle it produces 139g CO2 - e / km well - to - wheel emissions, compared with only 9g CO2 - e / km well - to - wheel emissions with electricity from renewable energy sources.»

The EU however still leads in cumulative capacity and its 129 GW onshore and offshore wind installations, allowed six countries — Denmark, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Romania and Germany — to generate between 10 and 40 % of their electricity from wind.

By using electricity from renewable sources, our system allows us to generate hydrogen with a very low carbon footprint.

He wanted to find out just what happened in the process of generating electricity from chemical reactions.

The state - owned Nigeria Agip Oil Company plans instead to generate electricity from the waste gas of its Kwale plant, displacing fossil fuels that might otherwise have been consumed.

In February 2015, Apple announced that it would spend $ 848 million over 25 years to buy 130 megawatts of electricity from First Solar's California Flats Solar Project in Monterey County.

Understanding them will be important for exploring Mars, as the static electricity from grains rubbing against one another could disable electronics, he says.

China hopes to harvest 10 percent of its electricity from solar by 2030.

The horseless carriages that run along roads and railways are all powered by electricity from banks of gas batteries.

He says this is simply the first step as he scales up: his long - term goal is to generate electricity from organic factory waste to power desalination plants in poor countries.

Conservative critics say New Jersey's solar success is driven by government programs, including a renewable portfolio standard that requires utilities to derive more than 20 percent of their electricity from clean sources.

«What we found is that we could reliably get around 80 percent of our electricity from these sources by building either a continental - scale transmission network or facilities that could store 12 hours» worth of the nation's electricity demand.»

Most obviously, renewable sources of electricity from wind and solar sources can be used to electrolyze water — although the overall energy efficiency of this process is likely to be quite low.

Rather, it draws electricity from states across the U.S. West, including from coal - fired power plants as far away as Idaho — a problem that may get worse as California shuts down its own most polluting power plants.

Relying on electricity from the grid to power the hand means all the muscles and nerves need do is send the right signals to a prosthetic.

In the meantime many contracts are being signed for electricity from solar energy at less than half the price of electricity from fossil fuels, even on an unsubsidized basis.

Wavering solar and wind power don't play well with baseload nuclear plants that prefer to run at full blast, so the French must find a way to cope with this imbalance if they are to meet the European Union's directive to generate 20 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2020.

The French get more than three - quarters of their electricity from nuclear power, the largest share of any country in the world.

In fact, another agency is specifically tasked with leading that charge: the California Public Utilities Commission is responsible by law for ensuring that publicly owned utilities in the state get 20 percent of their electricity from renewable resources by the end of this year (although the utilities have until 2013 to prove that they have complied) and 33 percent by 2020.

Nanowires embedded in fabric produce small currents of electricity from the wearer's normal movement.

The M.I.T. report predicts that even if the world's fleet of more than 400 nuclear power plants grew to be 4,000 such plants that then operated for a century, the cost of the electricity from those facilities would rise by a mere 1 percent as a result of the increased demand for uranium.

The U.S. Department of Energy aims to make electricity from the sun cheaper than that from burning coal or natural gas

No economic modeling figured into that estimate; the analysts merely assumed that the developing nations would aim for the 10 to 20 percent share of electricity from nuclear power that the rest of the world would adopt.

Cheap, durable, efficient devices are needed to generate a significant amount of electricity from the sun.

Piezoelectric materials can generate electricity from a mechanical force; conversely, they also can generate a mechanical strain from an applied electrical field.

In short, we may feel disqualified, slightly patronised and perhaps also suspicious; remembering, as for instance we might, promises of free electricity from sea water.

California's current goal is to obtain half its electricity from renewables by 2030, and lawmakers there are currently debating expanding that to

The biggest hurdle is cost: At present, electricity from fuel cells costs four times more than the juice from your wall outlet.

In this scenario, Indiana farm businesses and homes would have about an 84 percent chance of saving money by generating electricity from solar rather than coal power.

Though the federal government is doubling down on coal, electric power companies are embracing less - polluting natural gas, wind and solar power as the cost of generating electricity from those sources falls.

The state leader is Massachusetts, where Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican, signed legislation in August requiring the state's utilities to obtain 1,600 megawatts of electricity from offshore wind farms within the next decade — enough electricity to power 320,000 homes.

The state will buy electricity from the distillers for $ 41 per megawatt - hour, the same price paid for power generated by hydroelectric schemes.

Nocera is still seeking a cheap way to convert hydrogen ions into hydrogen gas and an efficient way to get electricity from photovoltaic panels to the catalyst.

It will also threaten a national strategy in transmitting electricity from resource - rich western China to feed the country's power - hungry manufacturing sector, most of which is in the east.

The result — part of the DOE's exploration of how to get 20 percent of U.S. electricity from wind by 2030 — was a plan for a national, high - voltage transmission backbone.

To get electricity from it, the liquids are pumped into a chamber separated by a membrane, sparking an electron - producing chemical reaction across the membrane.

Excess electricity from the wind farms can be stored in the batteries and fed into the system later, when wind is low and demand is high.

While France, which generates over 75 per cent of its electricity from nuclear sources, avoided blackouts, Italy did not.

In addition to enabling drilling in ever - deeper waters worldwide, robot subs will also be instrumental in ramping up the installation of offshore turbines that generate electricity from the strong winds and tides found at sea, says Michel, one of the main organizers of the annual Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) Center's 2010 International ROV Competition, which challenges students to complete underwater missions using ROVs they design and build.

And they found that drawing electricity from the grid after - hours is best.

The Arizona tests were carried out in a trough - like soil bin about a metre wide in a laboratory, and used electricity from the mains.