Sentences with phrase «excess power back»

As an example, households on Kaua'i with net metered solar panels on their roofs no longer sell their excess power back to KIUC at retail rates, as is the practice in many states.

Instead of cutting residents a break for helping solve the climate crisis, in state after state utility corporations — led by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and the Edison Electric Institute (whose political advocacy efforts ratepayers actually underwrite)-- are passing legislation that pre-empts «net - metering» laws, which let customers sell their excess power back to the grid.

Sure, at low - efficiency, you can pump water with excess power back up into reservoirs.

Regulators voted for affordable net metering in Arizona Thursday, letting consumers with rooftop solar panels sell excess power back to the utility, a major incentive for homeowners to invest in renewable energy.

Not exact matches

Any excess power could also be sold back to the main grid network — which actually could generate a small flow of profit.

Musk has mostly favored so - called distributed networks — in which homeowners and companies put solar panels on their own rooftops, becoming their own power providers and sending excess energy back to the grid.

Under their garment of purity and legally backed powers to check the excesses of the Executive lies tones of rots garnished in budget manipulation and stolen allocations meant for constituency projects.

Imagine a power plant that takes the excess carbon dioxide (CO2) put in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and converts it back into fuel.

The concept permits the «consumer», who is generating heat or electricity for their own needs, to send their surplus electrical power back into the power grid or share excess heat via a distributed heating grid.

If you do not have excess to a power rack you can (believe it or not) use a door frame to train the legs in the same manner by sitting within the frame and placing your back against one edge and your feet against the other and then pushing as you would with a power rack.

3) The gasoline - powered engine / generator — while operating the vehicle at sufficient speed — will feed any excess energy (electricity) back into the lithium - ion Drive battery pack

The gasoline - powered engine / generator — while operating the vehicle at sufficient speed — will feed any excess energy (electricity) back into the lithium - ion drive battery pack.

Try harder and the 208 will cock a showboating back wheel in frowning concentration; pushing back earnestly until excess power cheerily smokes the inside front tyre.

So down the street from your solar install everyone else has solar too and no one is home during the day when the solar energy is back feeding to the power grid, there is no place to sell that excess power to and no place to for energy storage.

The fleet is expected to provide up to 700 kilowatts of energy to the grid, which can be used to balance the overall load by absorbing excess power, then putting it back into the grid during times of high demand.

Despite equally withering criticism from solar advocates, the final CES keeps in place changes the draft made to the way residential solar customers are compensated for the excess power their systems make and send back into the grid during certain times of the day.

That's because a working electricity system fueled mostly by wind turbines requires additional massive costs that a fossil fuel system does not: huge excess capacity (perhaps 300 - 400 %) to deal with conditions of light wind; gigantic batteries to store power for conditions of no wind at all, which can persist for days; extra transmission lines to bring electricity from windier areas to the rest of the country; and finally, an entire array of fossil fuel back - up plants for those occasions when the wind doesn't blow for a week and the batteries are dead.

As long as you are connected to the grid, your system does not need a battery: excess power goes back into the grid, and you can draw from the grid if you need more electricity than your panels can generate.

In most states the systems provide your power needs throughout the day and if your system produces more electricity than your home is using, it sends the excess back to the electric grid, selling your extra solar power back to the utility where it can be used by your neighbors and others.

Often, this excess power can be sold back to the local utility company.

This system, introduced in the early 1900s and used around the world, uses excess power to pump water uphill, and then generates power when it is released back down.

Under «net - metering» billing regimes, solar power producers can sell their excess electricity (i.e., that which exceeds their demand) back to the utility, for which they [the rooftop solar owners] usually are credited the full - retail rate of electricity.

The biggest issues continue to involve solar energy policy, especially how solar customers are compensated for the excess power their systems make and send back into the grid during certain times of the day.

However, in 2017, a local environmental consultancy group won the backing of many citizens when it proposed an underground facility designed to store excess heat from industry and power generation, supplying about a quarter of the city's heat demand and thereby rendering Vattenfall's scheme unnecessary.

The pool of money generated goes to pay that premium back to the residential customers who are feeding excess solar power to the grid.

Net metering gives you as an owner of a residential solar system back half the retail value of every kWh (kilowatt hour) of excess power your solar system generates.

What this means is that in periods (usually during the middle of the day) when your solar system is producing more power than your home is using, you are credited for the excess solar energy you feed back into the grid at the full retail rate of power.

When your panels are producing more electricity than your home needs, the excess is fed back into the power grid.

Carefully check every part of the device to ensure that there's no excess water left (this can include giving it a slight shake downward to see if anything drops out of the charging port or speaker slots), and once you've verified it's dry as a bone, pop the battery back in, cross your fingers, and push the power button.

A waterproofing expert or contractor may suggest many remedies, such as wider gutters pitched away from the house, wider downspouts, soil raised up near the house, exterior or interior French drain tiles, a sump pump with battery back - up and generator if the power goes, and a dehumidifier to eliminate excess moisture.