Sentences with phrase «grid electricity often»

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

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The threat, often referred to as the «utility death spiral,» goes like this: as customers choose to install solar panels or adopt energy efficiency measures, a utility will sell fewer units of energy and has to increase what it charges for electricity to ensure that it can still cover its fixed costs, such as grid maintenance and labor.

For specific industry applications with high organic loads, enough biogas can be generated to fully cover a production plant's energy needs and still have a biogas surplus to feed it into power generators and sell electricity to the national grid, often generating carbon credits, where these apply, as well as profit.

«There is no energy grid in Alaska, and often no road system, so we probably can't do this with electricity alone.»

Even though people without electricity access often pay a lot for their energy sources, such as kerosene and candles — sometimes more than they would pay for the same service if they had electricity access — the upfront costs for off - grid systems may still be higher than most consumers are willing or able to pay.

Installing solar panels for individual homes in the villages of developing countries is now often cheaper than it is to supply them with electricity by building a central power plant and a grid.

But several factors have changed grid economics, among them the falling price of both natural gas and renewable energy (fuels that are often used in microgrids), environmental rules and declining use of electricity in the U.S.

As has often been noted on this website, businesses in the US are levied monthly charges for their electricity based on their use of grid power during peak times, known as demand charges.

The solar panels can often produce more electricity than the customer needs, so it goes onto the grid.

And it would make electricity grids unstable, leading to more frequent and widespread, costly and often fatal, brownouts and blackouts — events mercifully rare in wealthy countries but all too familiar to billions of people living in countries without comprehensive, stable electric grids supplied by stable fossil or nuclear fuels.

The amount of electricity generated in a power grid must always equal the amount being consumed, so when wind turbines put power into a grid other generators, often fossil - fuelled, generate less; so less fossil fuels are burned.

Coupled with the direct decrease in energy consumption from the grid, net metering compensation often allows solar customers to pay nearly nothing for electricity.

Large turbines, often grouped in wind farms, are widely used by utilities across Canada to provide electrical energy to electricity grids.

You might still have to import electricity from other regions or fire up backup power plants, but that'll happen a lot less often than if you didn't have a smart grid that could do «demand response».

But with heat waves becoming more intense and happening more often as the world warms, that air conditioner use on the hottest days will put substantially more demand on the nation's electricity grids, a new study finds.