Sentences with phrase «electricity meters in»

Gowling WLG secured the energy and infrastructure of the year award in recognition of its work helping the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) develop the regulations underpinning the government's # 11bn smart metering programme (which aims to install smart gas and electricity meters in about 30 million domestic and small business premises across Great Britain by the end of 2020).

The researchers have also established that it is often economically profitable to install electricity meters in apartments so that tenants can be charged directly for their electricity use.

The HEMS collects data from the various electricity meters in the house, including those for the photovoltaic system, the electric vehicle, the heat pump, and general household power.

Not exact matches

Through slow, grassroots methods such as community meetings and bill inserts, Ontario's utilities have largely succeeded in informing the province's residents about what smart meters are, and how to shift electricity demand to lower their bills.

Another plus: the introduction of so - called net metering, unknown in the»70s, which allows power - generating home owners and businesses to feed unneeded electricity back into the grid and thus run their meters backward.

But the math only works in places with so - called «net metering» laws, which require utilities to buy the electricity rooftop panels generate at prices far above what they pay for centralized power.

Under her leadership, the company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal» by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.

The smart grid in both America and the UK uses communications technology such as smart meters to maximize the efficiency and affordability of electricity.

Among the biggest changes to the rate structure will be in how much customers are paid for the electricity they put back on the grid, though net metering.

Energy regulators in the state are battling utility companies over net metering, which is the process through which solar customers get a credit for a certain amount of electricity that they send back to the grid.

In partnership with Toronto innovation hub MaRS Discovery District, the Energy Apps for Ontario Challenge is offering $ 50,000 to support the best new apps that use electricity data collected by smart meters.

In 2010, the United States used 683 trillion cubic meters of natural gas in anything from creating electricity to powering stoves, water heaters, and even vehicleIn 2010, the United States used 683 trillion cubic meters of natural gas in anything from creating electricity to powering stoves, water heaters, and even vehiclein anything from creating electricity to powering stoves, water heaters, and even vehicles.

ECG meter The Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) will on Monday release a document detailing in monetary terms, how much...

The Tories also want to introduce smart grids and smart meters which can match demand with supply, while a «decentralised energy revolution» will introduce a system of feed - in tariffs to encourage the micro-generation of electricity.

Ghana's laws make corruption a high - risk venture, but, in reality, many see it as a thriving venture where businesses evade tax, public officials receive bribes to facilitate transactions and ordinary citizens are compelled to offer bribes before basic services — including birth certificates, passports, driving licences, electricity meters — are delivered.

People could be given meters in their homes to show exactly how much electricity they use, in new proposals aimed at tackling climate change.

«We are also in the process of facilitating the provision of over 3,000 electricity meters for many residents who were not captured in the first phase.

It revolves around investing # 1 billion in a «hi - tech National Grid» which would see «smart meters» being installed in every home - meaning that energy companies would be able to tell consumers when it is cheapest to use electricity.

Stealing of power has become an established practice in the Northern Region for which reason authorities of the Northern Electricity Distribution Company (NEDco), have served notice to install prepaid meters for all its customers.

Five out of six of its reactors lost electricity when a 14 - meter tall tsunami swept in 40 minutes later.

The potential is huge: 4,500 gigawatts (4,500 billion watts) of electricity per year for every 1.08 billion square feet (100 million square meters) of the steel coated in the dye, Worsley estimates, or more than 260 times the installed capacity of all U.S. wind farms.

When the head of the Atomic Energy Commission at the time, Lewis Strauss, infamously quipped in 1954 that electricity would become «too cheap to meter,» he was likely referring to nuclear fusion, not nuclear fission, the atom - splitting reaction that powers conventional nuclear power plants today.

Another approach operates at the bottom of New York City's East River, where in 2006 Verdant Power, Inc., planted six windmill - like turbines — each 16 feet (five meters) in diameter — 30 feet (nine meters) below the surface and churning at a peak rate of 32 revolutions per minute to transform strong tidal forces into electricity.

Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study shows that in the most polluted areas of northern and eastern China, aerosol pollution is reducing the potential for solar electricity generation by as much as one and a half kilowatt - hour per square meter per day, or up to 35 percent.

Dominion, in turn, would have the ability to stop and start electricity service and read meters remotely.

Dominion Virginia Power has already installed half of the SmartGrid Charlottesville project's meters, which will enable commercial and residential building occupants to track and adjust their electricity consumption in real time.

Dominion Resources Inc.'s Virginia subsidiary plans to install 46,500 «smart meters» in Charlottesville and surrounding Albemarle County by the end of the year — the first of 13 electricity conservation projects slated for the state, company executives announced today.

The result was an annual decrease in electricity usage of less than 1 kilowatt - hour per square meter of cooler pavement.

Nuclear power is not «too cheap to meter,» and in fact, despite hundreds of billions of dollars in government subsidies and in ratepayer charges, nuclear power greatly trails other fuels as a source of electricity and is useless in providing for the world's other major energy needs, including transportation.

A single module can generate 50 MWe (gross) of electricity and is just under 25 meters in length, 4.6 meters in diameter and weighs around 450 tonnes.

