Sentences with phrase «electricity produces just»

Renewable electricity produces just 5 % to 6 % of the greenhouse gas emissions created by coal - fired energy plants, and 8 % to 10 % of those generated from gas - fired plants.

Not exact matches

With 1,100 MW of rooftop panels on 350,000 buildings across Queensland, solar «is producing electricity just at the time that coal generators used to make hay.»

The Indian Central Electricity Authority (CEA) only produced its draft plan to install PMUs across the grid in April and, as of 31 May, there were just 14 operating in the country.

A GEOTHERMAL power plant in California will soon be producing more than just electricity.

«Producing electricity with wind offshore is more expensive than onshore, just due to the complexity of it,» Madsen explained.

«This should reduce overall costs for the energy industry because, rather than creating large, expensive solar cells, you can use much smaller cells that produce just as much electricity by absorbing intensified solar energy from concentrating lenses.

Mountaintop removal is just what it sounds like: Explosives are used to blast away the tops of mountains to get at the coal reserves that power companies want for producing electricity.

Bringing the cost of just the photovoltaic cells down to about $ 1 per watt is the magic number solar manufacturers are aiming for, figuring that will make them cost - competitive with electricity produced by burning natural gas.

Perovskites are perhaps the most promising of these alternatives: they are cheap and easy to produce, and in just a few short years of development, perovskites have become almost as efficient as silicon at converting sunlight into electricity.

It was just a matter of finding the right and most economic way of producing electricity for the purpose.

«Once you build the power plants, it just keeps producing energy,» Judge said, noting the potential benefits of electricity generation from nuclear fission.

Theoretically, it should take just 1.33 volts of electricity — less than that produced by a AA battery.

In addition, nuclear is a reality and currently produces just under 20 % of the UK's electricity.

Lancaster, Typhoon, Hurricane — Jonathan Wood looks at the first models produced by Armstrong Siddeley after the Second World War / Alfa Romeo 6C — Douglas Blain encounters a recreation of one of a handful of short chassis 6C 256 Alfa Romeos prepared for racing just before World War Two / Porsche's Magnificent Mixtes — At a time when early automotive technology was in a state of flux, Ferdinand Porsche dared to use electricity to transmit power from engine to wheels.

Just in the U.S., if waste heat recovery devices were used at every oil, gas and manufacturing plant, 11.4 million homes could be powered by the electricity produced and it would have the bonus benefit of offsetting the need for the same amount of energy to be produced using fossil fuels.

However, there's another method of producing your own electricity, which is using a thermoelectric generator that runs on «waste» heat that would normally just fly up the chimney and escape.

Among the proposals is the establishment of a Reduction Tax Credit (RTC), whereby eligible parties would receive a tax credit for every kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity reduced, just as wind and other renewable resources receive a Production Tax Credit (PTC) for every kWh produced.

Oil is used to produce just 5 percent of the world's electricity generation and is becoming ever more costly.

Remember «cold fusion» that was going to produce cheap energy from heavy water by nuclear fusion with just two simple electrodes and some electricity?

Denmark has 6,000 wind turbines serving a population of 5.3 million and when the wind conditions are just right wind produces around 19 percent of its electricity.

Now we just need the rest of the country to make the paradigm shift of «shipping electrons instead of shipping coal» to boil water, produce electricity and keep our economy running.

Just a decade ago, half of the electricity Americans consumed was produced by burning coal.

The report's author, Prof Gordon Hughes, an economist at Edinburgh University and a former energy adviser to the World Bank, discovered that the «load factor» — the efficiency rating of a turbine based on the percentage of electricity it actually produces compared with its theoretical maximum — is reduced from 24 per cent in the first 12 months of operation to just 11 per cent after 15 years.

A new 265 MW gas - fired combined - cycle generating plant, on the other hand, would produce slightly more electricity on just a few acres.

for a start the infrastructure required to supply our electricity would be far far less compared to when power is sent long distances from where it is produced, there are also quite substantial losses just getting the power to those living several hundred kilometers away, for instance I am told that they lose around 14 % of the power produced in the Latrobe Valley just getting it to Melbourne, Solar on the other hand is often far closer to where the power is required, therefore there are less distribution costs and also less losses involved.

Friends of the Eel River recently hired a consultant who found that just 5 acres of solar panels could generate more electricity than the Potter Valley Project now produces.

While the space heating of the house is the sunspaces major contribution to energy saving, just consider that having a good, year round place to dry clothes saves an additional 1200 KWH of electricity and 2000 lbs of CO2 emissions a year — about the same as a 1000 watt PV array would produce.

Red light would in that case just produce less electricity instead of producing none at all.

«There is this appalling delusion that people have that we can take this thing that is currently producing 1 % of our electricity and we can just scale it up and if there is a slight issue of it not adding up, then we can just do energy efficiency,» he said.

The life - cycle damages of wind power, which produces just over 1 percent of U.S. electricity, were found to be small when compared with those from coal and natural gas.

Though lagging behind the likes of the UK, Denmark, and Germany for offshore windfarms, the United States does have just under 50,000 wind turbines throughout 40 states as well as Puerto Rico, for a capacity to produce 8,598 megawatts of electricity in 2015.

Seventy - five percent (74.9 %) of all the electricity produced in the U.S. is used just to operate buildings.

While the idea of a third party actually owning the panels and the homeowner just paying for the electricity produced is not new, California now has a new player in this game: Helio mU.

Earlier this year, I wrote about Zero Mass Water's SOURCE device, which is a rooftop solar device that produces water instead of just electricity, but the pricing and availability weren't quite clear then.

We could place mirrors in farms just outside the cities and boil water at night using back radiation and use this steam to produce electricity and heat our cities without any need for batteries.

In calculating electricity usage the paper used figures for all of Scandinavia and not just Sweden: Hydropower producing 61 % of the electricity, nuclear 20 %, coal & peat 8 %, natural gas 5 %, wood 4 %, oil 2 %, and wind 1 %.

You can install solar panels just about anywhere and they produce the most electricity during peak hours.

Why even bother producing hydrogen at all — after all can't we just generate electricity from sunlight?

To offer just a few examples: In 2013, Spain produced half of all its electricity from renewables; 70 % of Danish wind turbines, and 40 % of Germany's renewables, are now community owned; and in Norway, one in 10 of all new cars sold is electric.

Zero Mass Water's SOURCE device is a rooftop solar device that produces water instead of just electricity.

Yet I can't deny that hearing from both my brother and my Dad about how they are now producing their own electricity has piqued just a faint hint of jealousy.

Indeed we believe Searaser has the potential to produce electricity at a lower cost than any other type energy, not just other forms of renewable energy but all «conventional» forms of energy too.»

According to the company, all that is required from the user for at least the first five years is to just water the plant and keep it growing, which will produce electricity both night and day without any harm to the plant itself.

- this isn't just growing vegetables, it is an urban battery, taking waste and solar energy and producing food, clean water and electricity.

It now looks like solar PV in the UK produced just 66 GWh of electricity in 2009 — less than a thousandth of what the nuclear energy sector did, with fewer people.

Yet the «Energiewende» is not just about producing an endless supply of green electricity, as Germans have discovered in recent years.