Sentences with phrase «few kilowatts»

The Nordex turbine (photo on the right) was the first wind turbine of more than a few kilowatts capacity to be built in South Australia.

If upwards of 100,000 new homes are built in 2020, and they all have a few kilowatts of solar, it won't sell out a gigafactory.

The team has produced a few kilowatts of electricity with initial models and is designing turbines that could generate 250 kilowatts each (similar to some of the early, land - based turbines).

«Right now we fly solar electric propulsion systems that are just a few kilowatts,» Sheehy says.

Because even with fewer kiloWatts and Newton - metres, the new AWD M5 is an E-beater.

Every kilowatt - hour they produce means one fewer kilowatt - hour is generated by the diesel generators that otherwise provide power for this village.

Not exact matches

Making the economics worse, the traditional solar system will generate 13,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) in a year, but the solar roof will only generate 10,000 kWh because it packs fewer solar cells onto the same roof.

«What [we're] trying to do is [get] to a few tens of kilowatts as a stepping - stone to a few hundreds of kilowatts.»

It comes in two storage capacities — 7 or 10 kilowatt - hours — that provide enough electricity to run a typical household for a few hours.

NuScale claims it will be able to produce power at about seven to nine cents per kilowatt - hour — roughly the same as big nuclear plants, only a few cents more than the cheapest modern natural gas — fired or coal - fired plants, and one - third the cost of a typical diesel generator.

EPEAT - certified computers deliver energy savings as well, according to the report: 42.2 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity over their life spans, which means 3.31 million metric tons fewer greenhouse gas emissions than their uncertified computing counterparts — the equivalent of taking 2.6 million cars off the road.

The Hybrid will be powered by a 2.5 - liter supercharged four - cylinder engine in combination with a 15 - kilowatt electric motor to produce 250 net horsepower, 10 hp fewer than the 3.5 - liter V - 6.

I did about half of my testing in either mode and found normal to be great for darting through traffic, passing, and maintaining a steady highway speed and Eco to be good for squeezing a few extra miles per kilowatt out of the battery at neighborhood, city, and parking - lot speeds.

Early adopters who want to evangelize the topic may not like having fewer people to whom they can preach the gospel of kilowatt - hours.

Because I ride a bicycle and limit my car trips, and I've curtailed my airplane travel, and wear sweaters (I know when I've set the thermostat too low when I can see the dog's breath in the living room), and because I've opted into our electric utility's «Pure Power» wind power program (they pledge to buy 75 % of your power from wind farms in exchange for raising your rate a few cents per kilowatt hour), my personal «Carbon Footprint» comes out at less than 4 tons per year.

Recent breakthroughs to > 50 % efficient high - power diode lasers can provide continuous illuminated spots on surface receivers from kilowatts to terawatts from satellites injected to geostationary orbit (GEO) in payloads of a few metric tons each without in - space assembly.

The 2016 Nissan Leaf gets a few updates, most notably an optional 30 - kilowatt - hour battery pack that allows for a 107 - mile range.

Solar technology could provide a kilowatt hour of power at about 7 to 8 rupees a unit in the next few years, down from the current 11 to 12 rupees, due to surging global capacity, said Lanco Solar CEO V. Saibaba.

Buying green energy is more environmentally effective if you live in a place like Alberta, where the electricity is fossil - intensive, and less effective in British Columbia, where each kilowatt - hour produces more than 100 times fewer emissions than a kilowatt hour in Alberta.

SolarReserve CEO Kevin Smith told us back at Intersolar that it could produce power for close to 12.5 cents per kilowatt hour, a figure that will drop to 7.5 cents in a few years.

The machine uses a high - temperature sand bed to vaporise material within a few seconds, and can produce up to 300 kilowatts of power, or simply provide heat for heating systems.

Amazingly, in the past few few years utilities have told state regulators that the cost of new nuclear plants is in the $ 5,500 to $ 8,100 per kilowatt range (see Nuclear power: The price is not right and Exclusive analysis: The staggering cost of new nuclear power).

And there are a wide range of estimates of the «true» cost of coal: Depending on how you factor in the costs of climate change, it could be between a few additional cents per kWh to a whopping cents 26.89 extra per kilowatt hour — the high - end estimate from the Harvard study.

But wait, there's more: The very next day, all that solar added up to the largest solar peak to date in the CAISO territory, reaching 10,411 megawatts (10 million kilowatts) for large - scale solar (and a few thousand more megawatts for rooftop).

In fact, Faraday Future's claimed fast charging rate of 200 kilowatts was already implicitly derided a few weeks ago by Tesla CEO Elon Musk: