Sentences with phrase «electricity they consume from»

The report says «a house with a 3kWh battery and a 4kW PV system could to lower its electricity consumed from the grid by 50 - 60 per cent.»
Individually, a house with a 3kWh battery and a 4kW PV system could to lower its electricity consumed from the grid by 50 - 60 per cent.

Not exact matches

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today directed the State Department of Public Service to design and enact a new Clean Energy Standard mandating that 50 percent of all electricity consumed in New York by 2030 result from clean and renewable energy sources.
«From the cost of electricity to the price of groceries, property taxes are a part of everything we consume.
On December 2, 2015 Governor Cuomo directed the State Department of Public Service Commission (PSC) to design and enact a new Clean Energy Standard (CES) mandating that 50 percent of all electricity consumed in New York State by 2030 result from clean and renewable energy sources.
Research into Milwaukee's chances of producing all electricity the city government consumes received an initial green light Wednesday from a Common Council committee.
Starbucks Seattle, WA Restaurants 211 million green kWh, 20 % of total power used A 2006 audit showed that a whopping 81 percent of the coffee giant's greenhouse emissions came from the conventional energy it used to power its North American stores; each square foot consumed an average of 6.57 kWh of electricity a month.
In a Laconia Daily Sun editorial supporting Hassan, former New Hampshire Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mark Fernald noted that New Hampshire residents consume electricity from out of state, meaning that state taxpayers would still have to pay for the program via carbon fees on utilities bills if it left the program.
If they were, gaming computers worldwide might well be consuming billions of dollars less in electricity use annually, with no loss in performance, according to new research from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
Electrolysis requires a great deal of electricity, and the amount of energy you get out from the hydrogen is (according to the laws of physics) less than the amount you consume in electricity.
At 1 p.m., 22 percent of all the electricity consumed in the Texas grid was coming from wind.
The state - owned Nigeria Agip Oil Company plans instead to generate electricity from the waste gas of its Kwale plant, displacing fossil fuels that might otherwise have been consumed.
That means, for a coal plant, we'd have to burn — and so pay for — an extra 10 - 40 % more coal with CCS than we would without it, and the electricity from that extra energy / coal consumed is not available to consumers for electricity.
If bitcoin were used for a large portion of the world's commerce (which won't happen), it would consume a very large portion of the world's electricity, diverting scarce power from useful purposes.
When the television, media center, etc. has cooled off, nobody's moved for twenty minutes, and nothing's being consumed but the 15 watts of power designed to save the homeowner two seconds» warmup wait when he arrives home eight hours from now — shut off the electricity.
We traveled from Brussels to Copenhagen powered entirely by renewable energy (additional renewably - generated electricity equal to that consumed by the journey) was purchased and fed into the German national grid.
Adding electricity generation from biogas derived from waste and sewage treatment provides an additional input of carbon - free power while consuming a potent greenhouse gas.
«Everybody agreed that if we were going to get more than half of our electricity in our country from renewables by 2050 we were going to have to do things that we simply don't know how to do today at all and fundamentally change the way we use, generate and consume energy [relevant section here].
Energy is consumed in every step, from coal (coke) for smelting and yes even recycling steel, fuel to move the parts, electricity and natural gas, oil for the plastics and rubber, the list goes on right down to the copper wiring and seat covers.
From the Pacific Northest National Laboratories: - «If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug - in hyFrom the Pacific Northest National Laboratories: - «If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug - in hyfrom oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug - in hybrid
By reducing the overall amount of electricity the State consumes, this project advances Governor Cuomo's Reforming the Energy Vision strategy and recently enacted Clean Energy Standard, a nation - leading mandate that 50 percent of New York State's electricity come from renewable energy resources by 2030.
(This is not absolutely true; energy is taken from the wind, but that is without any sort of cost that anyone has identified, and if the wind isn't blowing the turbines do consume a little electricity to run various equipment.)
We used to place large and extremely reliable generation facilities near to the places where the electricity was consumed in order to «save the planet» from thousands of unnecessary miles of these expensive and destructive transmission lines and towers.
Aside from misplaced concern by the loony left about CO2 and climate change there's no incentive to change how electricity is generated and consumed.
We announced earlier this year that roughly 44 % of the electricity consumed by Microsoft's datacenters comes from wind, solar and hydropower, and we committed to raising this to 50 % by 2018 and to 60 % by early in the next decade.
