Sentences with phrase «even higher electricity»

The result will be even higher electricity bills.

Not exact matches

California's «NEM 2.0» policy has created a clear migration path to continue to allow solar customers to receive fair compensation for the solar power they produce even as the adoption of solar increases, and implicitly encourages the adoption of battery storage by assigning a higher value to electricity provided when the grid needs it most.

I assume that after you've finished insulting other posters, you will agree to be TAXED at a much HIGHER RATE in order to give all these poor people a dignified living, which I assume from your comments means free housing, free electricity, free hot water, a free bus pass or maybe even a car if public transporation is not available.

Rochester, NY — With the possibility of heavy rain and flooding as Tropical Storm Lee bears down on the Northeast, NYSEG encourages customers in flood - prone areas — and even customers who experience persistent basement flooding — to consider how their electricity and natural gas services could be affected by high water.

Such a setup could save $ 10,000 a year in electricity even compared with high - efficiency fluorescent lights.

She found that night - time glow of the pirate home towns of Garoowe and Boosaaso has been climbing since 2008 (see photo)-- even as piracy took off and higher food prices forced other towns in the region to cut their electricity bills.

For example, on a hot summer evening when electricity is in high demand for air - conditioning, the system could drop the amount of power going to an individual car from 3.3 kilowatts to just 1.2 kW or even less, explains Paul Pebbles, GM's global manager of Electric Vehicle and Smart Grid Services.

It has been speculated that at high pressures hydrogen even transforms to a metal, which means it conducts electricity.

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.

There's also the inescapable truth that, even you assume for sake of argument that the electricity you stick in your Model S is 0 % renewable and 100 % coal, you are at least keeping the poisonous side - effects of combustion away from urban centres and are not dragging a potpourri of contaminants down high streets and past schools or sitting in a fuggy 25 mile tailback of them.

«Refuelling» the Audi metroproject quattro from power sockets alone, therefore, produces an unequivocal result: even allowing for the relatively high domestic electricity costs in Germany, it is still possible to achieve a saving of around $ 6.50 for every 100 km — or 70 percent — compared to the price of premium fuel.

The experimental system would allow fleet operators to use their plug - in hybrids to supply electricity for a building during a power outage, reduce power usage when electric rates are high or even sell electricity back to their utility company.

If you have a significant amount of business that you are running out of your home, you may qualify for the right to deduct a portion of the cost of running your home, including electricity, high - speed Internet, mortgage interest, even trash pickup.

Even without seeing the mantas, just savouring this location as a viewpoint is reason enough to scooter along the bone - jarring road to get here — we came via the highest point of the island, where nine wind turbines help supply some of the island's electricity grid.

A lot of the systems design that people are looking at — like Christopher Clack — even if you can get the renewables up to 80 percent, then you have a piece there probably natural gas «peakers» [power plants that run in periods of high electricity demand], at least based on current technology, are way cheaper than any [energy] storage.

Solar power is more costly than wind, watt for watt, experts say, but delivers the energy at a time of day when electricity prices are higher and is more valuable even if it is more costly.

Even seemingly remote rural areas have electricity, and the protection of cultural and natural heritage is clearly a high national priority.

If all US participants could go to AGU by high speed train, that would improve matters even if the train were powered by fossil - based electricity.

Even amid this prolonged recession and depressingly high unemployment (9.5 % in PA), families and businesses in the Keystone State are still paying just 9.4 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity.

Fusion folks claim that their system has such advantages that it is worth doing even if the cost of electricity generation is higher than alternatives.

Using carbon - based dyes and with an efficiency of only 1.5 to 2 percent, the paper - thin cells are not terribly efficient yet - even compared other higher - efficiency thin film - type solar cells, the best of which so far can convert up to almost 20 % of sunlight into electricity.

Fossil fuel prices are held artificially low, but we are paying for them in full plus, if not fully at the pump, then on April 15th and in higher health / environment costs, even if we drive EVs and have wind - powered electricity.

Even though people without electricity access often pay a lot for their energy sources, such as kerosene and candles — sometimes more than they would pay for the same service if they had electricity access — the upfront costs for off - grid systems may still be higher than most consumers are willing or able to pay.

In the Highlands electricity usage is even higher.

In return, these policies benefit not only clean energy businesses, but all North Carolina electricity consumers — even those who do not use renewable energy or energy efficiency — through lower overall energy bills, healthier communities, higher local tax bases, and jobs.

In the United States, where renewable portfolio standards vary from state to state, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that electricity prices broke all - time records in July 2014, and the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts even higher rates this winter.

