Sentences with phrase «free electricity generated»

Under a power purchasing agreement (PPA), the emission - free electricity generated by CalRENEW - 1 will be purchased by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), a large California utility.

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We typically focus on initiatives and activities that can have the greatest impact given the specific nature of our operations, such as our wind and solar farms to generate electricity and our frustration - free packaging initiatives, but we also have innumerable large and small initiatives underway at any point in time, as we seek to constantly invent across the company.

One big benefit of nuclear power generally, and Indian Point specifically, is that all that electricity is generated carbon - free.

The incoming Congress has opportunities to: cut federal subsidies for large farms by encouraging a progressive return to sustainable, integrated farming; encourage low - carbon electricity options for generating clean power; implement policies that ensure the Internet remains free and open; and ratify the World Health Organization's recommendations on how to reduce tobacco smoking.

A prototype metal - free flow battery developed by engineer Michael Aziz and colleagues at Harvard University relies on the electrochemistry of naturally abundant, small organic molecules to store electricity generated from renewable, intermittent energy sources.

The energy given off then catapults a second electron from the WSe2 into the MoSe2, where both electrons become free to move and generate electricity.

The Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, sealed off the river in June, creating a lake that will eventually stretch for 375 miles and generate 85 billion kilowatt hours of pollution - free electricity a year.

Researchers have long looked for simple systems to combine protons and electrons to form H2, a carbon - free fuel that can be burned directly to power cars or run through a fuel cell to generate electricity.

The electricity generated by panels while the school is operating can be used for free, cutting the electricity bill.

Meaning a utility could generate electricity for free, and still not be able to sell it because panels on your roof would still be more competitive.

100 % battery power is the ONLY acceptable solution, even when the vehicle being built will be landfill long before we generate all electricity carbon - free.

And those with adequate roof space to host an array of solar panels can opt for free installation of a solar PV system, which will give the hosts access to a portion of the generated solar electricity in exchange for sharing that clean electricity with others.

But there's a new generation of inductive bike lighting coming of age right now, which uses the naturally - generated eddy currents from the spinning wheel of the bike to produce enough electricity to drive bright (and energy - efficient) LED bulbs, and which promises to set cyclists free from the dreaded dead battery blues.

By the time that new nuclear power plants can even begin to generate any «carbon free» electricity, we can build and deploy hundreds of gigawatts of wind and solar generating capacity — and that's with today's mainstream, already commercialized technology, let alone the innovations like thin - film solar that are just beginning to enter the market.

The free solar energy that hits the Earth each day can keep us warm, light our homes, grow our food, and generate clean renewable electricity, so we often invite it into our lives, but when the weather heats up in the summer, the sun can actually cause us to use more energy, because we then need to run air conditioners to cool us back down.

The biggest drop was in emissions from coal — which is primarily used to generate electricity — as power plants switched to cheaper natural gas and as the use of carbon - free wind energy more than quadrupled.

OhmConnect is a free service that acts somewhat like a virtual power plant, except that instead of generating energy, it works with the user's devices to reduce demand at times when electricity consumption is at a peak, which can help utilities to avoid having to bring a «peaker plant» online to cover the extra demand.

Although solar - generated electricity certainly has its place, and meets a specific need, it's just one way in which we can use the free energy that streams down on us from the sun, and unfortunately, it also seems way more desirable to our modern gadget - centric society than the simple method of using solar energy directly, through devices such as solar cookers, solar ovens, and solar water heaters.

In 2015, the state set goals of having 50 percent of electricity generated by carbon - free renewables by 2030.

Since, the solar power is Green House Gas (GHG) emissions free, the power generated will replace anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases estimated to be approximately 93,022 tonnes of CO2e per year, thereon displacing 95,145 MWh / year amount of electricity from the generation - mix of power plants connected to the INDIAN GRID, which is mainly dominated by fossil fuel based power plant.

«Pleasant Valley will deploy efficient, cutting edge technology to generate carbon - free electricity while providing meaningful cost savings to Xcel Energy's customers in south - eastern Minnesota,» said Rob Morgan, Chief Development Officer of RES Americas.

