Sentences with phrase «higher use of electricity»

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While such a significant amount of electricity usage might go unnoticed in large metropolitan areas, the sheer amount of electricity being used is leading to higher costs for customers in small communities because of a limited supply of low - cost hydropower.

Municipal power authorities in upstate New York have received permission to charge certain cryptocurrency mining enterprises higher rates for the use of their electricity than they charge other customers.

High amounts of electricity are used during the mining process, which may lead to higher energy bills for any donating individuals.

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...?

However, spray drying uses a high amount of electricity to heat the liquid stream and evaporate the water component.

They say there are «enough resources to maintain reliability,» Cuomo is ordering state agencies to cut back on their electricity use and he's ordered the Department of Public Service to monitor power usage as the state heads into a week's worth of high temperatures and humidity.

Combination of economic trends and policies Still, for now an array of Obama administration actions and economic trends are conspiring to cut emissions, according to EIA: Americans are using less oil because of high gasoline prices; carmakers are complying with federal fuel economy standards; electricity companies are becoming more efficient; state renewable energy rules are ushering wind and solar energy onto the power grids; gas prices are competitive with coal; and federal air quality regulations are closing the dirtiest power plants.

But the cost of producing it by using electricity to split water is high, because the most efficient catalysts developed so far are often made with precious metals, like platinum, ruthenium and iridium.

A key part of the prototype's design is the use of a custom optical bandpass filter to capture sunlight that is normally wasted by commercial solar cells on towers and convert it to electricity at a higher efficiency than the solar cells themselves ever could.

In this building electricity is also used for a wide variety of other uses, and hence it has come to be called the «Electric High School.»

Known as PS10 and built by the Spanish company Abengoa Solar, the project produces electricity with 624 large moveable mirrors called heliostats, using these to concentrate the sun's heat to the top of a 115 - metre - high tower where a solar receiver and a steam turbine are located.

These love - hate configurations of atoms could be used to test quantum computers and model high - temperature superconductors, materials that transmit electricity with near - perfect efficiency.

The underlying technologies of high temperature storage and thermophotovoltaic conversion could also be used to produce grid - scale batteries able to rapidly supplement other power sources by storing heat for quick conversion to electricity.

Co-author Dr Iain Staffell, from the Centre for Environmental Policy, said: «This tool allows us to combat one of the biggest uncertainties in the future energy system, and use real data to answer questions such as how electricity storage could revolutionise the electricity generation sector, or when high - capacity home storage batteries linked to personal solar panels might become cost - effective.»

Two other companies, Energy Matter Conversion Corp. (EMC2) and Tri Alpha Energy, are developing reactors that use proton - boron fuel, which requires even higher temperatures than deuterium does but allows almost direct conversion of fusion into electricity, without boiling water to drive a generator.

And unlike incandescents, which generate a lot of waste heat, LEDs don't get especially hot and use a much higher percentage of electricity for directly generating light.

A photon [packet of light energy] comes in, and it bumps up the electron onto the ledge [representing the higher energy level] and it stays there until we can come and collect the energy [by using the electricity].

This may be seen as especially positive since it is then that electricity use peaks and the cost of generating electricity is highest.

The fact that the glass is highly hazy and exhibits high transmittance could also make it useful for LEDs, which work in a way that is essentially the opposite of a solar cell, by using electricity that enters a semiconductor to produce light that is then emitted from the device.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

«In the glasshouse we currently use high pressure sodium vapor lamps and these are quite expensive in terms of the electricity demand,» says Hickey.

It provides for the first time a high - fidelity technology demonstration of how you can use radiative sky cooling to passively cool a fluid and, in doing so, connect it with cooling systems to save electricity,» said Raman, who is co-lead author of the paper detailing this research, published in Nature Energy Sept. 4.

Instead of using natural gas or oil and as an alternative to incurring high electricity bills, geothermal energy works to draw off the Earth's core.

Regenerative braking, which provides up to 15 kW of electricity to charge the battery Providing up to 15 hp (11 kW) of electric power assistance during heavier acceleration Using electricity instead of gasoline when stopped, with automatic and smooth engine start - stop functionality Aggressive fuel cut - off during deceleration down to zero mph for added fuel savings Intelligent charge / discharge of the high - voltage battery.

Maximizing the use of the electric motor and feeding renewably generated electricity into the high - voltage battery significantly improves the CO2 rating of the plug - in hybrid sports car.

AU is also moving aggressively into solar energy, part of a trend in the technology industry caused by a global rise in electricity use and high oil prices.

