Sentences with phrase «electricity the company used»

Put simply, for every kilowatt hour of electricity the company used in 2017, it bought a kilowatt hour of renewable energy from a solar or wind farm built specifically for Google.

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I used a power meter that plugs into an outlet to figure out how much electricity my rigs were using while mining, and I checked my bill to see how much my electricity company charges per month.

Just consider the electrical costs by calculating how much power your PC uses and how much your electricity company charges.

«We provide metrics on water use, electricity and chemicals in a dashboard for these companies,» Johnson said.

The company has developed a machine that uses electricity to print the magnetic equivalent of pixels on a surface — complex patterns of north and south polarity points — allowing precise control over the topology of the magnetic fields.

Under her leadership, the company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal» by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.

By comparison, all the Tesla (tsla) cars on the road (about 280,000 at the end of 2017, according to company statistics) likely used less than 1.3 terawatt hours of electricity combined for the year, a Fortune analysis found.

Last year, the company shocked festival goers when it zapped an intern with 80,000 volts of electricity using a taser - equipped drone.

He estimates that the change has cut the company's electricity use by a dramatic 30 %.

The company works with local entrepreneurs to sell its lamps to households where electricity is scarce or unavailable, at prices that are affordable to families currently using costly and toxic kerosene for their lighting.

These companies are either utilities that significantly use fossil fuels to generate electricity, or are coal and natural gas suppliers.

Korean News Agency recently reported an arrest of 14 people from thirteen companies for illegal use of cheap electricity for mining.

Medicine Hat has signed an agreement to sell electricity and lease land to Hut 8, a company that mines for cryptocurrency using power - hungry computers.

Avista owns a 15 - per - cent - stake in two of the four units at the Colstrip plant in Montana — a major coal - mining state — and plans to use them for electricity production until 2035, said a spokesperson for the company that also operates hydroelectric dams, natural gas and biomass generating plants and wind turbines.

Companies using cheap electricity to mine cryptocurrencies at industrial complexes in South Korea have reportedly been arrested by police.

In the U.S., the company Harvest Power is using food waste to generate electricity through the process of anaerobic digestion — essentially letting microorganism eat up waste products, and capturing the byproducts that can be used to generate power.

But the Lovins have shown electric utility companies that they can make a better profit if their customers use less electricity.

At the end of the day, being a sustainable company by using less electricity, gas, water and recycling makes good business sense.

Undaunted, the company built a distilled spirits plant in Downey, Calif., and partnered with a China - based engineering firm that custom - built production machinery for the plant, which uses air as its main power source instead of only electricity.

In a time of a developing energy gap, they have a clear interest and a clear responsibility to help their customers to use less electricity and gas, but the link between the energy companies and fuel poverty is less clear.

The committee set up by government to investigate complaints of over-billing against the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has established that there is an error in the software used in the computation of electriElectricity Company of Ghana (ECG), has established that there is an error in the software used in the computation of electricityelectricity bills.

The Socio - Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sued the Federal Government and Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, over their collective failure, refusal and / or negligence to enforce their own directives to electricity distribution companies (DISCOs) to provide free prepaid meters to all Nigerians and end the use of patently illegal, arbitrary, unfair -LSB-...]

Residents of Odoagba layout in Awka, the Anambra State capital have protested the alleged use of thugs by the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC) to force...

It revolves around investing # 1 billion in a «hi - tech National Grid» which would see «smart meters» being installed in every home - meaning that energy companies would be able to tell consumers when it is cheapest to use electricity.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

Such grids will enable utility companies to monitor energy use in minute detail, allowing them to alter the price of electricity as demand changes.

In a recent test by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, simply giving employees wireless control of the three lights closest to their workstation, and allowing them to turn them on or off individually, reduced the electricity used by the building's lights by up to 72 per cent.