No return on investment and very little «free» electricity generated.

Once a wind - turbine is built and paid for, it generates electricity almost for free.

Since the solar - generated electricity is considered to be carbon - free, the net impact is a reduction of greenhouse gas emissions associated with MIT's greenhouse gas inventory.

CEIP seeks to reward early investments in renewable energy and energy ef ciency measures that generate carbon - free electricity or reduce end - use energy demand during 2020 and / or 2021.

``... gleaming white wind turbines generating carbon - free electricity carpet chaparral - covered ridges and march down into valleys of Joshua trees.»

Other generators are free to recover costs and generate a profit when wind and solar are not available — and to offer low cost electricity when they are.

Solar power, being a fuel - free electricity source, is not subject to the price increases associated with electricity generated by power plants that run on gas or coal.

Brown said 80 per cent of electricity generated in Canada is emission - free, versus about 20 per cent south of the border.

This important fact seems to have escaped T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oil tycoon from Texas who is now promoting a plan to replace natural gas in the electric power sector with wind - generated electricity and use the freed up natural gas to power a fleet of NGVs.

If you can generate your electricity cheaper, fuel - free, and do something about minimizing climate change then a rational person is going to leave thermal plants behind.

So help me understand: if Germany produces more CO2 emissions year on year, but EXPORTS the some of the electricity thus generated to other countries, then it gets a «free pass» on the increasing CO2 footprint?

if Germany produces more CO2 emissions year on year, but EXPORTS the some of the electricity thus generated to other countries, then it gets a «free pass» on the increasing CO2 footprint?

(10/27/14) California must nearly eliminate emissions from electricity to meet ambitious climate goals for 2050, but each of the primary available technologies for generating emission - free technology has problems and any choice will require concerted planning and early strategic investments, according to a new technical paper by the California Council on Science and Technology.

It means that during the second quarter 91 per cent of electricity generated by OPG was free of greenhouse gases and other smog - causing emissions, thanks to our hydroelectric and nuclear fleet.

With total capacity exceeding 280,000 megawatts, wind farms generate carbon - free electricity in more than 80 countries, 24 of which have at least 1,000 megawatts.

Last week, Poland rejected as too onerous a proposal to continue the free distribution of half of its permits for generating electricity until 2016.

Natural gas generates electricity more efficiently than coal, with half the greenhouse gas emissions, fewer acid rain precursors and virtually free of many other troubling pollutants like mercury and particulates.

«A wind turbine generates as much emissions - free electricity as about 2000 typical roof - top solar PV installations.»

Notably, these include stable prices for electricity generated from renewable energy sources because once a facility is constructed, the «fuel» — wind and solar energy — is free.

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The next step, shifting entirely to carbon - free electricity, either generated onsite or purchased, to heat, cool, and light the building completes the job.

· Free Fuel: Unlike other forms of electrical generation where fuel is shipped to a processing plant, wind energy generates electricity at the source of fuel, which is fFree Fuel: Unlike other forms of electrical generation where fuel is shipped to a processing plant, wind energy generates electricity at the source of fuel, which is freefree.

Though solar energy remains expensive, reducing a ton of emissions by generating electricity from essentially carbon - free sources such as nuclear or wind energy is cheaper than reducing a ton of emissions through low - carbon transportation fuels such as ethanol.

It is virtually noise - free and can generate electricity at a low speed, which may result in less opposition to new installations.

At first it might be done mostly for the free publicity it will generate, but once the novelty wears off, it could still be profitable for retailers and restaurants to offer a few cents of free electricity (11 cents per kWh on average in the US) to get customers through the door.

We covered a previous innovation that came out of the Billions in Change effort, the «Free Electric» bicycle that can generate electricity for home use, which looks like it will now only be available in India, but as of yesterday, there are now a few other off - grid energy products available.

And because solar panels have zero marginal cost — once they are installed and paid off, they generate power for free — grid operators take their electricity instead of resorting to more expensive «peaker» natural gas plants.