Sentences with phrase «electricity someone produce»

Currently, the relatively high - cost of electricity produced by solar cells compared to electricity from other energy sources is an inhibitor to a more widespread adoption of solar energy.

They must match 100 % of the electricity used across their global operations with electricity produced from renewable sources.

Once I had kg CO2 emissions per kWh of electricity produced in a single column, I could see which states were best and which were worst.

Renewable power generators get roughly an additional 4 cents per kWh of electricity produced on top of the wholesale price.

Higher efficiency means more electricity produced for a given size of solar cell, which increases power output and lowers overall system costs.

Like if developing countries can not afford electricity produced by alternate energy sources — what good does it do?

But one of the biggest challenges is overcoming how to store the variable electricity it produces.

Wind - generated power is also a variable resource, and the amount of electricity produced depends on wind speeds, air density and turbine characteristics.

At peak output, those solar farms would generate the equivalent electricity produced by several large nuclear power plants.

What they are offering is a combination of hardware and software that will help consume electricity produced more efficiently in a local environment.

Green power is electricity produced from a subset of renewable resources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, and low - impact hydro.

For example: products that are manufactured from electricity produced by coal would be subject to import duties.

By storing electricity, and allowing the home to use solar electricity produced during the daytime after the sun goes down, batteries allow more home systems to be powered by solar electricity.

He also called for a national «renewable portfolio standard» to increase the amount of electricity produced by sources other than fossil fuels.

Wind generated only 0.36 percent of the total electricity produced in the U.S. in 2005, according to the 2007 «Annual Energy Outlook» from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.1 They project that wind's share will be only 0.89 percent in 2030.

Through a power purchase agreement, the Lawrenceville School will buy electricity produced by the array over the next two decades.

Third, new techniques need to be developed to store electricity produced only while the sun shines or the wind blows, allowing that stored energy to be delivered later, when it is actually needed.

Foreign producers can not obtain these certificates, and in this case the Finnish producer Aland was refused certificates for green electricity produced in Finland.

So electricity from solar PV in China costs three times as much as electricity produced conventionally.

According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce ethanol from sugarcane.

For example, dogs that have issues responding to positive reinforcement methodologies may respond exceptionally well to the delivery of sounds, vibrations, light effects, or even static electricity produced by dog shock collars.

The low - carbon electricity produced by such reactors provides 20 percent of the nation's power and, by the estimates of climate scientist James Hansen of Columbia University, avoided 64 billion metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution.

Batteries can store excess electricity produced by solar panels, wind turbines, or other renewable energy generation.

But David McCabe, an atmospheric scientist at the Clean Air Task Force, reports that the news is fairly good on this front: «From the best of the collective work, we believe that burning natural gas for electricity produces about 30 - 50 % less greenhouse gas than burning coal, even accounting for the emissions of methane (and carbon dioxide) from producing and transporting the natural gas.»

That surplus electricity produced from the drought releases of water from the Three Gorges Dam could have been used to supplant electricity elsewhere in the system, or could have gone into storage for use later.

When constructed, Ivanpah will be the world's largest solar energy project, nearly doubling the amount of solar thermal electricity produced in the US today.

Similarly, IEA figures show, between 2015 and 2016, the percentage of global electricity produced by wind and solar rose from 4.5 % to 5.2 % — a major jump in a single year.

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.

Sandia's engineering team has designed, modeled and tested a control system that doubles the amount of power a wave energy converter can absorb from ocean waves, making electricity produced from wave energy less expensive.

But electric eels don't actually double the amount of electricity they produce when they go after large prey; they just direct the charges from both ends of their bodies to one specific area, which makes the charge feel more powerful to unfortunate prey items.

Photovoltaics (PV) generated about 1 percent of the total electricity produced globally in 2015 but also represented about 20 percent of new installation.

On a dollar per unit of electricity produced basis, SMR - 160's cost is reckoned to be much less than the large nuclear plants.

It can be charged by plugging it in and by recuperated kinetic electricity produced on the run.

In more than 30 countries, electricity produced through solar and wind energy is the same price or cheaper than any new fossil fuel capacity, the report, released last Wednesday, noted.

However, as discussed in Part 2 of this series Your Solar Finance Primer, typically cash financing maximizes lifetime savings compared to solar loans, leases, and PPAs, as customers avoid interest charges and monthly payments while gaining access to free electricity produced by their installation.

These corridors will minimize coal - fired power generation and associated air pollution in three eastern metropolitan regions — Beijing - Tianjin - Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta regions, and the Pearl River Delta regions — by importing electricity produced in other provinces, including major coal producing provinces like Shanxi, as well as provinces abundant in hydro and wind resources, such as Yunnan and Inner Mongolia.

MIT's greenhouse gas emissions have been reduced by 9 percent from 2016 levels, primarily due to electricity produced via a solar power purchase agreement last year with a solar farm in North Carolina, and by 16 percent from the 2014 baseline year — half of the minimum reduction called for.

In 2016, emissions from electricity produced within California decreased by 19 percent, but two - thirds of that decline came from increased production from the state's hydro - electric dams, due to it being a rainier year, and thus had nothing to do with the state's energy policies, while approximately a third of the decline came from increased solar and wind.

Some proponents of additional LNG exports argue that they would benefit the climate by replacing dirty coal - fueled electricity produced in Asia and Europe.

Instead of using an inverter to convert the DC electricity produced by the solar panels to the AC electricity used in most homes the panels provide electricity to DC appliances and / or a battery bank.

The pie chart above includes a category for «Electric Generation (imports)», which I assumed covered electricity produced out of state.

«Burning coal to produce electricity produces about twice the carbon dioxide as compared to burning natural gas,» said Jennifer Francis, a research professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University in New Jersey.