Sentences with phrase «high electricity needs»

Dan Thiede, communications director for the Minnesota nonprofit Clean Energy Resource Teams, said signing up residential customers «is very resource intensive» and most solar gardens have found «more bang for their buck» by simply signing up business clients with high electricity needs.

Not exact matches

California's «NEM 2.0» policy has created a clear migration path to continue to allow solar customers to receive fair compensation for the solar power they produce even as the adoption of solar increases, and implicitly encourages the adoption of battery storage by assigning a higher value to electricity provided when the grid needs it most.

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

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 are three critical components necessary for successfully maintaining milk supply when re-entering the workforce or returning to school: • a high quality breastpump that removes milk quickly and effectively • a place to use a breastpump at work / school that is clean, private, and with access to electricity, if needed • time to use a breastpump at work / school at least every 3 hours

A scheme that captures the natural energy in the Severn - the second highest tidal rise and fall in the world - could meet five to seven per cent of UK electricity needs.

The differences between wind turbine and ceiling fan blades arise from the contrasting design criteria: the wind turbine is intended to capture high - velocity wind to generate electricity efficiently; the ceiling fan needs to move air at low velocity with inexpensive components.

When electricity is needed, the hot salt is used to boil water and produce high - temperature, high - pressure steam, which turns turbines that generate electricity.

They also soak up and disperse large electricity surges, so engineers need to invest more time and resources to ensure the batteries are safe, pushing the price tag higher.

In a 2014 paper in Nature, they concluded that atomic vibrations in the STO travel up into the iron selenide and give electrons the additional energy they need to pair up and carry electricity with zero loss at higher temperatures than they would on their own.

Results: High capacity, safe batteries are needed for efficient hybrid or electrical vehicles and for storing and releasing electricity from intermittent power sources like wind turbines and solar panels.

Since the electric motor, which also acts as an electric generator, is attached directly to the crankshaft of the engine, the engine needs to provide as little resistance as possible during deceleration to allow the generator to produce high levels of electricity and charge the batteries.

Larger expenses (such as car insurance and books) and seasonal expenses (such as a trip home at the holidays or a higher electricity bill in summer when the air conditioning is on) need to be incorporated into your budget.

As your colony grows you'll need to expand in order to grab more of the slowly depleting resources, and while it's tempting to simply extend the pipes and cables that carry electricity, oxygen and water it's a foolish errand as the longer the network the higher the chances of failures within those cables and pipes.

Radio waves are actually just a high frequency type of alternating current (AC), which is the type of electricity in our power grids, but devices need DC power to operate.

As if providing high school students with invaluable, real world business experience while raising public awareness about energy conservation was not enough, Tru Light also helps rural communities in need of electricity.

Moreover, widespread implementation of distributed, local electricity generation — especially low - cost, high - efficiency thin - film photovoltaics like those now being manufactured by Nanosolar for the municipal utility market, and other innovative PV technologies like the cylindrical PV modules being manufactured by Solyndra for commercial rooftop applications — will greatly reduce the need for large - scale, centralized baseload generation.

The total energy needed for producing this power is roughly a factor 2 to 3 higher because the efficiency of power plants is roughly 30 - 50 %, see Electricity generation.

And that's great for keeping our gadgets charged, but considering that our daily personal power needs are much higher than just that of our gizmos, and that if the electricity goes out, we have no way to keep essential appliances running, so while we'll be able to have a fully charged phone, we'll also have our own little global warming event in our freezer.

During the summer when electricity demand in California is 50 percent higher than in the winter, less curtailments are needed.

Estimates show an annual investment of $ 45 billion is needed to meet universal electrification, but the latest data shows that finance commitments for electricity in these 20 «high - impact» countries that represent 80 percent of those without electricity access is less than half that number, averaging just $ 19.4 billion a year.

And even though the state's residential home electricity consumption ranks among the lowest (due in part to those high prices and generally lower air conditioning needs in summer and the use of gas and oil for heating loads in the winter rather than electricity), the average monthly electric bill in 2016 was just over $ 142 per month, third highest in the nation.

There is ample evidence in the UK of increasing fuel poverty (i.e., household spending over 10 % of disposable income keeping warm in winter) in the regions of wind farm deployment where higher electricity bills are needed to cover the rent of the land (from usually already rich) landowners, a direct reversal of the process whereby cheap energy over the last century has lifted a significant fraction of the world's poor from their poverty.

They run during the 15 % of the hours (or sometimes many fewer) when they are most needed and when the electricity price is highest.

**** ``....2 minutes ago» Wind power generates 140 % of Denmark's electricity demand... http://www.theguardian.com/environ…... Jul 10, 2015... Unusually high winds allowed Denmark to meet all of its electricity needs — with plenty to spare for Germany, Norway and Sweden too.»

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Good point on the cost thing, although the Hyperion site makes it abundantly clear that it's not targeted at commercial / residential uses (even though everyone converts the electricity output to «houses powered», including me)-- they're targeting high energy - use industrial customers, and such customers might find paying $ 30 million for a 20 MW transportable, pre-fab power plant that doesn't need hundreds of miles of power lines or a year to build a bargain.