Electricity is locally produced by a photovoltaic power station that covers about the 60 % of the annual consumption; heating and AC systems use a heat pump powered by photovoltaic panel, thermal solar panel produce up to 100 % of the hot water used in bathrooms; during winter a pellet (compressed wood) high efficiency heating system can guarantee a comfortable warm temperature in all the houses.

A minimum of 80 % of the electricity purchased for the building is required to come from renewable sources, solar panels are used for heating water in the complex and the building employs a computerised management system which senses the temperature in different parts of the Parliament, and automatically opens windows to keep the building cool especially during the summer when, because of the high level of insulation used to keep the building warm during the winter months, there can be potential problem of overheating.

Using carbon - based dyes and with an efficiency of only 1.5 to 2 percent, the paper - thin cells are not terribly efficient yet - even compared other higher - efficiency thin film - type solar cells, the best of which so far can convert up to almost 20 % of sunlight into electricity.

We have an obligation to use some of the money that we generate to shield low - income and fixed - income individuals from high electricity prices, but we're also going to have to ask the American people to change how they use energy.

The first 7 meter high Smog Free Tower cleans 30.000 m3 of air per hour of ultra-fine smog, uses no more electricity than a water boiler, and runs on green energy.

A new National Research Council report finds that by the year 2050, the U.S. may be able to reduce petroleum consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent for light - duty vehicles — cars and small trucks — via a combination of more efficient vehicles; the use of alternative fuels like biofuels, electricity, and hydrogen; and strong government policies to overcome high costs and influence consumer choices.

The cell also overcomes some of the major problems with current solar tech like wear out or damage from high heat that comes from the absorption of great amounts of ultraviolet and infrared radiation that can't actually be turned into electricity due to a narrow band gap (the wavelength of light that can effectively be used to generate electricity).

And if we choose a model that is also rated higher in energy - efficiency, we can also reduce the amount of electricity we use for laundry.

Customers with higher electricity consumption (such as commercial, industrial, and institutional customers) are more likely to be on time - of - use rates, providing them with the financial incentive to consider both the amount and the timing of generating electricity.

The problem in New England, which has resulted in electricity prices that are four times higher than normal for sustained periods, is that all of the pipeline transmission capacity has been purchased by the local gas distribution companies that sell gas for home heating and retail uses.

Using long - distance, high - voltage electricity transmission to deliver electricity from renewable resources to highly populated and polluted regions could increase the use of green energy, reduce carbon emissions, and maximize air quality and health benefits.

Electricity is generated by the power block in case of sandstorms or during the night using the high temperature heat out of the storage.

As a result, Danish and German consumers are paying some of the highest residential electricity prices in Europe — three times as high as in the United States — for the «benefit» of having wind and solar power generated in their country regardless of whether that power can be used domestically.

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.

These higher costs eventually transfer to other products that most of us consider essential: food because it uses much oil in growing and transport; electricity because it is associated with pollution controls; and metals for basic manufacturing, because they also use oil in extraction and transport.

The remaining revenue should be used to help reduce the federal deficit and make the tax code more progressive, easing some of the bite from higher electricity and gas prices.

But even the bottom end of this new forecast (30 percent of global electricity) is a hell of a lot higher than the high end (e.g., 17 percent) on the forecasts the IPCC and the IEA are using.

As global warming regulations stifle the use of the most efficient and inexpensive forms of electricity, businesses as well as households will incur higher electricity costs.

With the possibility of even higher costs of natural gas in the future, natural gas - fired plants may be used increasingly as a backup for wind - generated electricity.

Not allowing facts to get in the way of its agenda, the Obama EPA just released its new power plant regulations, which will effectively end the use of coal in new power plants and force consumers to pay higher electricity rates, predicated on coal's contribution to climate change.

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.

Well, in 2006 the group provided $ 100,000 to support the work of Patrick Michaels, one of the country's most distinguished climatologists and a prominent skeptic, and in general IREA opposes measures that drive up electricity costs for customers, such as requirements for the use of high - cost non-carbon energy.

Requires FERC to: (1) issue to each generator of renewable electricity a REC for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated after December 31, 2011; (2) issue three RECs for each megawatt hour of renewable electricity generated by an existing distributed renewable generation facility; and (3) review the effect of issuing three RECs and to reduce such number for any given energy source or technology to ensure that such number is no higher than is necessary to make such facilities using such source or technology cost competitive with other sources of renewable electricity generation.