As Stephen Gandel and Katie Fehrenbacher report this week in Fortune, the average cost of wind energy dropped by about a third between 2008 and 2013; in some parts of the country, it's the cheapest
electricity source available.
Not exact matches
SO YOU want to offset your
electricity bill by tapping the most widely
available, free
source of energy in the world, the sun?
The hope is that this fusion of biology and
electricity can solve one of chemistry's biggest problems: how to take the freely
available power of sunlight and convert it into a cheap, green energy
source for everyone.
The intermittent nature of these
sources of
electricity has resulted in wide swings in
available capacity.
This is important context for the thorny question of whether, and how, carbon emissions from burning bioenergy — renewable energy made
available from materials derived from biological
sources (a category that includes both biofuels like ethanol and biomass like wood used to generate
electricity)-- should be included in prospective carbon taxes.
Although the most recent AIB statistics show that hydro power still is the largest
source of renewable
electricity available, the fastest increase in consumer uptake is experienced from wind and solar
sources.
Most have vested interests in existing
sources of
electricity generation and transmission capabilities that stand to be compromised if the AWC makes vast new
sources of wind power
available to the onshore grid.
There is a significant lack of publicly
available information about how much
electricity and what types of generation
sources are used by water and wastewater utilities.
Compressed natural gas (CNG) is a beneficial, widely
available, clean fuel
source, used to generate
electricity, heat homes, and manufacture products.
When the wind conditions are not right, other generating facilities using «conventional» energy
sources will have to be
available to satisfy
electricity demand.
c. Mandated «Green Energy» programs in 4 states that force distribution utilities to buy
electricity from «renewable» energy
sources and make it
available to their customers.
Hydro systems, New Zealand's largest renewable energy
source, generate around 60 - 70 % of the country's
electricity and is
available on an ongoing basis.
With technology already
available, renewable energy
sources like wind, solar, and geothermal can provide 96 percent of our
electricity and 98 percent of heating demand — the vast majority of U.S. energy use.
In fact, the most carbon intensive fuel (coal) is often the most
available and lowest cost
source of
electricity.
«Renewable energy
sources, accessed with commercially
available technologies, could adequately supply 80 % of total U.S.
electricity generation in 2050 while balancing supply and demand at the hourly level.»
We have designed our economical wind turbine machines to not only provide a constant
available source of
electricity, but also produce viable non - polluting by - products.
Windsource — which, despite its name, doesn't actually change where a company's
electricity comes from but rather provides funding for expanding renewable energy
sources — is
available at a rate of $ 2.16 per 100 kilowatt hours, in addition to the regular price of
electricity.
Across six regions, according to the report, coal provided 55 percent of daily incremental generation, and the study concludes that at least for PJM Interconnection (which manages the
electricity grid across 12 Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states as well as DC), «coal provided the most resilient form of generation, due to
available reserve capacity and on - site fuel availability, far exceeding all other
sources» without which the region «would have experienced shortfalls leading to interconnect - wide blackouts.»
However, Caixin's report, which did not identify its
sources, indicates that top regulators in China are planning to withdraw preferential benefits such as tax deductions and cheap
electricity supplies
available to bitcoin mining companies.
The Damblon sisters realized that the most lucrative price for
electricity is
available when you are next to the
source generating it.