Last year, the government finally took advantage of those winds, installing 33 wind turbines manufactured by domestic company Xinjiang Gold Wind at the Guanting wind power field to harvest this energy and use it to supplement the electricity provided by polluting coal.

Webber and co-author Robert Fares, a Cockrell School alumnus who is now an American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy, analyzed the impact of home energy storage using electricity data from almost 100 Texas households that are part of a smart grid test bed managed by Pecan Street Inc., a renewable energy and smart technology company housed at UT Austin.

But small server rooms, or even closets, employed by smaller companies the world over, typically do not have computers with the most efficient cooling and use up to twice as much electricity per computation as the more effective computers employed by many large computing companies.

Demanding plans for power cuts: In the US, electricity companies make money helping their customers to use less power.

In addition, utility companies are getting used to differences in how they provide electricity, especially from distributed sources like rooftop solar panels.

Known as PS10 and built by the Spanish company Abengoa Solar, the project produces electricity with 624 large moveable mirrors called heliostats, using these to concentrate the sun's heat to the top of a 115 - metre - high tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located.

What the company calls its «mPower» reactor would be used for smaller grids or limited electricity - demand areas, such as those of municipal districts or for individual industrial use.

Some 80 restaurants, caterers and hotels, including gourmet food company Fauchon and Michelin - starred Taillevent, signed up for a pilot project to collect their food waste, which is used to generate biogas and produce electricity and heat, as well as compost for farms around Paris.

The result is that, although 17 percent of the electricity the Danes generate comes from wind, they use only 7 or 8 percent, according to Hugh Sharman of Incoteco, a Denmark - based energy consultancy and development company whose clients include VRB.

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.

Subscribers can hardly complain to BT about the cost because that would give BT the opportunity to prosecute them, either for attempting to defraud the company or for illegally using its electricity.

For example, electric companies that let households set a monthly electricity goal in dollars, kilowatt - hours or carbon dioxide emissions and then allow them to see how well they're meeting their goals over time are best at getting consumers to lower their electricity use.

«For example, a regulatory agency may issue punitive damages against a company's water use, but the supportive agency is trying to help the company save on electricity,» he said.

Two other companies, Energy Matter Conversion Corp. (EMC2) and Tri Alpha Energy, are developing reactors that use proton - boron fuel, which requires even higher temperatures than deuterium does but allows almost direct conversion of fusion into electricity, without boiling water to drive a generator.

In July last year, in an attempt to reduce demand for elec - tricity, a group of power companies offered the prize to the first company to build a prototype fridge that would use at least 25 per cent less electricity than current standards demand while using no ozone - depleting CFCs.

As electricity use spikes across the country in the summertime when more people use air conditioning, electric power companies turn to more coal and natural gas power plants to help meet the demand, reducing renewables» share of total U.S. power generation, Comstock said.

The industry has faltered because of declining global demand and low natural gas prices, which have encouraged electric power companies to use gas instead of coal to generate electricity, said Ray Rasker, executive director of Headwaters Economics, an independent research group focusing on the economic implications of land management decisions in the West.

Companies that produce solar - thermal chillers say that they use 30 — 90 % less electricity than the conventional air conditioners that operate in most buildings, depending on the type and size of the installation.

«(I) The Administrator shall determine the amount of fossil fuel - based electricity delivered at retail by each electricity local distribution company, and shall use appropriate emission factors to calculate carbon dioxide emissions associated with the generation of such electricity.

They are a company that provides a service to humanity — to people who want to use electricity.»

None of the numbers regarding openings and closings are likely to matter in the long run because electric power companies are using less and less coal to generate electricity — the primary use of coal in the U.S.

Using nuclear power to generate electricity provides many benefits: it's low carbon, it diversifies our electricity supply, it operates reliably on a constant basis, and it provides substantial economic benefits in communities where plants operate and to U.S. companies who supply the global nuclear industry.

In some areas, you might be able to generate your own electricity, and some electric companies offer credits for using renewable energy sources.