Sentences with phrase «electricity generated falls»

As the incident angle of light moves from 90 degrees to a panel the amount of electricity generated falls off very rapidly.

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That same year, the state ranked second in the nation in percentage of net electricity generated by wind, falling behind only Iowa.

Last year, two events caused North American thermal coal — the coal used by utilities to generate electricity — to fall by about 30 %.

For thousands of years, people have used the energy of flowing or falling water for their purposes, first to power mechanical engines such as watermills, then to generate electricity by exploiting height differences in the landscape or sea tides.

At high tide, when the piston has reached the top of the tank again, the outlet valve is closed, and the system is ready to resume generating electricity as the tide falls.

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.

Between 2002 and 2012, the annual electrical generation from coal - fired plants fell by 2 %, while the amount of electricity generated by natural gas plants rose by 37 %.

Electricity generated using coal in the U.S. has fallen 38 percent since it peaked in 2007, according to U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) data.

Target 2: Increase Non-Fossil Energy to 11.4 % of Total Supply: Though overall power demand growth fell in 2012, the share of Chinese electricity generated from renewables increased from 15.7 % to 19.4 % thanks to a recovery in hydro and increased wind generation.

As a result, the proportion of electricity generated by coal fell from 16.7 per cent in the third quarter of 2015, to just 3.6 per cent over the same period in 2016.

A decade or two into the future, electricity generated through solar power is projected to fall to half the price of that from coal or natural gas.

The burden of any plan to regulate carbon dioxide emissions would have fallen most heavily on coal - burning power plants, which still account for more than 50 percent of the electricity generated in the United States.

Last month the chairman of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board's Natural Gas Subcommittee noted in the Washington Post that increased supplies from shale «has meant, since 2009, that consumers» costs of natural gas to heat homes or generate electricity have fallen by more than half.»

Wholesale electricity prices this week in Queensland have fallen below $ 30 / MWh — see graph below — far below the levels of other states as mild weather and sunny condition reduced demand and generated a large amount of solar electricity.

«The cost of land - based wind has fallen by two - thirds in six years and it is among the least - cost options for generating electricity in many parts of the country,» AWEA said.

Interestingly, despite significant demand growth, even the total amount of coal - generated electricity would fall in absolute terms.

The lake authority doesn't own the 18 + acre / feet of rain which falls on my land and since I don't use but a tiny fraction of that and they use the excess instead to generate electricity and sell to downstream customers when they sent me a bill for 1 acre / foot I sent them a bill in return for 17 acre / feet.

Unfortunately the wholesale price of electricity has fallen from around $ 60 / MWh to closer to $ 40 during the planning and construction period and the price of the Large Scale Renewable Energy Certificates that the scheme will generate is also low.

Our costs have fallen 58 per cent in the last five years, and we know projects that tap into Alberta's high - quality wind resources can produce electricity more affordably today than any other generating technology aside from combined - cycle natural gas plants and gas co-generation facilities.

But the dollar investment in renewables fell by 14 percent from 2012, matching a decline in investment for all types of new electricity generating plants, perhaps as a result of slowing economic growth in some major economies.

Or that wind power is falling out of favour in ultra-green Germany because even slow learners have discovered that it's an insanely costly way to generate electricity.

At a wave power station, the waves arriving cause the water in the chamber to rise and fall, which means that air is forced in and out of / As these propellers turn, it also makes the generator turn which generates electricity!

The cost of generating electricity from wind has fallen dramatically over the past few years.

With falling battery prices, lowered feed - in tariffs and increasing electricity rates across Europe, it has become increasingly attractive to raise the share of self - consumption of the photovoltaic electricity generated on the homeowners» roof rather than sell it to the grid.

Although the electricity used to charge the plug - in battery would likely be generated from a fossil - fuel - fired power plant, both the Electric Power Research Institute and the California Air Resources Board have calculated that air pollution and carbon - dioxide emissions would fall substantially using this approach.

In fact, the actual electricity generated at nuclear power plants fell 5 percent between 2006 and 2011.

The TPC will collaborate with Cedar Falls Utilities (CFU) to test how much electricity could be generated by burning large amounts of the biomass.

In contrast to wind - generated electricity, where costs are falling, the price of natural gas is on its way up.

But it has fallen short of the total electricity it was supposed to generate under its power purchase agreement (PPA) with PG&E.

As for Virginia's great offshore wind resource, little progress has been made towards harnessing it, even as the nation's first offshore wind project will begin generating electricity this fall in the waters off Rhode Island.

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