Sentences with phrase «equivalent electricity needs»

The power station will provide the equivalent electricity needs of all of the State's schools, hospitals, police stations, and government buildings over a full year.

The automotive giant will purchase one third of the power produced by the wind farm — the equivalent electricity needed to power 16 of its US facilities.

Not exact matches

That day, total electricity consumption in Scotland — including homes, industry and businesses — was 41,866 megawatt hours, WWF Scotland said, meaning that wind power produced the equivalent of 206 percent of the nation's needs.

To take care of the average house in a day, you need 20 kilowatt - hours of electricity, which is equivalent to only 5.5 liters of water.

For electrification to lower emissions, Kennedy says that a region needs to produce its electricity at a rate below his threshold: approximately 600 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per gigawatt hour (GWh).

On the proper evaluation of electric motors, we have our Argonne National Laboratory and our Society of Automotive Engineers on record as calculating miles per gallon equivalent based on heat equivalent of electric energy at the plug, without recognition of the heat energy needed to make the electricity.

«For both nations to achieve the same per capita electricity use as the European Union, for instance, they would need the equivalent of 7 billion tons of coal each year, approximately the world's current use,» he wrote in the company's 2010 annual report.

Storage creates the equivalent of a warehouse to stow electricity when it is plentiful for other times when it is needed.

WWF Scotland director Lang Banks said: «While Sunday's weather caused disruption for many people, it also proved to be a good day for wind power output, with wind turbines alone providing the equivalent of all Scotland's total electricity needs.

«Nevertheless, the fact that wind power was able to generate the equivalent of all Scotland's electricity needs shows just how far renewables have come.»

As for the breakdown of electricity rates, more detailed information needs to be disclosed, such as (1) «wheeling charges» (cost of transmitting electricity); (2) the cost of generated electricity equivalent to the amount of expenses shared to cover the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, etc. (included in the wheeling charges; legislation requires all electricity users to pay a share of this cost); and (3) the amount of a «promotion of power - resources development tax,» which is used to subsidize local governments hosting nuclear power plants.

In 2015, wind power produced the equivalent of 97 percent of the country's household electricity needs.

IKEA's newest system comprises 1,260 solar panels and, according to store spokesperson Mary Ann Barroso, is expected to generate around 421,000 kilowatt - hours of electricity in its first year — roughly equivalent to the annual electricity needs of 37 homes.

In fact, if we incorporate the «best available demand technology» in our building designs, which is roughly equivalent to meeting the targets set in Section 433 of EISA 2007 (the 2030 Challenge targets), we can eliminate the need for 178 Gigawatts of electricity capacity, or about 356 large (500 megawatt) power plants.

For normal commuters (not NYC, or anywhere else with a good metro system), a plug - in hybrid with a 40 mile range will almost completely eliminate the need for gasoline as the average commute is only 29 miles and the only time any gas will be used will be on the odd ski trip or other long trip, and with no demand for gasoline, gas will drop to 90 cents / gallon to compete with electricity which costs the equivalent of about 60 cents / gallon.

Wind power generated the equivalent of all Scotland's electricity needs on 7 August, according to WWF Scotland.

Scotland's total electricity consumption for that Sunday was 37,202 MWh, meaning wind power generated the equivalent of 106 % of Scotland's entire electricity needs on the day.

In a 2010 study, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory reported over 10 million MW of wind resource in the U.S., enough to power the equivalent of the nation's total electricity needs 10 times over.

In nine states it provided more than 12 percent and in 17 states, more than five percent... In a 2010 study, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory reported over 10 million MW of wind resource in the U.S., enough to power the equivalent of the nation's total electricity needs 10 times over.»

Power Compare further notes that Bitcoin's current estimated annual electricity consumption stands at 29.05 TWh — the equivalent of 0.13 percent of the world's overall electricity needs.

Mining for virtual currencies like bitcoin may not be as messy as its real - world equivalent, but the supply of electricity needed to cool the massive computing power that produces the currency means it has also developed a reputation for harming the environment.

According to the Digiconomist Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index, the total volume of electricity needed for bitcoin mining is now equivalent to 0.14 percent of total global energy consumption.