Sentences with phrase «grid electricity»

Several benefits result from the use of grid electricity as a transportation fuel.

This point of use solar capacity reduces demand for grid electricity and so reduces the wholesale price as lower demand results in lower prices.

«Wind farms may be able to offer between a 10 and 12 percent discount» on grid electricity.

While at the same time, we need to factor that there are 50,000 people that are not driving their cars to work for the week and not using grid electricity.

The idea is that when grid electricity rates are high, a building can switch over to using the batteries for power as a way to lower monthly energy bills.

Participating homeowners who remain on tiered pricing plans are expected to have cheaper electricity from their rooftop panels than average grid electricity by 2015.

Solar energy is better able to compete with electricity from conventional sources in those states where grid electricity is relatively expensive.

With recent advances in technology, planners can consider many affordable energy options, in addition to conventional grid electricity, to meet the electricity needs of different kinds of consumers.

The rule of thumb doesn't say that driving wind power beyond 34 percent of grid electricity is impossible, only that it becomes «increasingly difficult,» i.e., increasingly expensive.

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The software leverages the microgrid's assets against grid electricity pricing.

As such, a flexible system can take into account vicissitudes not directly related to immediate grid electricity needs.

But many consumers are uncertain whether it is cheaper to operate and maintain solar energy systems than to buy standard grid electricity, particularly in Indiana where electricity prices are low compared with many other states.

A man in San Isidro, Puerto Rico, clears destroyed tree branches in a neighborhood without grid electricity more than two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island.

The co-generation of electricity diminishes our reliance on grid electricity which we know is under pressure due to the need to upgrade the delivery infrastructure.

The school pays nothing upfront and buys the electricity generated by the system from the investment company more cheaply than grid electricity through a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA).

It essentially circumvents the need for grid electricity at night, saving individuals and cities thousands of dollars.

Monthly TPO solar lease payments are keyed to forecast increases in the cost of local grid electricity and rise along with them — hence the term price escalators.

This is despite an increase in emissions from several other sources, including an increase in the use of specialty research gases, increases in the carbon - intensity of purchased grid electricity, more severe weather, and new campus buildings added to the academic building portfolio.

Rather, area grid electricity tends to come from Clean Hydro - Electric resources, and regional Wind resources may have even more potential.

In some markets, this generation method is actually displacing more costly grid electricity.

While running on battery power they produce no tailpipe emissions but, critics note, the coal - intensive grid electricity they use surely produces more greenhouse gases than a petrol engine does.

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It's stationary, is made of bricks and mortar, is fully plumbed and powered by national grid electricity and gas.

In addition, in a country where irrigation pumps running on diesel or grid electricity chronically overdraw underground aquifers, solar power offers a solution.

Earlier this year a team of University of Minnesota researchers looked at the life - cycle air quality impacts of alternatives to conventional gasoline vehicles and found that powering vehicles with corn ethanol or with coal - based or grid electricity increases «monetized environmental health impacts by 80 % or more relative to using conventional gasoline.»

We've already seen in Australia how rooftop solar, improved efficiency, and a low carbon price have reduced demand for grid electricity resulted in the shutdown of gigawatts of coal power and the shelving of plans for new gas capacity.

The signing of the first contract under the new «feed - in - tariff» between the state electricity company and a Male» hotel chain to supply solar power onto the grid

The hot fuel gasses can be use for local or grid electricity supplies, but given the numerous other options for non-fossil electricity the most benign use is arguably their conversion to the exceptional liquid fuel methanol [CH3OH] as an energy - carrier.

In Australia, even if the wholesale price of electricity was zero it would still be cheaper to use point of use solar than grid electricity because of our high distribution costs.

It calculates the investment, operating, and fuel costs to provide enough on - grid, mini-grid, or off - grid electricity according to the MTF.

With more than 300 million people living without access to electricity, India's off - grid electricity market is large and widespread.

They are not only cleaner than traditional grid electricity and diesel generators, but they're also more affordable now than in previous years,» said Brian Schmidly, Rio Grande Renewables president, in a news release.

Mobile phone networks and grid electricity often go down during storms and disasters.

2001 survey found 56 communities where water has failed testing, nearly 1000 communities are not connected to state grid electricity, over 1000 communities with septic or other non-town sewerage systems.

The still nascent technology to generate electricity from the sea may find its first economical uses far from the grid

As Saunders and his colleagues observe in their journal article, «This was the case in the UK in 1700, is the case in the undeveloped world not on grid electricity in modern times, and is the case for the developed world in modern times using the most advanced lighting technologies.»

A true TOU rate option would, Moriwake said, «knock out the «cost shift» arguments because the solar owner is paying for grid costs when using grid electricity and supplying energy when the grid most needs it.»

Even the electric utility industry recognizes that where residential electricity costs reach 15 cents per kilowatt - hour — or roughly 16 percent of the U.S. retail electricity market — solar is already as cheap as grid electricity.

The probability of saving money by using solar energy rather than standard grid electricity is 92 percent for Indiana farm businesses and about 50 percent for homes, Purdue University energy economists find.

With the cost of solar power plunging and retail electric prices rising, 100 million Americans in the nation's largest cities will be able to «go solar» for a lower price than grid electricity in the next ten years.

It's generally assumed that it only takes a few years before solar panels have generated as much energy as it took to make them, resulting in very low greenhouse gas emissions compared to conventional grid electricity.

Moreover, grid electricity prices in Georgia are among the cheapest in the country, so getting people to agree to pay a higher rate — no matter how slight — might be a challenge.

According to a 2011 report from the International Energy Agency, coal will be responsible for delivering half of the on - grid electricity needed to meet its energy for all scenario.

The Australian Solar Energy Society said it was essential that utilities must start paying the same rate for solar that customers pay for grid electricity.