Sentences with phrase «electricity leaves the power»

The Grid We Have When electricity leaves a power plant today, it is shuttled from place to place over high - voltage lines, those cables on steel pylons that cut across landscapes and run virtually contiguously from coast to coast.

To minimize power loss, after the electricity leaves the power plant, it is «stepped up» at substations to high voltage and then moved long - distance across transmission lines to get where it is needed.

Not exact matches

The offer follows a string of power outages in the state of South Australia, including a blackout that left industry crippled for up to two weeks, and stoked fears of more outages across the national electricity market due to tight supplies.

The current electricity providers and the electricity grid have failed a number of times over the extremely hot summer, leaving the entire state without power.

Inmates were left without electricity (there was no power in the prison for over a month) or drinking water.

After suffering widespread power outages thanks to Irma, 1 million Puerto Ricans were left without electricity.

Angry youths have stormed the Port Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company, PHEDC and shutdown th power facilities, leaving the Rivers State capital in total blackout

The U.S. federal agency tasked with restoring electricity to Puerto Rico, after Hurricane Maria hit the Caribbean last year, is leaving the island though thousands still have no power heading into the next hurricane season starting next month.

High winds wrecked havoc in Western New York, downing power lines and leaving tens of thousands without electricity.

The plant has a tariff of 15 cents per kilowatt hour, but the same power is sold to the Electricity Company of Ghana at a cost of 5 cents per kilowatts hour, leaving a deficit of 10 cents per kilowatts.

In a future hydrogen economy, he imagines, a house would function much like a leaf does, using the sun to power household electricity and to break down water into fuel — a sort of artificial photosynthesis.

Winds of more than 160 kilometres per hour blew down trees and power lines leaving 30,000 homes without electricity.

Generators and distributors of electricity depend on it to communicate and to prevent leaving customers with too much or too little power.

The calculation leaves out major costs, such as expanding and strengthening the power grid to handle far more complex flows of electricity from millions of solar installations, and creating breakthroughs in energy storage technology to lengthen solar power's impact beyond the daylight hours and to deal with sudden drops in output when clouds arrive.

Master of horror Wes Craven (Scream, The Last House on the Left, A Nightmare on Elm Street) directs this exciting visual treat which introduces a diabolical mass murderer who harnesses electricity for unimaginable killing powers.

In addition to instant miles per gallon, the left screen can display instant MPGe, miles traveled on electric power alone, total gallons of gasoline used and total kilowatts of electricity used, plus a list way too long to include.

LEAF - To - Home ™ also enables a Nissan LEAF to meet typical household electricity needs for up to two days if the power is disrupted.

Meanwhile, government giveaways in the form of free electricity to farmers and a reluctance among politicians to raise power tariffs to sufficiently cover costs have drained cash reserves from the largely state - run electricity - distribution companies, leaving them with mounting debt and hampered ability to purchase power.

In many states, the homeowner pays less for the solar electricity than if they were purchasing it from the power grid, but some solar shoppers may be leaving money on the table.

As nuclear power generation disappears by 2022, electricity production from natural gas will play an important transitional role in Germany in order to fill the gap left open from the closing of nuclear capacity.

Electricity outages that left tens of thousands of Victorian households without power on Sunday and Monday turned up a few interesting home truths about Australia's national energy market.

In western Denmark, the price of electricity can drop to zero on a windy day, leaving utilities scrambling to offload excess power or take a financial hit.

Solving these issues is left mainly for consideration by OCCTO's committee, which was set up in April 2015 as the first initiative to reform the power system, as well as OCCTO's Guidelines for Services for Electricity Transmission and Distribution, etc..

And sea levels could rise by as much as 4 feet by the end of the century — dramatically increasing the odds of a disaster like Sandy, which destroyed power infrastructure and left more than 8 million people without electricity.

An unrelenting heat wave in California, reaching 106 degrees F in San Francisco, that left six dead, strained the state's power grid and left thousands without electricity;

When Nature (subscription) looked over the whole portfolio of carbon - free electricity options last month, it left wave power for last.

The demand for financial resources to finance solutions is huge - $ 2,100 billion for power generation in developing countries alone in the next 30 years, and that to do little more than keep pace with population growth, leaving far too many still without electricity.

It is unlikely that electricity can power more than 50 % of the energetic needs, and that, due to intermittency, solar and wind can power more than 20 % of the grid, leaving 10 % of the total energy needs — i don't know any country where this threshold is overcome.

It could be programmed to cut power to all non-essential items in your home, so that at night or when you leave, you can just tap your phone and know that you're saving on vampire electricity.

Owners of the next - gen LEAF in Japan have the option of driving on sunshine for free, and can connect the car to their house as a vehicle - to - home electricity source to mitigate peak power usage.

Traditional power plants, including those that burn cleaner gas, have been closing left and right while soaring electricity prices push industries overseas and bankrupt households.

Global nuclear electricity generation (blue area, left axis) and nuclear's share of total world power generation (red bars, right axis).

*** Electricity network in «uncharted territory» as blackouts loom The Telegraph Andrew Critchlow 5 September 2015 As Britain loses one more power station, experts argue the grid has been left too exposed.

In most net metering states electric companies are required to buy this power at the retail rate, even though it would cost less to produce the electricity themselves or to buy the power on the wholesale market, and this arrangement leaves others to pay for infrastructure.

For example, if you still have a cell phone or other portable electronics device from the 90's, its charger might continually use a noticeable amount of power if you leave it plugged in — but even that amount of vampire power probably won't make a noticeable dent in your electricity bill.

Built in the 1990s, the couple's Tuscan - style home is the largest solar - powered residence in the US, following the installation of # 450,000 state - of - the - art German solar panels, and produces enough electricity to power the entire estate with enough left over to sell back to the energy company.