Sentences with phrase «electricity generating systems»

While the automotive business is a main business pillar, FHI's Aerospace, Industrial Products and Eco Technologies divisions offer a diverse range of products from general - purpose engines, power generators, and sanitation trucks to small airplanes, crucial components for passenger aircrafts, and wind - powered electricity generating systems.

Companies invest in these resources as the cost to build solar electricity generating systems continues to decline.

Ironically that is exactly what Germany is doing to augment its at - risk electricity generating system.

The efficiency matters because this process will have all the capital cost of a solar thermal electricity generating system.

Resulting actions include replacing low efficiency furnaces, installing flourescent and LCD lighting, installing timed thermostats as well as installing a solar electricity generating system to provide approximately 50 % of the church's electricity usage.

Not exact matches

Solar photovoltaic systems, which generate electricity directly from sunlight, are best because they are easy to maintain, can be located almost anywhere and don't need to be refueled.

«Our solar plants are going to lose over half of their ability to generate electricity during the two to two and a half hours that the eclipse will be impacting our area,» says Steven Greenlee, spokesperson for the California Independent System Operator, or CAISO, one of the largest independent grid operators in the world.

Even with a system efficiency of 80 % the 1.4 GW array would generate about 7.28 GWh of electricity daily (or 2,657.2 GWh annually)-- worth over $ 106 million per year via a competitive utility - scale Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) at $ 40 / MWh (i.e. a contract between the electricity seller and buyer that sets the price of the solar energy from the grid).

If I do so, I'm pretty sure I'll also get the Tesla Powerwall battery system to store excess solar power - generated electricity for use at night or whenever conditions are suboptimal.

His system can reportedly generate pretty much all of the electricity the home needs and can store excess energy in the Powerwalls.

They appeared to have regular shingled rooftops, but Musk said they'd actually been retrofitted with a new product called the Solar Roof, a potentially transformative system that's nearly indistinguishable from a traditional rooftop — and one, he promised, that lasts longer and costs less, all while generating electricity.

This is the first time a utility has contracted for a system that stores and releases solar energy after sunset, and will help KIUC meet its goal of using renewable resources to generate half of Kaua`i's electricity by the end of 2019.

They appear to have regular shingled rooftops, but Musk says they've actually been retrofitted with a new product called the Solar Roof, a potentially transformative system that's nearly indistinguishable from a traditional rooftop — and one, he promises, that lasts longer and costs less, all while generating electricity.

Now, an offgrid 3.15 MWh Powerpack system (15 Powerpacks) tied to on - site solar panels from SolarAfrica and will ensure that electricity for the lodges is generated locally, efficiently, and sustainably from renewable energy.

Recently, we installed a new solar system that generates enough electricity to power our entire bottling operation and case goods warehouse.

Mertiny and Secanell predict that using a flywheel to capture the electricity generated by a train's deceleration and applying it for acceleration would produce an energy savings of 31 per cent and cost savings of 11 per cent on the Edmonton LRT system.

The electricity it generates is enough to run the waste treatment system plus the lights and machinery in five of Bryant's nine hog barns.

Renewable sources — such as rooftop solar panels, which sometimes generate more power than a household uses — required a decentralized system in which electricity flows in both directions, from many small generators into the grid, and from the grid to consumers.

Workers then take out beams and concrete flooring, which are carried to ground level by a crane system that generates electricity as the pieces are lowered.

But such reactors still require the same electricity - generating, safety, and waste disposal systems as the hulking light - water reactors presently being built as well as identical rigorous licensing requirements, at least in the U.S. — and that may cost them.

This is in comparison to parabolic trough or tower CSP technology, which doesn't generate electricity until the entire system is complete.

The electric eel generates large electric currents by way of a highly specialized nervous system that has the capacity to synchronize the activity of disc - shaped, electricity - producing cells packed into a specialized electric organ.

«In the future I see an at - home, disaggregated system, with the home like a brain, with supply and demand of electricity being generated in that home.»

At the moment Dr Khan and his team of three PhD students are testing the system for generating electricity in warmer climates.

Now a Danish team has analysed the various ways in which firms in that country treat pig manure and use it to generate electricity in systems such as anaerobic digesters or incinerators.

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.

Existing technologies allow oil producers who can not pump the natural gas into a pipeline to simply reinject it back underground, use it to generate electricity or, by installing a so - called Fischer — Tropsch conversion system, change the former nuisance gas into liquid fuel, among other options.

To salvage some of that energy, the team added a regenerative braking system: when the driver's foot is removed from the accelerator, the electrical connections are reconfigured so that instead of electricity going from the batteries to turn the motor, the motor generates electricity that flows back through the inverter to recharge the batteries.

The system generates 235 megawatt - hours of electricity annually in an effort to boost the energy efficiency of this office complex, the headquarters for the U.S. Department of Energy.

This system uses huge solar panels to generate electricity, which will energize stored xenon gas and expel it at high velocity to generate thrust.

Researchers have long looked for simple systems to combine protons and electrons to form H2, a carbon - free fuel that can be burned directly to power cars or run through a fuel cell to generate electricity.

One of the problems with previous methods was that the amount of energy produced in, for example, a system using salty and less salty water to generate electricity, was too small relative to the amount of water used.

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

Even if a device with superconducting wires were shielded from magnets, any electricity flowing through the system would generate an unwanted magnetic field.

A plant uses just 1 percent of the energy it receives from the sun to make glucose, whereas the artificial system achieved roughly 10 percent efficiency in converting carbon dioxide to fuel, the equivalent of pulling 180 grams of carbon dioxide from the air per kilowatt - hour of electricity generated.

The third facility studied was the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in Bernardino County, Calif., where birds can be burned as they pass through concentrated sunrays that are reflected off thousands of mirrors toward a solar power tower, where water is boiled to produce electricity - generating steam.

The new systems could also generate enough electricity to power 13,553 homes or enough renewable natural gas to fuel 33,825 vehicles, according to ABC.

While algae - powered fuel cells are unlikely to generate enough electricity to power a grid system, they may be particularly useful in areas such as rural Africa, where sunlight is in abundance but there is no existing electric grid system.

The finding could lead to improvements in photodetectors and night - vision systems, and possibly to a new approach to generating electricity from sunlight.

Ultimately, the solar arrays and solar thermal system were acquired to generate electricity and hot water at Blackstone Valley.

A solar - panel system generates enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of plants filters air and water in a freshman biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.

These were used to assess a variety of renewable energy sources — including solar photovoltaic panels that generate electricity and solar hot water systems used to heat water.

The school pays nothing upfront and buys the electricity generated by the system from the investment company more cheaply than grid electricity through a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).

Thirdly, the generation tariff means that the system owner is paid a subsidy payment for every unit of electricity (kWh) that is generated.

Tell students that a wind turbine system uses wind energy to generate electricity.

The Honda system has one motor — the generator motor — that's connected to the engine and generates electricity.

Fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) contain a fuel cell system powered by hydrogen that generates electricity to operate the vehicle.

The Integrated Cooling Unit offsets the heat generated by the constant flow of electricity to and from the battery pack with an integrated cooling system mounted directly on the battery pack's outer box.

Electricity generated by regenerative braking may be fed back into the traction power supply; either offset against other electrical demand on the network at that instant, used for head end power loads, or stored in lineside storage systems for later use.

AGM technology better handles not only discharges and recharges from regenerative braking but also operation of the electrical system when the alternator is not generating electricity.