Solar thermal power (electricity) generation systems collect and concentrate sunlight to produce the high temperature heat needed to generate electricity.

When there is very high electricity demand in the United States, getting enough power to meet the need is very expensive.

Earlier this year, Tesla opened a massive energy storage facility in Ontario, California that was designed to reduce the need for «peaker plants,» or pricey electricity generators that only run when demand is particularly high.

Typical examples include: the expectation of high return on investment (short payback period); high capital costs and long project development times for some measures; lack of access to capital for energy efficiency improvements and feedstock / fuel change; fair market value for cogenerated electricity to the grid; and costs / lack of awareness of need for control of HFC leakage.

During extreme heat events, nighttime temperatures in the region's big cities are generally several degrees higher28 than surrounding regions, leading to increased heat - related death among those less able to recover from the heat of the day.36 Since the hottest days in the Northeast are often associated with high concentrations of ground - level ozone and other pollutants, 37 the combination of heat stress and poor air quality can pose a major health risk to vulnerable groups: young children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions including asthma.29 Vulnerability is further increased as key infrastructure, including electricity for potentially life - saving air conditioning, is more likely to fail precisely when it is most needed — when demand exceeds available supply.

Because the wind is intermittent and slow and high, battery banks were required to store the electricity, which also needed to be inverted to usable voltage.

Dishwashers may not use as much power as a constantly - running refrigerator or a high - heat clothes dryer, but the electricity and water that is needed to run a dishwasher cycle adds up.

Parker Gallant and Scott Luft have both looked at the report from the Independent Electricity System Operator or IESO, and found that not only was demand at an all - time low that month (the lowest since the IESO began keeping records) but also that curtailed wind power (power we pay the wind power developers for, but do not accept on the grid because it isn't needed) was at an all - time high.

«It adds more renewables, but it adds renewables when the system most needs capacity, so it also saves ratepayers money when electricity prices are highest.»

These are regions with high - potential wind resources, low population density (thus reducing problems related to siting and permitting), and existing and planned transmission lines to carry wind power to where the electricity is needed.

«This is almost a mirror image of wind production patterns: wind is highest in the spring and fall, when electricity needs are lowest, and lowest in summer when electricity demand peaks,» the report notes.

I paid for the Microsoft Expression Web Pro and Dreamweaver CS5 software, my Macbook Pro laptop (also running Windows 7 via VMware), my Dropbox Pro account, high - speed Internet and home wireless, wireless printer, and all the «hidden» overhead (paper, cartridges, electricity), even the extra server space needed for the many files!

Solutions: a) A larger electricity net is needed with more long - distance high - power distribution.

SB 1059 provides a bridge between the transmission planning process and the permitting process by designating transmission corridor zones (transmission corridors) on state and private lands available for future high - voltage electricity transmission projects, consistent with the state's electricity needs identified in the biennial Integrated Energy Policy Report (Energy Report) and Strategic Transmission Investment Plan (Strategic Plan).

To minimize power loss, after the electricity leaves the power plant, it is «stepped up» at substations to high voltage and then moved long - distance across transmission lines to get where it is needed.

The annual average investment needed over 2010 - 30 to ensure everyone has access to electricity in the 17 high - impact countries covered by the Access Investment Model (AIM) ranges from just over $ 1 billion to provide everyone with access to 24 hours of electricity a day on very low - powered appliances (i.e tier 1) to around $ 40 billion to provide everyone with access to 23 hours of electricity a day on very high - powered appliances (i.e. tier 5).

Development of high voltage direct current cables and transmission systems — Although initial loss of electricity of DC cables is higher than for AC, there is no incremental loss of electricity as the length of the cable increases, making it possible to build offshore wind farms in very windy areas and transmit the energy over vast distances to areas with poor wind regimes, and to combine wind generators from different areas to reduce the impact of low - wind days and the need to use backup hydrocarbons on those days

Theoretically, he says, we could produce all the electricity we need, with 90 % less carbon emissions, with a combination of scrubbed natural gas burning generators and wind energy from high - wind regime areas transported through high voltage direct current lines.

Unless you can afford more high tech approaches such as polymeric membrane filtration, ceramic, or molecular sieve filter media, which all have very limited flow - through capacities and which are expensive and consume electricity, filtration alone will not likely meet all the needs you've identified.

Because the operational energy use and costs of a solar PV system are nil, a higher energy efficiency translates into lower capital costs, as fewer solar panels are needed to generate a given amount of electricity.

Using 10 EROI nuke that produces high quality electricity to produce 3 EROI tar sands that produces oil (that still needs refining into gasoline) would be a major mistake.

How energy quality matters immensely, and that we have painted a corner in that we REALLY need liquid fuels, even though electricity is higher quality.

With sports stadiums using as much energy as thousands of American homes, the helix turbine on Progressive Field, a project three years in the making, isn't so much a solution to the Indians» electricity needs as a high - profile way to show baseball fans what could be done elsewhere.