In any case, the Home Energy Controller is a far cry and a lot more sci - fi in comparison to the current practice of monitoring electricity usage by sensing the rotation of a thin disc inside a meter placed on the exterior of the house and rotates as per the power consumption that is taking place in the housIn any case, the Home Energy Controller is a far cry and a lot more sci - fi in comparison to the current practice of monitoring electricity usage by sensing the rotation of a thin disc inside a meter placed on the exterior of the house and rotates as per the power consumption that is taking place in the housin comparison to the current practice of monitoring electricity usage by sensing the rotation of a thin disc inside a meter placed on the exterior of the house and rotates as per the power consumption that is taking place in the housin the house.

Some of you know me as Mr Meter because I have had as many as eight channels of measurement of electricity use in my home as well as two gas meters.

Some proposed project ideas include installations of solar electric and solar hot water demonstration systems on a student housing complex; assessment of energy efficiency opportunities on a campus; installing energy metering to engage residents and building occupants in conservation; and construction of a small wind farm near campus that would generate electricity for the campus.

Indeed, the time may come when discussions of energy issues will revolve around the implications of electricity that has become, in the words of that old saw, «too cheap to meter».

This is especially true for solar PV, where in Germany and Spain FIT payments have caused serious energy policy turmoil, and in the US, where net metering policies have caused public utility backlash against PV deployment in states like Arizona and California (a result of utilities being forced to pay 15 - 30ckWh for PV electricity instead of purchasing on the wholesale markets for 4 - 6c / kWh).

Since North Carolina does not have any laws requiring virtual net metering for cooperatives or investor - owned utilities, these bill credits are nearly always based on the utility's avoided cost of energy as opposed to a credit calculated at the full retail rate of electricity (in other words, the per kWh credits are less than the per kWh price customers pay for their electricity consumption).

In Connecticut, Hartford's utility provider, Eversource, and the state's other investor - owned utility, United Illuminating, provide net metering to customers that generate electricity using solar or other renewable energy systems up to two megawatts (MW) in capacitIn Connecticut, Hartford's utility provider, Eversource, and the state's other investor - owned utility, United Illuminating, provide net metering to customers that generate electricity using solar or other renewable energy systems up to two megawatts (MW) in capacitin capacity.

In addition, New Jersey, in common with many other states, allows homeowners to get credit for their solar electricity at retail prices while the energy being replaced could have been bought by the utility at much lower wholesale prices, a subsidy called net meterinIn addition, New Jersey, in common with many other states, allows homeowners to get credit for their solar electricity at retail prices while the energy being replaced could have been bought by the utility at much lower wholesale prices, a subsidy called net meterinin common with many other states, allows homeowners to get credit for their solar electricity at retail prices while the energy being replaced could have been bought by the utility at much lower wholesale prices, a subsidy called net metering.

If wind system owners live in a state that permits net - metering, those owner will also receive additional income in the form of renewable energy credits (RECs)-- they will be paid to produce wind - produced electricity.

They set in motion the ability for people who had solar collectors or wind generators to run their meter backwards and put their locally made electricity back into the grid and get paid for it.

In Mississippi this winter, for instance, after the state Public Service Commission for the first time offered rules allowing net metering for solar owners — that practice enables solar owners to get a fair price for excess electricity they export to the grid — legislators introduced bills that would remove the PSC's right to regulate 70 percent of the state's electricity service, including creating net metering rules.

The boom in home solar energy generation — there has been a 60 percent increase in domestic solar installations in the past year — is a threat to ALEC's dirty energy producing members, so they have a bill to amend so - called net metering laws that allow homeowners to sell excess electricity back to the grid.

Metric bias results in more stringent gas water - heater standards despite the fact that life - cycle energy losses for natural gas are only about 10 percent of its usable energy (from the point of wellhead extraction to the consumers» utility meter) versus 70 percent for electricity.

The province's 2017 Long - Term Energy Plan looks at emerging opportunities for consumers to participate in renewable energy generation to reduce their electricity bills through net metering.

In the case of solar and wind power, he focuses on electricity with the number of watts produced per square meter.

And solar is not going to be competitive in the market soon (the next 2 - 5 years)-- it will be competitive behind the meter — the so called «socket parity» — if the electricity produced from the roof PV is cheaper than the electricity brought from the grid... Guess what?

Texas was one of the first states to deploy advanced meters in 2008, and its Smart Meter Texas (SMT) portal has helped to make it a leader in electricity competition.

As I explain here, net - metering usually entails the overpayment to owners of rooftop solar panels for their electricity in a manner that redistributes wealth from those that don't own solar panels, to those who do.

At the time of the eclipse, California's electricity grid, managed by California Independent System Operator (CaISO) will have over 10,000 megawatts (MWs) of commercially operated, grid - connected solar, an additional 5,800 MW of behind - the - meter rooftop solar, plus hundreds of additional solar MWs located in other states that participate in CaISO's Western energy imbalance market.

In addition to incentives, many states, such as California, implement a net energy metering (NEM) policy that allows consumers who generate excess electricity to be reimbursed at the then - prevailing rate of electricity.