Sentences with phrase «generating less electricity»

Theoretically a more efficient panel could end up generating less electricity than a less efficient one in a few years if it degrades more rapidly.

TORONTO • Is Ontario generating less electricity from solar panels and wind turbines than it did years ago, despite billions in subsidies to the renewable energy sector?

In 2016, Germany generated less electricity from the sun even after installing more solar panels, and generated just one percent more electricity from wind despite having increased wind capacity by 11 % (ref.

Designating natural gas plants as the best available technology — essentially requiring utilities to generate less electricity from coal and more from gas instead of being limited solely to requiring that coal plants operate more efficiently — has allowed the administration to establish much more ambitious emissions reduction requirements and is one of the central provisions that legal opponents have challenged.

Not exact matches

They appeared to have regular shingled rooftops, but Musk said they'd actually been retrofitted with a new product called the Solar Roof, a potentially transformative system that's nearly indistinguishable from a traditional rooftop — and one, he promised, that lasts longer and costs less, all while generating electricity.

They appear to have regular shingled rooftops, but Musk says they've actually been retrofitted with a new product called the Solar Roof, a potentially transformative system that's nearly indistinguishable from a traditional rooftop — and one, he promises, that lasts longer and costs less, all while generating electricity.

That's the claim Tesla CEO Elon Musk made Friday when he announced plans to create Solar Roof tiles that will «look better than a normal roof, generate electricity, last longer, have better insulation, and actually have an installed cost that is less than a normal roof plus the cost of electricity.»

GREG WARREN: With coal fired and natural gas plants continuing to generate around two thirds of the nation's electricity and renewables accounting to less than 10 percent, there remains plenty of room for growth.

Exxon Mobil also touted its status as the United States» No. 1 natural gas producer, noting that gas emits significantly less CO2 than coal when burned to generate electricity.

Pretreating with thermal depolymerization also makes coal more friable, so less energy is needed to crush it before combustion in electricity - generating plants.

Less rain could affect agriculture, which currently generates $ 15 billion a year for Brazil's economy, and hydropower, which generates 65 percent of Brazil's electricity, he said.

In Maine, cooking the same turkey in the same oven but with electricity generated primarily from renewable energy releases less than three pounds of carbon dioxide.

For example, he points out that the proportion of electricity to be generated by nuclear power plants in the year 2000 will, at 34 per cent, be almost double the previous forecast made less than three years ago.

The Qinshan addition is one of 20 new nuclear power plants undergoing construction or approved for construction in China today, part of a bid to increase the nuclear share of China's electricity - generating capacity from less than 2 percent to 5 percent.

The «well - to - wire» research showed new natural - gas power plants are responsible for less than half as much greenhouse gas per kilowatt hour of electricity generated as existing coal power plants.

«Instead, because the turbines extract energy from the wind, additional turbines will each generate less and less electricity,» Mechem said.

It produces no carbon dioxide exhaust emissions, and even when the CO2 released in generating the electricity used to charge its batteries is factored in, it is responsible for less than half the amount emitted by the «greenest» petrol cars.

The change, if implemented, could make natural gas a less attractive option for generating electricity in power plants.

The incandescent and fluorescent bulbs commonly sold today use a lot more electricity than do LEDs, but they are also better at shedding heat, says Christian Wetzel, an associate physics professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «LEDs may generate less heat,» he adds, «but it still needs to be removed.»

Though the federal government is doubling down on coal, electric power companies are embracing less - polluting natural gas, wind and solar power as the cost of generating electricity from those sources falls.

One of the problems with previous methods was that the amount of energy produced in, for example, a system using salty and less salty water to generate electricity, was too small relative to the amount of water used.

And scientists continue to develop new ways to modernize power plants, generate cleaner electricity, and burn less gasoline while we drive.

He found that «each unit of electricity generated by non-fossil-fuel sources displaced less than one - tenth of a unit of fossil - fuel - generated electricity.»

Transforming the light from the Sun into electricity is a good means of generating energy when we are close to it; however, the further away, the less light there is to use.

