Sentences with phrase «electricity usage days»

And hot weather can make water supplies too warm for cooling, forcing power plants to reduce their electricity production when it's needed most (hot days are also peak electricity usage days).

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With about 110,000 transactions per day, that works out to 1.57 households daily usage of electricity per Bitcoin transaction.

The payoff, he adds, is that 10 - hour storage eliminates the need for a fossil fuel power plant to back up electricity production on cloudy days and at peak usage hours in the evening.

It really helps if you can get into a regime of winding down power usage after 4 pm as after this time electricity prices shoot up — typically it costs 14 times more to get the electricity to you between 4 pm and 7 pm than it does for the rest of the day.

Meanwhile, StatsCan shows that the average household electricity usage for Canadians is around 30 kWh per day.

In order to get a real - world estimate, we multiply that number by the average household electricity usage in Ontario, which StatsCan tells us is 22kWh per day.

Electricity is charged on usage, be aware Aircon is expensive to run all day.

They do in some areas of the country — I'd love to get on time - of - day billing, I know some solar people who pay nothing for electricity because they time - shift their usage from the grid, and I have the software to do precisely that, just don't have the incentive because TXU Energy ain't paying.

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If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

If your solar array produced enough electricity, your bill could theoretically reach zero because excess solar electricity exported to the grid during the day could cover your power usage at night when solar is not producing.

The same usage as the storage heaters popular some years ago — warmed up by cheap overnight electricity, and heat dispersed through the day using fans or convection.

This rate structure gives customers the opportunity to lower electricity costs by shifting usage off - peak times of the day or week.

If they pull it off, you'll have a unit that can store 3 - 4 days of domestic electricity usage — just the sort of thing for filling the troughs in wind or solar generation.

While they have taken some steps to rein in electricity usage in areas such as Sichuan province, the practice still continues generally unabated to this day.