Industry is consuming 29TWh of electricity they made themselves from waste heat recovery power facilities, which are not tracked by electricity companies.
It has also made it illegal for people to consume electricity they generate from their own solar panels.
One of the challenges of constructing one will come from the varying time - spans that different types of generating machinery operate and different types of electricity consuming equipment need power.
«(B) the net sales of electricity by the facility to customers not consuming the thermal output from that facility will not exceed 50 percent of total annual electric generation by the facility.
In reducing the overall amount of electricity the state consumes, energy efficiency projects support New York's Clean Energy Standard, which mandates that 50 percent of all electricity used in the state come from renewable sources by 2030.
RICHLAND, Wash. - If all the cars and light trucks in the nation switched from oil to electrons, idle capacity in the existing electric power system could generate most of the electricity consumed by plug - in hybrid electric vehicles.
Fourth, massive transmission system upgrades need to occur to transport electricity from the wind and solar farms where it is produced to the urban areas where it is consumed.
If you do that, you effectively replaced what you would have consumed from conventional power plants with electricity produced by solar panels (or wind farms).
* Eneco's full emissions reduction target is as follows: Eneco commits to reducing GHG emissions per GWh from electricity consumed by its customers 25 % by 2020 from a 2012 base year.
Transmission refers to the power lines and infrastructure needed to move electricity from where it's generated to where it's consumed.
But the utility shut down the carbon capture equipment in 2011 because it could not sell the carbon dioxide or recover the extra cost from its electricity customers, and the equipment consumed so much energy that, at full scale, the project would have sharply cut electricity production.
In addition, if the system produces more electricity than is consumed, the homeowner receives a credit from the power company.
note 9; «Spanish Wind Power Industry Attacks New Rules,» Reuters, 2 February 2007; «EWEA Aims for 22 % of Europe's Electricity by 2030,» Wind Directions (November / December 2006), p. 34; a 1 - megawatt wind turbine operating 36 percent of the time generates 3.15 million kilowatt - hours and the average U.S. home consumes 10,000 kilowatt - hours per year; average energy consumption per U.S. home from DOE, EIA, Regional Energy Profile — U.S. Household Electricity Report (Washington, DC: July 2005); capacity factor from NREL, op.
Wood residues from mills could also produce a significant portion of the electricity consumed in Gabon, Nigeria, Malaysia and Brazil.
There are other factors such as albedo change, buildings that diminish surface winds, and anthropogenic heat sources from anthing that consumes fuel or electricity to produce work and waste heat which buildings then help to trap.
IF hemp were legalized, since hemp is SUPERIOR to other available natural resources, a few petrochemical monopolies would no longer be feasible... including monsanto's GMO cotton business that consumes HALF of the petrochemical pesticides sprayed in the USA, Hearst's deforestation business would no longer profit from destroying our forests, and we would no longer need Rockefeller's fossil fuels - because we can replace coal (electricity) with hemp pyrolysis, and we can replace gasoline with vegetable oil methanol, and dupont's toxic plastic business would be replaced with non-toxic, biodegradable, stronger, lighter, hemp plastics like they're already using to make Mercedes car parts.
Emissions from fuels consumed to generate electricity within the commercial and industrial sectors are counted as CO2 from primary energy.
The country consumes approximately half of all coal used worldwide and gets roughly 66 percent of its electricity from coal, according to the Energy Information Administration.
Some people seem concerned that they're either not directly benefitting from a clean, competitively - priced source of electricity, or that the electricity is somehow shipped away to consume elsewhere.
The amount of gasoline consumed over a normal daily driving cycle is dramatically reduced with the introduction of up to 9kWh of electricity from the grid.
Where locally produced sustainable energy might not be available, the power required for the drying of coal could be taken from the grid when electricity is abundant - that is, when sustainable electricity generation methods are puting more electricity into the grid than is being consumed.
In some ways it is quite generous, give that, if you can afford to install the equipment then you will get money from your electricity supply company, even for the power you consume yourself that you have generated.
Or can we just «not use» electricity that we can't consume and continue to generate electricity from fossil fuel (methane) to fill the gaps?
By reducing the overall amount of electricity the state consumes, they also support New York's Clean Energy Standard, which mandates that 50 percent of all electricity used in the State come from renewable sources by 2030.
Making the ice in a freezer releases more heat than melting the ice takes from the room; and you consume electricity into the bargain.
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