Sentences with phrase «electricity rates during»

Utilities across the country provide incentives, including rebates for EV charging equipment and reduced electricity rates during off - peak hours.

Charge scheduling is ideal for individuals that have lower electricity rates during off - peak hours.

Not exact matches

Load shifting — The battery can provide economic benefit to its owner and the grid by charging during low rate periods when demand for electricity is lower and discharging during more expensive rate periods when electricity demand is higher.

During a wide - ranging speech to the chamber, Gibson didn't mention that those huge increases in local electricity rates he was fighting to rescind had come home to roost in consumer bills this month.

The experimental system would allow fleet operators to use their plug - in hybrids to supply electricity for a building during a power outage, reduce power usage when electric rates are high or even sell electricity back to their utility company.

Another great thing about the house is that vacationers get electricity, water, gas, internet connection, cable service, pool cleaning, gardening, housekeeping and laundry during their stay in Casa Piscina within very affordable rates.

The EPA would then set emissions standards — the rate of carbon emissions — for power plants by first tallying the share of electricity generated by coal and gas - fired plants in each state during a set of baseline years — in the NRDC example, 2008 - 10.

-- The term «total annual electricity savings» means electricity savings during a specified calendar year from measures implemented since the date of the enactment of this section, taking into account verified measure lifetimes or verified annual savings attrition rates, as determined in accordance with such regulations as the Commission may promulgate and measured in megawatt hours.

In just over five years, the price of the commodity — electricity — increased 62 %, a multiple of the inflation rate during that five years, which added about $ 400 to the average consumer bill.

Analyses of these measures by the American Council for Capital Formation, which studies economic and environmental policy, show that they will raise electricity rates as well as gas prices - costing jobs and hurting the economy - even as the EPA admits that these choices will have an insignificant impact on global climate change (a point former EPA administrator Lisa Jackson confessed during a Senate hearing in 2009).

Local power storage can also be used for load - shifting in areas with tiered electricity rates, where higher prices charged for power during peak periods and off - peak periods have lower rates.

As a result, German electricity rates have tripled while supply has become much less reliable, particularly during cloudy, windless periods.

Electricity rates are lower during the daytime when home electricity use is lower and solar panels are at their most Electricity rates are lower during the daytime when home electricity use is lower and solar panels are at their most electricity use is lower and solar panels are at their most productive.

OSPE's 2012 report Wind and the Electrical Grid: Mitigating the Rise in Electricity Rates and Greenhouse Gas Emissions detailed the mounting risk of hydraulic spill, nuclear shutdowns, and periods of negative wholesale electricity prices during severe surplus base load Electricity Rates and Greenhouse Gas Emissions detailed the mounting risk of hydraulic spill, nuclear shutdowns, and periods of negative wholesale electricity prices during severe surplus base load electricity prices during severe surplus base load generation.

Especially since our electricity rates just went up 40 % due to energy «de-regulation» rules promulgated during the last Clinton term: a law which, thankfully, did the exact opposite as the Republican Congress and the Clinton Administration claimed it would!

More than a quarter of US commercial and industrial (C&I) electricity users could potentially use energy storage to lower premium rates they are charged during periods of high demand, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has found.

Energy storage can save power generated from clean energy systems such as solar, wind and combined heat and power (CHP) for later use, enabling buildings to reduce their reliance on the power grid during peak demand periods when electricity rates are the highest.

TOU rates, which charge higher prices for electricity during periods of higher demand, encourage customers to adjust their consumption to reduce strain on the electric grid.

Peak times also are when electricity costs the most, and less demand for a utility's electricity during those periods will allow Equity Office to negotiate for lower rates from utilities.