None of the numbers regarding openings and closings are likely to matter in the long run because electric power companies are using less and less coal to generate electricity — the primary use of coal in the U.S.

In other words, we would need to grow crops that suck CO2 from the air, then burn them to generate electricity and store the resulting gases so there is less CO2 in the atmosphere overall.

· Electricity generated from renewable sources causes 70 - 90 per cent less pollution harmful to ecosystems and human health than coal power.

Electricity is far cheaper to fuel, no noise, less maintenance, fuel up at home, can generate your own fuel with solar PV panels, no vibration, no lurching transmission, no smog checks, no oil changes, etc..

I think it's entirely possible that within a much shorter time frame than most people imagine possible, the overwhelming majority of the electricity consumed in the USA will be generated at the point of use, and large, centralized power plants will be a much less important part of the mix than they are today»

When used to generate electricity, the shale - gas footprint is still significantly greater than that of coal at decadal time scales but is less at the century scale.

And, of course, if your electricity is wind - generated (which is available in many states for a bit more, or even less, as in Texas), then GHGs for transportation go way way down.

Coal now generates less than 2 % of New England electricity, and it is increasingly being replaced by much cleaner natural gas.

Power generators are turning away from coal for a host of reasons: In some instances natural gas is cheaper; many states are requiring utilities to generate a certain portion of electricity from renewable resources; individual cities (and even an entire Canadian province) have decided to stop purchasing electricity created by burning coal; and new Environmental Protection Agency regulations are making it more expensive and less economical to use coal plants.

A detailed study by researchers from China and the US has concluded that Fischer - Tropsch synthetic liquid fuels (FTL) are typically less costly to produce when electricity is generated as a major coproduct than when the plants are designed to produce mainly liquid fuels.

But because nuclear plants operate at a 90 % and higher capacity factor while offshore wind at 40 %, the electricity generated from the new wind will be less than Pilgrim's.

If you want to get polluting sources of electricity out of your generating portfolio, it helps to have a lot of hydroelectric power: It's cheap and it's less intermittent than the wind and the sun.

That simple change allows new plants to generate the same amount of electricity with 30 percent to 40 percent less coal.

Costs of generating electricity from coal and natural gas are rising as renewables penetrate the market and fossil fuel plants run less, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance.

And finally, the demand for natural gas, and for the pipelines themselves, may simply not be there; Americans are using less electricity, and generating more of it themselves through rooftop solar systems.

When solar electricity is being generated, less electricity from other sources such as natural gas or interstate electricity imports is required.

In 2009, solar power provided less than 1 percent of total electricity generated in the United States.

Project participants benefit from the electricity generated by the community solar farm, which costs less than the price they would ordinarily pay to their utility.

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

But after 13 years of the AEPS, Pennsylvania generates less than 4 percent of its electricity from renewables like wind and solar, even though 14.2 percent of the retail electricity sold in the Commonwealth is generated by AEPS - sanctioned «alternative» sources.

''... a massive 26 % of South Australian electricity was generated [in 2011] by wind, up from 18 % in 2010 and less than 1 % five years ago.

Sixty - five percent of US electricity is generated from fossil fuels — with less than one - fourth coming from renewables, led by hydro (7 percent) and wind (5.5 percent).

Green homes typically use more efficient lighting solutions, including fluorescent bulbs and light emitting diodes (LEDs), which generate less heat and more light per unit of electricity consumed.

The change, if implemented, could make natural gas a less attractive option for generating electricity in power plants.

The sponsors of I - 1631 included a similar but less stringent provision, requiring electric utility plans to include «a long - term strategy to eliminate any fee obligation» imposed by the measure, as a way to push utilities to use at least some of the retained revenue to directly reduce carbon from their electricity generating sources.

(B) The Corporation is authorized to adjust the assessments on fossil fuel - based electricity to reflect changes in the expected quantities of such electricity from different fuel types, such that the assessments generate not less than $ 1.0 billion and not more than $ 1.1 billion annually.