Sentences with phrase «for electricity usage»

The plan charges a flat monthly fee for electricity usage of up to a certain level in the Tokyo Electric Power Company service area.

To answer these questions, one must understand how commercial entities are billed for their electricity usage.

Not exact matches

Horizon Power will trial a new method of charging residents and businesses in Port Hedland for electricity, with the aim of giving customers more control over their power usage.

While we do pay to access the electricity grid and for metered usage of it, just like the Internet, we don't pay yet again for individual uses of it.

While such a significant amount of electricity usage might go unnoticed in large metropolitan areas, the sheer amount of electricity being used is leading to higher costs for customers in small communities because of a limited supply of low - cost hydropower.

This second phase of the initiative is called Connect My Data, which allow customers to authorize direct, secure transfers of their electricity usage data to web and mobile apps for their computers, tablets and smartphones.

Zack Korman is co-founder at Awesome Power Inc, a startup that uses smart meter electricity usage data to find the cheapest electricity plan for a person's home.

We use very small amounts of electricity in producing a litre of wine compared with the average usage for most other wineries in Australia.

For eco-friendly power, consider offsetting your energy usage with carbon credits, or source your electricity from a green energy supplier such as Bullfrog.

The Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET), the non-profit engineering body, has today called for the government to do more to encourage the reduction of electricity usage.

Telling people how much their neighbours pay for electricity only produces a 1 % change in usage less effective than more traditional policies.

The estimates are based on annual usage of 3,300 kWh for electricity and 18,000 kWh for gas.

But for supporters like Hassan, the program's carbon auctions have funded energy efficiency programs that have cut electricity usage and decreased emissions beyond where they would be otherwise.

We looked up a month's electricity and natural gas usage for the entire building where we lease our offices and estimated our respective portions to be 9,091 kilowatt - hours (the average single - family home uses 1,000 kilowatt - hours per month) and 589 therms, the equivalent of burning about 58,900 cubic feet of natural gas.

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.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, electric power generation accounts for nearly half of the nation's water usage; it takes on average 21 gallons of water to produce one kilowatt hour of electricity.

For each sector, they then analyzed the current amount and source of the fuel consumed — coal, oil, gas, nuclear, renewables — and calculated the fuel demands if all fuel usage were replaced with electricity.

For example, it allows you to see how the UK's electricity demand has changed over the past 30 years and where that electricity has come from, as well as comparing the UK's usage and mix to other countries.

Contact your local utility company for information on gas and electricity usage.

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.

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.

With e-paper noticeboards there is also no need for expensive installation and crazy electricity bills: electronic paper uses so little energy that it can be powered (and for an amazingly long time) by a single battery or even a solar cell, ensuring cost - efficient always - on usage.

Instead of charging you based on how much electricity you actually used for the month, some electricity companies will charge you based on your average usage over the past 12 months.

So unless you're willing to severely cut back on your electricity usage, or pay for several Powerwalls (yeah, right!)

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

There is also a community aspect to the Jenni solar ecosystem, as the app allows users to compare their solar generation and electricity usage with other Jenni owners, as well as keep track of daily, weekly, and monthly performance data for the device.

The so - called «e-dumper» is being built from a massive Komatsu dump truck that weighs 45 tons when empty and has tires as tall as a person, and although that might initially seem like a strange choice for electrification, its intended usage is expected to produce a net surplus of electricity rather than draw a huge amount of grid power.

And while a trip through the world of electronics will likely cost you more than the low - tech fuzzy slippers your grandma is hoping for, we've tracked down items that fit any budget — and that save you even more dough long - term by trimming your electricity usage, so you can put some aside for next year.

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.

However, average household electricity usage here is 11kWh / p / d using census figures for population and persons per dwelling.

«Clean Energy Wire is reporting that renewables will account for 33 % of Germany's total electricity usage once all the numbers for 2017 are in.

This concept could also be extended to include a small charge on electricity usage, known as a «wires fee» that could generate additional funds for research and development of advanced power generation, storage, transmission, and demand response technologies.

Again, technologically possible is different that politically or financially possible — and doesn't really take into account distribution issues (not every place is as ideally suited for solar power as California and Texas, both singled out in the report)-- but even a small percentage of reaching this technologically potential would allow the US to have carbon - free power at current consumption levels, even allowing a generous expansion of electricity usage.

In fact, he calculated that for his own personal driving usage, that amounted to 22 % of the total electricity used by the Tesla.

System - Wide Programs in Place to Reduce Demand for Electricity as Temperatures Climb; State Agencies Directed to Reduce Power Usage

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).

«Microgrids have several advantages for the electricity grid; for example, they can provide electricity during peak - usage hours and therefore forestall the need for expensive upgrades in central generation, transmission, and distribution systems.

For instance — even while usage of some resources — although not power plateaued in the US — supply of electricity from coal powered plants increased globally.

If you were only relying on population as a threshold for urbanness, you would probably assume Barrow was unaffected.Similarly, the per capita electricity usage in some countries is much greater than in others.

Their energy modeling process also gives the annual electricity and natural gas BTU usage for the home.

Launched in September of 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) first annual Green Power Community Challenge has already reached the halfway point, with Washington D.C. in the lead for its total green power usage and Brookeville, Maryland taking the number one spot for the percentage of its total electricity that comes from green power, each community working hard to earn the lead in these respective categories.

Our team will check your account details to confirm eligibility and analyze your electricity usage to help decide how much solar is right for you.

«With a clean electricity system comes opportunities to reduce fossil fuel usage in these sectors: for example, electric vehicles displace...

For refrigerators, freezers, water heaters, dishwashers, clothes washers, televisions, and room air conditioners, the range shows estimated annual energy cost based on typical usage and national average electricity and / or natural gas prices.

«With a clean electricity system comes opportunities to reduce fossil fuel usage in these sectors: for example, electric vehicles displace petroleum use and electric heat pumps avoid the use of natural gas and oil for space and water heating in buildings.»

«Instead of meeting consumer demand for electricity by adding more electricity to the system, we pay people to reduce their usage,» McAuley explained in an email.

As in the US, electricity consumption is also stagnant, so growth in renewables usage, boosted by EU climate and energy targets, are making the market environment tougher for coal utilities as well.

Global carbon emissions stood still in 2016, and all of the world's biggest emitters except for India saw falling or static carbon emissions last year due to countries increasing clean electricity usage.

If customers were forced to pay the actual price at the time they use electricity, they would be motivated to shift some of their usage to lower - price hours, which would reduce the need for some expensive peaking capacity.

What if a off shore wind power generates cheap electricity and innovators in selling heat pumps figure out how to replace gas heat with ground source heat pumps for less than natural gas connection and usage costs over the first ten year of the 20 year life of the heat pump and 50 - 100 year life of the ground source?