And even though the state's residential home electricity consumption ranks among the lowest (due in part to those high prices and generally lower air conditioning needs in summer and the use of gas and oil for heating loads in the winter rather than electricity), the average monthly electric bill in 2016 was just over $ 142 per month, third highest in the nation.

The solar installations will lessen those costs in replacing higher priced electricity from the power grid and are leading to even greater savings by allowing the Food Bank warehouses to stagger the recharging schedule for their battery - powered forklifts.

But even the bottom end of this new forecast (30 percent of global electricity) is a hell of a lot higher than the high end (e.g., 17 percent) on the forecasts the IPCC and the IEA are using.

With the possibility of even higher costs of natural gas in the future, natural gas - fired plants may be used increasingly as a backup for wind - generated electricity.

«In spite of calls for urgent reform and broad recognition that the current rules penalised solar power and rewarded network gold - plating, governments have not even made glacial progress in the past five years, with the unpopular result of high electricity prices driven by the cost of network infrastructure to service people's desire for air conditioning.

Electricity markets are undergoing massive transformation, as the push for low - carbon power generation shifts the industry towards high investment in renewables and other new technologies even as demand stagnates or declines in many countries.

Folsom said Hawaii is «an even better business case» because of its high electricity price.»

The result: Though CSP requires the direct normal irradiance (DNI) found in abundance in the world's sunny high deserts, even importing generation from high - DNI deserts in Spain and Morocco, CSP with thermal energy storage could become an economically competitive option, due to its ability with storage to fill the gaps created by intermittent generation.Imports of thermal solar from Spain and Morocco would entail building HVDC (high Voltage Direct Current) lines, because direct current is the most effective way to transport large amounts of electricity long - distance.

Wind farm operators, or solar power producers could use such as system to even out their power production rates and so command a higher price for their electricity.

Just about a year ago, our home in Westwood began a march towards zero Carbon consumption, with heating, hot water heating, and even lawn mowing all converted to high efficiency electricity.

The report argues that, even if electricity demand were to grow at around 1 to 1.5 per cent per annum between 2010 and 2020 and fossil fuel prices were to remain relatively high, the share of renewables in UK electricity sales is only expected to increase to around 10.25 per cent by 2015.

Good point on the cost thing, although the Hyperion site makes it abundantly clear that it's not targeted at commercial / residential uses (even though everyone converts the electricity output to «houses powered», including me)-- they're targeting high energy - use industrial customers, and such customers might find paying $ 30 million for a 20 MW transportable, pre-fab power plant that doesn't need hundreds of miles of power lines or a year to build a bargain.

Adding other protected species would drive nearly all actual wind turbine electricity output down below 5 % — making the turbines virtually worthless, and driving the exorbitant cost of wind energy even higher.

Nuclear power, even accounting for high - profile nuclear accidents, is statistically the safest way of generating electricity.

Critically important, however, is the fact that the cost of this electricity to distribution companies and their electric customers would be even higher if it were not for the tax breaks received by the companies generating the «renewable» electricity — the costs of which are transferred to ordinary taxpayers.

Storage of this intermittent out of sync energy will drive the already sky - high electricity prices up even more.

Further, even some utilities have found that when all the benefits provided by solar energy to the grid are tallied up — like avoided fuel costs, emissions - free energy and lower transmission and distribution costs — they are actually higher than the retail costs of electricity.

Wind generation in 2013 could have been even higher, by an estimated 10 percent, but for the problem known as curtailment — when wind turbines are stopped because the grid can not handle any more electricity.

Since the program launched, electricity prices in the region have fallen even as customers in non-RGGI states have seen higher prices, and the RGGI states» economies have grown faster than the rest of the country.

Because your savings are equal to the costs you avoid by going solar, you'll save even more if electricity rates are high in your area.

Overall, the lower emissions from running EVs compared to conventional vehicles have been found to more than balance out the higher emissions from their production, even with today's US electricity mix.

Even if those logistics worked out, he said, better solar cells and batteries would be necessary because the state gets over 180 days of cloudy weather, and unless the site is on a ridge at higher elevation, most sites aren't windy enough to generate electricity with turbines.

Even once the lifetime cost of solar panel systems is far lower than retail electricity over the same period of time, the upfront cost is very high — in the tens of thousands of dollars.

I paid for the Microsoft Expression Web Pro and Dreamweaver CS5 software, my Macbook Pro laptop (also running Windows 7 via VMware), my Dropbox Pro account, high - speed Internet and home wireless, wireless printer, and all the «hidden» overhead (paper, cartridges, electricity), even the extra server space needed for the many files!