Sentences with phrase «electricity needs today»
If you buy a system that meets 100 percent of your electricity needs today, you will have an extra $ 1,200 in your pocket a year from now.
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Dave Cobb, BC Hydro CEO, said in the statement, «Today's announcement has found the right balance between the need to invest in our electricity system — which is the backbone of our economy — with the need to keep rates affordable for families and businesses.»
Today, solar power meets a tiny fraction of the world's electricity needs, but that could change in the next decade, IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka said at a conference in Valencia, Spain.
The incandescent and fluorescent bulbs commonly sold today use a lot more electricity than do LEDs, but they are also better at shedding heat, says Christian Wetzel, an associate physics professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «LEDs may generate less heat,» he adds, «but it still needs to be removed.»
For unsubsidized solar power to be competitive with coal - or natural gas — powered electricity, it needs to cost $ 1 per watt — today, solar is three to five times more expensive than fossil fuels, Atwater said.
With 67 % of our electricity today coming form carbon, we need to think about efficiency being a more important metric as we move forward.
To conflate the benefits of electricity with the need to use coal as it is used today, is deeply dishonest.
Harry Lehmann lists things that need to happen in the US if the US wants to get where Germany is today, generating about 30 percent of its electricity from renewable sources: You need to educate the people — regular citizens, managers, bankers — about renewable energy.
The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) today inaugurated a 2.2 - megawatt (MW) solar farm that will meet 15 percent of campus electricity needs.
If we count on electric cars to store the surplus of renewable electricity, their batteries would need to be 60 times larger than they are today
But it's going to take more than the wind or sun to power Texas» electricity needs years or even decades from today.
The Government of Alberta announced today that it will legislate its target to meet 30 % of the province's annual electricity needs from renewable resources.
But the more renewable energy is integrated into the electricity mix today, the greater the need for solutions, so - called grid services, for this new form of electricity production.
Energizing Rural America: How Renewable Electricity Standards Generate Rural Economic Prosperity (2007) A niche producer of clean energy today, agriculture could grow to supply 20 - 25 percent of U.S. energy needs over the next two decades.
It is how it came about that today Ontario now powers about 10 per cent of Michigan's electricity needs.
Brandy Gianetta, Ontario regional director for the Canadian Wind Energy Association, said the report fails to fully recognize that wind energy is making a significant contribution to Ontario's electricity supply needs today and this contribution will only grow in future years.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and Ithaca College today announced that construction is underway on a 2.9 megawatt (MW) solar electric project that will provide enough electricity to meet approximately 10 percent of the college's energy needs.
About 33 % of today's electricity is low - GHG, so by mid-century, more electricity than we make today will need to come from fossil fuel and bioenergy with CCS, nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, and other renewables.
Even with these measures, by 2050 California would need about twice as much electricity as we use today and still nearly 70 percent of the fuel consumed today.
Today's electricity system can not meet our needs in a future of growing demand for power, worsening strains on water resources, and an urgent need to mitigate climate change.
David McKay's talk was more about the area needed to provide the energy used by today's societies, though it didn't address (as far as I could tell) the resources needed for that infrastructure or whether electricity could be used to power our whole global civilisation.
To both achieve emissions reduction goals and fully displace nuclear power, renewable energy would need to scale up from 17 % of the country's power supply today to a full 57 % of total electricity generation in just nine years» time.